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The TSM Times Special Correspondent has once again risked her life to carry out a sting operation at the office of the creatives of Tere Sheher Mein. The TSM Times Special Correspondent applied to be an intern at the TSM creatives office and due to her outstanding years of experience watching Hindi serials, her application was immediately accepted.
On August 20th, 9:00 AM in the morning, our Special Correspondent (SC) was ushered into a high profile meeting of the TSM creative head (CH), creative team (CV) and the who's-who of the production house (PH) and channel (SP)
PH: How long did you drag Mantu's confession?
CH (proudly): 155 episodes Sir!
SP: What? Just 155 episodes? We have another show running where the leads did not confess their love for more than a year! And it took them almost another year to do the big C!
PH (angrily): Why did you make him confess so soon?
CV: There was audience pressure Sir. And the story was stuck so.. But we haven't made Amaya confess yet!
PH: Good. How many episodes do you plan to drag that?
CV Actually, I have an idea Sir!
SP: Does it involve a leap? That always brings in trps.
CV: No leap Sir. I was thinking how about we get both the couples married in the same mandap? Before Amaya confesses? Then she can be angry at Mantu for marrying her before she confessed and we can delay them doing the big C. Rachita doesn't love Rama yet so we have plenty of scope to delay them from doing the big C! Wouldn't that be amazing drama?
CH: I have an even better idea.
PH: What is that?
CH: Lets swap the couples?
SC: WHATTT???!!!
SP,PH,CH and CV turn towards SC.
SP: Who are you?
CV: She is a new intern
PH: Well then shut up.
SC: But.. But.. I watch the show too.. And I love it.. And I love Mantu and Amaya..
SP: Where are you from?
SC: The US..
SP: You don't count in trps so shut up. Now, what were you saying CH?
CH: I was saying, lets swap the couples. Lets have a huge dhamaka that'll lead to the couples getting swapped!
CV1: Lets kill GC!
CV2: No then there won't be any motive. Lets give him another heart attack.
CV3: Oh and the heart attack is because Dev announces to the world that Rachita isn't Rishi's daughter but an illegitimate child and the Guptas call off the wedding.
SC: But surely Rama is such a nice guy and he loves Rachita so much, he will say it doesn't matter to him whose daughter she is?
Everyone turns to look at SC again.
CH: Well then, make Rama find out that Rachita does not love him. So he has no reason to stand up for her.
SC: But why would he marry Amu then? He has no reason for that either. Please lets drop this idea!
PH: Make his mom emotionally blackmail him. Rama's mom wants to wreck revenge on Amaya for all that she and her family did to them before and during the wedding.
SP: That's awesome, then we can have future tracks of Amaya struggling to cook food for Munnu and the rest of the family.
SC: But.. But,. What about Mantu? He loves Amu! He won't let her go like that!
CH: Bah! Everyone loves a love story filled with sacrifice! Amu sacrifices to save her family's honor, Mantu sacrifices out of respect for Amu's selflessness. And he'll get Rachita..
SC: That won't work!
CV1: Why?
SC (proudly): Rachita is taller than Mantu. It'll look awkward.
Everyone glances around.
SC: Lets scrap this couple swapping idea. How about no one gets married? Let GC have a heart attack and slip into a coma so no one emotionally blackmails Amu. Rama finds out Rachu doesn't love him so he backs off for a while. Then you have such a huge avenue to make Rachita realize. And imagine! When Rachita does fall in love with Rama, how much more drama you can bring in when they want to get married!!! You can bring all of Rama's family back and basically rehash this entire track again!
PH: But what about all the money I spent on all this wedding decor and outfits for everyone? The characters changed more outfits in a day in this show than some characters in other shows do in an entire month!
SC: We can use them again. I am sure we can fit in a pooja for GC's well being and use some decor there. We can have the chaiwala's daughter shaadi where the outfits can be re-used. That can be figured out.
CH: And what about Mantu and Amaya?
SC: You need some romance to go with all this drama right? How about we get Amu to confess her love too and have the two of them do just hot, sizzling romance all the time?
SP: That doesn't bring trps.
SC: It will! It will! I know I'll watch it.
PH: Where are you from?
SC: Errr.. US?
SP: Bah! You don't count in the trp system. We don't care about you!
SC: Wait.. Wait.. I have another idea..
PH: Now what is it?
SC: There was a show on a rival channel that drew sooo much attention coz the leads did a lip lock on prime time television...
SP: So?
SC: They showed one lip lock and gained so much publicity, how about we have Mantu and Amaya during their hot, sizzling romance engage in multiple lip locks?
Silence in the room.
PH pulls out his phone.
PH: Dhruv, how averse are you to the idea of doing an onscreen lip lock?... And how about say ten of them?
And that is how ladies and gentlemen, a major catastrophe was avoided in Benaras city due to the smart move of our Special Correspondent.
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