Indian television shows go beyond being mere forms of entertainment. They weave themselves into our daily lives and the characters become a part of our extended family whom we worry about and fret over. Be it Baa's crossing 400 years of age or Mihir Virani' miraculously coming back to life after a nationwide mourning ensued post his death in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi', telly soaps are always loaded with the masala required to keep the small screen audience glued to their sets year after year. From multiple generation leaps to regular plastic surgeries and memory losses, TV shows never lose out on opportunities to keep the viewers on the edge. Check out these and many other rather funny things that characterize Indian daily soaps, and we bet you won't disagree.
Bar code: You dare not drop your jaws in shock if the protagonist who is usually the epitome of all things good is put behind bars. The family members have periodical jail visits scheduled for crimes ranging from murder and kidnapping to fraud and even rape. From Tulsi Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi to Kokila Modi in Saath Nibhana Saathiya, the best of television bahus were sentenced to jail at least once. While going to jail is a life-changing event in a person's life, it seems to be no big deal in the daily soaps. If anything, it only seems to be the ultimate agnipariksha that proves their mettle further. Phew!
Marry go round: The daily soaps always market themselves on their efforts that they claim keep the Indian culture alive but even the most positive of characters on the show get married more than once. And in their defense, they say that the second marriage was necessary because they were earlier married to the wrong person and were justified in breaking an unhappy marriage to seek new love. Get a reality check, please! In which part of India are divorces so casual? Mona Singh was married twice in Kya Huaa Tera Vaada whereas Avika Gor aka Anandi also gets married twice in Balika Vadhu.
Shock them good: We are all familiar with the annoying cut and zoom camera play and that irritating Kya! Kya! Kya!' shot from different angles in the daily soaps on the revelation of a shocking news. It takes about fifty shots from all angles with powerful surround sound and multiple replays for the truth to sink in after which comes a close-up of every character's face as the truth dawns upon them and realisation hits them, literally!
Dead man walking: Acting in a daily soap guarantees immortality, at least till the time the TRPs keep trickling in. If you think a character is breathing his last, rest assured, he will be back. And if he is lucky enough, the producers might also give him a plastic surgery to alter his appearance so drastically, you would bet it is a different person. Only he isn't! If you are lucky though, he might have lost his memory and would be manipulated to believe whatever others tell him, making the plot even more exciting (read: lame). The best example to cite here would be Mihir Virani's accidental death in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi which caused a nationwide mourning. As the viewers could not bear the tragic loss, many threatening to commit suicide, the makers of the show were forced to bring him back. Vansh aka Rohit Khurana in Uttaran also came back to life after a dramatic death as the writers wanted to bring in a clever twist in the tale upon his return.
More the merrier: The daily soaps are all about big joint families consisting of everyone from the chachas and mamas to the buas and dadis. How the producers manage to shoot with such a huge ensemble cast under one roof, day after day is a mystery that perhaps even the FBI would be crunched to solve, the fact remains that they do it and the audience loves it too. More the merrier definitely stands true here. The duration of the show is directly proportional to the number of characters in it.
Dual identity: While it may sound unbelievable to many, shows featuring the same person playing characters of different age groups are all the rage on the Indian TV scene. You might get to see the same girl playing the daughter's role and then transform into a mother by a mere gray steak in her hair.
Evil is the new good: Sometimes the director turns the evil into good and then when the drama has spent like 15 episodes on his or her good behavior, when the audience is made sure that the evil has realized his or her mistake and is now following the right path then the villain shows out his or her real intentions that he hasn't shifted and is here to take revenge. Indian directors really think that we'll find it easy to swallow that after showing in hundreds of episodes that a person's intentions are evil we'll believe that he's changed by acting positively in like ten episodes?
Directors need to give female actors a great stamina: Female actors faint a lot in every Indian TV serial I don't know why the directors do it so that the hero could look at the girl more closely? Whether she's not feeling good or is pregnant she is to faint. Tell me one drama series in which the heroine hasn't fainted yet. That's a challenge. It's getting way old. Indian dramas should change this now!
Indian drama serials keep showing marriage functions or any event for more than a month: Indian serial marriages are way too long for someone to handle and the funny thing is they've done a high class arrangement performed a high class arrangement for a union that is not going to fall out. Same goes with an event. A member of the family or the villain comes to the party and bares all past secrets associated with the household, ruins all the fun people are having and the strange thing is that no one tries to stop him or her. They're all waiting for the show to end.
You'll not regret having missed some episodes: You were not able to watch the episodes? No worries. Trust me you are not going to regret it because you will find the drama stuck on the same situation or dilemma from where you left watching.
The background music comes in thrice: Whether it is an entry of a villain in a wedding or a person breaks shocking news to the house the suspense music "THASH THASH THASH" will be played in the background. The cameraman will focus on every member of the family by showing their reactions one by one taking about 2 minutes and then return to the situation. Happens in about every drama.
In every engagement party, either one of the actor drops the ring: Come on now people you'll have to agree on this fact that whenever the actor is getting engaged his or her previous lover is always present in the party and the actor whether it's a he or a she drops the ring and the ring travels through the entire hall and ends its journey at the actor's feet. And of course then the lover hands the ring over to the couple.Court drama: So by far the favorite dialogue of the actors is "Ruk jaye judge sahab". Whenever the judge is about to call for a conclusion considering a lawsuit then the person having a valid proof enters the court and interrupts the judge as he or she is the reason the hero that is innocent would be spared.
Heroine slaps the hero like a million times: In every Indian drama serial, priority is given to the women to slap men as if they are their pets. If she slaps him like two times to create more drama they'll repeat the scene which makes it worse.
The larger the bindi the more evil is the woman: Well you can take any drama, every drama has a villain that stays in the house and then performs what she has to do. And her bindi on the forehead keeps getting bigger day by day indicating that she's planning some serious evil moves against the family.
CREDIT: timesofindia.indiatimes.com TV News , skimon.com/funny-facts-about-indian-tv-serials
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