Originally posted by: chotoranii
that's so interesting to me! in BTV most of the time they all have lives outside of just being connected to the leads, like yes there's the quintessential awful mother or father in law and one or more sister/aunt in law figures who suck but they all have other things happening in their own lives too (at least at the start, sometimes as shows get older, the actors will move to other shows so that changes things up a bit), I wonder what makes hindi language serials different in some ways!
That sounds a lot more progressive, even male leads in ITV do nothing but sit at home all day long after the first few weeks/months...they're literally businessmen/doctors/police officers etc in name only and we get stupid useless plotlines like best bahu contest🙄