The Evolution Of TV serials and their Portrayal of ‘Indian Values’ - Page 2

Originally posted by: NayaNehaD31

Weirdly this doesn’t happen in reality lol at least never happened with me lol🤪 or maybe i’m just unlucky in love🤣🤣 anyway this eye staring contest and catch and fall thing doesn’t really happen at all lol

if it makes you feel better, no one caught me either. 😆 instead, I fell on my backside and had to pick myself up. 🤷

I liked how there was a proper flow and division of screen-presence and screen-share in the ensemble cast shows, for example, Dekh Bhai Dekh that aired between 1993 and 1994 was an epic ensemble cast show. It had comedy with drama. Real entertainer. We don’t get shows like that anymore on ITV at least. 👎🏼

Nowadays most of the ensemble cast shows revolve around just one character 🤪 and other characters are just mere props to create buzz and TRP, even though the audience likes them more than the “so called lead”. It should be noted that there’s a worldwide trend of ensemble cast shows all around the globe, yet here we are just focusing on one character throughout the episode and people end of losing interest because it’s humanly impossible to write different stories for just one character, so the writers add more negative and violence filled plot in their storylines, so that the “so called lead” could do something magical to come out as some sort of hero— just to be liked by the audience, which is ironic because the audience hates it even more! This entire thing is just ridiculous and destroys the overall message and essence of the show!

It’s maddening how just one character ends up doing almost anything and everything and people start to dislike/hate it lol 🤪🤣

Originally posted by: mango.falooda

if it makes you feel better, no one caught me either. 😆 instead, I fell on my backside and had to pick myself up. 🤷

😮 you were okay right? Nothing serious happened right? I’m so sorry that happened! also cute gif❤️

Also, yes, in reality nobody’s going to show heart eyes while you fall on top of them instead they would just shove you around the corner like as if lol! 🤣🤣

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Fauji: Sharukh Khan

The question is whether watching Indian television changed the viewers psychologically, or whether the shows are only a mirror of the shifting Indian viewers' tastes?

Is this a positive change, or are we drifting too far in the direction of negativity and violence?

It has become a daily routine in most homes, and so much so that families watching family-dramas have begun to imbibe what they see on television. Perhaps it works on a quid pro quo basis: serials show what the viewers want, and the viewers want what the serials show.

This small screen is also the platform which has given India many celebrities.

TV is the most widespread and unfortunately the most rotten medium as of today.

Gone are those days when we as kids were more into reading books than watching TV or OTT platform.

Having said that, TV today somehow portrays the regressive society unfortunately in name of culture and tradition as opposed to what was shown in 1980s or 1990s or for that matter initial years of 2000s.

In my opinion it is not to do with viewer’s psychology or mirroring of their taste, but more to do with competition.

And since as humans we all have at least some percent of being sadist, so audiences revel or enjoy on the fact that apart from them others are also miserable and what better than showing the fairer sex miserable because we are still a patriarchal society.

Originally posted by: NayaNehaD31

😮 you were okay right? Nothing serious happened right? I’m so sorry that happened! also cute gif❤️

Also, yes, in reality nobody’s going to show heart eyes while you fall on top of them instead they would just shove you around the corner like as if lol! 🤣🤣

kekeke.. yea, totally okay. only my jeans tore a bit at the knee and had to take painkiller till bruise came down.

but whenever I see these staring contests, I always appreciate the actors. think how hard it is on your back to hold that pose for something like a minute as the camera pans on all the angles. 😂

Originally posted by: NayaNehaD31

I liked how there was a proper flow and division of screen-presence and screen-share in the ensemble cast shows, for example, Dekh Bhai Dekh that aired between 1993 and 1994 was an epic ensemble cast show. It had comedy with drama. Real entertainer. We don’t get shows like that anymore on ITV at least. 👎🏼

Nowadays most of the ensemble cast shows revolve around just one character 🤪 and other characters are just mere props to create buzz and TRP, even though the audience likes them more than the “so called lead”. It should be noted that there’s a worldwide trend of ensemble cast shows all around the globe, yet here we are just focusing on one character throughout the episode and people end of losing interest because it’s humanly impossible to write different stories for just one character, so the writers add more negative and violence filled plot in their storylines, so that the “so called lead” could do something magical to come out as some sort of hero— just to be liked by the audience, which is ironic because the audience hates it even more! This entire thing is just ridiculous and destroys the overall message and essence of the show!

It’s maddening how just one character ends up doing almost anything and everything and people start to dislike/hate it lol 🤪🤣

No.. what viewers want what the serial doesn’t show. like,Majority of the serials in Star Plus, Colors and Zee Tv thrive on bigamy involving two sisters happiness or separation of leads again and again, or glorifying females like Anupamaa, etc

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Still, we are recollecting that dialogue whenever our car waiting for signal --- Lilliput saying ---Light ...green ho jaa, green ho jaa... Dekhaaaa! 😃

Lol

https://youtu.be/h6k3wpsRD7Q

how random and funny lol🤣🤣🤣

A few glimpses of earlier days' serials---

These earlier shows dealt with the culture, values and norms of the Indian family which forms up the society and had an element of feminism, seemingly progressive shows for their time, where women were given equal importance on screen.

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Hasratein

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Shanti — the iconic woman character from DD's 1994 series ...

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Then comes the era of the ‘K’ serials in the 2000’s like Kyunki Saans Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, wherein the main characters Tulsi and Parvati symbolised ‘Indian values’ and the show shot to the top of the viewership charts. Balaji Telefilms’ K formula matched the growth of a Hindu consciousness. These were the typical daily soaps where family is given utmost importance and the viewers want their families to be as perfect as shown in the fiction show.

Television preserved the Indian culture, but it also reflected the aspirations of young Indians in the era of economic growth. Reality and talent hunt was the television response with shows like Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, the singing reality show which gave India some of its finest singers, Boogie Woogie the dance reality show and finally, it was personified in Kaun Banega Crorepati in 2000, inspired by the hit British show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, marking an era of subsequent ‘remakes’ of western TV shows. In current times, the shows portray a lavish lifestyle of the actors and seem to appeal to the elite masses of India as they show the different struggles that they have to go through. In doing so the struggles of the common people have lost their meaning and importance!

Originally posted by: priyaa256

No.. what viewers want what the serial doesn’t show. like,Majority of the serials in Star Plus, Colors and Zee Tv thrive on bigamy involving two sisters happiness or separation of leads again and again, or glorifying females like Anupamaa, etc

Most shows are all talk no action—- with long lectures about feminism, self respect, and blah blah coz at the end of the day— the makers end-up showing the female leads as some overstressed superwoman who does everything from solving crimes to performing life saving surgeries while the male lead is busy trying to romance the parallel instead of doing his job lol this is like the typical = “Pati, Patni, and Woh” plot in almost all the shows lol

Full of negative clout👎🏼👎🏼