yes , and they take viewers for a ride each time with same formula.
Their formula is just this ..........Suffering . Audience relates to suffering , so show suffering , loads of it . Sometimes so much that honestly , one starts feeling , real life is better . It at least has moments of some happiness sprinkled in it . These serials have none . They have despair , illegitimate children , long jail sentences , false court cases and evil triumphing clad in designer sarees .
I really dont know who defined this formula . Audience does want good triumphing over evil , heroines winning over vamps , but this so called formula doesnt seem to have this .
I shudder to even think about Soni , or Vidya in BMTD . Women r degraded to the extreme. Honestly , village women have so much spark in them still they r portrayed this way . The city women r even worse , they either smirk in designer saris or do poojas in them..........at least the village women work in the fields .
Men r generally in the wuss category or stupidly egoistic category , manipulated by women all the time . they never have brains of their own . ever .
As the serials progress the stories go on getting stupider and stupider . Nahar's look alike Sanyasi , Jeet losing memory , Jiji marrying kakasa in London , ridiculous themes evolve . Show me one serial that stuck to its original theme ..........of color discrimination and a fight against it , being there for ur maayka inspite of being married [ Maayka only got bombed]...........showing women power [ Betiyaan who r involved in silliest of things]................
No one knows how this is done . Exactly how these scripts r written , r meetings held , who comes up with these horrid ideas and while comin up with them doesnt he find sumthing dreadfully ridiculous about them ? Or if they simply dont care splurging money like this ! Why channels allow this ? Coz Balika Vadhu , Uttaran , r not like this . Their success stories must definetely convey sumthing to channel heads , that realism with proper dollop of drama does sell , then why this deliberate blindness ?