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By Rinky Kumar, Team iDiva 23 Jun 09

A still from Dill Mill Gayye

Say goodbye to saas-bahu serials and hello to teenage romance. Teenybopper love stories seem to be the flavour of the season what with not one, but four such serials airing on prime time television.

Channels have changed strategy and wooing younger audiences with their Gen-next programmes. So oodles of cakey makeup, weird camera angles, the whole nine yards and those tiffs between saas-bahus have now been replaced with bubble gum colours, casual ensembles and tiffs between lovers.
We take a look at all such young love-centric serials :

Dill Mill Gayye
This show can undoubtedly be hailed as the pioneer in teenage romance. When it was launched, Dill Mill Gayye was touted as a sequel to the once successful Sanjivani. The hospital drama revolves around a bunch of doctors, their lives and experiences at Sanjivani hospital. Once the show started becoming popular, the hospital drama was soon turned into a rom com - read: a humour, emotion and love triangle-filled story. Guess, it was time to introdce a desi Scrubs to the Indian audience. It also gave us the ever popular Karan Singh Grover as Armaan, the protagonist. Grover won everyone's hearts with his antics and die-hard love for fellow doctor Riddhima, now played by Jennifer Winget. The serial, which has completed over 300 episodes, has also introduced characters played by Amit Tandon and Shweta Gulati, simply to add some masala and romance to the existing love story.

Sayantani Chakraborty, a Class 12 student is hooked on to this prime time show. She says, "It's a welcome change from the saas-bahu serials. I never watched those because I couldn't relate to them. I simply love Armaan's character in DMG. He's a die-hard romantic just like me."

ya same here