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Television scripts seem to be virtual takeoffs from its elder bro --- tinsel town! We uncovered glaring examples of how some of the most memorable scenes and story tracks from tellydom remind us of Bollywood.

So what started the hunt, as far as we are concerned, was the recent track in Star Plus' Kesar. Here, a love saga will unfold as the new entrant in the show, Yash Tonk will fall head over heels in love with Kesar, just because he has her dead lover's (Hiten Tejwani) heart! Very filmi, we say! But it is true….Doesn't the storyline sound familiar? If yes, then you must have seen the Salman Khan starrer, Dil Ne Jise Apna Kaha, where the heart patient, Bhoomika Chawla, starts having feelings for her boss as soon as she acquires his wife's heart!

This is not all…in K.Street Pali Hill, Smriti, ( Jasveer Kaur) met with an accident recently and her face became unrecognisable when she falls into a crocodile infested river. The buzz is that Smriti will come back in a new avatar to avenge her murder! Again the plot seems to be a take off from the Khoon Bhari Mang starring Rekha and Kabir Bedi.

These take-offs are etched in our minds forever, as they appear mostly when there is an emergency situation on the show --- be it falling TRPs or a lead actor quitting the show, where it becomes imperative to do something dramatic to keep the viewer glued to the show.

A case in point is the death of arguably tellydom's favourite son --- Sujal in Kahiin to Hoga. His death is reminiscent of Hrithik's much talked about underwater death sequence in Kaho Naa Pyar Hai. Remember his head striking a rock underwater, bouncing up and down and then finally giving up!

Television doesn't seem to mind aping the west as well. Let alone formats, some path breaking scenes have been copied from popular Hollywood flicks! In Saara Akash, as we saw Shakti Anand maneuver his way under a hijacked bus and try to diffuse the bomb planted there by terrorists, we are reminded of a similar scene in Keanu Reeve's Speed I --- it was copied bomb, terrorist, flying bus and all!

These are some of the scenes that struck us…there must be many more…but one thing that we keep wondering is do the serial makers realise what they are doing…or is it just plain old coincidence?