I came up with the idea to make ths thread after reading a cliche thread for movies on the digital spy website. I was like wow they would be so many cliches you could think of for idea serials and movies... Here are some of the ones that I could think of:
In serials:
Mother-in-laws
The heroin usually all kinds of deeds for their family but the mother in law never accepts them
Heroins usually never work and are housewifes, and this is seen as the model bahu and ones that work are made their lives a misery but other family members.
Heroin always has a phase in the serial of complete denial where she cannot see anything that we all can see.
When a new character is introduced, the camera always focuses on their feet for ages
When a bad moment in hero or heroins life happens there is always this episode or half an episode focusing on flashbacks where all of the good times are remembered
one of the main character always has a big accident and they are suddenly brought back to life again
the doctors nealry always says her/his conditions is very critical, i will not allow her/ him to be disturbed, only so and so number of person at a time
When the character hearts stops, after a few minutes of "i am afraid we've lost her"she is open her eye MIRACLE not.....
The villains in the serial always have a problem with money/lost love.
Serials are always based on mother-in-law/ daughter-in-law stories, with love and conflict splashed into the mixture. There is never anything that goes out of the family drama.
At least one of the main characters who died has to come back to life because he was not really dead.
One of the female characters, not in all serial but some, if she was pregnant at the same time as another woman in the family and the other woman lost her baby decides to give away her kid
Labour is never good for indian serial mums, and they nearly always have the most spectacular birth, either premature, kidnapped by a lunatic, or they give birth but their condition is very ahem "critical".
The way they discover pregancy is always like the same, either morning sickness or fainting.
In movies......
Theme is nearly always romance, don't know about hindi movies but that's the case for
tamil movies, or if it is an action film, the theme is summin like baddie killed heros mates
or whatever, and the whole story is about revenge and bhig hero saving the whole tamil nadu/india
stories always, hero loves rich girl but girls father/family do not want them to get
married and they find a way to get married and they do and they all live happily ever after....
Before that fight scene, hero punches one guy and he ends up flying to the next continent.........
These of course are the main one that I could think of, plz feel free to add more to this list