HT - New soaps, and a host of new stories(SNS)

It's no longer breaking news that the newer lot of Hindi serials are not all centred around saas-bahu conflicts. Don't get too excited though — it's not as if these serials have disappeared from our screens altogether. There's still that scary-looking lady with big, black-lined eyes in Saathiya, and there's still that other scary-looking lady with big, rolling eyes in Diya Aur Bati (both on Star Plus), and what's more, both these serials are still fetching good ratings. But there's also a wider range of stories and ideas on air now.

A couple of examples: Sony has started Kya Hua Tera Vaada, which is the story of a married couple with three children.
Imagine TV has also begun a new show, Mi, Aaji Aur Saheb, whose story sounds suspiciously like the Anil Kapoor-Sridevi starrer, Lamhe.

Which brings me to the million-episode question: even when the new serials are not saas-bahu dramas, why aren't they rocking our TV sets? A possible answer is the very format of the daily soap. To shoot and edit and package one episode every day, five days a week, is a tough call. Production houses seem to have tackled this by sticking to a cookie cutter story-telling style. To give just one example: the excruciatingly slow pace of most serials. (The rationale seems to be to shoot less, then stretch the few scenes as much as possible. That's why a lot of the time, nothing actually happens in an episode. Directors get around this lack of forward movement by seeking to build a couple of 'moments' in every episode. But that's not enough, especially if the moments are not arresting enough).

Someone needs to throw away the cookie cutter. Quickly.

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Thanks for sharing. The cookie cutter definitely needs throwing away.

thanks for sharing havnt read it before