TRP Travails & why shows fail

My 1st Indian TV show was IPKKND & since then though i dont watch any other shows ve got interested in this industry. I read most of the discussions & sometimes even participate in it. Frm my limited knowledge of this industry i ve come 2 the conclusion that there is no place for true love/romantic story in the Indian TV landscape. The reasons r plenty.

1. Ours is a conservative society which frowns on love, PDA, premarital sex etc. Any true love must ve these ingredients which obviously cant b digested by Indian viewers.
2. There is this hypocritical attitude towards women here. While the men can stray once in a while & simply get an indulgent comment tat Men ll b men, women r expected 2 b innocent, sacrificing & ve old values. So if the heroine is shown as romancing, sleeping with someone ppl ll b aghast & start taking out morchas.
3. Most of the heroines r too straightforward & shown as Innocent as snow. That is yawn boring. No human being is plain black or white. There needs to b shades of grey & more complex, subtle layers to the character. However the writers dont take a effort to create such complex, interesting characters. Result the leads r 1 dimensional. The hero ll b the typical angry handsome young man who hates women & the heroine will be the proverbial virginal maid who changes him. This makes for cliched, boring, stereotype tracks & aft a point all love shows start resembling each other in plot at a broader level.
4. To bring in TRPs the desperate writers bring in unwanted elements like family, saas-bahu torture, comedy etc which makes no sense & ultimately drives away even the original fans who wanted a different show. Classic case of the donkey story where the father & son clown around with the donkey just to please everyone & finally end up drowning the donkey.

End conclusion is i don't think RR might b any diff. All such shows start with good intention but slowly start veering off course due to the TRP woes.

Dying to c the day when v ll ve an Indian version of Rebecca or Wuthering Heights. That's a delicious prospect which might never materialize 😕

Forum friends r most welcome to add to the above points or refute by forwarding their arguments 😊

So true.
I don't stick to many Indian soaps for a very long time.
Also Indian soaps are aired five or six days a week and that too for an indefinite amount of time so writers just stretch the story like a chewing gum. If these shows were to be seasonal everything would have been different.
The angry boy and desperate gal thingie is seen in almost everrryyy korean drama. But still they are not boring as they are definite.

You know what happened to Indian dramas??
Ekta mataji happened.

Originally posted by: Targaryen-gal

So true.
I don't stick to many Indian soaps for a very long time.
Also Indian soaps are aired five or six days a week and that too for an indefinite amount of time so writers just stretch the story like a chewing gum. If these shows were to be seasonal everything would have been different.
The angry boy and desperate gal thingie is seen in almost everrryyy korean drama. But still they are not boring as they are definite.

You know what happened to Indian dramas??
Ekta mataji happened.

Chalo koyi tha reply kiya, usually no1 reads or responds 2 my posts 😆

Waiting to hear more frm other RR friends!

Originally posted by: Targaryen-gal

So true.
I don't stick to many Indian soaps for a very long time.
Also Indian soaps are aired five or six days a week and that too for an indefinite amount of time so writers just stretch the story like a chewing gum. If these shows were to be seasonal everything would have been different.
The angry boy and desperate gal thingie is seen in almost everrryyy korean drama. But still they are not boring as they are definite.

You know what happened to Indian dramas??
Ekta mataji happened.

Hola Angel

The format of an Indian TV serial is very different from that of a western one which airs once in a week and leaves more room for being selective.

Getting a lot of interesting perspective frm every1 out here & thnx 4 keeping the discussion gng but my questions sadly r still unanswered.

For eg in all the shows y is the heroine always shown as OH SO INNOCENT VIRGIN. In real life u ll never find such girls & no its a myth tat village girls r innocent. In fact in my experience i ve seen tat its only the city girls who r a little naive while the village girls mature mentally at a v young age. Still in our shows frm Geet to IPKKND to RR the girl is shown as v innocent. Of course in RR they ve not gone overboard so prob i need 2 wait & watch.

My quest is this. I know most of the folks here r SI fans so they r rooting 4 her character Paro. BUT a big BUT if SI played Laila instead of Paro whom ll the fans root for? Why s'd only the PAROs ve a happily ever after. Dont the LAILAs deserve a happily ever after?

This show will pickup trp when finally both will fall in love and then the usual kitchen politics between rudra's maasi and paro will start and ironically this is when the serial will become bore.