Driving the positive characters out of home: This is something that keeps happening in every other serial and is hugely inspired by Jeetendra starring remakes of Southern films (no wonder Ekta uses them the most). Most recently, the example of this conspiracy was Saat Phere in which the vamp Kaaveri (Aanchal Dwivedi) who just acts like a good bahu at times and only has evil in her mind, succeeded in getting her husband's mansion transferred in her name and drove her parents-in-law out of the
Being friendly and conspiring at the same time: Staying in the same house, sympathising with the character and plotting and planning against him/her at the same time ?this happens all the time. Of late Kakisaa (Apra Mehta in Saat Phere) is staying as a well-wisher with hero Nahar Singh (Sharad Kelkar)'s family. On one hand, she pretends to think about heroine Saloni (Rajashree Thakur)'s well being while in reality she wants to keep Saloni away from Nahar and wants her own niece (Natasha Singh) married to him.