Funny Things That Can Happen Only in Indian Soaps & Serials (courtesy/credit Hubpages)
Attire of women in Indian soaps
Indian soaps are highly glamorized in context of costumes. Women are shown working in kitchens in lehengas and saris with huge quantities of sequence work adorning them. The light reflected from them has enough illumination to light up your apartment. Each character has their own designed costumes and they vary only in color from one episode to the other.
Background music for vamps
Vamps or female miscreants in Hindi serials need a classification of their own. They have their own background music varying from cat mewing to thunders bolting down on the forever-goodie-two-shoes bahus. The music plays on continuously whenever they are making their entries and perform their evil deeds.
Plastic surgeries are abundant
This dermatology ingenuity comes handy whenever a character dies but his or her body is never found. Plastic surgery is one means of resurrecting the character. However the script writer preserves this expensive surgery only for the protagonists and vamps.
Memory loss cases are also profound
Amnesia is one human ailment used extensively in Indian serials whenever the scriptwriter runs out of ideas to mix up the story. However this is not just any ordinary form of amnesia, it's selective amnesia where the person forgets only one person from his family, his lover and all the wondrous moments they spent together.
Universal set
The set shown is where the whole story line revolves. It marvelously changes into office, drawing room, hospital and sometimes in teenage love story cases as college class rooms. Characters are rarely seen outside their home. And the biggest room is the kitchen because that is where the real showdown between saas-bahu takes place.
Photo frame breaking
This is the ultimate ominous sign more assuring than the devil itself ringing your door bell and saying "I'm going to kill your husband". This is more deleterious than the forever burning vigil blowing off in the wind.
This is the ominous sign of something evil happening and this makes the viewer's alert and curious of what is going to happen next!
Forever dolled up
Indian soaps have an eccentric feature of showing every women going to bed with heavy jewelry and perfectly powdered face. Even when they wake up from sleep not a single strand of hair is misplaced from their hair bun. However while stepping out from the shower the protagonist will try to dry her hair with a huge pink towel without success and that is when the male protagonist gets bowled over by her failed efforts.
Camera angles
Cinematic devices typical of Hindi serials are low angles (for vamps), high angles (angelic bahus), swipes both left and right (when the photo frame breaks), close-up (during tear-shedding), multiple angle shots (when the news is not accepted by the brain).
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