10 Golden Rules of Romance for Indian Television

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Posted: 10 years ago
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Based on my limited viewership of Hindi serials I have compiled the 10 commandments of Romance as postulated by makers of Indian shows.

1. The Hero SHOULD be the ANGRY YOUNG MAN henceforth referred to as AYM. He must be tall, handsome, brooding with 6 packs who removes his shirt more often than actually work in office. However you will always find him wearing only 3 piece suits irrespective of the time, location & weather except during beddy bed time.

2. The heroine should be an INNOCENT SMALL TOWN VIRGIN henceforth referred to as ISTV who NEVER wears modern/western dresses. She should have never visited the metro cities & must always wear tent like dresses.

3. The AYM MUST always have a dark past & occasionally (which means every episode) he must get an FB of this past which makes him close his eyes, close his fist, scowl & make life miserable for others (READ our ISTV).

4. The AYM must be an orphan. Point 4 is many times closely linked with point 3.

5. Irrespective of the educational qualifications & work experience of ISTV she will always land in the top company of India always owned by AYM & guess what she will directly report to the head of the company something which even the top grad from IIM cant aspire for in the beginning of the career.

6. All romance, coochie coo, falling in arms, weight lifting (AYM carrying ISTV), eye lock, arm lock, grabbing, pulling, pushing, shoving between AYM & ISTV will happen kullam kullam both in office & house of AYM but neither will the employees in office nor the dumbos at home will notice or care.

7. All marriages will be FAKE/CONTRACT/HATE marriage. The irony is before marriage though AYM & ISTV are madly in love with each other family members will be clueless but after marriage though AYM & ISTV supposedly hate each other the very same family members will delude themselves that they are madly in love with each other.

8. Marriages WILL NEVER be consummated immediately. AYM & ISTV will not have sex for an indeterminate period of time decided by the writers/CVs & have to restrict themselves to the stuff mentioned in point 6. Sex is off the table but manhandling is not.

9. AYM's house should always ve a swimming pool.

10. No one believes in knocking on doors & everyone will barge into every other room in the house of a top businessman & no questions will be asked.
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Angels11 thumbnail
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Forum junta is welcome to add on to these rules which will be published as an addendum/appendix to the original reference manual.
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Posted: 10 years ago
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I loved your post.
some more rules...
the ISTV will have a makeover
the AYM will have a friend or a brother or brother in law or cousin who will be charming n will fall in love or lust with ISTV
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Excellent post.

The characterization of ISTV and AYM would change according to the whims of CVs (or TRPs): usually towards being higher in violence quotient (mostly, AYM) , or lower in intelligence quotient (mostly ISTV).

Both AYM and ISTV would have middle names.
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Originally posted by: Junoonian

I loved your post.

some more rules...
the ISTV will have a makeover
the AYM will have a friend or a brother or brother in law or cousin who will be charming n will fall in love or lust with ISTV



Ha Ha so true. In fact was about to add ur 2nd pt, instead decided to wait for inputs frm other TV addicts!
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Some of the best romance was between Prem heer and Onu tani from the shows i have witnessed and neither of the two were angry young men ... two beautiful characters with amazing love stories and romance Prem in fact was tou more pavitar than 100 docile female leads put together ... yet he ruled hearts like anything

This rule of angry young man fits more for 4 lions shows i feel not all shows ... their characterization of male lead is always angry ... though in this show anger stems from pain and rejection so makes more sense
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Originally posted by: Soaps1

Some of the best romance was between Prem heer and Onu tani from the shows i have witnessed and neither of the two were angry young men ... two beautiful characters with amazing love stories and romance Prem in fact was tou more pavitar than 100 docile female leads put together ... yet he ruled hearts like anything


This rule of angry young man fits more for 4 lions shows i feel not all shows ... their characterization of male lead is always angry ... though in this show anger stems from pain and rejection so makes more sense



Tats why the disclaimer limited viewership 😆 But i think many of the rules like innocent small town virgin, non western clothes, hate marriage, no sex/consummation etc is true for Non Gul shows as well?
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Originally posted by: Neemsundari



Excellent post.

The characterization of ISTV and AYM would change according to the whims of CVs (or TRPs): usually towards being higher in violence quotient (mostly, AYM) , or lower in intelligence quotient (mostly ISTV).

Both AYM and ISTV would have middle names.



LOL so true dear. Esp reg the IQ quotient of ISTV, as the show progresses her brain regresses 😆
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Posted: 10 years ago
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😆😆 and yet it works ... they show what indian society wants to see. the people need to escape the everyday grind.
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lol angel...looks like u've more or less summed up all 4billi shows 🤣 i can see how traumatized u have been 😆 I sincerely hope someday u come out of it 😆
i agree with all the above...will add wen i cn think of smethng 😆

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