Firstly let me clear it out straight away that i am not into any of those saas-bahu sagas, nor the present lot of regressive shows that are all supposedly family-centric, but yet show all the brutalities against women packed into one show. Take your pick, you have men dominating over women, forced marriages, child marriages, prostitution, adultery, etc. And if the so called creative heads feel that the show isn't going anywhere, they come up with lame twists, like marital rape, or any rape of that cause, or introduction of a new love interest to create a love triangle!!! wow...how original!!! What i cannot understand is how can the whole family feel that a rape is a twist to the tale? Its just disgusting to see that the creative heads resort to such cheap thrills or gimmicks to capture their precious TRPs! In these shows, the whole family feels its their birth right to make the life of the so called protagonist a living hell, and later revel and rejoice at the outcome of their evil-doings. One second a person is out to get them for no conceivable reason, and the next second they are the protagonist's main supporters.
And please don't get me wrong, i do not watch these shows. I just happen to know so much about this spate of crappy regressive serials because i watch it, its only because my parents are avid followers of these mind numbing soaps that go on and on straying off from the original course. I have tried quite unsuccessfully at steering them away from these soaps, but they are hooked and i feel its too late for them! It like these creative heads have gotten some kind of weird training in creating cult followers.
Initially mu mom used to watch just one show called "pavitra rishta", which she claimed that she had no interest in watching, but just found the actress quite pretty and that she was just gonna watch a few episodes and then stop. I cant believe i fell for it! Guess what, i happened to go to Bangalore for 2 weeks with my friends and by the time i was back, my parents started religiously following, not one or two, but four different soaps!!! And now i cant do anything but just groan and get as far away from the TV as i can.
These shows get as far away from reality as possible. The so called characters have no character at all; how can they?? when their characters are bound to change to suit the ever changing plot of the show.
My parents also watch a show called "jhansi ki rani". Initially i was happy that that they are now creating a show based on the life of such a strong woman of history. But guess what, our creative directors out there, rewrite history. At the current state of the "jhansi ki rani" show, i am sure the real Rani Lakshmibai is turning in her grave. because they have reduced her to a screaming, over sensitive queen of drama!
So please, those of you out these, don't get suckered into this quagmire of senseless, mind numbing soaps.
And a quick trivia for you. If u ever wondered why Ekta Kapoor's serials show serial-weddings of their protagonists; well the answer is that, she her self is a fan of Bold and the Beautiful. If any of you have ever seen any of its episodes, you'll immediately know that, that is where she gets the inspiration from. So i guess its not just Anu Mallik or Pritam anymore who plagiarize and call it inspiration. Our queen of soaps too gets inspired from foreign soaps.
And if you actually pay attention, you will realize that these is no story going on at all in these daily Indian soaps. Just count the number of times in a week that there is some sort of a party or function or wedding or outing or festival of some sort or the other going on, eating into clearly 15 - 20min of the total of the oh-so precious 30min of the telecast time.
So here you have it, these shows are so mind numbing that you do not even realize that you are actually watching nothing, and these shows are stealing away your precious time. Come rain or sun, nothing seems to be able to pull these people away from their soaps.
Well keep posted and i will let you know about the actual interesting shows out there in clear view and yet out of sight.
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