Thursday, July 4, 2013

Anything and Everything can happen in TV Serials - Part II

Now, lets talk about the story of the serials, Most of the serials these days are inspired from some or other movie. Even when a serial is not started, you can completely guess the story by looking at the promotional advertisements.

Moreover, When the writer is not getting anything new, story from other serial is stolen :-)

I was watching a serial and the scene is "Lead Actress is going through some medical procedure to save her life, her family, I am referring to both the families here Mayka and Sasural because these complicated situation arises only when the lead actress of daily soap is married."

I realized that i have seen the same stuff in 2-3 other serials as well, Bade acchhe lagte hain, sasural genda phool and Ek hazzaron me meri bahna hai, all these were showing the same story at some point of time. Its more of repetition and monotonous but still the audience enjoy the same story being played by their favorite actors. Arre kuch to naya dikhao. 

In most of the romantic serials, the couple gets married and they don't accept each other at all as their partner. Both have to prove themselves to their partner as good husband or a ideal wife. In 99% of the serial, family, specially, Mother-in-law doesn't accept her daughter-in-law and her bechaari bahu keep proving herself throughout her life that she is an ideal girl for her son.

Mostly she would be non-working but in need, she will prove herself in the market so well. She eventually gets a job without any experience, knows computers, can give presentation with so much confidence. She performs well, i would say, not only well but she gets standing ovation from everyone. At the end, she gets a higher position in management and definitely, the CEO of the company falls in love with her in all cases. Real life me aisa hota hai kya, job that too without experience ?

Even being wretched and helpless, she is the superhero. She keeps doing stuff that no one expects her to do, not at least in first go. She has never cooked in her life but in the ceremony in which daughter-in-law has to cook first time in her In-Laws home, she will outperform everyone. Pahle baar me sirf jalaa hua khana ban sakta hai :-)

In serials, no one ever dies ever. Every one who has dies or lost will return back at the most crucial stage of the story. ek baar mar gaya to suspense kaisa, acchhe se check karna chahiye na declare karne se pahle or mummies will always return back to their home :-)

Although i am not very regular on watching the serial but I have been guessing for what next in serial from a long time, and after few of my predictions came to reality. I realized this when i was doing something at home and my mom suddenly told me that "i should be a writer or serial critic". This has been biggest compliment of my life till date. :-)

To read the previous part of story :
http://dipsitravelogue.blogspot.in/2013/07/anything-and-everything-can-happen-in.html

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Anything and Everything can happen in TV Serials

Serials .. uff ye TV serials ...

These days most of us watch these typical saas bahu types serial and enjoy the mirch masala in it. Now Don't say 'No' :-)

Chalo maan liya, you don't watch these daily soaps everyday but each one of you would have seen at least some glimpse of a serial even though you don't want to watch. Soch rahe ho na aakhir Kiyu ? 

These daily soap have become an important part of the housewives. Many of you must have noticed your wife crying by watching an episode and asking you to keep quite, even when no one is speaking in the serial, arre yaar kisi ko bolne to do, tak tak meri baan hi sun lo pur nahi.

Some day, your mother will ask you to set up the channel of her favorite serial when you are watching cricket or something else of your choice. You don't want to change it, i know but what other choice do you have ? If you are going to think twice about handing over the remote to your wife, they are not going to cook for you :-) None of you would say that this hasn't happened with you at least once in your life:-)

I am also a big fan of these serials with a slight difference with others. My perspective or purpose of watching the serial is quite hilarious.

I can never watch one serial at a time, There are many reasons to it,
  • In half an hour of serial, two breaks are announced, As soon as a break is announced in serial to accommodate the advertisements, i switch over to some other channel to track the plot of the story and many a times, i forget that advertisements would have been over till now on to the previous tv channel and serial would have started.
  • Second, before every break, they consume 30-60 seconds to show what is coming next after the break. I must tell you, you are not going to get this 'coming next' scene until the last 2-3 minutes before the time slot of the serial for that day is about to be over.
  • They consume almost a minute in the end of the serial to accommodate few scenes from the next day episode.
At last, you end up watching only 15-17 minutes story out of 30 minutes.

Don't forget to read the second part of the series ...