Mini-World

A friend called me yesterday,

Friend: "Hey, you know that i****a is going to get cancer"
Me: "What? Who I****a"?
Friend: "Aare, that neighbor of Raman"
Me: "Raman? Neighbor? I don't know of any neighbor I****a or Raman? Did they move in the neighborhood recently?"
Friend: "Aare, nahi. They have been there for 3 years"
Me: "Oh really!!. What does it mean by she is going to get cancer?"
Friend: "Oh there is going to be a leap and I****a didn't want to be part of the leap so they are ending her character by having her cancer. Don't you watch, Yeh Hai Muhabaat?"
Me: "Oh you are talking about TV serial. No, i haven't watched that one. I am not into serials. I may watch it here and there."
Friend: "Oh you should watch them. They are really interesting"

My friend is a "TV Serial Stalker". She watches each and every serial and even follows personal life of the characters. She knows the past, present and future of all the TV Serial actors and actresses. She is very active on the serial forum site, india-forums.com.

I have seen a few serials and after watching them, i didn't like them. I learned the following from the Indian Hindi TV Serials. I don't like to spend half an hour to watch 15-20 mins of serial with only 5-10 mins of actual drama. Rest is all closeup of each and every character.

1. The protagonist has to be a DIL of the house.
2. Either MIL, Co-sis, SIL has to be evil. Many times more than one or in turns they get evil.
3. One of the SIL would be staying in the house along with her husband.
4. The ghar-Jamai would always be in the house. Never i have seen ghar-jamai working.
5. Only the husband of the DIL is earning and running a business which grows from lakhs to crores to multi billions of dollars in a two to three years.
6. For every small crime in the house, the Police Commissioner is called. No wonder, real crimes in the cities are increasing as the PC is busy helping one family after another.
7. The evil ladies have access to goons and they can kill, hurt anybody, anywhere.
8. The evil ladies are omnipresent. They can hear all the conversation of the house.
9. The DIL always solves the crime. The PC and the police department are never able to solve the crime. Maybe the government should hire these DILs to solve crimes.
10. Everyone gathers into the family hall, leaving whatever work they are doing and all they do is make annoying faces. Who knows they may be shooting once with different faces and then the editor, depending on the situation, must be using them like we use emoticons. :rotfl
11. When the serial is about to end, everyone suddenly becomes nice and forgives all crimes of everyone and is one happy family. :bang. This one really irritates me. In movies, at least there is retribution where the hero beats the goon, and says, "This one is for troubling my father, This one is for troubling my mom, etc". One feels closure. But excusing everyone and forgiving everyone?
12. If some dies or has a divorce, the surviving partner has to be married asap. A groom or bride is always present for marriage.
13. A person meets with an accident and suddenly has a plastic surgery and apart from a different face, the height, body, speech every thing changes. Shouldn't Modi advertise such plastic surgery in his "Make in India" campaign? It will bring in huge dollars.
14. There are long shots of the house. But the same house is shown in many serials, meaning many families are living in the same house. But in one serial the two story house is shown internally to be a single story and vice-versa.
15. There are many ladies and maids in the house, yet only the DIL is the one cooking. The evil ladies are always there to add in salt or even poison into the food.
16. It takes 20 minutes for people to walk twenty steps. The westerners are wrong about brisk walking and running. Slow walking is the secret to anti-aging and health. Most grandmas in the tv serials look younger than their DIL and with no grey hair.
17. The lights in the house are always on. No one switches on or off the lights as the cameras are always on. Maybe this explains why Arvind Kejriwal's electricity bill is 91 Lakhs. He must be having cameras on 24x7 to catch sting operations.
18. The ladies wear expensive sarees, jewelry and makeup, even when sleeping. No concept of night dresses. They wake up equally fresh with no wrinkles on the dress and no missing earrings.
19. The men of the house are always quiet. Never say a word on any issue. If the men were such in real life, the IL forum would have been silent.

I can't understand how people accept this mini world, serial after serial and get so addicted to it.

Would love to hear of your experience with TV Serials.

 

hehe... Nice one Balajee. Thanks for picking up the "Serial Stalker" world. There is a serial i watch off an on, called "KumKum Bhagya". In that serial, a marriage has been happening for a few months now. Totally ridiculous. If you visit, India-forums.com, people are so much into the serial and characters that they debate on each and every episode and action.

 

Hey Vani, how are you? Nice to hear from you. What surprises me is that the serials starts consuming real life of people and people start believing in stuff. There was a serial, don't remember but where they showed evil magic and stuff like that and a neighbor of mine started believing it is true and was always thinking that someone is doing black magic on her.

The friend i mentioned in my post always talks about serials and she would relate any topic to the serial.

Again thanks to hear from you.

 

Your maid will surely cut her finger, if she continues to watch serials and cut vegetables.

I understand that dramas are important. But serial after serial, the same drama? same formula? and people get glued to the same stuff?

 

GG please don't pressurize me. I am a simple person and get scared of expectations. I like to be a free bird and sing what i feel like.

Well, its not about pity, i am scared of religious serial watchers. I have to look at the time before calling them so as to not disturb them.