That day, I was free and was scanning the channels on my TV. Suddenly, I paused on a channel showing a daily soap. The show had a funny name. It was something like "godbharai" or "godbharvayi". I watched a scene or two and instantly picked up the gist of the story.There was this male lead who was impotent (namard) and he is portrayed as a super-desperate man to have a baby of his own. Personally, I found it amusing. Soon the show ended and was replaced by another one. This one had a female protagonist who was so meek and gentle that I instantly inferred that no matter what, she is going to face every affliction possible in a joint family.If not, then well.. who will watch the show??
Some of the most common/irritating things that I can point out about these daily soaps are...
THE GAUDY APPEARANCE OF WOMEN : These women roam around in the house clad in those flashy sarees and jwellery.I sometimes wonder if there is some permanent wedding going on in these soaps.Each woman is trying to beat every other in terms of volumes of jwellery and weight of costumes. Don't the producers know, these things can heavily distract their female audience ( 99% ).
SET : These shows have some really expensive sets. All those women keep wandering here and there in haveli like houses.Moreover , they always have a staircase and yes it is damn important to the storyline. Everytime the makers see a dip in the TRPs they can instantly get their female protagonist pregnant and then she can be made to fall on this staircase. This is like sure shot. It always works.
ZOOM IN/ZOOM OUT: You would be grossly lying if you say that you have never noticed this. Situation is like this. A woman says something to other women (and 1 or two men) and then what follows is a zoom in of the woman from different (otherwise redundant) cameras and then follows the reaction of rest of the inmates to what this woman has said.Ofcourse there are zoom ins here too and rightly so. Reactions are also important , afterall. Sometimes these action-reaction combats last for the whole episode.
SHRILL SOUND EFFECTS: Recently Russel Pokutty won an oscar for background music for slumdog.I sometimes feel that his brothers in the TV industry are always denied of any kind of recognition.These sound effects bring life to the twists. I wonder, all those twists can go unnoticed if sound effects won't have been there. They are like an identity to the actors, specially vamps. Each vamp has her own background music that is as shrill and foxy as it can get. remember komolika....
A WORSHIP PLACE : I dont think this is debatable. All of you must agree that each of these houses have temples where the whole family worships. This idolization is a routine as far as the story is concerned. I wonder( again ) if smriti irani had counted , how many times she has done this. If yes, it would had been difficult to keep a record.
THE OLDEST WOMAN: Each one of these shows has a BAA of its own.This creature defies all physical and natural laws of aging.I sometimes doubt if indian TV producers got hold of elixir somehow.This old woman claims that she has just one wish left in her life. The wish being that she wants to see her grandson getting married. She often blackmails her son (the father ) and forces him to take his son to the nuptial bed as soon as possible so that she can have fun with her super grandson.
THE VAMP : This is the character in the plot that indirectly steers the story forward. She is often an unmarried bua or sister of the sasu maa who is staying in the house without any reason. She is sometimes the sexiest and most seductive woman of them all yet, deceptive.Every vamp has her signature background sound effect which is played every time she successfully executes his shrewd manipulations or when she is praising her wit herself.
DIL MIL GAYE : This particular serial deserves a special mention as it has endowed the television industry with a new kind of senti-romantic crap. It goes like this ..Dr Armaan and Dr Riddhima have a fight over something and riddhima is furious and walks away. Suddenly she gets even more furious as Dr armaan has clutched on to her dupatta.She takes an about turn to find that instead ,the dupatta has entangled in the shirtbutton of Dr Armaan.Then what follows is a series of crappy pseudo-romantic stares while the unplugged version of the title song plays in the background and then you notice that they are doing this for previous half an hour. You then , in exasperation ,switch off the TV and decide that you will release your angst on your blog ...
Some of the most common/irritating things that I can point out about these daily soaps are...
THE GAUDY APPEARANCE OF WOMEN : These women roam around in the house clad in those flashy sarees and jwellery.I sometimes wonder if there is some permanent wedding going on in these soaps.Each woman is trying to beat every other in terms of volumes of jwellery and weight of costumes. Don't the producers know, these things can heavily distract their female audience ( 99% ).
SET : These shows have some really expensive sets. All those women keep wandering here and there in haveli like houses.Moreover , they always have a staircase and yes it is damn important to the storyline. Everytime the makers see a dip in the TRPs they can instantly get their female protagonist pregnant and then she can be made to fall on this staircase. This is like sure shot. It always works.
ZOOM IN/ZOOM OUT: You would be grossly lying if you say that you have never noticed this. Situation is like this. A woman says something to other women (and 1 or two men) and then what follows is a zoom in of the woman from different (otherwise redundant) cameras and then follows the reaction of rest of the inmates to what this woman has said.Ofcourse there are zoom ins here too and rightly so. Reactions are also important , afterall. Sometimes these action-reaction combats last for the whole episode.
SHRILL SOUND EFFECTS: Recently Russel Pokutty won an oscar for background music for slumdog.I sometimes feel that his brothers in the TV industry are always denied of any kind of recognition.These sound effects bring life to the twists. I wonder, all those twists can go unnoticed if sound effects won't have been there. They are like an identity to the actors, specially vamps. Each vamp has her own background music that is as shrill and foxy as it can get. remember komolika....
A WORSHIP PLACE : I dont think this is debatable. All of you must agree that each of these houses have temples where the whole family worships. This idolization is a routine as far as the story is concerned. I wonder( again ) if smriti irani had counted , how many times she has done this. If yes, it would had been difficult to keep a record.
THE OLDEST WOMAN: Each one of these shows has a BAA of its own.This creature defies all physical and natural laws of aging.I sometimes doubt if indian TV producers got hold of elixir somehow.This old woman claims that she has just one wish left in her life. The wish being that she wants to see her grandson getting married. She often blackmails her son (the father ) and forces him to take his son to the nuptial bed as soon as possible so that she can have fun with her super grandson.
THE VAMP : This is the character in the plot that indirectly steers the story forward. She is often an unmarried bua or sister of the sasu maa who is staying in the house without any reason. She is sometimes the sexiest and most seductive woman of them all yet, deceptive.Every vamp has her signature background sound effect which is played every time she successfully executes his shrewd manipulations or when she is praising her wit herself.
DIL MIL GAYE : This particular serial deserves a special mention as it has endowed the television industry with a new kind of senti-romantic crap. It goes like this ..Dr Armaan and Dr Riddhima have a fight over something and riddhima is furious and walks away. Suddenly she gets even more furious as Dr armaan has clutched on to her dupatta.She takes an about turn to find that instead ,the dupatta has entangled in the shirtbutton of Dr Armaan.Then what follows is a series of crappy pseudo-romantic stares while the unplugged version of the title song plays in the background and then you notice that they are doing this for previous half an hour. You then , in exasperation ,switch off the TV and decide that you will release your angst on your blog ...
1 comment:
hahahahahahahahahahaahahaha.
absolutely right about the dil mil gaye thing :P
it was so irritating. all they did was look into each others eyes with a song from karan johars movie or some other nauseatingly mushy song....and zoomed to such percentages that even the radial spokes in their ugly eye lenses were visible.
i wonder why they never *DID* anything ;)
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