Sometime
ago, I had done a post
about TV serials, namely Balika Vadhu which airs on Colors. I am back on that
topic after seeing something which made me feel that I should pick up my
television set and throw it at the wall in exasperation.
Since
long, his thought has been simmering in my head and my first instance on this
topic began with a crusade with Anil. We managed to piss off a friend of ours
by saying ‘some’ things about a TV serial character. Learning from this wrong
gone joke, we continued in our private talks and stopped saying such stuff and
laughing on the public domain.
From
there I would begin, and I say that there are some characters in serials that
influence people to a very large extent. I have seen people cry when the
character faces a loss of love or gets hurt, and to not eat when the character doesn’t.
Madness.
“How
is this a good thing to do and apply in real life?”
That
question, when asked to these character lovers, makes me a bad omen, or say a
demon of sorts who doesn’t understand love at all. WOW!
Dropping
it there, I would move on to the other soap operas which interest the older
segment of women and some men as well. Balika Vadhu. A serial based on women. Well,
it really does, as we talked in a recent meet, try to influence women for good
and also works to empower them. The topics I have seen from the corner of my
eyes have been good, but their presentation has been extremely grotesque and
unrealistic.
Can
you imagine a single person not accepted by her love, due to which she tries to
commit suicide, and a couple of months later is raped. That is so realistic.
-_-
(Personal
thought: Zindagi hai ya dukh ka taalaab!)
My
friend Krishna had a say on this as well, and his dialogue made me chuckle. The
serial he mentions is another of the ‘classics’ on Colors, and I have had to
censor his comment as well.
“Sasural
Simar Ka, pagalpan duniya bhar ka.”
Hahah!!
This
topic I’m writing on, is quite famous on the social forum as well, and as my
friend, and fellow blogger Pankti
Mehta told me, serials the Mahabharata and Shiva change the whole mythology
of the things we have heard from our childhood. The Shiva serial changed the
whole meaning behind Mahashivratri and I thank Pankti for telling me the right tale
behind this auspicious day.
Serials
like Jodhaa Akbar and Maharana Pratap change the historical tales and this
distorts the real story. There is no particular reason behind this except the
creation of drama to attract audiences and to increase the TRPs.
So,
did you learn anything from this post? No, you didn’t. So let’s begin the
learning part, and I will teach you how to make a classic soap opera. (Some of
it matches another
of my older posts which had a similar thing.)
If
you have in mind something real, and new, then I feel sorry to inform you that
your serial has failed.
You
will need to base your show on women and the problems they think they face in
the world, namely rape, kidnapping and saas ke taane. A mother-in-law, who is
evil and vamp-ish, is also mandatory.
The
man of the serial should be weak and must spend almost all of his time at the
office. His say in house matters is next to nil, and whatever problems his wife
faces must go unnoticed if his mother tells him to.
The
script must jump periodically, and the oldest woman of the house, usually the
hero’s grandmother, must keep living on and on even if her age in fiction is
well past a century.
The
tears and the wails and shouts must not stop at any point of time.
This
much is all you shall require to have a soap opera which earns a high TRP. The script
doesn’t matter at all, so don’t waste your time blogging and reading this post.
Just go and get your serial made!
PS:
I still write, and if you ever need a writer for your serial, then you know where
to reach me. ;) :P
