No consumer market till now has had soaps that stink. We only know of perfumed soaps, each having its own fragrance be it a flower,lime,vanilla,etc etc. But now, we have soaps on TV that stink to the core. I'm frustrated with them now. The point am trying to say is already said over a million times and I know people are gonna tell me 'why do you watch' etc etc. All that apart, to look at it from an analytical point of view,it is highly disgusting.
So what's new ? The same old 'saas bahu',vampish,backstabbbing,stabbing,rape, murder,lies,emotional drawls that dont mean a thing nor bring a tear,everthing has been there for a decade now on Indian TV. So what am I harping about ?
Creative-justice is one thing and I'm fine with seeing something 'hatke' from real-world on TV.Afterall,it is just a soap! But to break norms of normalcy in every aspect of human life is disgusting.
Four cases I present here :-
1.I'm ok to see women plotting against their mothers-in-law,or masking but am not ok to see a mother plotting against a daughter and vice versa. I'm not ok to see a mom saying to her daughter 'ghar se baahar nikaaldhoongi' or 'tumhaaraa jeeena haraam kardoongi' Why because,no mom on earth will ever wish this of her daughter. No matter how hard a mom is, she cannot be an enemy. She wouldnt want you out of the house because she knows about the big bad world out there! :-) How can a mom be so un-mom like ?
2. I'm ok to see a bitchy woman going about on her immoral acts on screen but am not ok to see her sleeping around with every man available and having babies with all of them and all those babies plotting against her finally! Because with every man you sleep just once,you don't make a baby :-) Not all the time! Nature doesn't let you!!
3. I'm ok to see a physical assault but am not ok to see every man (in the soap) getting suspected of raping the heroine. Because every man does not think that way all the time with just one girl. It just doesn't happen,not even once!
4. I'm ok to see clandestine disappearing acts and dramatic entries (spanned by three decades) but am not ok to see someone living forever,someone not ageing at all ,someone having grandchildren and not a speck of grey hair but dancing to old and new Bollywood numbers with the the ease of a twenty year old and worse someone being called a 'Daadi' and looking like a supermodel. My God! Life on TV sux!
I'm ok to see old people partying but am not ok to see people not looking old when they should! Phew! Am I making sense ?
These situations are just an example but sadly our soaps run on these themes mostly. What makes these weird and disgusting then ? We are used to seeing uncommon things in movies and TV so this is just another of those hypothetical happenings, we can always say. It is true,we do have lots of hypothetical happenings , like in comedy shows - the 'Tu-Tu-Main-Main' fights (which no mil and dil ever do in reality) or an obvious chemistry between any two single people on screen (which in reality is rare), so many such things that are not real. Yet, we like them and enjoy them. We always want to believe that these have a rare chance of occuring and we are consoled by this fact that we are connecting to some remote real world, however rare. You could probably search the entire world and get a mil-dil fighting silly using something close-to-tu-main' jargon or hear a love-at-first-sight story from someone real which closely resembles what is shown on screen.
so whats different about the four cases above ?
The difference is 'these dont happen even once'. Not even a rare probable case.Thats what make them stink. The are utterly nonsense. And most importantly they defy the very cause of what thy are intended for. And that is STUPID in big bold!! No one want s to see stupidity,I dont mind being taken for a ride but the ride be worthwhile atleast in parts. I dont want no ride which makes me feel like a loser. I dont want to be shown something that makes me question the world I live in. I dont want to ask 'Tell me a remote chance of this happening' and get a 'None' for an answer.
And this is why these soaps stink. Because, they have no perfume of life in them! Even if the scent is cheap ittar, it spreads fragrance, similarly even if it is silly, am fine to watch so long as it smells of life. And finally, you cant package garbage in a bottle and sell it as a perfume. It shall stink, no matter what!
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I don't watch any of those serials so I am spared of the torture but tell me, do they actually show all that? I am really shocked esp. about your comment 1.
You know what? Please edit your blog and actually mention the names of these serials so people what not to watch. I can take a bet that a demented soul called Ekta Kapoor is definitely one of the people to be blamed for this consistently deteriorating quality of Indian soaps.
thanks! but u know what, every soap is this story only.. I can say 'soap-culture' and blame Ms Ekta it. It doesnt matter which soap it is, eventually they all slide down these gory path. Earlier days, when ppl made stuff on TV, they were from famous novels,writers etc. The roles were clear cut. someone who directed shows would pick a book and make a show out of it. So, ppl stuck to what they did best and collectively the whole thing turned out grt. But now, Ekta writes her stories and u can guess how they will be!! What of life has she seen outside her Dad's umbrella that she can imagine or write convincingly ? Nothing and so her shows only show cheap stuff. Creativity takes a lot and not everyone shud get it. It is priceless and this world moves ahead because of the creative people it has. But we dont need a whole world of them, a handful is enough to change the way we see things. It is only how convincing you can be and how honestly everything is portrayed. Add to it a touch of aesthetics and class and you get a world class soap/show. But alas, I belong to a bygone ear where something as simple as 'Ek Kahaani' or 'Buniyaad' could get me to live and feel, wonderfully too.
Hahaha those are some real string thoughts on soaps!!!! I agree , they suck bigtime!!!!!
U missed out the melodrama, the depression, the crying, the vengeance, revenge and all such negative feelings that are portrayed day after day after day.
In soaps, u look for entertainment, and these serials give u everything but that - they are all too heavy and monotonous!!!!
On the contrary, if not for them, you wouldn't have had a topic to pour in your thoughts today! ha ha ha...
That apart, does it matter? Ekta has become a famous personality in the house-wife populace. She minted money out of this. Voices like yours have reached her ears several times. But she doesn't stop. Does she? Those were the days when we used to long for each day of the week for those weekly serials(not daily) like Malgudi days, Stone boy, etc. And yes! They were all "hatke" by each of them.
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