WHY SHOULD THE INDIAN DAILY SOAPS BE BANNED?

The Indian Television Industry or as we call it “CHOTA PARDA”, with its innumerable Daily soaps has been tormenting us since ages. I am fully aware of its popularity amongst the masses or the fact that a huge chunk of the population actually feels blessed to have this “chota parda” entertain them. But today, I am representing that section which totally is devastated with all that stuff that is being played at your television screens. I am sure that most of us were made to sit through all those epic failures for daily soaps every day of our childhood when we only wanted to get a hold on the remote control and watch our favorite cartoons or movies. Well, my tormenter was my elder sister, yours would have been your mother, granny, it is just a guess out of the very limited options. And while you are thinking about those miserable yet funny memories, I am one hundred percent sure that one particular name definitely crossed your mind, the one and only, EKTA KAPOOR. Am I right?

So, here I am going to give 10 most incredible reasons as to why in my opinion, Indian daily soaps should be banned.

 1. CONTENT OF SOME OF THESE DAILY SOAPS IS SO AGAINST SOCIAL AND LEGAL NORMS.

Content of some of these daily soaps is so against social and legal norms but the weird part is you won’t actually realize how offensive it is until you are enlightened about it. To help you understand better, here let me give you an example. Remember that one show Yeh hai mohabbatein that is still running. This particular show started off with a mother abusing her children to fulfill her own selfish motives which is so outrageous. Throughout the show it is seen that women are treated so disrespectfully by its own main lead. While the show was supposed to be entertaining, it was offensive on so many levels.

2. ALL PRIM AND PROPER

Every daily soap has this tendency to display its characters to be all prim and proper with no flawed appearances which is pretty unreal in the real world. Also, who sleeps wearing all the jewelry and designer clothes. It is surreal, isn’t it? We see these daily soaps characters living lavishly with no regard to the real-world whatsoever. How can one relate to these characters if they couldn’t even get this part right.

3. PLOTS THAT MAKE ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE

When we talk about plots that make no sense, I am reminded of so many instances.

For example:- in one of those Ekta Kapoor’s creations, Lead character actually dies and you feel disheartened but after a few episodes, viewers are presented with a major plot twist (funny that its called MAJOR or even a PLOT TWIST) that the lead role suddenly comes back to life, possibly with a memory loss or a different face which they acclaim is due to plastic surgery. As I said, it makes absolutely no sense at all.

In another scenario, you will find a perfect family drama serial suddenly taking the biggest leap possible and changing itself into a D grade horror show. D grade because it has zero sense of horror in it, just some lame supernatural creatures coming into existence and fondling with our imagination.

How mature of them to use supernatural forces to increase TRP without having any sense of knowledge about them.

4. DEPICTION OF STEREOTYPICAL IMAGE

Another reason why these daily soaps deserve nothing but getting banned is their most convenient approach of depicting characters. The makers of these shows have a stereotypical image of categories of characters. Like for example:- If there is a Gujarati character in a serial, the most convenient way for the makers to communicate about that character to the audiences will be – a funny accent, always showing character eating only dhokla, thepla and khakhra or any Gujarati delicacy for that matter. In the case of a Sikh character- a funny accent, character cracking lame jokes and weird laugh and the repetitive balle balle. Gujarati, Sikh, or any category are so much more than the stereotypical image of them, but let us just say its inconvenient for the makers to get into depth and explore right.

5. WEIRD OBSESSION OF MESSING WITH THE INDIAN FAMILY SCENARIO AND REALITY

Not all Indian families have mothers-in-law messing with the daughters-in-law or saas bahu sazish going on. But our Indian daily soaps love to play that same broken record again and again. These shows are all about tantrums, drama, despicable sense of family scenarios. These shows are feeding people with ideas and scenarios that are one of the hundreds that are available but their repetition gives audiences the idea that this is what one is supposed to hope for. I mean life is not actually the way they show it to be. One after the other crisis coming up for the lead actors. Audiences get so engrossed in watching these shows that they forget that all that they are watching is supposed to be like that to get TRP, which won’t be possible if they actually show real life, not at least with the current level of creativity.

 

6. HISTORICAL..ARE YOU SURE?

Some of these daily soaps have a historical theme and are supposed to communicate the historical character’s life, but the funny part is that they end up putting the same old drama content in there too. TRP is too tough to get, hence the makers of such shows are under the impression that, tampering mercilessly even with history could get them what they want. For example, all those historical shows being aired like Jhodha Akbar, etc. are the example of history being rebuild by the makers.

 

7. WEIRD BACKGROUND MUSIC AND VISUAL EFFECTS

While most of us are GOT or Friends fan and you know how we hum that tittle track of it when it is playing because it is so intense and amazing, well we most certainly do not hum tracks like “Sach hai na kumkum se”, or “ kyuki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi”. And don’t even get me started on that weird background music that plays in these shows every time when anything happens. Be it a character dying, some fact being told, somebody appearing out of nowhere..there is always stupid background music to match the situation. Trust me visual effects have the same effect as the background music.

7. SO DESPERATELY TRYING TO MATCH WESTERN SERIES

India being India is so inspired by the western culture in so many ways, one of them being western entertainment standards. There is certainly no doubt that most of us are diehard fans of different western series like- FRIENDS, HIMYM, SUITS, and our very personal favorite GOT. Hence to lure more viewership to Indian daily soaps, content makers are trying to get ideas from western entertainment and present us with the Indian version of western entertainment.

For example:- most of us have watched TWILIGHT and I am sure most us loved that vampire-werewolf fiction. Hence our Indian content makers, totally impressed by the movie’s fandom, decided to have an Indian version of it. The daily soap was named “PYAAR KI EK KAHAANI” and I am sure you would have heard about it.

8. EVENTUALLY FORGETS TO ADDRESS THE PROMISED MESSAGE

This happens every single time. A show starts with a message and theme and eventually loses the track on which it was supposed to run. Makers so conveniently succumb to epic failure, no sense making plot twist just to get high TRP’s, forgetting the sole essence of the show or what message it was supposed to convey. For instance:- “BALIKA VADHU” the idea behind that show was to communicate the problems or trauma that one has to go through, being wed as a child. But that all went downhill when there was a plot twist of divorce happening. Like that, all the focus of the show shifted from addressing the problem of child marriage to one conservative topic that is the sacredness of marriage. Thus, making the show lose its essence.

9. INDIAN DAILY SOAPS DO NOT SERVE TODAY’S PURPOSES

Indian daily soaps have been all about family drama, tantrums, and plot twists. Most of these shows in no way are helping the viewers deal with today’s problems. All they are displaying are some rubbish old ideas of an illiterate or submissive daughter in law, doing anything and everything to survive in a family, or a mother in law coming up with new tricks to mess with the girl’s life. Real-world has so much more going on. And there is no way that makers would address all of that because that would mean experimenting with stuff and there are fair chances that people would not like it or feel offended.

Things that would never change in a Daily Soap:

• All male protagonist is an industrialist or a big business tycoon.
• Bahus are always a perfectionist. They can never commit mistakes, can beat CBI through their detecting skills, are in their make up even before sleep, work on heels in their house and would never attend their job being engaged in solving the daily household issues.
• It can take a leap of a few months to turn into servant from masters and hitherto.
• Firstly the chirpy yet bold girl hates a rude guy and ends up falling for each other and transforming the guy into romantic love as well.
• Girls are portrayed to be groomed always, career is never a priority.
• Even if you are ultra-rich your children can be kidnapped anytime, anyone can enter your house, anyone can be murdered even if you have good security.
• In some serials, you will always find marriage rituals twice thrice to the same guy.
• I wonder how the male protagonist manages the expenses without going to any work, buzzing behind their wives and solving issues of the house.
• Your costume is decisive for your character. Excavating the same plot the saas is most likely to be a villain while the bahu will be the most innocent creature of the earth.
• The dialogues are epic and the background sound is the best representative of our classical songs.
• On the sad note, I feel pity for the makers who portray positive human trait with the envelope of beauty.
• The generation and their legacy are awful. They simply never grow old. Even if old age bites you, a strand of white hair is enough to signify your age.
• Hospital is your second home. It’s very normal if your memory vanishes or you have plastic surgery.
• You will get fined if you are fired through easily available AK-47 but will definitely have memory loss if someone beat you with a stick at your head.
• Family functions are must every week.

 

DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT THESE REASONS WERE KIND OF A DEAL BREAKER FOR ME, WHICH LED ME TO BELIEVE THAT INDIAN DAILY SOAPS IN ALL ARE A BIG SHAM. 

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