Indian Soap Operas

Indian soap operas (or Indian serials in Indian English) are soap operas written, produced, and filmed in India, with characters played by Indians with episodes broadcast on Indian television. The shows are very popular across India and parts of the world. While some Indian soaps received positive reviews, this article will focus on the overall flaws of Indian soaps.

खराब भारतीय सोप ऑपरेशंस के सबसे उल्लेखनीय उदाहरण (The Most Notable Examples of Bad Indian Soap Operas)

 * 1) Sasural Simar Ka (Simar's in-laws)
 * 2) Saath Nibhana Saathiya (Stay With Me, my love)
 * 3) Thapki Pyar Ki(Pat of love)
 * 4) Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (What is this relationship called?)
 * 5) Kumkum Bhagaya (Twist of fate)
 * 6) Diya Aur Baati Hum (You are the lamp and I am the wick)
 * 7) Kyuki Saas Bhi Kabhu Bahu Thi (Because I am the mother in law was a daughter in law too)
 * 8) Kartha Mandu (Black Pearl)
 * 9) Kis Desh me Mera Dil (In Which Country does my heart live)
 * 10) Balika Vadhu (Child Bride)
 * 11) Uttaran (True Love)

उन्हें बार-बार साबुन और पानी से हाथ क्यों धोना चाहिए (Why They Should Wash Their Hands with Soap and Water More Often)

 * 1) The shows consist of only one single storyline, a girl getting married to a joint family system where she faces disapproval, and resentment and is conspired against by her sisters-in-law or mother-in-law.
 * 2) Many scenes last for over 50 episodes with absolutely nothing happening but zoom-in of the other characters' faces with a lame special effect.
 * 3) Speaking of special effects, sometimes the entire 30 minutes of one episode consists ENTIRELY of the overuse of these special effects. One scene is repeated by a different special effect and the infamous "Dhoom Ta Na Na"and "drum roll" in the background. These are the most notable identities of Indian soap operas to the point that they became Internet memes.
 * 4) The dressing sense of the character is the epitome of senseless. The characters sleep in sarees (a traditional Indian garment consisting of an unstitched drape) instead of nightgowns as if they are going to attend a wedding in their dream and they wake up with tons of makeup slapped on their faces.
 * 5) * Also the characters wear the same dresses for more than a hundred episodes.
 * 6) * Male characters are dressed in the most formal way possible as if they are going to attend a party only for the audience to find out that neither of the men has jobs.
 * 7) * No matter how poor the character is, he/she could not afford to have a hot meal but wears the most expensive clothes.
 * 8) Numerous scenes are infamous for being overly dramatic, illogical, or poorly written:
 * 9) * The most notable example is from another bad soap opera "Saath Nibhana Saathiya" in which the main character Gopi crosses all limits of stupidity and gullibility by literally WASHING AND CLEANING her husband's laptop only to "impress" him.
 * 10) * In Sasural Simar Ka, Mataji, the grandmother, slaps one of the characters causing her to roll towards the curtain and almost get strangled by the curtain string.
 * 11) * In another Soap opera, a character falls from the stairs and in the next episode, she is still falling until the hero saves her. The scene is also mocked for defying the laws of psychics and logic.
 * 12) * The whole series of Sasural Simar Ka is a "supernatural" soap opera consisting of illogical situations such as the main character Simar, whose secret identity is a fly, the family being cursed a hundred times, and the grandmother using lipstick to spawn a ghost.
 * 13) * In Diya Aur Baati Hum, the main character Sandhya acts as an undercover cop whose mission is to catch a bunch of thieves who stole a nuclear bomb. After some action sequences and shindigs, Sandhya ends up in a helicopter over the sea with the activated nuclear bomb in its payload hanging under the plane. Oh, and the plane is being piloted by Sandhya herself. In the final scene, wherewith only a few seconds left on the ‘timer’ she is shown to be still sitting in the helicopter when the bomb explodes. In the next episode, Sandhya is alive and the only damage is one single scratch.
 * 14) * Another soap opera called Thapki Pyaar Ki had a scene in which the family visits a zoo and the main character's evil sister-in-law sets a gorilla free so that it can haunt the heroine at night. The gorilla in that scene was so poorly designed and it looked like it was a costume.
 * 15) * The character introductions are just abysmal as it only consists of showing a character's still image with over a hundred eye-bleeding special effects and ear-raping sound effects.
 * 16) The character deaths are also illogical. The character dies and the family cremates him/her and then after a few weeks, the character returns to another actor's body claiming that he/she was going through plastic surgery. In Saath Nibhana Saathiya, the main character Gopi dies thrice and the family still mourns her death although she always returns after a "plastic surgery"
 * 17)  The characters never age.  They all look 20-30 years younger than their actual age. The older characters have only a few strips of white hair to show everyone that they are in their 80s yet they look like they are in their 50s.
 * 18) Some soap operas sometimes even steal songs from anime and video games, including Naruto, The Legend Of Zelda, and One Piece.
 * 19) The acting is just terrible.

स्तरीय अध्ययन (Redeeming Qualities)

 * 1) The OSTs of the dramas are beautifully written.
 * 2) These dramas can be viewed as hilariously bad.
 * 3) Many dramas have addressed sensitive social issues in Indian society.
 * 4) They still have some good/decent dramas like Comedy Nights with Kapil, Ramayan,and Devon ke dev Mahadev.