Ekta Kapoor has a lot to answer for – she initiated a trend of regressive, unending family sagas that seemed to meander nowhere meaninglessly without an end in sight. Over time we've had a 10-year-old stalking a marrying an older woman, plots points revolving around cookers and chana, women spontaneously getting packed into suitcases, countless sindoor scenes and even a slap-strangulation scenario. Is it any wonder that people make parody videos such as this?
This guy dressed as a woman is made to trip, gets an electric shock, twirls, trips again, slides down a banister and into a wheelbarrow, and is then tipped into a man’s arms. Then their eyes meet and romance happens!
And it isn't all that unlikely – perhaps this gave some serial-makers ideas.
A lot of people remembered this scene of a woman being slapped after which she proceeds to self-strangulate --- while everyone watches.
I don’t think Indian culture has anything to do with absurd plot points and the endless, improbable and exceedingly problematic kind of content that is routinely dished up for TV.
The short video is really funny – some thought that the few seconds of that is far more entertaining than the actual serials.
The guys in the video actually are better than the sort of overacting we see in serials felt some.
If serial makers are watching this, they would hopefully be embarrassed at the fact that this parody video doesn’t seem all that farfetched.
I was wondering about why on earth anyone would watch some of our most improbable series, but then it struck me – content! They are a rich source of ideas for content creation!
…Could not deny that the ribbing is well-deserved. It is an unavoidable fact that terrible content is being made because there is an audience for it. Regressive, poor quality, implausible even absurd serials are made because people are looking for mindless entertainment. So maybe, rather than getting offended by a parody video, we should be offended at the tripe being served up as ‘entertainment’; that inspires such parody.
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