Soaps

Yeah, one of the things I just can't comprehend is the Tamil and Hindi soaps on TV. Its just mind-boggling how people watch them. Unfortunately, during dinner time, I am exposed to extremely harmful radiations from them. What these radiations do is absolutely mind-fc*k you. The screenplay is outrageous. Its like a 5 page story written on a piece of rubber paper and extended for some 100 shows. And to top that, the amount of glycerine used [for tears] would be a guiness record in itself! The tamil (and hindi, as well..) soaps begin with a 4minute song that features every character dancing. That in itself is enough for an advertisement at times. I don't understand whats with all the dancing, coz when the story starts, its almost always 'all crying'.

The most hilarious (and seriously dumbest) part is the camera tricks and video editing. Its like some 5 year old video editing software is being used [obviously downloaded free of cost, as it is so feature-poor] and during the so-called-climax scenes, they use some cheap tricks and add some horrible music to it. Some of them remind me of powerpoint animations, like bring a pic from the left, center or right...how lame. And with all this, you have a rip-off story that contains approximately 40% crying/disappointment, 30% crap, 15% video-tricks and 15% story. And unfortunately, these are the only programs that run on soap-channels during dinner :-/
If you have seen at least one english sitcom in your life, watching 30 mins of unadulterated-tamil/hindi-soap can be the absolute torture. I think this technique should also be used to make criminals and terrorists submit :P When it comes to hindi soaps, the equation changes a bit. Instead of obscene amount of death and crying as in the tamil soaps, here you have omdg amount of dances and marriage ceremonies. Its like everyone in the crew gets married at least once during the course of the serial [ Unfortunately, these are based on very vague memories of high school. Things might have changed now, for the worse..]. What I would like to know is how they get the sponsors. I have to admit, during the 30 mins of programme time, 12 mins goes in ads [ and yeah, 4 mins for the intro of the soap :-D]. Thats about enough of venting out my frustration. I shall leave the remaining for DotA.