I have never been a committed spectator of any serial. I have never ever been the type who would watch the repeat telecast, never miss a single episode, and stuff. Luckily, nor did Aai like even mainstream serials like 'Malhari Martand', for instance. The whole Maharashtra was obsessed, for example, with some "Asambhav" (in all senses of the term? I would not know at all. We never even watched such impossibilities) serial or some "night show", while we were absolutely innocent of any such ugly contamination. Even the good serials we watched were " Unch maza zoka", the one on Ramabai Ranade, for instance, or " Dil, dosti, Duniyadari". Yet neither of us was ever obsessed even with those serials.
Honestly, most serials are killers of every decent feeling, good emotions, wonderful ideas. Instead get shown jealousy, envy, greed, lust, gossiping, vicious competition, the seven vices listed in the Christian religious writing!
Why are these serials appealing? May be, because most people see shades of the so called near and dear ones in the villains and vamps? Around us sure there is a horribly jealous and terribly vicious vixen whom we tolerantly ignore for multiple reasons! In a typical serial, such a 'character' is publically punished by the powers that be, including divine intervention which creates a cathartic effect, may be.
In brief, serials provide us with a vicarious escape from such weirdesses in 'nirmal'/normal life. Quite purgative hence the serials indeed are!
Pratima@ who watches why which serials!
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