Middle class women, especially housewives work day and night. They spend most of the time in kitchens preparing meals, cleaning the house or looking after the kids. Even after all their efforts, their clothes give out whiffs, the house is a mess, and the children are no toppers.
So, they sit in front of the TV at 10:30, switch on to star plus, and see their dreams come true in ‘ kyunki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi ’. it gives them great pleasure to see lovely ladies dressed in expensive attire and beautifully furnished houses. With great interest, they see rebelling bahus and will-imposing saas’. Relatives making plans to outsmart each other are matters of great delight to them.
The fact is…the serial is neither based on fiction, nor does it portray reality. Neither does is it have great special effects and big-eyed aliens from mars, nor is women playing holi in banarsi sarees real. The story has nothing to offer and it is really a great mystery how this nonsense has come such a long way.
The characters are absolutely baseless. Tulsi is always crying, Mihir changes after every 3 months, Savita aunty shouldn’t put on that much make-up, Baa should die now and all others overact. The comedy of Baa and Indu doesn’t tighten a sensible person’s lip muscles a bit. People have become immune to the glycerine - induced tears of tulsi and she fails to produce a good emotional scene. Useless stretching of a stupid story cant give interesting drama and did anyone ever see any action in it? So, I really fail to understand why so many people watch it and why it is tagged as INDIA’S NO.1 serial.