∙ 30 minutes of a Hindi soap opera = 10 minutes ads + 10 minutes of dragging plot with melodramatic music + 7 minutes of incessant close-ups + 3 minutes of story.
Note: That 3 minutes of the story, like the expanding universe, can even fill in a few hours, if required.

∙ Old song: Dil Vil pyaar vyaar main kya janu re…
Soap song: DIL MIL pyaar vaar main hi janu re…

∙ Hindi soap operas are like the X-files… no-one really dies… they can be brought back to life at any time.

∙ Hindi soaps are like science fiction. When they start losing TRP ratings, they simply time travel into the future.

∙ The logic of Hindi soaps has the power of washing away the grey matter of your brain.

© Sunil Rajguru