Dhu-dhush Dhu-dhush Dhu-dhush...

“It is a family drama which highlights and unveils the various criticalities and facets of relationships within the family like that of co-sisters, relations with in-laws and most importantly husband and wife.”

This made me laugh. Hard.

I was trying to find something interesting on the TV to watch. It was a useless attempt and I was beginning to get bored. And lunch was ready. I grew anxious. I need some sort of good entertainment on the idiot-box when I’m having lunch or dinner. But it was obvious that I wasn’t about to get any today. Just when I was about to surrender to boredom and consequently a very suicidal depression, I decided to give it one more try at finding something good to watch. As I was surfing the channels, I came upon one which had a “saas-bahu” serial being telecast on it. I was doubtful but since I had nothing else in mind, I put my channel-surfing to a stop. The first thing I saw were the faces of two of the characters, apparently important ones, being zoomed in and out alternately as they tried to put on an expression of shock. It didn’t even remotely look like a shock. Instead, it seemed as if they were trying to say, “Hey look, I got a manicure today.” And then there was some stupid sound, like “dhu-dhush”, every time their faces were zoomed on. The same scene repeated a couple of times.

Then one of those two characters said, terrible fright in her voice, “What if she knows of our plan?”

And the “dhu-dhush” thing started again, zooming in and out on their shockingly laughable-at faces. It went on for some time.

And we say these serials are a waste of time. That half an hour overflowed with top-class entertainment. While watching the serial, I pressed the “I” button (Tata-Sky provides such a facility. It indeed made my life jingalala) on the remote to see what info about the serial did it have to offer. That’s when the line that I have written at the beginning of this blog appeared and the seriousness in the information for such a stupid serial made my day. I laughed. My laughter increased the pressure on my stomach so much that my intestines came out of my mouth. But I stuffed them back inside where they belonged. Anyway, let’s not deviate from the topic.

It’s a lot like when a group of friends get together and decide to watch a crappy movie, just for the sake of laughing at its stupidity (Rudraksh for instance) and having fun commenting. It’s a lot like it. And probably that’s the reason these soaps are not extinct yet. Because with the horrible storylines they follow, I don’t think anyone would be watching them for a reason other than that mentioned. The actors don’t know how to act. They prove themselves to be very good laughter material. Especially those killer stares they keep on giving each other throughout and the fear-provoking “dhu-dhush”s . They are worth dying for.

Anyway, all I’m saying is, if you’re not watching these serials, you’re missing something. They’re drop dead hilarious, totally engaging and worth it.