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Friday, November 14, 2025
TopicHindi serials

Topic: Hindi serials

Slaps, sex & saas-bahu—what Hindi TV serials say about ‘traditional family values’

The joint family, the parivaar, is dressed up and then layer after layer of emotional atyachaar is stripped bare, exposing the ploys, the plots, and tricks of its members.

Bollywood’s bechari maa is back. In TV serials like Anupamaa and Indiawaali Maa this time

StarPlus serials Anupamaa and Shaadi Mubarak, and SonyLIV’s Indiawaali Maa have brought back the ‘bechari maa’ after three decades of the ‘bechari bahu’ phase.

Trishna, the popular 1985 Doordarshan adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, is now on YouTube

Written by Kamna Chandra, the 13-episode serial is the perfect escape to while away a weekend in coronavirus lockdown.

What’s common between Kejriwal and Nimki Vidhayak? Both swear by Hanuman

Nimki Vidhayak, aired on Star Bharat, stood out in a cast of TV shows that feature a galaxy of young women characters overdressed and under-employed.

Hum Log, India’s first soap opera and DD’s experiment with foreign cinema

The family drama with a social message, Hum Log was a pan-India favourite that everyone identified with.

JNU, Sharad Pawar and Congress — get away from it all with Shashi Tharoor’s comedy

In times when people want to escape TV news, Archana Puran Singh's laughter on Kapil Sharma Show and plotless serials like Kasautii Zindagii Kay always help.

Star Bharat’s Nimki Vidhayak serial is a disgrace on all women, more so on rape survivors

Collapse of Nimki's convictions in the face of her rapist husband sends out an ugly message to young women, especially to those in Chinmayanand & Unnao cases.

Why BJP MLA daughter Sakshi’s love marriage ordeal can be right out of a Hindi serial

From Nimki Mukhiya to Kasauti Zindagi Ki — TV serials make sure that between a woman and a man comes their righteous family. Always.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.