5 Lesson Indian Soap Makers Should Learn From Pakistani Dramas

Indian and Pakistan both share a long history of art, music and literature. There is always a cross-over and mutual admiration of anything that is novel, unique and different. The immense popularity of Pakistani serials like Dhoop Kinare, Zindegi Gulzar Hai, and Humsafar amongst Indian population establishes the fact that Pakistani Serials win the hearts of Indians and here are the 5 things the Indian soap can learn from their Pakistan dramas.

5 Lesson Indian Soap Makers Should Learn From Pakistani Dramas:

1. Limited Episodes:
The best feature of Pakistani dramas is that it is time bound. These shows have limited episodes and wrap of the serials with a logical climax. On the other hand, Indian soap operas go on for days, months, years and even for decades.

2. Sensible Characters:
The characters in these serials are quite sensible and anyone can relate to these authentic characters, do not have a larger than life character unlike Indian soap operas.

3. Relevant Issues:
The issues the Pakistani soap operas deal with are unadulterated and relevant to the present-day social order. These serials deal with love, marriage, divorce, inheritance, female feticide etc. These Paksitani serials are distinct and varied. They do not resemble other contemporaries unlike Indian serials which are more or less replica of each other.

4. Realistic Emotions:
The contemporary Pakistani serials always represent real life emotions. They do not portray exaggerated emotions unlike the Indian soap operas. Indian soap operas which are crowded with inflated, overstated and gaudy characters which sham, phony and fake emotions. On the other hand, Pakistani serial come up with real human emotions entangled with the cobweb of everyday dilemma.

5. Real life problems, Aiming beyond Saas–Bahu:
The contemporary Indian serials try to manipulate the ‘Indian joint family.’ All these serials, no matter how ambitious and distinct it might claim in the beginning, finally end up in being saas–bahu saga. The Pakistani serials, on the other hand, portray joint family as well, but stay away from manipulation of people, human emotions and familial relationships.

Indian Soap opera tend to trade in a path of formula while being unauthenticated. Therefore, they should learn from their Pakistani counterparts and improve the quality of contemporary Hindi soap operas.