Learning to make the Indian Television Serial -- Element only two.

 Welcome back to your television serial making guidelines. If you'll need a recap we'd already seen the fixed forms of necessities like storyline, characters or sets. Now let us move ahead to moving ones.

The Story and Dialogue Writers: Having only one writer is a risky proposition. You should ideally have a table of writers, if one fails to blow out of his/her mind others deliver. The constant storyline needs a similarly endless supply of dialogues to continue the show episode by episode. In a particular scene you will need to create the utmost possible dialogues and for this the board of writers would come as a bonus. If they quarrel over it, that is only natural, maybe you get a brand new twist-wish idea to set up new angles-triangles or why not even a hyperbola in the story that may again generate new streams of dialogues. You will need to keep a wristwatch on viewers too; boring them now and then is okay, but you have to never drive them mad. The channel producers, remember?

The Director: Because you will be the director you must be the toughest nut to break. Okay it is your baby and naturally you want to be the leader and friend-philosopher-guide. However in actual practice you have to be described as a ruthless dictator taking decisions unilaterally and respecting no-one however the channel producers. In case a particular character actor is creating problems s/he must get killed in the serial; on the demand of the producers a dead character may have to be brought alive; some others may have to be replaced; ushering in a time transition or injecting one and more absurd characters to the serial; and, so on. Every one of these situations demand your decisions only. Kundali Bhagya Today Episode We advise you to help keep 1 or 2 episode directors too as may be the case in several soaps. We've good reasons. First, one director is directly identifiable and is a sitting duck for irate viewers, if any. Second, the endless monotony may be too much for you and you may lose your sanity. Third, as for the channel producers the buck will always stop exclusively at your end only.

The Time Pass: This time pass is from the viewpoint of serial makers, not viewers. Making an endless serial is not at all easy. So you have to continue creating rooms for frequent time pass tactics. You get it done with merry go rounds of dramatic reaction shots parading all your characters in the hall that may get you over more than one episodes; with dialogues that never cease; giving extreme shock treatment to more than one characters who lose their ability to speak and communicate only through loud music that may last around more than one episodes; by bringing in absurd characters and making their stories count; and, by the like.

Conclusion (?): Since each one of these guidelines are enforced relentlessly some normal doctrines like good wins over evil get neutralized. Evildoers in serials continue doing evil that may include even murder as police authorities are never called in, because entry of police may veer the serial to a logical end. You merely compensate by creating temporary relief measures now and then. Thus, the antagonist becomes the important thing to the success of constant serials. At the receiving end we could only try become accustomed to it.

So, make your serial in India and have constant fun!