How to make an Indian Television Serial -- Part 2.

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

The Story and Dialogue Writers: Having only one writer is just a risky proposition. You should ideally have a table of writers, if one doesn't blow out of his/her mind the others deliver. The constant storyline needs a similarly endless supply of dialogues to carry on the show episode by episode. In a certain scene you must create the most possible dialogues and because of this the board of writers would come as a bonus. When they quarrel over it, that is only natural, maybe you receive a brand new twist-wish idea to include new angles-triangles or you will want to a hyperbola in the story that may again generate new streams of dialogues. You must keep a wristwatch on viewers too; boring them now and then is okay, but you should never drive them mad. The channel producers, remember?

The Director: Because you would be the director you must be the toughest nut to break. Okay it is your child and naturally you like to be the leader and friend-philosopher-guide. However in actual practice you should be considered a ruthless dictator taking decisions unilaterally and respecting no one nevertheless the channel producers. If your 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 people may have to be replaced; ushering in a period transition or injecting one and more absurd characters to the serial; and, so on. All these situations demand your decisions only. Kundali Bhagya Today Episode We advise you to keep a couple of episode directors too as may be the case in lots of soaps. We've good reasons. First, one director is directly identifiable and is just a sitting duck for irate viewers, if any. Second, the endless monotony may be too much for you personally and you may lose your sanity. Third, are you aware that 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 generally not very easy. So you should continue creating rooms for frequent time pass tactics. You take action by having merry go rounds of dramatic reaction shots parading your entire characters in the hall that may get you over a number of episodes; by having dialogues that never cease; by providing extreme shock treatment to a number of characters who lose their ability to speak and communicate only through loud music that may last around a number of episodes; by bringing in absurd characters and making their stories count; and, by the like.

Conclusion (?): Since all 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 just 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 are able to only try get used to it.

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