Recently I've been watching many shows from hats off productions and noticed many parallels with characterization and storylines/tracks
Tracks;
Toffee track from BDSAH, taken from cookie Sharma episode of sarabhai vs sarabhai ( I watched toffee track at first and then got an attack of deja vu while watching cookie Sharma episode and predicted the punchline before it was delivered)
Angel track from BDSAH taken from Saumil track in Baa bahoo aur baby (BBB) Saumil was also terminally ill in BBB and the characters in that show also decide to make his last days the most happiest times he has ever lived
Interview track from BDSAH and BBB; like Bhairavi in BDSAH there's a character in BBB called Meenakshi , even she gives an interview to the school principal for her son's school admission and the scenarios and the dialogues are same as well
That scene from sarabhai where Monisha tries to sell Sahil's trophies saying that they're of no use other than drinking tea off them , this scene was recreated in BDSAH with Bhairavi doing the same with Mitesh and Pritesh's trophies
"Kadak chai" running gag started off in khichdi and sarabhai and also had it's fair share of appearances in BBB , BDSAH , Bh se Bhade as well
Khichdi season 1 episode where Praful , Hansa and Nani visit Melissa 's parents; all the dialogues from the mask to babuji bhukar was copy pasted for the season 3 episode where Parekh family organise a wedding....
Dance competition track ( not exclusive for hats off shows , this is the staple track for all ITV shows)
Ramanand sagar wrote Ramayan joke in Sarabhai , khichdi , BDSAH , BBB and Bh se Bhade....
Diayan sasuma vs fatichar damad angle in both BDSAH and Bh se Bhade ( atleast this was more enjoyable in Bh se Bhade than in BDSAH)
Gattu becoming Manav's Mama in BBB track was remade has Hemant becoming Pritesh's mama in BDSAH
Characters;
The eye candy neighbour/ friend
Ichha and Kuku from BBB ( the Kickstarter characters of this trope)
Komila from Bhakarwadi
Kuku from BDSAH
The bad poet
Roshesh Sarabhai (the OG)
Chandrakant Joshi from jasuben jayanthilal Joshi ki joint family
That weird character whose name I forgot from Mrs Tendulkar
Mr and Mrs Bhade from Bh se Bhade
Prabhakar and Mahendra Thakkar from Bhakarwadi
Yamini and Dakshesh from WKD
Chandrabhan from BDSAH
The innocent characters
Gattu Bhai 🙂 from BBB ( the OG)
Hemant 🙂 from BDSAH
Amol from bhakarwadi ( this is where they faltered, they gave him the innocence of Hemant and Gattu for only 10 percent of his character , 90 percent of his character was only being angry all the time and useless stubbornness from Gattu in large amounts , Amol failed to make the same level of impact that Gattu and Hemant managed to make)
Tomfoolery characters;
OG Hansa and Himanshu from khichdi
Carbon copy of Hansa and Himanshu in Bh se Bhade as Khali khopdi Menaka and her brother chunky ( that's why I didn't include Praful cause both of these are bro sis duos)
Clever children;
Chaitali from BBB and Ujjwala from bhakarwadi have the exact same personalities
I can add on and on but no use....
Conclusion;
What I hate the most about this is I've come to a conclusion that "watch one hats off show and you've watched them all" see TV shows from the same production house should offer something different in every other show , not just borrowing elements from previous shows and thrusting it into new shows because it works.... honestly this is lazy writting....I get that these shows aired in different periods of time but new audiences have access to almost all these shows except jjjkjf and they can easily point these stuff out and they would lose interest in all these shows because watching them would give them constant deja vu-s and the excitement will fade out eventually....
Hats off makes unique shows with excellent plots and stuff but I wish they let go of these repetitive character archetypes so that their shows can be more enjoyable and no one is able to point out these flaws in the future like I did...
Edited by Sainath-394-cid - 2 years ago
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