5 Uncommon Illnesses That Are Exceptionally Common In Indian TV Shows!

With every passing year Indian TV shows are getting more and more detached from reality in terms of story line and while we are all game for crazy, things we have to bear in Indian TV shows are just a bit too much to take.. It’s inevitable to feel sympathetic for the lead characters in our daily soaps as they face everything from bizarre romantic stories to crazy mother in laws and the biggest master minds in crime to mysterious deaths, reincarnations and worst kind of illnesses, all in one life time!!

Illnesses in TV serials for example only refer to diseases that take you to your death bed and nowhere else and also result in a lot of commotion and drama around!! Like seriously, have you ever seen or heard of a TV serial where a character was being realistic and was just down with common cold or fever?? No right? Well here are some uncommon illnesses that are exceptionally common according to Indian TV!

Brain Tumor – You might have to struggle with a mental dysfunction to cope up with the brain tumor tales on TV where the actors discover that a throbbing head ache is a tumor in the head!!  Right from Kum Kum, Saas Bina Sasural to shows like Sadda Haq have actors taking melo drama a notch higher battling brain tumor. Because there’s no head ache without  a tumor in the head!!

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Cancer – Nia Sharma was the highlight of Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna hai when the makers introduced her character with cancer!! Then there was Kasuti Zindagi Ki having bone marrow transplants for a kid and all of them are never on the easy side.. Always the worst kind and severe cases! There aren’t no relationships on TV that cancer can’t cure!!

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Memory Loss – What is the best escape from all the melo drama going on here and now in a TV serial?? Get lost for a few days and then come back with a bandaged head and no recollection of who’s who!! And it works ever damn time!! So much for keeping it real and facing your problems head on!

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Heart Attack – Every babuji’s delight on a TV show!! The darling daughter elopes and marries?? Heart attack! Someone stops a wedding?? Heart attack! Fight at home?? Heart attack! Someone breaths ??? Heart Attack!!!

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Mental Illness – Remember Divyanka Tripathi and Sharad Malhotra’s TV debut in Banu Main Teri Dulhan? Where Sharad plays a mentally retarded guy and Divyanka his wife? Well that really introduced the trend to showcasing mental illnesses in serials!! Because why not?

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Now that’s what is quite literally what is meant by living on the edge!!