Tamil soap opera

Tamil Soap Operas ( தமிழ் தொலைக்காட்சி தொடர்கள் / தமிழ் மெகா தொடர்கள் ) are Tamil language television series broadcast in India , Singapore , Malaysia, and Sri Lanka .

Tamil soap operas are characterized by the fact that only one director and one screenwriter are responsible for them. As a result, like all soap operas, the series have great narrative and visual recognition value. They are very popular with the Tamil speaking minority in India. Successful series are subtitled or re-dubbed in Hindi and broadcast in many other parts of India with great success. Soap operas are one of the most successful television formats in India.

Tamil soap operas, as in most countries, typically consist of 100 to 1500 episodes and last about thirty minutes, including commercials, with five to six episodes per week. Due to the long running time and the large number of episodes, they are also referred to as “mega-serials” (megaseries). The episodes will air from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and the Prime Time series will air from 8:30 p.m.

Well-known series include Deivam Thandha Veedu (first broadcast July 2013), Uyirmei (broadcast August 2014), Kalyanam Mudhal Kadhal Varai (broadcast November 2014), Chandrakumari (broadcast December 2018) and Lakshmi Stores (broadcast December 2018).

The image of families and especially women that Tamil TV series convey has been analyzed many times and criticized as being too conservative as well as too progressive. Many Tamil soap operas are based on the plot pattern "mother-in-law meets daughter-in-law" or "husband meets wife".

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Maya Ranganathan: The Archetypes of Sita, Kaikeyi and Surpanaka Stride The Small Screen . In: Maya Ranganathan, Usha M Rodrigues (Ed.): Indian Media in a Globalized World . SAGE Publishing India, 2010, ISBN 978-93-8604230-9 .
^ Hélène Lecuyer: Soap operas dominate prime-time television in India. In: Institut National de l'audivisuel. May 16, 2013, accessed May 30, 2019 .
↑ Alessandra Stanley: On Indian TV, 'I Do' Means to Honor and Obey the Mother-in-Law. In: New York Times. December 25, 2012, accessed May 30, 2019 .

[Ranganathan-1] A ^b Maya Ranganathan: The Archetypes of Sita, Kaikeyi and Surpanaka Stride The Small Screen . In: Maya Ranganathan, Usha M Rodrigues (Ed.): Indian Media in a Globalized World . SAGE Publishing India, 2010, ISBN 978-93-8604230-9 .

[2] Hélène Lecuyer: Soap operas dominate prime-time television in India. In: Institut National de l'audivisuel. May 16, 2013, accessed May 30, 2019 .

[3] Alessandra Stanley: On Indian TV, 'I Do' Means to Honor and Obey the Mother-in-Law. In: New York Times. December 25, 2012, accessed May 30, 2019 .