Nathaswaram, Deivamagal, Vani Rani, Thendral, En Kanavan En Thozhan, Saravanan Meenakshi,
Illavarasi, Sindhu Bhairavi, Ullam kollai poguthe ~ simple – some
of the TV serials that are holding lakhs of people hooked. There are so many jokes – ‘I love commercial
breaks’ because in many houses, dinner is served only during such breaks. In many houses, people do not even care for
the visitors when a serial is on. Women
generally speaking are crying getting involved with the characters ……. A
soap opera, soapie, or soap is a serial
drama and suspense on television or radio which features related story lines
about the lives of multiple characters. The stories typically focus on
emotional relationships to the point of melodrama. The term "soap
opera" originated from their having been typically sponsored by soap manufacturers
in former years. It is not uncommon in these Serials that persons playing the
character may get changed – by a mere announcement !
Cinema though depends on the same target group makes a
parody of the craze for TV serials. In one, Vivek would enter the house and
loot the property with people busy watching TV.
In the film Chanakya, a group of
ladies would be shown too agitated and would engage the autorickshaw of
Vadivelu. Their discussion would be
about the life of a young girl, a pregnant lady who would be battling her life
!! – when asked one would say that she was pushed out by her own husband who
was cruel. With Vadivelu imagining a
lady at death-bed in a hospital, the ladies would get down in mid-noon and run
to reach their homes ------ to be in time to see the episode the serial !
"Who
Killed Lucy Beale?" is a storyline from the BBC soap opera’ EastEnders’.
It was announced in Feb 2014 and began on 18th Apr 2014,
when Lucy Beale (Hetti Bywater) was discovered dead on
Walford Common from a deliberately inflicted head injury. The storyline
culminated during EastEnders Live Week on 19th Feb 2015, the show's
30th anniversary episode ~ a peak audience of reportedly 12 million viewers watched that hyped episode in
which the soap's biggest-ever whodunit finally came to a conclusion.
EastEnders is a
British soap opera; the first episode was broadcast in the United Kingdom on
BBC One in Feb 1985. EastEnders
storylines is about the domestic and professional lives of the people
who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End of
London. The series primarily centred on the residents of Albert Square, a
Victorian square of terraced houses, and its neighbouring streets, namely
Bridge Street, Turpin Road and George Street. The area encompasses a pub,
street market, night club, community centre, funeral parlour, café, wine bar,
various other small businesses, a park and allotments. The series was
originally screened as two half-hour episodes per week. It is one of the UK's highest-rated
programmes, often appearing near or at the top of the week's BARB ratings.
Within eight months of its launch, it reached the number-one spot in the
ratings, and has consistently remained among the top-rated TV programmes in
Britain.
Lucy
Katherine Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders,
[played by Eva Brittin-Snell from 1993 to 1996, Casey Anne Rothery from 1996
until 2004, Melissa Suffield from 2004 to 2010 and Hetti Bywater from 2012
until the character's demise in 2014 and again in 2015 for a flashback episode].
Lucy was introduced in December 1993 as the baby of Ian (Adam Woodyatt) and
Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins). She is the twin sister of Peter (Thomas Law,
Ben Hardy), and has three half siblings, older brother Steven (Edward
Savage,Aaron Sidwell), younger sister Cindy (Eva Sayer, Mimi Keene) and younger
brother Bobby (Alex Francis, Rory Stroud, Elliot Carrington). Since 2004, when the role was recast to an
older actress, storylines featuring Lucy have focused upon her teenage
rebellion. In 2010, Suffield left EastEnders, after she was allegedly axed due
to "unruly behaviour”.
On 21 February
2014, it was announced that Lucy would be murdered, starting a dark chapter for
the Beale family, and that a ‘whodunnit’ storyline would run to the show's 30th
anniversary in February 2015 when the identity of the murderer would be
revealed. The murderer mystery has finally
been solved though it the most unlikely killer. With the
11-year-old Bobby unmasked as his half-sister's unlikely killer, the
soap's legions of loyal fans were left feeling a little flat. Viewers took to
social media in their thousands to express disappointment at the plot's
outcome, with some critics labelling the mystery 'the worst twist ever'.
The first
cliffhanger episode saw Lucy's father Ian dramatically pointing the finger at
his new wife Jane in an hour-long, semi-live special. But Jane arrived home to
discover youngster Bobby standing over the troubled blonde's body holding a
music box in his hand - the sound of which was revealed to be the last thing
Lucy heard before her death.'Whatever she says, she started it. She made
everyone unhappy', a vicious-looking Bobby declared, presumably because he was
tired of her drug problems tearing his family apart. The build-up to the killer's unmasking threw
viewers many red herrings, with a slew of Albert Square residents apparently
having reason to want to kill the pretty blonde in the hours leading up to her
death. Millions of viewers held their breath as the EastEnders murder mystery
reached its conclusion, but one screamed so loudly during the tense episode
that neighbours called the police. One fan tweeted: 'Every person in the
country with a younger brother is sleeping with one eye open tonight.'
Fans
were kept guessing to the very end until it was clear that Bobby beat his
sibling over the head with a music box in a fit of rage on Good Friday last
year. In dramatic scenes during a second flashback
episode of Thursday's live double bill, Lucy's body was found by step-mother
Jane, who then turned round to find Bobby behind her clutching the murder
weapon. The 11-year-old then said: 'Whatever she says, she started it. She made
everyone unhappy.' In the first episode
of Thursday's double bill, Lucy's father Ian came to the wrong conclusion about
the killer, believing it to be his new bride Jane. He was to later find out
that it was in fact young Bobby – which sent fans into a frenzy on Twitter with
more 30,000 tweets alone sent in the single minute after the killer was
revealed. Figures showed that more than one million tweets were sent in total
during the two EastEnders' episodes which aired last night, making them the
most tweeted-about episodes of a soap ever. The second episode eclipsed the
508,678 messages sent during the first special by more than 10,000, with
519,359 tweets posted as the killer came closer to being unmasked, data from
social analytics firm Kantar Social TV UK showed.
Not only was Lucy's
killer revealed, a host of major characters were involved in a series of
equally shocking storylines. Lucy's grandmother Kathy Beale, played by Gillian
Taylforth, returned to confront Phil Mitchell. She was previously thought to
have been killed in a car crash in South Africa. The BBC said her return was
'shrouded in secrecy'. To keep it under wraps, the scenes were shot live on
location to prevent her being seen prior to her episode transmitting.
Whatever
be the storyline and whoever was the killer – the producers and marketers
milked the audience for long. People now
would switch to yet another Serial and keep talking about it !
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
25th Feb
2015.
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