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Indian soap operas or Indian serials are soap operas written, produced, filmed in India, with characters played by Indians with episodes broadcast on Indian television.〔Pak-Hind Ka Swag, Book 5 "Culture, Technology and fun", chapter 16 "soap opera, Serials and films"〕 India's first soap opera was ''Hum Log'', which concluded with 154 episodes, was the longest running serial in the history of Indian television at the time it ended. The most common languages in which Indian serials are made in are Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam, though many contain a mix of the predominant language and English. Indian soap operas are also broadcast in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Culture - Indian soap operas: Family affairs )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=India Marginalized in Myanmar )〕 ==History== India's first soap opera was ''Hum Log'', which first aired in 1984 and concluded with 154 episodes, was the longest running serial in the history of Indian television at the time it ended. It had an audience of 60 million. Every episode of was about 25 minutes long, and the last episode was about 55 minutes. At the end of every episode, veteran Hindi film actor Ashok Kumar would discuss the ongoing story and situations with the audience using Hindi couplets and limericks. In later episodes, he would introduce the actors who played characters in the serial and end his monologue with the Indian language versions of the words "Hum Log." Biographies of famous people started being produced in the form of soap operas. '' Meera'' was a biography of Meera, ''Veer Shivaji'' portrayed Chhatrapati Shivaji Shahji Raje Bhosle, ''Jhansi Ki Rani'' presented Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi, ''Chanakya'' covered Chanakya and ''Chittod Ki Rani Padmini Ka Johur'' portrayed Rani Padmini,''Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat'' is a biography of ''Ashoka The Great''. Crime shows also started being produced and aired. ''Adaalat'' was an Indian television courtroom drama series which revolves around 'Advocate K.D Pathak', a defense lawyer with an impeccable track record of winning cases and setting helpless innocent victims free, but not at the cost of upholding the truth and ''C.I.D.,'' follows a team of detectives belonging to the Crime Investigation Department in Mumbai. The protagonist of the show is Shivaji Satam. ''C.I.D.'' is the longest-running TV series in India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What makes this TV show such a hit with Indians? )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indian soap opera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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