Indian TV is a landmine of interesting (read: illogical) content, and the best part is, you don't even have to work hard to find it. But you might just have to work hard to recollect these special TV moments.
So take this quiz and see if you actually remember the best of Indian TV or not:
1. Everyone knows about Simar turning into a makkhi. But, did a certain shape-shifting lizard named Lavanya also turn into her reptile form to marry the fiance of the protagonist? Or are we just projecting our fears of lizards on you?
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3. Is this from a show, or just a single girl's mother's overactive imagine: A couple gets accidentally married when the sindoor stuck in a man's kurta falls on the girl's head when he is brushing his hair.
via Punjab Kesari4. A wife gets her husband killed because he suspects she had an affair with his brother. The truth is, she had an affair with her own brother. Did this happen on an Indian TV show?
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5. A girl has a dance competition to attend on her wedding day so she has her sister impersonate her. But her sister actually ends up getting married to the husband-to-be.
via TOI6. A woman discovers that her husband is actually a shape-shifting tiger on her honeymoon.
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7. A man loses his eyesight while trying to save a child from an eagle. The child's nanny, a fairy living on Earth, is so moved by his actions that she cries on meeting the man. Her tears restore his eyesight.
via Barrier Free Canada8. A wife looks for a sanjeevani booti to bring her husband, who is on life-support, back to life.
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9. A cooking reality show takes place inside the show, and on the reality show, the lead actress is a contestant and the lead actor is a judge. But, when the lead actress gets eliminated, she slaps the lead actor.
via cookinglight10. A family decides to marry their daughter to her childhood best friend because "umar ho gai hai" but the daughter can't marry the best friend, because he is actually an ichadaari naag - a truth only she knows because she is his best friend.
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11. A couple accidentally exchange their friends' kid with another kid but by the time they discover, it's too late to change the kids back. So they run away with the kid, rather than face their friends.
via geico12. A woman hits her head on a wall and ends up falling unconscious inside a suitcase. The suitcase is then closed, dragged across stairs, and thrown in a pool, presumably to drown the woman. The woman does not wake up through any of this.
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