Ever since it hit Indian television screens in 2011, Sasural Simar Ka has been one of the country's most watched primetime soap operas.
However, if you're anything like me, your only exposure to this show would have been through its many contributions to the viral web.
Last week, this nonsense teaser for its May 15 episode started going viral, and I decided I just had to see if the show is actually THAT insane.
When you scrape the bottom of the barrel for ideas to further the plot. Sasural Simar Ka. You've set a new standard.
Spoiler alert: The show actually is that insane.
Here's the lowdown – the 20-minute episode begins with a dying supernatural fairy type person, which first of all... What?
So I read up, and it turns out that at some point in 2014, the show went balls out and pivoted from a normal saas-bahu soap to a fantasy-sci fi-mythological family drama.
Coming back, the show's titular hero Simar has to save the fairy whatever by finding a cure in a jungle. She, of course, decides to do this alone, in the middle of the night.
Unfortunately, all she ends up doing is pissing off a guru who has been meditating there for 5,000 years (I'm serious).
So pissed off is this charming dude that he decides to curse Simar...
And turn her into a MOTHERFRICKIN' FLY.
What...
The...
Fuck.
Say hello to the new lead character of India's favourite primetime TV show, ladies and gents – a fucking housefly.
It should be noted that as WTF as this twist was, it's not even an original idea. Telugu blockbuster Eega already did the same thing way back in 2012.
So, is Indian television crazy? Hells yes. Is there any chance I'll be watching this show again? I mean...
