Kolangal Surprises

Viewers who stumbled upon the Sun TV serial Kolangal last week (going by past comments, I'm not sure there are many!) may have been wondering if Devayani's hit serial was still a megaserial. In just one week, it broke not one but two of the defining characteristics of megaserials.

1. The story made a lot of progress

Devayani's dad had left her mom a long time ago to marry another, richer woman. But now he had actually become close both Devayani and her brother(ofcourse both sides were unaware of the relationship between them). Last week, he finally saw Devayani's mother, whom he recognised as his ex-wife and realised that Devayani and her brothers and sisters are in fact his own children!

2. Devayani had something positive happen to her and none of the characters in the serial cried for the entire half hour

Devayani's brother(i.e. her dad's son from his second marriage) has been fighting a case against her and the court last week ruled in her favor. So the entire family got together to savor the good news and none of them had reason to cry.

Just goes to show that even megaserials can spring pleasant surprises sometimes!

PS: Kolangal has been moved to the 7pm PST slot from tonight, a much more convenient timeslot for me. So watch this space for more details :-)