Top 10 Indian Television Serials

Indian soap operas or Indian serials are soap operas written, produced and filmed in India, with characters played by Indians and episodes broadcast on Indian television.

Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai has been officially credited to be the longest-running Hindi soap opera in the history of Indian television with 2,500 episodes having aired as of 19 October 2017. The programme has been airing since 12 January 2009 on Star Plus. Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah has aired at least 2,300 episodes and is the longest-running sitcom serial in India (28 July 2008 – present). Balika Vadhu is India's third longest Hindi soap opera with 2,248 episodes airing between 2008 and 2016.

The most common languages in which Indian serials are made are Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Telugu, and Malayalam.

Indian soap operas are also broadcast in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and French West Africa.

India's first soap opera was Hum Log, which first aired in 1984 and concluded after the 154th episode, was the longest running serial in the history of Indian television at the time at which it ended. Every episode was approximately 25 minutes long, and the final episode lasted approximately 55 minutes. At the end of every episode, veteran Hindi 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".

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