The problem with television is that there is only a half hour slot to fill. Which means that not much can happen…or else too much happens. With Hindi soap operas, the former wins, which means that stories get stretched out beyond natural elasticity and one drama follows the next at a painfully languid pace

Something of this kind is happening in Dekha Ek Khwaab, the story of an accidental princess. So far, we know that Moniya, the girl from a chawl, is actually Maanyata, a princess who was kidnapped from her palace home as a child and brought up to be a very ordinary girl. Click here to read more