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Mohandas is India's answer to Hercule Poirot. Tele-detectives come with trademark mannerisms. Even Baywatch seems to be awash with elements of crime and detection.ДЄt the centre of these shows is the detective himself. In the past one year, it has increased the number of programmes in this genre to include Murder, She Wrote, Heartbeat, Due South and the still popular X Files. Star Plus, which was earlier the preserve of soaps like The Bold and the Beautiful and Santa Barbara, has not only given the viewers a heavy dose of local programming, its imports also reflect their preference for thrillers and detective serials. The detective bug seems to have bitten non-Hindi channels as well.

And it's the small screen that is stepping in to fill that gap. Similarly, Hindi pulp literature, which has had popular crime writers like Ibne Shafi, Om Prakash Sharma, Colonel Ranjeet and Ved Prakash Sharma, is also fast disappearing from the market. 'In mainstream Hindi cinema action dominates, whereas detection is a game of intelligence,' says media analyst Sudeesh Pachauri. And the only film detective who became a legend was the Charminar smoking Pradosh Mitra alias Feluda in Satyajit Ray's Sonar Kella, with 14-yearold Tapesh as his Watson. Films like Bees Saal Baad and Apradhi Kaun have been few and far between.

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Once a serial has roped in these two groups, success is almost guaranteed since the rest of the family is bound to follow suit.ДЄnother reason why this genre is doing well on TV is that it has been ignored in cinema. The other segment comprises older people, who have a lot of time on their hands. 'They are very inquisitive and keep wondering what might have happened and who could have done it,' says Kapur.

Most producers of thriller serials agree that a sizeable chunk of their viewers are teenagers. Singh, producer-director of CID and Aahat. 'Everything has to be brought to a logical end in an episode or two,' says B.P. If soaps are about stretching a basic plot, thrillers are about condensing it. Singh: Theft, murder, blackmail and even brideburning - it's a new element each episode'They keep you glued and there's no need to religiously follow them for weeks,' says Goswami.

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