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COVID-19 protocols reshaped production practices. Limited crew sizes, quarantine bubbles, and location restrictions forced inventive solutions: more confined set designs, increased reliance on indoor family-household settings, and creative editing to maintain continuity. These constraints sometimes intensified storytelling focus—close-up performances and intimate family moments—while also exposing budgetary pressures. New safety norms prolonged shoots and raised costs, influencing which shows got renewed and which were cut.
Historically, Indian TV heroines were either weeping victims or sacrificial lambs. Post-2021, Star Plus aggressively marketed the "Nayi Soch" (New Thought) initiative. The narrative focus shifted from a woman's duty to her family, to her duty toward herself. Desi Telly Tv Star Plus -2021-
If you were browsing the Star Plus schedule in 2021, these were the five powerhouse dramas that kept the TRP meters running: COVID-19 protocols reshaped production practices