Originally posted by prettywomen22
welcome to the forum lynchee
Thank you :) Hope to see you around.
@tvdost: thank you for liking my post, see you too around :)
Originally posted by ronitfan
Hey there Lynchee! :D
Welcome to the Adaalat forum.. you can call me Sukhi :)
Well the thing with Adaalat is that it's based on a character called Perry
Mason who was both a lawyer and a detective - agreed that our indian
judiciary works differently..
but Ronit and the makers have clarified that it's not an educated show on Indian law - this is total fiction :) :)
Thanks Sukhi :)
Okay, I read about Perry Mason now. A fictional character on which there was an American series too.
It's not only the Indian judiciary, all common law countries, including the United Sates, use the adversarial system (on which I elaborated above.)
Even in the American television series, the script writers have taken into consideration this issue.
From Wikipedia:
"In most episodes, the identity of the guilty party was discovered
without an actual trial being held. Instead, this occurred at the preliminary hearing stage, wherein the district attorney was only required to produce enough evidence to convince the judge that the defendant should be bound over for trial..."
I would been more pleased if this was taken into consideration. [I felt quite disappointed, because I started watching this serial for legal points etc, the title of the show is rather misleading if the show is entirely fictional, if you ask me :/] But oh well, this one is quite okay too... Hope to have another Indian serial based on the legal profession (a more realistic one) in the future.
And also maybe Indian serials need that extra drama with the whole shebang [the court kacheri thing + audience in court] for more impact & better TRPs. Depends on the kind of audience they are targeting too.
Edited by lynchee - 13 years ago