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India's favourite new female star is 'ugly' and upright

She looks plain, wears thick black-rimmed glasses, teeth braces and dresses in unflattering voluminous clothes, yet she keeps viewers glued to television sets at prime time four days a week.

Clumsy, gullible and simple are adjectives used to describe her but Jasmeet Walia, better-known as Jassi, is one of the most popular characters on Indian television.

The Hindi serial -- entitled "Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin" aired Mondays to Thursdays on the entertainment-oriented Sony channel -- is the third most watched serial in the country of more than one billion people.

It is based on a top Colombian soap opera "Yo Soy Betty La Fea" (I am Betty the Ugly) with the original Spanish series becoming a small-screen sensation across Latin America and among the Hispanic community in the United States.

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