rating for episode 28: the constable burnt alive

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Honestly, i did not like yesterday's episode...it wasnt up to the mark of Arjunusually they keep u interested until the end...this time i lost interest way too soon which is very unusual for arjun

episode was gud,bt v can easly identify d killed person

My dear Faiza,

I am delighted that you are back here! I have voted and posted about this episode on your Forum 32 thread as well, but I am reproducing my comments here for the readers of this thread, who will be many.

To all those who read this, its contents might startle many of you, but please give it some serious thought. I greatly respect each individual's right to choose what is important to him/her, and make choices on that basis.

Still, I would request you to got thru my post below, think about the issue of excessive and gruesome violence that I have highlighted there, and tell me what you think about my views on it. I feel it is VERY important, for the sake of the show as much as for the audience, to tone down this violence, and would like to know if you share my this view. Thanks in advance.

Shyamala B.Cowsik

MY COMMENTS ON EPISODE 28: THE CASE OF THE CONSTABLE BURNT ALIVE

To dispose of the pleasant part first,I was delighted that the CVs decided to show Riya being honoured, as she deserved, with a posthumous bravery award by the Govt. of India.

I have put in a post on FB to thank them most warmly for this, since I had appealed strongly for the announcement of the President's Police Medal for Gallantry for Riya, in my post Requiem for Riya Mukherjee:RIP, of October 29, 2012 at https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/arjun/3261729/requiem-for-riya-mukherjee-r-i-p. I had there said "I very much hope that the CVs will do this without fail, for they owe it to their creation", for displaying bravery and dedication that went far beyond the call of duty.

But I had only hoped that this would come to pass; I was not at all sure of it. This is why I appreciate all the more what the CVs have done to honour the memory of an exceptionally dedicated and gutsy woman officer of the ETF. It shows their readiness to take on board valid suggestions from the viewers, which is most commendable.

I hope they will react similarly to what I have to say next, and take it not as undue criticism, but as a heartfelt plea for restraint from someone who loves the Arjun that they have created, but who cannot stomach some of the things that have crept into this wonderful show. This episode is the latest and most off putting example of this trend.

While it is undoubtedly very clever in terms of the detection process, I was horrified by the sickening and gruesome scene of a policeman being burnt alive - not, as I had initially imagined, by being trapped in a burning house by the goons , but by being deliberately doused with naptha and set on fire, while his superior officer, Inspector Daate, smiles and Shikre chortles in glee.

It made me sick to the pit of my stomach. After watching it in sheer horror, I no longer cared how clever the detection process was. What hit me like a ton of bricks was the level of sadistic violence, and the scene was repeated towards the end of the episode. It was very difficult to take.

This sort of thing should not be shown, and that too in an 8 pm show, when children are still up in most families .

It is no use saying that such things might happen,though I personally have not heard, in real life, of this kind of horror story - of a policeman being murdered/burnt like in with total impunity by a bunch of goons, with his superior officer actively aiding and abetting the crime, which is what made it infinitely worse. There are any number of very ugly things that go on in the world,and one cannot show all of them on screen, and so casually at that.

Why could the CVs not have shown that brave man being knocked down by the truck and killed? Was it necessary to show this ghastly scene, and that too twice?

Arjun already has too many shots of bullets going thru victim's heads, and even those shots, as in the Stolen Ganesha and the Riya shooting episode, were shown in gory closeups, and many times. This is unnecessary and undesirable in a prime time show.

But Saturday's scene was far worse. I would like to say this to the CVs: "Dear CVs, you have developed what is today the best crime serial on Indian TV bar none. Please, please do NOT pull it down with this kind of unbearable violence, and that too at 8 pm. Your wonderful show runs on its characters and its clever plotting, not on this kind of stuff. I am sure very many of your viewers would join me in requesting you to tone it down, and we earnestly hope that you will not disappoint us".

Even otherwise, policemen are secure only because the crooks believe, as that bar owner said in the Eagleman case, that you cannot kill a cop and get away with it. If that line of defence is breached, and as horribly as in this case, where will the policeman go?

Arjun is now apparently beginning to specialise in crooked cops: ACP Girish Kulkarni, the contract killer cop last weekend, and now this Daate. Somebody was saying the other day that Arjun should have punched that commercial donor of bone marrow. What should he have done this time? Neither he nor Rathore show much emotion, but at least Rathore's glare at that Bhandarkar, who actually sets fire to Lokhande, shows some rage and disgust.

This apart, the whole thing seemed to be too small an operation for the level of a (crooked) minister, and even if one was involved, he would never deal with Inspector Daate personally.

The economics of the scam are also wonky - the profit on 5-700 litres of petrol stolen per night, as per Shree, minus the cost of the replacement naphtha, and with all these chaps in between to be paid and paid off - what will be left? Why, a clever operator can steal a whole tanker, which is why they now have GPS radio trackers, and the drivers have to log in an each station on the route so that they can be tracked. And if there was so much damage due to adulteration of petrol, there would be a public outcry and raids would follow, putting these chaps out of business, at least temporarily. The story just looks good and flashy on the surface; the foundation is weak underneath.

As for the post mortem report, from which Rathore purports to read about the naptha, it is a howler , for the whole of the latter part talks about a fracture and dislocation of the spine due to strangling!!

Shyamala B.Cowsik

I too had serious reservations about it, for a different reason. Please do see my post above and send in your comments. It is very important that we all take this issue seriously. Thanks in advance.

Shyamala B.Cowsik

Originally posted by: gohil1

Honestly, i did not like yesterday's episode...it wasnt up to the mark of Arjunusually they keep u interested until the end...this time i lost interest way too soon which is very unusual for arjun

Dear Shruti,

I completely respect your right to rate this episode as you choose, but I had serious reservations about it, and for a specific reason. Please do see my post above and send in your comments. It is very important that we all take this issue seriously. Thanks in advance.

Shyamala B.Cowsik

Originally posted by: shrutisweety

i wil go with 5

Dear Sara,

I completely respect your right to rate this episode as you choose, but I had serious reservations about it, and for a specific reason. Please do see my post above and send in your comments. It is very important that we all take this issue seriously. Thanks in advance.

Shyamala B.Cowsik

Originally posted by: SaraJose

episode was gud,bt v can easly identify d killed person

Dear rechus,

I completely respect your right to rate this episode as you choose, but I had serious reservations about it, and for a specific reason. Please do see my post above and send in your comments. It is very important that we all take this issue seriously. Thanks in advance.

Shyamala B.Cowsik

Originally posted by: rechus

Good episode

After watching d episode D following question came in mind at first ...

Is money everything??

After watching Yesterday's episode , I was naturally for sumtime drooling over Arjun . But I could not stop my mind ponder over d above question ….

Dey showed how an inspector, a well known politician , a petrol pump owner conspire against d country , d people of nation by Polluting the contents of petrol.

They even go down to such an extent that dey brutally murdered a Normal constable. They cud have kidnapped him , dey cud have terrorized him ….but no , just to satisfy dere greed , they killed d sole earner of a family. They even tried defaming d person.

Like Arjun says: 'U can hide truth, but u cannot ruin d truth '

D saying was perfect in the case.

The corrupt people tried to hide d truth , but still dey were all caught.

Arjun in the end said:'A normal constable, his sacrifice for d country, had resulted in exposing d corruption prevailing in the country.'

All in all i wud it give d episode a 5 rating ...