Well, Tina, I have posted the following in Forum 32 (and if you saw the other 11 comments there, you would be sick too). I will see, firstly, if they edit it and tone it down before they carry it and then what the production team says.
My bet is that they will do nothing, and the next time, if no one except me speaks up, it will be worse. So, if you feel like it, do join me in this complaint on Forum 32.
Frankly, my dear Tina, I do not care what people like or don't like here, for I no longer write in this forum, but I could not contain myself after watching that muck in Arjun. I simply could not believe it.
Shyamala Aunty
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REQUEST YOUR ATTENTION AND EARLY ACTION
To the writers, the director, and the producers of Arjun,
I been a faithful and committed viewer of the biweekly episodes of Arjun, not missing a single one since the show began over a year ago. It is the best fictional crime series in Hindi language TV at the moment, from both the scripting and acting points of view, and I have rejoiced in many of the exceptional episodes in the past. The script writers maintained a balance between the professional and the personal lives of their characters, with the latter emerging in carefully inserted bits and pieces, and the thread of the Sikandar backstory was kept up, even if only fitfully.
There was a social message in many of the episodes, as in the very powerful one on a baanjh woman, on honour killings, on drugs, and even on the wastage of water (though to show people dying of thirst was way OTT and factually wrong), and of late there was the novel and useful Arjun ka Suraksha Chakra (now abandoned, it seems).
Unfortunately, our favourite serial seems now to be falling on bad, and sad times. The deteriorating quality of the scripts is alarming. When a superior crime series starts falling back on deranged serial killers, as Arjun has been doing for the past 2-3 weeks - with murderous auto rickshaw drivers and a tantrik organising a human sacrifice of his own son to get back his dead wife - it is a danger signal.
But it was yesterday's episode about the doorbell killer that was the pits. Firstly, where was the need to make such a very violent episode - with a nail driven into the forehead of a gentle and kindly priest by the boy he had befriended and brought up, people stabbed in the throat with knives, a woman killed by asyphixiation and stuffed in her own refrigerator?
And the most horrible of all, the unclothed body of a raped and strangled teenager, covered only with a towel, her hands tied to the bedposts? And with the killer luxuriating in a foam filled bathtub? When I watched that child on the bed, I felt like throwing up.
It was perversion at its worst, for that image, following on the earlier shots of the killer fondling a photo of the girl in shorts, smelling her clothes, seemed meant not to horrify, but as titillation. How many copycat murderers would you bet that those scenes inspire? It was SICK.
Would you, Mr, Gorky, like to bet on how many perverts watching those scenes will be inspired to copy that, complete with bathtub?
Why do the writers, the director, the producers of such an excellent serial have to stoop so low? Yes, we all know that such horrors are a daily occurrence in one part or the other of every country in the world. There are 4/5 years being sexually assaulted these days, but would you show that in Arjun? Are children, who are still up and watching it at 8 pm to be treated to that young girl on the bed and the nail in a man's forehead? Why a child, I am 60+ and I do not want to watch such ugly stuff.I do not want my favourite serial reduced to near po*nographic trash.
So, please, Mr. Gorky, I would, as a fervent admirer of the early Arjun, request you most earnestly to clean up your act, and fast. If not, one fine day someone will go to the BCCC and file a formal complaint, and I do not know where that will lead. I would not at all want Arjun to get into any kind of trouble,either with the BCCC or with the channel.
Shyamala B.Cowsik
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Originally posted by: Tina2603
Nahin Aunty I really didnt like yesterday's show, that's why i wasnt fit to even write a post on it, like i usually do for every episode since last year...
and besides commenting on the righteousness or not of a show here doesnt work, in the end people starts to jump at one's throat...
people excel here at positive criticism of a character and her fans...
but i agree that kind of perversion was off, and wont mind adding/joining you in complaining to Gorky himself
Originally posted by: sashashyam
Ok, Tina, Shreya, Kunchu, if you are all so worried about Star Plus pulling the show off air (which I do not think is at all likely, but what matters is what you all feel) , I will not go to the BCCC, and will instead post a strong complaint at the website you have indicated. Let us first see what they say in response to that.
This said, I cannot hide my disappointment at the fact that no one in this forum, as far as I could see, has thought fit to voice her feelings against the ugliness of that episode, especially the build up to the rape and murder of that young girl. That, and showing her like that on the bed, with the killer luxuriating in the bath tub. Did it not make your skin crawl? The only topic of discussion I saw was about whether Arjun was right in shooting that monster out of hand. I could not believe it.
Shyamala Aunty
Edited by sashashyam - 12 years ago
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