At least keep up remaining class BV

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Posted: 12 years ago
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This show DECIDEDLY DOES NOT have the standard and class that it used to have when it had started. It has suffered lows earlier also. Still at that time people consoled themselves thinking it must be to highlight some social issue or effect of child marriage.

But NOW whatever that is happening or seems to be in store for future happening...looks like cheap drama akin to K serials of Kekta maiya!

Sanchi drama

The earlier animosity towards Anandi seemed explicable given that both Sanchi and Anandi were from different backgrounds and Anandi's past was used to gossip about her. But this Jagya-Sanchi drama with Ganga as a part of the triangle and Anandi being dragged around as punching bag/scapegoat by all parties is NO story, nothing understandable or explicable! This was just cheap drama! Now being made cheaper as Ira blames Anandi, Sanchi attempts self harm and Singhs also do drama.

This character has been used to create unnecesary and cheap low brow drama. 😡

Shiv

What are BV CVs doing to Shiv?! Earlier he was barely shown because he was in JDJ. Then he was reduced to a mannequin witnessing drama in his own home and at times his in laws' house. Later he was made oblivious to happenings in family and only concerned about romance with wife. Now his character is further spoiled by giving him senseless dialogues and making him a typical husband who blames wife or takes his anger on wife for troubles elsewhere.
Will he be ruined further? 😲 Will he be shown having flashbacks of his mother's and UD's curses about Anandi? 😕 I hope NOT!

The Shiv of 2013 is a far cry from Shivraj Shekhar of 2012! It seems like CVs sold dreams only to break them later. 😭

Jagya's redemption?

Excuse me!! Is this what you call redemption?!! 🤢 His actions have been made debatable. He is shown confused and stuck and later taking a reckless step. The way he's being bashed and what he was made to do by CVs, it is not even creating sympathy for him!! 😲 As his actions did have impact on both families and CVs showed him earlier telling Shiv, "Main jaanta hun main kya kar raha hun" - he can be held guilty too.

Is this redemption?! Is this even creating sympathy for him? Not the way you're showing it!

Also, why no legalities were checked in his third marriage too (even as Singhs were contemplating it)? Wasn't it necessary both for characters and for information of viewers of this serial?

This was the worst redemption ever. Stained in a way again.

Ganga's liberation

An inspirational character again mishandled. More often then not reduced to a silent cry baby who weeps over little words of other foolish characters like Sanchi.

CVs have also treated Ganga with excessive degree of violence and brutality. Her past was violent and full of exploitation, she was beaten up, burnt, poisoned even at hospital, people giving her shelter were also beaten up and brought in a close brush to death, she was saved from being run over by a truck, she suffered rape attempt yet again (last one was WORSE and reflected BADLY on women, giving impression that a lone woman could never survive by herself and would suffer rape/attempt to rape).

She's treated like a yo yo by Singhs as well as CVs! Sometimes they show her righteous and self respecting, who taught lessons to others. Sometimes they show her weak. Singhs earlier made her family like she was a bahu. Now they use worst and cheapest language for her or DS shows "love" by putting wad of currency notes in her hands! 😲

What are you doing with her?! And why is her story so gory even after escape from Ratan's clutches? Give her and viewers some respite!

Treatment of children

It was really bad when Nandu was also lifted around, tied down, kerosene put on him when Singhs were being attacked by Ratan.

Mannu is so little yet he has been shown in most violent sequences! Ratan ones were also bad. But worse is that he is made part of shout fests with Singhs and Jagya/Ganga/Sanchi?

Why?

This is sensationalism at its worst. 🤢

Spare the kids at least!

You've earlier also treated kids in worst ways with torture of little Anandi and Sugna's kid Varun.

Why such insensitivity to kids?

Introduction & twist of new characters for cheap drama

Why was Ashima shown before and later? Why did you show her having a ONS with Mahi?

To create cheap drama? Weird triangles, quadrilaterals between old flame, new flame, bhai-chhota bhai, bhabhi, devrani etc?

Is this needed in the story? Is it in tune with the theme of this show?

Ratan Singh's parents are still free. No one knows about Padma and her daughter.

Urmi Devi has been shown on on and and off basis for drama. She talks about her daughter.

Mahaan CVs also showed some Shiv lookalike called Vikram in Kashmir!! And Shiv promised he would get him caught. Is that panga in reserve? 😲

There are some new gundas who have sworn revenge on Anandi and Shiv due to their social work. You'll use that for more violence too, CVs?

Why use social work to show more violence...I mean "action"?! 😲

There was also a mention of some corrupt new collector of Jetsar. Again some reserve for future tamasha?!

Why drag and show trash instead of addressing issues, resolving characters' past and ending the story properly?

Joke of marriage

Child marriage, marriage by buying brides, forced marriage, multiple remarriages, illegal marriages - is it all a joke?!

What was shown in earlier years was understood given the theme of the show. But what we have now is mere cheap drama!

Why was Sanchi-Jagya marriage track shown? Right from proposal to break up it was nonsense!

Why another rushed marriage for Jagya? Why bashing of Ganga in a marriage which just happened and she too was caught unaware?

And who fixes marriage of their daughter with their DIL's ex husband?! 😲 What cheapness!

And what's this choose between in laws and parents - diktat for DIL?

Why blame ex wife for ex husband's actions?

Pray tell me! Which ex wife persuades ex husband for remarriage and he in turn asks his ex wife to okay the right match for him?

What're you doing CVs? 😲

Gauri's left unresolved?

First a character is used to turn around a story and is prominent for so long. Then it is suddenly ditched?

How fair is it?

On top of it CVs announce she was pregnant (in last episode featuring her)?!

What's this nonsense?

You kept it unaddressed CVs and went ahead with Jagya's third marriage.

At least show what happened to Gauri? Replacement or actor is no issue. She can be shown dead too!

What happened to her parents? And that pregnancy you announced, CVs?

I am baffled at crazy ideas that are exchanged with members about her.

I really hope CVs that you don't create cheap drama with her or her kid and do not leave her story unresolved.

Better handle it without going into masala and cheap thrills please!

Dialogues

Sorry CVs. But the dialogues these days in BV are cheap, misogynistic, bigoted, pedestrian and SO uncharacteristic for a show like BV! 🤢 What're you doing?

Even characters' basic essence is ruined thanks to the senseless dialogues that they are given to spout!

Cheapest way of creating shock value! 😲

Superstition zindabad

Not checking Panchang, choosing wrong mahurat, lamp flickering, glass breaking, photo torn up or falling - and all this resulting into a disaster in next episode. Or people's curses coming true.

What is this?!! 😡

The gamechanger show is using stinky stale formulae of past masala dramas? Just so you can drag and complete another 1000 episodes?! 😡

Why BV team? Why? 😭

This is not even "poetic" or a narrative device. This is just faltu!!

Urban sux, Rural rox?

Anandi and Ganga, absolute rural girls are good. Gauri was partially rural so at one point she was also good. Sanchi is urban - and she sucks.

Cities suck. City-bred people are characterless.

Ghar ki bahu ya achi biwi banne ke laayak toh gaon ki ladki hi hai.

You've shown Sanchi's friends also vicious. You've tried to use even foods like pizza to show negativity or weirdness. 🤪
The more highly qualified a woman is, the more independent and the one with more exposure to outside world (like university, working life etc.) - the worse she is - disgrace as a daughter, wife and DIL! Hai na?
With Gauri, Sanchi and now Sanchi's friends you have shown this!

Ashima was nice. But you made her character potentially questionable in future thanks to her ONS with younger brother of the man she loved and who was her friend once. You have got her insulted in past as DS made faces at whatever she did and called her Lapundari.

Anandi - the one who has always been at home and even completed higher education only by correspondence is the best. All others are flawed.

No matter how much one tries to explain. But fact is that you CVs show urban people in a bad light. Particularly women. And highest educated women are the worst ones in your show!

Do what you want to do with your story. But at least stop stereotyping!! 🤢

Or else take your show to Mahua or DD instead of a satellite channel like Colors and make pendu people happy, condoning their stereotypes about urban people, educated women and food (after all didn't a Khap Panchayat leader blame Chow Mein for inducing tendency in men to rape?! Hahaha!) 😵

Get better or STOP pretending!

What's the use of giving morals at the end of every episode?

Bada gyan de rahe hain?

Posing as a wise or sensible show? 😲

It makes no sense to have such voiceovers if show is nothing but a meandering cheap drama.

You also contradict yourself often.

When Jagya married, you said love doesn't see anything blah blah. When he got thrashed, you said actions done without thinking always result into misunderstanding or conflict!

What do you justify? What do you stand by? What are you trying to teach?

Stop this pretense now!

VOs made sense when this show was actually focused on its theme.

Not now!

Bachi khuchi izzat sambhal lo please...

You've mauled the story. Mauled old and new characters. Had replacement fiasco among actors. Dialogues are increasingly cheap. Future predictions look scary as they point to cheap K serial type drama.

You have lost the sheen you once had.

But for God's sake and for old times' sake at least stop the ruin now! 😕

Please don't use characters (old and new) for twisted and cheap sensationalism. Please don't do this for sake of dragging the show.

You've ruined our past memories of the show when it had started with a lot of promise. Do not ruin further.

Don't ruin characters like this.

And stop using social issues for heck of it (talking of rape suddenly around Delhi Gangrape case verdict).

Please have some sense. Have some respect for viewers. And most importantly some respect for YOUR OWN LEGACY! 😭

Don't lose grace entirely!

Jo class abhi bachi hai...usko toh maintain kar lo...pichhli toh kya waapas laoge!

This is a REQUEST. Not a rant.

- From a viewer who keeps returning to this show in nostalgia and hope for better future...

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Posted: 12 years ago
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!skelpbun so me a favor and email or send a copy of this post to CV's so they can know how much great do we think of their shows 👍🏼
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Posted: 12 years ago
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@Skep
Great post by u dear! 👏

Pls send a copy of it to the CVs ...
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Better still post it on Color's page - (if they allow such long posts).
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Posted: 12 years ago
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I followed Balika Vadhu for it's last 5 years and it has always been the best show for me...i loved their artist and backstage team...their costumes their dialgues and their character sketch...but i have not seen anything worse than Saanchi...she is an unbearable character and please we request you to change the current track soon...we want very harsh punishment for Saanchi and please stop showing Anandi the sarpanch and girl who fought Dadisa's torture weak like this...this character was once upon a time an iconic character but now she is complete trash...you should use new cast members like Shekhars well because we fans of Balika Vadhu hate the current track...how can you show such open minded people like Shekhars in such bad light and also show them so dumb...to know how we feel about your current track and show please refer this link of website IndiaForum.com...please stop showing Anandi as such a weak character...for me in whole indian televesion industry no one is as weak as Anandi for now...she is so dumb...make her deal with situations more smartly...please do not take your viewers for granted and feel we will see every rubbish you show us...respect us and show things which made Balika Vadhu what it is

This is a message i sent to colors website at their email-id 😡
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Originally posted by: libsrocks

!skelpbun so me a favor and email or send a copy of this post to CV's so they can know how much great do we think of their shows👍🏼



I wish I had known contacts of those guys!

What are they doing?

I remember times when this show had started and what reviews were written for it in media, how it changed the game altogether. And contrast it with times now... 😭

It just hurts!

We have a lot of choice in 8 PM slot. From drama in form of Bhabhi and JA to a mytho like DKDM.

We don't need to necessarily keep sticking to BV. Yet we watch it for old times' sake.

But they are just letting down viewers.

Neither neutrals are happy. Nor fan groups are entirely happy.

And stuff like sense, class and dignity are going away from this show.

So pedestrian and stereotypical? They may not have shown plastic surgeries or return of dead people but they are giving tough competition to drama mandli at Balaji!

EDITED TO ADD: I am tired of this show now. And can't even discuss it anymore. I wonder how I managed to write this long post too. It's sickening to watch the show or discuss/rant over trashy dialogues and situations.
Edited by Skepblun - 12 years ago
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Wow!!! You have included all the doubts, questions and opinion of BV's viewers. I agree with each and every word you say. The class indeed has gone down just to keep up with other shows that for years and years.
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Agree with what you said. In the name of creating drama ,they are showing illogical and senseless tracks. They are butchering characters and made Anandi a cry baby?
What social message they want to give by showing Saanchi's track?
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Skep- you pretty much nailed everything there. Just email this to CVs . It's sad to see a good show go down the drain like this!
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Posted: 12 years ago
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bang on Skep...this is really the current state of the series...hope CVs read this and start a sensible track now...

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