I'm coming in after a long time in the hope that "neutral" viewers too can claim their place on this forum. I say hope because it does seem as if only the two fan groups can write here.
I had stopped watching BV completely, and the fact that I and a few others felt squeezed out of the forum imparted a certain finality to the separation..
And yet something unexpected happened. I found my elder brother, who hates TV soaps, watching BV with great interest. I was puzzled because the last he saw it was when Anandi was little. He loved Dadisa's acting. After the first leap, he found the soap turning into the usual tearjerker and stopped watching.
I asked him why he was watching BV and he said he was channel surfing when he caught sight of little Nimboli. He was transfixed by her innocence, charm and guts. And he found the Akhiraj honour killing track realistic, well shot and well acted.
Till then I had not cared for the post-leap story but his observations made me curious and I started watching BV with him. He was right. Nimboli is an absolute stunner. She lights up the screen and makes every scene come alive. Her innocence pulls at your heart strings and her courage makes you want to protect her. For some reason people on the forum don't seem to connect with her. They said she was made up and overdressed. I didn't think so. She wears colourful but inexpensive clothing and a beads mala.
Anyway, her family, horrible as it is, is watchable because of the high dose of realism its members bring to the story, not to mention the exceptional acting by Akhiraj, Kundan, Mangala and Kamlli.
People on the forum may be still fixated on the Anandi story and the Jagar story and insist that BV is being watched only for these stories.
I'm not sure this is how viewers see BV. My brother switches channels as soon as he sees BH;
And last week I had gone visiting friends of our family and they too said they found Nimboli lovable and had resumed watching BV for her.
Honestly, I never thought I would reconnect with BV, and certainly not in order to watch a family which was and is horrendous.
Edited by rohini55 - 10 years ago