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leavesandwaves

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Posted: 10 years ago

Documentary with a difference.

I was reading another post and the topic was different and discussion was something else. So I decided to make a more generalised topic.

BV is a documentary with a difference. An art movie with masala elements to grab eyeballs.

It is about social issues and the main protagonist is anandi.

She is too human with some faults but carries on inspite of hurdles. One may not like her or her ways but one cant take her away from the scene forever. She will remain connected through her daughter and through her own little efforts.

She, Jagya and dadisa will remain and be the main cast because of their journey from the beginning.

Akheraj and Mangala have author backed roles. Wish to see Anant joining them.

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aparnauma

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Posted: 10 years ago

Yes BV is more like a cross between documentary and drama which runs around a fictional characters.

This is what the writer said after the first leap where the children became adults.

So does that mean that Anandi's life be a happy story from now on?

Well Shekhar says happiness and sadness are two sides of the same coin. "The serial is more of a biographical nature, hence when one narrates life. Sadness is as much a part of life as happiness. So the story from now is still going to be Anandi's perspective on life, but it's just that Anandi will see it from an adult's point of view," he says.

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The channel also says that it is Anandi's story the protagonist who fights against social evils and lost her daughter to child marriage and the search for her daughter is still on

So it is clear what they want.to show regardless of what people want to see.

They never claimed that Anandi is a super woman who can solve all problems. Most of the times they have shown her facing difficulties while doing the things that she believes are right. They show her struggling sometimes misjudging a situation but the only thing they have ever shown is that she had best of intentions all the time.

In fact the way she struggles to do the right thing against all odds and at times facing failures make her character more believable despite her being so positive and larger than life.

She doesn't let hurdles stop her or her problems come in the way helping others.

While other characters have it in them to help others while the going is good for them she does it regardless of what state her life is in. Her entire family turned against her when she lost Nandini but in all that she still had it in her to help Sarita.It is a very difficult thing to do. Thinking of helping someone who was responsible for her miseries.That's where her strength lies.

She didn't let the family's antagonism towards her and Sarita touch Sarita.

Even in her weakest moments her character doesn't change she doesn't let circumstances make her change her beliefs.

She may come across impractical foolish but her strength lies in her belief of standing up for what is right

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Don't really care much about Anant but would rather see what they promised to show when they unveiled Ver 2.0 The story of a mother and her two children and the new Balika Vadhu Nanidni and her sasural

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Missesha

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Posted: 10 years ago

If BV was a documentary on Anandi's life it would have probably been more interesting.

In documentaries, real life problems and solutions are encountered. But Anandi is a character sketched by Creatives with too many loop holes. This is one character who either grows on a snail pace or doesn't grow at all.

She is neither interesting nor inspiring. She doesn't have aims, and doesn't have goals. She is non entertaining and monotonous. Too timid and too bland character, especially post leap.

Often wonder what is her contribution in the show post leap?

Yes she is genuine, kind hearted and generous but enough of those... its no longer entertaining.

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dolly

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Posted: 10 years ago

Originally posted by: Missesha
If BV was a documentary on Anandi's life it would have probably been more interesting.

In documentaries, real life problems and solutions are encountered. But Anandi is a character sketched by Creatives with too many loop holes. This is one character who either grows on a snail pace or doesn't grow at all.

She is neither interesting nor inspiring. She doesn't have aims, and doesn't have goals. She is non entertaining and monotonous. Too timid and too bland character, especially post leap.

Often wonder what is her contribution in the show post leap?

Yes she is genuine, kind hearted and generous but enough of those... its no longer entertaining.

agree wid u except last line . i don't find her even genuine or generous .but kindhearted 2 sum extent but not much.

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leavesandwaves

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Posted: 10 years ago

Documentary in the sense that it tackles certain social issues. The message got lost due to melodrama most of the time but the message was heard.

As for inspiration, the contribution by many characters like anandi, ganga, dadisa, mangala cant be ignored though they may not be 100 percent.

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leavesandwaves

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Posted: 10 years ago

One more thing. This serial boasts of strong male characters. Males are not sidelined.

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leavesandwaves

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Be it about career or higher education. Anandi used to get distracted due to family issues and she lost focus for a while. Especially after her marriage with Shiv. She also let go of the opportunity to get education when she was with her parents.She gave more importance to Gauri's taunts tnan Bhairon's sane encouragement. As a protagonist, anandi should have been portrayed as much more focussed.

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aparnauma

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Originally posted by: leavesandwaves
The interesting thing was ganga is much more focussed than anandi. Be it about career or higher education. Anandi used to get distracted due to family issues and she lost focus for a while. Especially after her marriage with Shiv. She also let go of the opportunity to get education when she was with her parents.She gave more importance to Gauri's taunts tnan Bhairon's sane encouragement.

Anandi is way of looking at things is different from the way Dsa Gauri Ganga look at things. They all have their own priorities.They are all strong but very different in what they want from life.

Anandi even when she was a child she put the wishes of her family and their happiness above her own dreams and wishes and she remained the same. Everything in her life all her achievements and failures should be looked at from that point.

She gave up studies and did not touch books because Dsa extracted a promise from her.Dsa was angry that Anandi was scoring better than her ladesar and so she screamed at Anandi for that so many times.She told Anandi that her place is lower than that of her husbands and to remain lower she made her give up education took a promise from her that she will not even touch books and made her burn her books. I don't understand how people did not remember that scene. This happened before her 13th birth day.

Later on she decided to resume education because she wanted to save her marriage.The same education which she was forced to forego has become an issue in her marriage with J being ashamed of his wife. But later on she was mocked and humilitated by Dadi and pota for trying to get educated. That's when she told the family how the great ladesar was ashamed of his name rural background and illiterate wife with a name like Anandi. She then told them that she will resume her education this time only to please herself.

Later after Jagya Gauri marriage happened Bhairon Singh wanted her to do medicine but she put her foot down and told him that she will take up the subjects which she wanted to do.She will chose her own ways and doesn't care to follow Jagya and Gauri's ways.

So today the education and the qualifications she has are her choice. Social work is her passion and she is pursuing that.

In her first marriage she was forced to give up all the things she liked to do because of Dsa and her pota. In her second marriage her priority was her husband. It was her choice.She gave her passion for social work a second place because that was the way she wanted things.

Empowerment in Anandi's case is all about making her own choices be it give priority to family or education.without anyone else forcing their beliefs and choices on her.

She gave up her dreams out of her trust and respect for elders - believing that they know best. But when thye did not know what is good for her and their decisions back fired she took control of her life and she made her own descions.

Shiv was ready to let her fly as high as she wanted but it was she who tied herself to him out of her love.

Anandi had her parents and then Singhs looking out for her and only when thir decisions backfired she made her decisions.

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Post Nandini's kidnap she surrendered her independence at the feet of Daddu and Dsa holding herself responsible for her daughter's kindnap and accepting that she failed as a mother and was willing to do what they wanted her to do in the interests of her children. That was the reason why she shifted to BH and despite feeling uncomfortable and knowing that it may cause problems for Ganga she stayed until Dsa was willing to let her go.

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Ganga is focussed because she had to look out for herself from a very early age.

Gauri when she had the entire world at her feet and she benefitted from her brush with BH and got good education and a life that Anandi could not even dream of all she wanted was the life that Anandi was leading😛

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Missesha

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Posted: 10 years ago

If Anandi's every failure or success is measured based on how she put her family's priority over hers then how can she be a face of change and what is her uniqueness in that?

And btw it's not true that she always looked out for family's wishes. Anandi has a mind of her own and she did whatever suited her. And in doing do she goofed up a lot, primarily because she never had set priorities in life.

At BH, she was controlled by Ds so she changed herself to suit as BH ki beendni. But after J dumped her, no one really contolled A. She could have done so much with her life. Sky was the limit - but she enjoyed playing kahani ghar ghar ki. Swopped between ex and current and lost a lot.

Ganga on the other hand was pretty focused. From looking out for shelter to getting educated - then divorce and Mannu's custody - then completed studies and found a job - got married - looked after family's wishes and gave a waaris. Didn't run back to ex. Kept control over her family life, kids, hubby and other members while regularly going to hospital. Balanced quite a lot and made best use of the support she got from her inlaws.

I never liked the way Ganga married J (I totally detested that) but yes I still think Ganga was far more balanced and focused when it came to her priorities. Her life was quite logical and focused.

Anandi got lost eventually.

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aparnauma

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Posted: 10 years ago

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May be people never heard of the word selfless and sacrifice 😛

She put her relationships families desires above her own dreams and desires.She loved respected and trusted her elders. She respected their wisdom and respected their decision. Only when they were proven wrong did she go ahead and do what she wanted.

How does obeying elders of the family out of love and respect degrade one's character?

But when it came to her own beliefs of what is right and wrong and her responsibilities towards society as a human being or standing up for under dogs or standing up for justice she went against her family be it Singhs or Shekhars. If she didn't consider helping Sarita as her responsibility towards feloow human being and her family is more important her daughter would have been with her and Sarita's daughter would have been married to Kundan,😛

These two traits of Anandi were quite evident from the time the show started.

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Set priorities? What exactly are set priorities?

Just because one doesn't opt to become a doctor engineer collector but decide to go with the flow that becomes direction less? Does that mean they lead a life without goals?

I have seen the work of a lady who set off with no goals but only one desire. Trying to rise up to the needs of people around her she never had set goals or targets.

What started off as her endeavour and an act of compassion today with just her as the employee today the institution which was started by her employs more than 5000 people.

The work that she started was not even her dream nor something she aspired to do with her life.

She set aside her dreams of having a husband children home looking after them aside to do what she ended up doing in the end.She just went with the flow with no goals but just one objective to help the people around her.

I would have loved to meet the lady and get to know her but she died much before I was born.

For me this lady who never had any goals but just single aim of helping people around her is bigger achiever than all those who just have some aims and objectives about how their own life should be like. Don't care for those people nor do I respect their achievemnts.

Anybody with a decent brain can become what ever they want in life. That is no great achievement.Who cares if they achieved something for themselves?

People who put their desires and dreams for what they consider as something much more imporatnt than their own lives are the ones who make difference and they will be remembered for ever.

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