Originally posted by: DrShuenmial
Good Evening this is Shoomie you are watching SSN. We are pleased to inform you that SSN has obtainedexclusive footage of RR production team's brain stroming session.
Producer: ok now that I've blown the 10 crores and the TRPs are still playing limbo we need a game changer.
Director: I cant believe this how can they not like the "desh premi"? dont worry there are many more where that came from.
Producer: what do you mean?
Director : first up "deewar" then "muqaddar ka sikander"
Producer : I get the deewar angle but MKS?
Director : you know bachpan ka gudiya, saccha pyar wala dancer
Producer : ok ok but I've feeling the audience arent buying the AYM as much
Director : So Mr. Dekhna hai tho the intense love story specialist any ideas?
Writer: of course intense is my sense aint nobody out there who can resist a couple rab.. Oops Rasiya ve's
Director : but ours is a never before on TV, one of a kind love story
Writer: ofcourse it is see we are going to throw Rasiya ve's, eye locks at random places, random times when in actuality the hero heroine hate each other thats where the never before comes in
Producer : we need to "rassi" in 40 - 55 demographics thats a big chunk of TRP's
Writer: ok lets throw in a evil aunt with zingers, meek uncle, couple with fertility issues and a dumb body builder brother whose sole purpose is to make cousin Rudy look like a god send. And throw in vague mythological references every episode!
Casting Director : done, done, done and done.
Financier : we need more just heard couple more advertisers backed out.
Producer : apparently "comedy" is a must for a good show
Financier : uh uh no more rassing actors we are out of money if you want comedy you have to work it with existing cast.
Writer : But my intense hate/bruise wala love story HAS to work
Director : ok obviously the hate angle (killing the groom on wedding day) is not enough we have to take it up a notch
Writer : Ok I got it. Lets cut the girl loose then send Rudy and Aman on a Thomson n Thompsonish detective mission that will provide the comedy. Give the girl a couple of grey cells so she figures out the plan and gives them a slip. And just to shut all those whining IF ladeej Paro's dress has to play an important role in her figuring out the plan.
DOP : ooh ooh since we left Reth I dont get to show my talent so let me work my magic. I'll pull off a "mirror on the dress trick"
Producer : what's that?
DOP : writer wants the dress to be an integral part of the pardafoshing of Rudy's plan so out of the 335,000 mirrors on her dress lets pick one and I'll work my magic so Paro gets a clear profile shots of Rudy and Aman in that mirror!
Director : ooh ooh he gets his mirror scene can I have a temple scene like Amitji's Deewar wala!
Writer : I can do the temple scene but instead of Rudy lets do a Paro temple scene ( that'll calm those disgruntled fans complaining of lack of dialogues for her)
Producer : all this sounds good but how do we get them back together and what about taking the hate angle to the next level?
Writer : Ok once the girl figures out Thomson and Thompson plan her trust on Rudy hits the negative numbers and the hatred goes all the way up to Everest and she decides to go BACK to HIS house to GET BACK at him.
Producer and Director in unison: now thats definitely "never before on TV" lets do it.
Attender in the PH office : mumbling to himself one day I'm going to lock all these people in and make them watch all these episodes then they will know!
Thats all folks. Good Night! Shoomie signing off!
This one is one classic SSN Shoomie-sa. I don't know which one to highlight because every sentence is a gem but the bold part takes the cake, because yesterday's episode was a classic 'what the hell has just happened' episode. I don't know which 200 episodes story has been already penned down as the writer saab and the director were announcing in the initial interviews, but I sure am doubting their skills after seeing the episode. And yes the money has been spent on the promotions but it sure didn't take them anywhere. I do hope they will concentrate on their story and not on hype and promotions.
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