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Posted: 15 years ago
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Dear Creatives and Zee TV,
We, the IF/CB members, thank you for ending Amma and Vishakha's revolting story track in an expedited manner. We are not happy about the way you ended the track so abruptly, but we do appreciate the fact that you recognized our dissatisfaction and anger.
It is not that we have a personal gripe against these 2 characters in your serial. We just did not like the tone of the storyline in a show where Kaanha is a prominent figure, guiding the lives of the protagonists in your story.
We hope that in the last few weeks you have learned an important lesson.
When the community that you choose to entertain decides to bring their individual resolve together into a group setting, they have the power to make your life pretty miserable, isn't it?
We wrote about our displeasure in a civilized manner in the forum daily and you chose to ignore us.
We wrote a collective letter to you to be cautious about the direction you were going in with Vishakha's interruption of Radhika and Dev's life and you chose to ignore us.
We inundated your webmails and offices with daily complaints and it did not seem to have any effect.
Finally, when we stopped watching and writing about your trashy storyline, it seemed to have sunk in that we meant business!
We are glad that you have taken your viewers and avid fans of Choti Bahu seriously. We do not hold a personal grudge against you, your show or the cast members, though we would prefer that in the future you take a look at the premise of the serial before embarking on a track that hurts the sensibilities of the ardent fans.
We are a very liberal group of fans in this forum and will not dictate how you proceed up to a point. I hope there is no next time, but if there is, you know we will be watching and reacting; hence it behooves you to take us very seriously.
Thank you.

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Posted: 15 years ago
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Grades I have my own doubts whether they have learnt their lessons and that they will not get their itch in future. If I were watching a serial pati patni aur woh I may be mentally tuned to see ONS but not in CB with the story line they were giving till now😆 But for the present they have stopped the Vish track but she was still saying I love to Dev as she was being kicked out.😡
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Posted: 15 years ago
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Gardes,
What you wrote is right, but I am not sure they care about us at all. A storyline change or a new storyline .. nothing seems like was because of us, but I am very sure they read us on the forum. Hopefully sometime it does effect them.
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Posted: 15 years ago
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Gardes loss in financial gains made them rethink their plot. That is the only way to get them. As for Vishaka and amma, both will be back.......the viewers have been given a temporary respite and I am sure that the creatives will be upto their tricks again.
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Posted: 15 years ago
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Originally posted by: chalhov

Grades I have my own doubts whether they have learnt their lessons and that they will not get their itch in future. If I were watching a serial pati patni aur woh I may be mentally tuned to see ONS but not in CB with the story line they were giving till now😆 But for the present they have stopped the Vish track but she was still saying I love to Dev as she was being kicked out.😡

Chalhov, thanks for your comments. I am sure that they will be back pulling old tricks out of their worn out hats again, but I think they will have to think twice about putting out the filthy story line that they did with Vishakha.
I agree with your line about the diff. between watching Pati Patni aur Woh and CB. That is where you have to draw the line. I have no problems with PR and AJMBHK showing ONS or 2 wives or 13 wives, but not in CB! I don't mind Amma or Vishakha in other settings. They are part of the serial and have roles to play.
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Posted: 15 years ago
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Originally posted by: bee5

Gardes,
What you wrote is right, but I am not sure they care about us at all. A storyline change or a new storyline .. nothing seems like was because of us, but I am very sure they read us on the forum. Hopefully sometime it does effect them.

Thank you Bee. I agree with you that the Creatives don't care about us, but they do care about bad publicity if people start writing to the media about this crap, the big time money that stops coming in, if the TRPs go down.
I am very convinced that the Creatives read our threads and posts in the forum. Next time they will pause before they will promote the garbage that they were spewing with Vishakha's ONS and other crap and dragging it on and on and on and on...... There was no story.
They showed us the obscene gesture by cutting the revelation story short and they will add silliness again. I don't have problems with their silliness or with Amma or Vishakha in the serial.
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Posted: 15 years ago
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Gardes ... have been meaning to reply to this post for some time ... but got carried away by today's episode 😉😍

Back to the lessons learned ... love your thoughts ... While I personally am fine with tracks they introduce, I can understand why the ONS track does not work in a show like CB where the primary audience is probably watching bos of the devotional aspect and kanha guiding the actions of the protagonists. Btw, I do not watch for that.

I watched CB from day 1 and loved the character of Rads and wanted to root for her ... stopped watching after the first wedding for a few months bcos I was unsure where they were going with the story. I did not want to see her endlessly tortured. I have sporadically watched soaps for the past 15 years and thought they would show either Vish or Rads or both getting pregnant and really did not want to deal with all that

When I saw that it was different and that the character of Dev was strong and could counter balance any obligations that Rads felt and that together they were perfect, I got hooked on to the show. For the first time, I was truly addicted. So, for me, no matter what they showed Rads doing, as long as Dev stayed true it was fine. I felt that Rads had someone in her corner who would not let her down, no matter what happened. The ONS track showed a degradation in Dev's character that I was very uncomfortable with and it was the first time I wrote to the producers of any show

As far as lessons they may learn, I believe that they look at this as a business. So everything is based on TRPs and advertising revenue. IMO, when they make choices on what to show or not to show they

- believe this will bring them great ratings.

- are truly clueless abt it and are adopting a cookie cutter approach ... something worked in some other show ... so they believe it will work in this one

- are trying to attract a new audience ... but do not have enough research to know whether they risk losing their core audience

- since this is a 7.30 pm slot and in that time slot generates great TRPs, they don't care ... and will invest their efforts and time in other prime time shows that need their help

- Really believe strongly in Vish and Amma and feel that they are the reason people come back to watch the show

I do believe that they cut short the ONS track bcos of our feedback and emails to them ... not on the forum but directly to them

Frankly, I don't have any data with me to show what kind of tracks work and what forms the base of their core audience. I do believe though, that if they used a lot more judgement, sensitivity and intelligence, they could come up with shows that could combine some of the elements of drama that brings viewers in while maintaining the unique character of the show. They could show the protagonists strong while showing all of the nasty things happening to them. They can use CB to showcase so many problems facing society child abuse, for starters. The question is whether they want to invest the time and money that it requires to do that. Another question is while it may bother us does the rest of their core audience care?

Apologize for the long reply

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