Originally posted by: why3
Misti,
I too like the idea of Radhika earning money and becoming self-sufficient. I was thinking about it that they could show Radhika and Vivek working and sort of becoming like a middle class family and living independently. Now Vivek is educated, so should be able to find a job. But, Radhika is not shown to be too educated (maybe she has finished 12th grade), so how will she find a job? But, they could show they PF has contacts as they used to be influential and one of the contacts hire her in his/her office. If they are going to show such a big leap, they could show her taking courses in the evening and becoming more educated and getting promotion in the office.
They can show Rahika working in the Purohit trust premises....maybe some branch of he trust that is located in Agra and she is in charge of the temples or asssistant to someone in charge....she knows all about scriptures and religeon, for the other bits Vivek is there to guide her. They can also introduce this leap gradually in a way they show that they all go to Agra and Radhika sees Dev there..they decide to stay.....then the purohit trust there gets to know that the family is in Agra so they offer help......Radhika might do some classes but if it is office related to temple she won't need intensive classes.....
I do agree that they need to get away from the superstitions and need to show that Shantanu was never Vaishali's real son and her real son comes back, but is shown to be estranged from her and they should Vaishali making an effort to pacify him and get him reconciled to the family.
Yes thats what I too want to see.....I don't want to see any more superstitions propagated in this story.
My fear is that these creatives are just looking at TRPs and trying to raise them. So, they are going after one forumula or another. So, they didn't show the face of this new girl as they don't yet know the story themselves. I just hope that they keep the basic themes of the story intact - spiritual rather than ritual, eternal and unique love of Dev and Radhika where they are not interested in any one else even if others are interested in them, punishment for the sinners like Amma. But, I prefer to see Radhika working in an office and becoming confident enough to answer back rather than her listening to taunts of Amma all day. That phase should be finished. Also, Amma needs to be punished after Dev comes back and his memory returns.
Angie I think I wrote as reply to Chalhovs post in this thread that the creatives don't know how to take this story forward so they are sending out feelers via the different forms of media to get an idea as to what the audience would like to see...........they kept the girl beside Dev and kept on focussing on her sindoor because they wanted to see how the audience reacts to this idea that Dev might think that he is married to someone .............and I think they got the response that it is not a welcomed track and then this came out..............they are just checking peoples reaction....I also agree with your "spiritual rather than ritual, eternal and unique love of Dev and Radhika where they are not interested in any one else even if others are interested in them, punishment for the sinners like Amma" idea. As for Radhika this is a logical step in her developement.....first she was totally under amma...then with Devs love she got her confidence back...then with Devs support she started fighting back and now she is standing up for her faith and beliefs just by herself...........but this is all in thefamily. Her real test will come in the outside world........so she needs to go out there and stand on her own feet..............that will also be a nice slap on ammas face.