What do you wish to see in an ITV - Page 2

No Forced Marriages

No Love Hate Relationships With The Male And Female Lead

No Saas Bahu Dramas Iam Sick Of Those

And No Long Running Tv Shows Like Kum Kum Bhagya

Need More Horror Comedy Stories

No Naagin Serials Too.

I am sure other must have said similar facts. But some of mine are as follows.

1) No needless seperation for years. Like in the span of the tv. The leads would be together for only half of their married years. The rest it would be seperation be it in jail or abroad or Amensia or married to someone else. The list goes on and on.

2) I would like the show to close with the leads it started with, I don't want next generation storyline if the leads would be killed off to make it happen.

Imagine Indian TV dealing with serious matters seriously. For example ...

1. A woman being forced into marriage or a similar risk-of-violation situation decides not to kill/harm herself to prevent the incident. The man who loves her totally agrees that she has the right to "outlive her shame."

2. A character contemplates suicide, but quietly over time, not suddenly for attention like indoor immolation or jumping into a well. The motive for attempting suicide isn't unrequited love, forcible marriage, or lost honour; it's more realistic, like long-term depression, insurmountable debt, or pressure to succeed in school. Other characters respond by finding a psychiatrist and monitoring the person's progress with counselling and medication, not hushing up the matter and moving on to the next plot point.

3. Instead of firing a bullet into the air just to express emotion, gun-wielding characters demonstrate their knowledge of gun safety. They talk about being trained to use the weapon ... they always carry it in a holster (not in a back pocket or on a car's passenger seat) ... we see them taking out the bullets and storing them separately from the gun. If the gun is fired without a silencer, the whole neighbourhood notices (instead of just carrying on with the āratī or whatever), and the police investigate.

In addition to these other great points

- More limited episode pre-written shows and less of this TRP-driven plotting and gajillion episode shows that should've have been humanely ended years ago (is that even possible on ITV?)

- Better continuity of plot, character development, location settings etc. and less nonsensical retconning as a way of fixing crappy storylines.

- Less of the camera panning to/dwelling individually on the faces of every single cast member to get their reaction shots in a single scene

- Please, no triple repeat shots of high drama moments! So cringe...😕

- Wives who don't act weirdly shy with spouses whom they supposedly love and married out of their own free will

- Male and female leads who have actual jobs and go to work

- Female leads who are not expected to enter the marital household and solve every danged problem that has plagued her in-laws family for decades. Maybe the male lead can solve some problems in her family for a change... Or, you know, everyone just muddles along as they've done.

- No poorly CGI'ed hazards and threats - the worst are the snakes that show up in all sorts of unlikely places to threaten the leads at the drop of a hat

- More natural makeup and styling, less reliance on very heavy black eyeliner/kohl to telegraph a female character's turn to the dark side.

Originally posted by: umawanderer

What are the things which you want to see in ITV

• A female lead who is not sarvagun sampanna bahu
• A male lead who is actually not another 'angry young man'
• Dating before marriage between couples
• A love story which starts normally 'strangers-> acquaintance ->friends->lovers->marriage' and not the 'enimies-turned-lovers' or 'love-at-first-sight'
• A FL who is not going to solve every single family members problem.
• FL wearing casual t shirt and jeans after marriage
• A normal relation between M-I-L and D-I-L
• Have relatable problems like work-life balance, financial stability, mid-life crisis, home loan, EMI, school admissions, etc.
• ML to not be super rich and not have a dysfunctional joint family.
• A FL who is not a good cook (Yes, point 1 covers this but still.. all the FL no matter how much of a modern woman they are, they can cook like Master chefs)
• While we are still talking about kitchen, all woman to tie hair in the kitchen while cooking.
• If you don't want all the dadajis and sasurjis to talk between the "fight", then don't make them mute spectators. Take them out of the picture completely. Give them reason to be out. Send them to office.
• The FL and ML consummate their relationship in a 'normal' room(preferably their bedroom) under 'normal' circumstances. Not every single married couple get stuck in heavy rain with a car which conveniently would not run only for them to take refuge in some random 'chopda(hut)' and get in the 'mood'.
• A holi celebration without "bang ki goli"

I am sure there are many more.. Let's discuss

Some great points are here already. I'd like to add a few more.

1. Shows not centered around romance. There's a dearth of these.

2. Indian culture is rich with lots of regional literature and we are still having all types of fantasy shows turned into saas bahu or romance sagas. Can we have better fantasy shows?

3. Same as pt 2 for historicals and historical fiction. Where are all the court politics, action adventures and mysteries? Why does every historical need to be about some couple?

4. As someone said before we need novel adaptations. Precisely adaptations that would respect the source material. There's hardly any iirc. I've only seen Prithvi Vallabh and even in that the director arrogantly said that his show has got nothing to do with the novel.

I want a long running cop show but not like cid which was a parody of itself. If anyone watched law and order or criminal minds, something like that. We have fascinating stories to tell onscreen, with a solid cast and maybe some romance here and there.

Another thing I want is a political show. It can be long running and we have so much stories in this genre. Even copy pasting real life characters on screen will have solid script.

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A LGBTQ story. Without stereotypes for comedy. Kinda normslise it

Originally posted by: RisingPhoenix

Some great points are here already. I'd like to add a few more.

1. Shows not centered around romance. There's a dearth of these.

2. Indian culture is rich with lots of regional literature and we are still having all types of fantasy shows turned into saas bahu or romance sagas. Can we have better fantasy shows?

3. Same as pt 2 for historicals and historical fiction. Where are all the court politics, action adventures and mysteries? Why does every historical need to be about some couple?

4. As someone said before we need novel adaptations. Precisely adaptations that would respect the source material. There's hardly any iirc. I've only seen Prithvi Vallabh and even in that the director arrogantly said that his show has got nothing to do with the novel.

Adding to this that Epic Channel had really amazing finite shows across genres like Stories by Rabindranath Tagore, Daanav Hunters, Daribaa Diaries, Time Machine, Siyaasat etc. But the channel didn't have enough exposure and doesn't produce anymore ig.

There aren't children's shows in Hindi channels nowadays. The producers can pick up Ruskin Bond's novellas, Sudha Murthy's books and make interesting children's shows.

What do you want to watch in Indian television? I would love to read your opinions. 😊