Originally posted by: .Vrish.
My monitor is finally back, and I can participate again. I'll comment on the ME in a bit, but you just touched on an aspect of this show that I honestly find grating.
The grating aspect is the serial (I'm not talking about fans here, I'm talking about the serial) making Raghav & Sia the equivalent of Rama & Sita. How on earth? If you pull any man on the street whose name is Rama or one of his variations - Raghav, Raghunath, Raghunandan, Sriram, Ramachandra et al and any woman whose name is Sita or one of her variations - Janaki, Vaidehi, Sia, et al, and put them together, that becomes a Rama-Sita jodi? Regardless of circumstances? Just b'cos their names are such? What a crock! Yet, when Raghav is in action, you have them playing 'Raghuvati Raghava Raja Ram' in rap-like tones, thereby trying to imply that Raghav is Rama, and Jhanvi is Sita. (Oh, and btw, Rama's full name was NOT Raghavendra) This is just inane!
In this serial, unlike Viraj fans, I do want Jhanvi to break away from Viraj. What she does after that is up to her, and since the writing seems to be on the wall that she'll probably ultimately marry Raghav, I'm fine w/ that. However, there are too many things along the way that I just find beyond annoying.
First of all, kill the stupid Rama-Sita analogy. Rama didn't rescue somebody else's wife who was being abused by her husband - he rescued his own wife from somebody who had no business having her. If Sita is Jhanvi, that would make Rama who - Viraj, and one can immediately see what an odious comparison that is. How would Rama then become Raghav just b'cos the name is the same? Again, I'm fine w/ - and actually want Jhanvi to divorce Viraj & marry Raghav, but CVs, please put this odious comparison to sleep.
The next thing - when Jhanvi decided to take on a new identity, why did she take her sister's name? If she is such a devotee of Rama-Sita, she could have adapted any of Sita's other's names, like Janaki. Yeah, it sounds very similar, but the story could easily have been re-written even preserving the stupid Rama-Sita analogy above.
As a result, the family re-union @ the temple was really sweet, but the real Sia missing was a real spoiler. What happened to her? Did the parents marry her off to Sanjay, or Rajesh? In fact, didn't Jhanvi have one more sibling? I'd have preferred for Sia to be back, and still unmarried. The re-union was otherwise very sweet, and actually the best thing about that ME - it was a watershed episode in that Jhanvi's family now not only knows that she's alive, but also the whole dirt on Viraj, and they even opened the door to her divorcing him, which is the least that needs to happen. After that, they are safely tucked away in Simla - Unniyal was unable to track them.
More comments in responses to subsequent posts, but this Rama-Sita thing has been bothering me for a while, and I just had to spit it out!
