Problem with Indian shows, especially nowadays: they all start with the single premise of the ultimate boy-girl love story and everything develops from there.
Look at the opening sentence of the 'about the show' section: it goes something like- "For every girl, her wedding day is the most awaited day of her life."
And there is your problem staring in your face. I'm sure we all plan our weddings and stuff, but to make it sound like it's the only thing we care about throughout our life? I'm a girl, I've grown up with my group of girlfriends and so let us take a look at the list of things we have looked forward to over the years(and they were all fervent, passionate waiting):
last day of school before vacations
the end of class 10 board exams
the end of class 12 board exams
that first group outing without parents
first day of college
first night of college fest
release day of the next Harry Potter book/movie
first job letter
admission results in institutes of higher studies
for those who went abroad to study- the VISA/funding letter/approval letter
I'm not saying any of these things were the most important things in our lives, but they were important enough, nor did we spend our lives thinking about our wedding day. Point I'm trying to make for any CVs who might chance upon this is that incredible as it seems, we girls do have other passions, other loves, other goals in our lives than being the docile wife and bahu. And your shows have no space for them, except may be as a vamp in a short dress who romances the cheating hero while the wife is busy being a doormat.
Name any shows from any channel (may be V would be an exception)
Unless it's a Ramayan or Mahabharat or for e.g. Jhansi ki Rani, the primary focus is always the love-story. I mean, love is great and wonderful and magical and all that, but don't people have anything else in their lives? People have careers, they have dreams, ambitions, yes, dear CVs, even the girls: say something about that! Ally McBeal ran 4 seasons without any memorable male lead opp the lead woman till the appearance of Robert Downey Jr and when he had quit the show, the writers simply ended that story and Ally went on with her life and her legal career.
I mean, look at the biggest international news in tv shows right now: Sherlock, Game of Thrones- they work, they are popular, and they are NOT love-stories, So why can't our Indian makers think out of the box?
But no, Urmi and Samrat MUST have a love-story even if Samrat deserves to rot in jail for the rest of his sorry life. What bollocks!
Edited by nobodyatnotime - 11 years ago
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