I would like to believe there is this feminist spirit in me ... though not a fanatic one! i hate men who think women come only after them, just cos they are born men...
For over three years Star one has been showing these programmes where, one starts off with the promise to deliver somethng, and then end up becoming candy floss romance stories..! i have no problem with that, being a hardcore romantic myself...! however, there is a limit...
When they did it with DMG, a show i really really loved... i made peace with the fact that ... there were so many things happening off screen... i could hardly blame the makers...
MJHT i never watched...
and i had given up on Indian Soaps... and one day... Geet happened to come along... it looked different from the rest...
the nok jhok between the leads...was something i had seen before, but there was still some freshness about them..
Though i had breezed through promos of Geet being that girl who dared to do something, that every one wanted to name their kids Geet.. and that.. she was an ordinary girl who dared to dream different... i only thought, StarOne was jumping into the regular soap bandwagon...!!
however... with time.. i realised it had the potential to become the story of a young girl who believed in herself.. a girl who wanted to live by her own principles.. dare to fall in love... bear her child.. and still retain that rearing to go spirit..
i agree most shows start on a good note and then the TRPS control their story.. Geet at the moment is number 1... kudos to that...
but today.. i feel.. Geet is more of maan's story than geets... why do i say that? most people around me... obviously cos most belong to the female sex relate more to Maan ... more than geet.. they want Geet to admit to her feelings...
they want geet to confess the truth to Maan...
In today episode Maan was way too aggressive with Geet and while watching it, i was like they are now taking this to another level... but the way she behaved by the end of it.. i was forced to say.. she has actually pushed him to the hilt.. he has no other way...
one moment she becomes this vulnerable lass.. the very next she become this unyielding person.. and the very next.. she is fighting her feelings...!! but i say.. whats the deal with her..
the show is not just about geet and maan..!!
i would have respected her a little more today.. had she just said... "yes.. i love you and thats precisely why i dont wanna be your fiance...!
they could have pushed the pregnancy and marriage thing to a later date.. she could have just said... i have other issues... but no!
i always wondered how these stories became male centric .. from female.. in the name of appeasing fans ...they make all these men on TV so visually appealing, as well as punchbags of sorts that.. any woman would want a guy like that...!!
i am sorry to say, i am a little disillusioned... whose story is it? Maan's or geets? i dont want this story to meet the fate others did... this time i cant take it...neither can i take this heavy feeling in my heart every time i watch an episode...!!
love,
niha
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