spamdomain-Gul Khan talks about GEET
Wednesday, 08 June 2011 14:14 Muniza Celebrities - Television Celebrity
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As promised here is the second part of the interview with Gul Khan Producer 4Lion Films. She talks passionately about Geet-Hui Sabse Parayi like you and me.
Q. 1 Let's ask you the most commonly asked question that's debated on fan forums as to why Geet doesn't garner the kind of TRP despite its immensely loyal fan base?
The problem is that the fans who see the show don't watch it during the original time slot. That does not add to the trps. People who watch it are not time bound. Women do different things during the original time slot, they could be serving food or doing their household work and they might end up catching a repeat. So that could be one of the reasons I could think of.
Q. 2 Most fans wanted Dev to be punished for what he did to Geet. But she has forgiven him and let him go scot free. What do you as the maker have to say about this?
Agreed that the crime that Dev committed was premeditated, but at this point I would like to mention that, when we started off GEET was very a dark story. Her own family wanted her killed. Her husband had disowned her. She then left her family. Naintara was thrown out. But then when we took the negative element out, the show worked for us.
We decided to add magnanimity to Geet's character. She realised she had Maan by her side and he accepted her with someone else's baby. That gave her the strength of character. We also realised people started enjoying and watching the show because of the positivity. Too much of negativity, would have given rise to other repercussions in the story. After all Dev was Maans brother and that could have had other outcomes. If we would take out Dev, Dadi would be upset. Geet would always be the person who took the brother away from the family.
Q.3 Is it always necessary to tell a story with a social issue or a message as the backdrop?
When the show started, it was certainly on a social issue but that was because the channel wanted it that way. We only developed the plot accordingly. The channel was keen on doing a different kind of a story telling, which was if we can call it soapy. The story at that point was very much Geet centric and about the issues surrounding her. But the moment we realised, it wasn't working to our level of expectations, we switched it around.
I liked every answer, n happy that Geet is not ending... But I felt, their analysis about the story and understanding of audience went wrong. Me still want story to be Geet centric. Their story was successful bcoz it was Geet centric and we were getting more maneet scenes. Since they switched around, the result is in front of them. TRP has fallen drastically. Also last couple of weeks, noticed that our Geet character is not playing lead character. Geet's character has been sub-standardized. I dont understand being a lady, how they can butcher lead lady character... Any ways as long as Drasti in the serial, i will keep watching the show. I feel these days even Drasti is not enjoying her role. I dont see earlier shine in her eyes now a days.
What do you ppl think about this?? Let me know if my thinking is wrong.
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