@Zee: Me too! I thought she wasn't wearing pants. 😆
As for Ekta shows, here's the thing. She knows what people will watch. She created the rule and for many years stuck to that as her forte. Like you said, Zee, she is all about business. She doesn't care if people are taking her shows seriously or not, whether she is making an impact or not, or what her message is on a bigger front. She makes shows that become habits for people.
Oh the other hand, a show like Geet is meant to be taken seriously. It had a message and it started out as something we loved with a new freshness everyday, something that made our whole day revolve around it. It challenged us, soothed us, and played havoc with our emotions. It wasn't just entertainment that you watched and forgot. It was inspiration!
But the sad thing is that such excellence of the final product demands excellence from every member of the team, not an easy task, while Ekta's shows bank on low expectations from the audience and deliver the minimum required per episode to keep the audience hooked.
@Faria: Of course you can have magic with logic! In fact when their is logic it only bolsters the magic and makes it all the more believable. That is what worked with Geet, I think. I know it had its glaring logical flaws from the beginning but there was enough logic to make it convincing. Geet in its essence is a fairytale but it was the degree of detail that the CVs infused in the original story that made it believable and relatable, that made each viewer feel, hey, that could happen to me!
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