Dear Star Plus, I sincerely thank you - Page 2

Originally posted by: sauris

.This show is like our baby,we have been lovingly watching it grow up as one of the best shows in Indian television.Today I feel like a proud parent watching how this show has shaped up.This forum has become like a family where this show gulal has become everyone's favourite show & all are proud to be assosiated with it👍🏼

Originally posted by: nureat01

You know it's amazing...I'd also like to think that there can be other shows which boast of this kind of quality, this kind of HOLD over their storyline consistently long term but indeed who knows...

This very production house...which has otherwise churned out stuff like Balika Vadhu and Saat Phere...none of it's other shows have maintained storyline consistency of this sort...they've all meandered off into ridiculous tangents even though they've all had a powerful cast of actors in them too.

Gulaal just seems to have been a miracle in the midst of the madness I guess...somehow the writers of this show have been ALLOWED to stay true to the story throughout...I'm thankful for that...most shows cave in within a few months of starting to channel pressures but this show held it's head high...despite such an unconventional plot that most ppl probably can't deal with.

Originally posted by: VJ-LNMDJ

Since both star plus and this production house on their own have churned out shows of not such high standard as Gulaal . may be we should look for someone else behind this - may be the writers or someone else refused to compromise and stuck to the storyline and qualirty of the show at the cost of it going off air if it had to ... whoever it is , deserves full credit...

VJ

Originally posted by: likarsh

Thanks for the clip. The cake cutting and feeding alone was worth it. 😛 And then Sushant Singh.

As for whether they know, I think they knew. Like you said, how could they have not with how quickly she found water, and how quickly Gulaal and Vasant got together. And notice they never really said that that this is a story of Gulaal and Vasant ... Exactly...that alone makes me feel that they always knew what the long term plan was...it was Kesar-Gulaal...they pitched it as the story of Gulaal which it is to a large extent as we see her journey and her influence on each character...but the fact that GV were brought together so quickly, married quickly and then Vasant died soon enough after that...there was always a long term plan...the water finding thing became redundant within a month and a half of the show starting😆

What's interesting in this show is the 'zindagi ke rang' focus they pitched the show as...the colors of life, in particular those faced by Gulaal.

I've always wondered if they had some idea from the the beginning that Neil Bhatt would be the grown up Kesar. I mean, I don't see this group of people embarking on it without first also making sure that they had the right actor for post leap Kesar.

If I were in their position, I would have had a few candidates already in mind, auditioned, etc. And when the time came, pick the best out of those still available out of the list. Yes, this would seem the most logical thing to do. But serials don't generally work like that. I'm not sure if they always had NB in mind for the role of Kesar...I wonder if they planned that far...they had Ali for a good 5 months in the show even though Kesar wasn't the central character for that portion...yes he had a major impact on the storyline and the GK hints were there all along...but it was only post leap with grown up Kesar that the story centered more fully around his angst...And wasn't NB still doing that Karol Bagh show at that point? He wouldn't really have been available to do this show then, right? ...I also doubt if they planned that well in advance...they probably started searching for actors to play grown up Kesar closer to the time of the leap and that's when things fell into place with NB being free of KB I guess...I can't picture which other actor would have suited the role, now that I think about it...Kesar is a very unique combination of boyishness and the grown up maturity of a man...to constantly keep the kid version of Kesar alive in all the glimpses is a difficult balance to maintain which NB seems to have pulled off very well. .

Originally posted by: likarsh

Ahh, I didn't know KB and Gulaal overlapped.

See, that amazes me even more. Just the sheer fact that they found the right person to play this role. Like, what would have happened if KB hadn't ended. Would they have found another actor suitable enough to give justice to the storyline. Probably. But I can't imagine it.

Originally posted by: nureat01

Ok never mind...I just went and checked...it seems that KB ended in Oct. end of 2010...Hmmm interesting, very interesting...now I am wondering if NB was always in mind for Kesar afterall😆...they could have planned in advance I guess...but if they did, they really kept it under wraps cuz there wasn't any news of him playing this role until just when he was about to enter, right?