Originally posted by: JZephyr
You know if I'd watched the show from the start - I'd probably have given up watching somewhere in the middle of the GV love story. As fantastic as I find revisiting that phase now, the DOP playing his excellent cards day after day - and as much as I applaud the CVs to never have dragged the story at any point - it is only so in retrospect. Going start to end - I might have been very misled about where the story was going, and knowing me and TV serials, I would have easily quit on it. Exactly...and actually that is what I DID...haha...I admired the cinematography and everything but somehow the GV phase didn't grip me...possibly cuz my general TV viewing experience made me think the story would be predictable from the point of them falling in love, getting married etc...I had no clue that there was far, FAR more to this story...it is only in retrospect now that I can see it better...that I can understand the beauty of the build up in full aspect...but yeah in live time I wouldn't have realized and yes I did stop watching the show...much before the DV😆
What I often do wonder about far more - is what my reaction would have been to the DV itself. Because it can be a disturbing kind of scenario to imagine, not watching the story in retrospect. I don't blame the dogmatic thinkers - because if I was watching in order, I may be very much in debate over the concept. Its not the GK chemistry in time which brings in the conviction - but the sketching of the characters and the plot itself - and so now looking back at it all makes so much sense I wonder about this sometimes too...if I'd been watching the show in sequence, what would I have thought of the DV...definitely it would be a tough concept to digest...and I do remember being quite put off by it when I read the article about it...I thought this show was beyond convoluted then😆...but then I think again...if I'd genuinely followed the show closely, I would have probably been convinced by the conviction in the storytelling...cuz that is the greatest genius of the show...the WAY they tell the story...this isn't a typical case of actor chemistry trumping all logic everything...I'm first and foremost a fan of the writing in this show.
... but how can anyone ever blame Gulaal to feel violated by Kesar in love with her - the idea can be appalling when you just look at the stats figuratively. Kudos to this team to treat a very unusual and sensitive topic with so much caution and detailing. Extra kudos to them - to not have 'promoted' the idea of a DV - a custom that I still hold as unfair in typical sense - but to have dealt very subjectively with their characters, and how exceptions exist to every rule. How fate can over ride the seeming right and wrong which logic initially promotes. Life doesn't go according to plan - and this show has such a strong underlying message about changing with times and going with the flow - to actually live life, because its something precious. True...from an overall perspective, Gulaal cannot be blamed for her initial appalled reaction at all...that is exactly what you'd expect given their history and how she viewed him...and yes kudos to the creatives for all the things you mentioned...to me personally, I'm so fascinated by how they pulled all the threads together...how circumstances played out in G and K's lives at every point to ultimately bring them together...THAT is genius to me...how beautifully that was written without convoluted cliches or forced scenarios...everything that happened played out with so much conviction...that is the best word for this seriously...that as an audience, you are completely pulled in towards the characters and WANT to root for them...that is GK...the show began with GV but GK were the ones written with a whole special dimension to them.
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
