Originally posted by: Sunnygrin1
The Malayalam audience is different. The mindset is different, approach to story is different. I would say only the bare bones plot is the same . Traditionally there are so many Malayalam movies where the romance is there but it is not the focus and many popular and famous Malayalam movies end in tragedies( as far as romance is concerned) and are still super hits. I watched a couple of episodes of Neelakuyyil and the whole thing starts so differently. And the chemistry between the leads is off from the beginning.
In this case Gul has built up the Adilie package- just like IPPKND we are shown that they are destined to be together. It’s a very different and subtle approach. In the Bengali version Adilie ends up together and so far the story has been loosely following that with Gul’s traditional hall marks to show their destiny together- the diya that Imlie lights at the fair, the diya that lasts all night. Imlie loves sunrises- and just before Adi lands in PD, Meethi says- naya din hoga, suraj bhi naya hoga and then we see him stepping in to PD. These are subtle techniques and then she takes us on the roller coaster of twists and turns that make it so difficult for the lead pair to be together and yet they are. Of course, she will borrow plot devices and plot twists from regional series if it works- and seeing the way Malini’s character has been built from the beginning- fainting and feeble, falling sick of her husband is gone for 3 days etc- it’s a natural story arc that she will go for a suicide attempt. It doesn’t mean that’s the way the story is completely headed- to completely turn around and have a new lead pair. It might in a desperate situation where TRPS are falling like crazy and we have seen that happen so many times with Ishqbaaz. Not with this show which is consistently in top even during this IPL time.