Why grey-negative female leads are hard to accept without question? - Page 2

Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism

Till two decades back (or even one and a half decade back) even a grey male lead was not acceptable, the male lead should have been someone like Ramji and if he wasn't he was called names, slowly the trend started changing and a few grey male leads did make their appearance and people began to accept them but for them huge redemption track was needed, slowly the amount of redemption decreased and "bad became the new good" now no longer did one need to repent his actions, just be nice afterwards, but this was only for the males the females couldn't be anything less than Savitri, I think I had read somewhere that in the first largest running Ekta show, the heroine of the second generation was married to the villain who mentally tortured her daily, still there were people wanting him to change and become the lead, it was fortunately that hero for the current generation was her real life husband with whom her pair was considered to be the biggest hit (probably the first TV favorite Jodi for long time)and so they could show that they divorced and the hero heroine did marry

Anyhow now the trend is further changing and we have heroines like Maya, Durga, Nandani (who no longer is) who are selfish and can go to any level to reach their desire, then we have girls like Anokhi, Lakshmi (main Lakshmi tere aangan ki), who love money and want to marry for money for which they can do anything, even break the alliance of their rich target (not including Roshni of Panch- although I think in this case people loved Gauri the antagonist more than Roshni, anyhow, or Kiya of TBP as discussion is on GEC)

The point I want to make is that slowly people are accepting the grey characters, while earlier the hero/heroine needed to be the purest soul possible on the earth, now people are accepting grey leads, people who are humans like us, yes I agree that the acceptance for grey males happened sooner than that for the females, probably that had to do with out cultural mindset of "Poot kapoot sune hain par na maata suni kumaata" but even that has started now, and yes I agree that it is slow process but soon the grey FLs would become as acceptable as the grey MLs

Originally posted by: .KING.

i think the PH's is to b blamed... for years thy r serving shit in the name of drama...nd according to their dumb logic people wont accept grey FL toh yaar negative lead mat dikhao STRONG LEAD dikhao an example to this point is kashaf murtuza from ZGH she's not grey/negative but she had a five letter thingee that most tv charactera (including anikaa) miss S-P-I-N-E before maiyya started her saas-bahu shit she was a producer of a succesful show called "itihaas" which got her the soap queen tag.. the irony is unlike her latter shows like kyunki,KAhanii itihaas had a grey female lead who was loved by people.. im not sure who these trp aunties are but my mom nd her gang roots. for a fatmagul,feriha rather than gopi or simar... they are loving maya,nd they are waiting for nadya to grace their screens from monday...

Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism

In Kyuki when Tulsi got to know that her husband had an affair with other woman, she broke all her relations with him, when her mother in law got to know about this she threw her own son out of the house, when Nandani's husband started mentally torturing her, she made no attempt to reconcile with him rather immediately decided to move out of the house, (n it was only mental torture he had not physically abused her by then n also she had married him by choice) n against her parents will she applied for divorce, later when her husband forced himself on to her she got pregnant but then she didn't weep like typical bahus rather went to abort that child, when Tusli got to know what his son had been doing to Nandani's, she shooted him herself thereby killing her own son, what makes you feel that these women had no spine?, All the three ladies I mentioned we the leads of their respective generations

The woman then had much more spine than now, I don't know who people call Ekta regressive n others progressive