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I have mixed feelings about this Redux so far after two days for various reasons, but most specifically for some cop outs from Harneet which sort of show the limitations of her writing once againš.
On one hand, the claim from the writer that everything must be changed in this AU...yet Shivaay still retains most of his core traits...still angry, still ruthless (capable of threatening to kill ppl almost casually), still cooks, still has the same to the point relationship with Tia. The few minor changes feel mostly cosmetic...he no longer wears colorful suits, doesn't dance, doesn't seem to share as close a relationship with his brothers.
Oh and HS has given him the stock sobby back story that she likes to give to most of her other male leads.
So here I pause to ask...in the zeal to do the "opposite" of something, do you take what was once unique and dial it all the way to general TRP cliches? In the zeal to be "different", do you ironically end up becoming exactly what is there in every other show on TV?š
This is even more apparent in Anika's AU characterization which has been completely flipped...ok if they wanted to take away her bubbliness, her spunk, her crazy lingo...but two days running now we have been given PROLONGED scenes of her being all pitiful...whether it is filling water in a bucket and falling again and again in the mud while doing that or today making dosas in the rain, burning her hand, the tarp flying off her thelaš...it is one thing to show the STRUGGLE of an individual...it's another thing to play it up in a sobby manner...is this really the only way to show "resilience"? By first making someone sob so pitifully, constantly be barraged with taunts or ppl shouting at her and show one shot of her still trying to keep going? Is this supposed to be my entertainment now? š
And again I pause to ask...in the zeal to make this AU Anika the complete opposite of original Anika, was it necessary to strip her of every ounce of strength? Is the opposite of strong only to be completely pitiful? There is no such thing as a middle path with nuances? Do only two types of girls exist in this world? Completely spunky or completely docile and pitiful? There is no middle ground? Well God knows then what most of us are in this worldš
It's like Harneet didn't even bother to think beyond an autopilot opposite characterization...lol and not that I mind it but how much thought does it even take to simply switch Tia to a simple, sweet girl now?
The purpose seems only to set up every character as a for or against prop for the possibility of Shivika meeting...lol that didn't really require a host of character flips like a half-baked Fan fiction...if all that stands in the way of Shivika meeting is every character doing the opposite of what they did before, well then that is amateurishly imagined...Circumstances can play a better part than token character flips.
I see in the upcoming BTS that Anika might show some spine in front of the Chaachi in the coming days...but I'm really not sure where Harneet is going with this...some shifts are needed in Shivika's characterization beyond the token opposite flips to actually make this work IMO and I seriously need a break from the daily "Haaye bechaari" Anika scenes if they can possibly reduce thatš„±
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