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Ecri...I see the logic they are following to come up with this promo...butRememberSHOCKing someone with something only works one time ...not repeataatively.The first week a lot of people came to see Sobtis comeback...The reason they lost the viewers after that is when people saw two plot and decided they didn't like it...Note| They made up their mind after watching the first week which was full of aggression, burning and hate...They went through so much effort to, what I thought, resurrecting the show and making the characters more relatable, less dark and more likeable...Looks like they have given up on the change or never meant it beyond superficial changes like the set, a set of different supporting cast...Oh well...their show ...their call...I wouldn't have made that decision...I would look a demographic split of the viewers...THe viewers who appreciated the hate filled promo in the first place are already in...For them all that mattered was that Sobti is in the show...The ones, who look for a more positively toned story, probably need a different promo...representing the new vision...Yes with Chandani's resolve and Advay's misgivings (minus the aggression and psychopathic behavior)
Sush
@bold totally with you on this. The reason most of the viewers have stuck around has largely been for the actor, on online mediums. On offline mediums, however, I would like to believe that the makers have tapped and catered to a section of the demographic divide and have succeeded in creating a niche for themselves and hence, the repetitive and recall value that translates into the numbers each consecutive week. And I am talking about the set of viewers who are now bound to the show, keeping in mind that they now make up for a committed set of audience.
Re-iterating what I had written a while back that if we absolutely divide the viewers in three broad categories- consistent, non-consistent, or the ones with a recall value, there would be an interesting pattern to note. The viewers from the first category would always watch a set show for their own reasons, perhaps, an actor or a brand recall or just an availability of free time at that particular times, while the viewers from the second and the third categories are mostly inconsistent and at times, difficult to sway with the changing content in the show. And mostly, the makers and the channel, the concerned parties that is, would work towards solidifying the first category of the viewers while winning over the third category, who are more likely to come back to a show as against the second category viewers, even if they get diluted with the non-watchers in the beginning or somewhere in the middle.
Sush, in your last statement, the audience looking for positivity are those who might make up for the second category of viewers, the most difficult to please and hence, they would need more sterner and firmer changes to ring in the return factor, which as you rightly say would be more than just the set or the new members and would need an overhaul of the show. Again, that might have been a tighter rope to walk from the makers perspective.
However, imo, the makers currently are looking at working on the third category of the viewers, whom they believe they had lost after the first week. Lets just say that it can be a case of desperate times calling for desperate needs or it could be a case of another hit and trial, we may never know. But yes, the fact that this promo has been released only goes onto ascertain that they are back to the original story they had in mind, albeit with new changes incorporated.
Tbh, atm, its very difficult to peg where the show and script are headed because if you see this current promo, it has not only brought back the brand recall to the initial promos, but also hinted at subtle changes in terms of the marriage of the leads and also, Chandni's stance.
So all in all, the show now looks like a mixture of ethos from the realms of the past and the present wrt the story and its mood, and also promises to tell a tale which is perhaps,more softer and condones violence that will be retaliated at each step.
Idk, how the general audience will perceive it, is yet to be seen. But one would never know if one never tried, both from the makers and the viewers perspective. And that will only be possible if the changes are palatable, over the due course of time. And while I do believe that to each their own, in terms of choices of what makes up for a watchable deal and what doesnt, solely speaking from my perspective, I would like to believe that the changes would bring in more positive strokes to the otherwise darker tale that was conceived initially, which is exactly why I am giving it a chance without expecting anything buoyant.
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