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New post on 18th July 2012
Isn't it time to stop Anjali is saint campaign outside IPK?
Yesterday I was watching the scene of anjali sitting alone in the room and having FBs about her husband. It really touched me. The way she walked into ASRs room searching for someone to go with her to hospital was touching. It conveyed the pain and lonliness of a woman. I felt for her in that scene.👏
Isn't it the best way to gather sympathy for a character? Showing touching scenes on screen?
- Tweeting does not help.
- Posting 'Anjali - and her traumas' Part 1 and Part 2 in IF on behalf of CVs does not help.
- Interviews does not help.
- Buzz articles does not help.
The only thing helps is good script.
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Anjali - Sympathy based selling outside IPK? *Edit
Old Post on 17th July2012
I do consider her a unlucky soul who got her glass world shattered in seconds.I agree on the sympathy points - past trauma, cheating husband, pregnancy etc etc
But why I am not feeling the 'required' sympathy for her?
Past trauma - Cvs have well conveyed the past trauma of arnav with enough FBs and scenes. But when it comes to anjali, the past trauma is not established at all. I see a clingy sister who most of the time have a parasite relationship with her brother, who has all the emotional support of a brother and family. ASR deserves more sympathies here than anjali any day for shouldering the responsibility of a entire family at a young age.
Adulterous husband - That's the only sympathy factor which works for me at least on minute levels. But CVs have shown lot of scenarios where she could have caught shyam red handed. But we saw her blindly trusting him and falling for his sweet sugar coated words. Somewhere during that times, I lost trust in her intelligence and I started considering the blind faith as simple dumbness. So it diluted the sympathy factor in a way.
Pregnancy - Ok First of all viewers have to feel that there is something growing inside that vegetable cutting board tummy to feel something for the kid and to be mom. I do not see anything. The pregnancy aspect has not reached the audience (at least me). I remember that she is pregnant when naani or someone else mentions about it. Visual confirmation is very important. There you loose sympathy points. Then again why should I sympathize with a mother who was all ready to abort the child for the love of a man? Rather than helplessness the selfishness and stubbornness are conveyed to many audiences.
Now everyone behind the scenes seem to be on a spree to collect the sympathy points for anjali off screen, trying to explain her view points, be it as an IF post or tweet or as a buzz article.Why? I am kanfused here. If in the last one year, IPK as a serial could not establish the so called sympathy factor well for 'Di' then why PH is hell bend on selling the sympathy factor through other channels? Let her be the character she is.
Anjali as a character, I can take her either as a grey or mental unstable character or a sub lead who has an impact on the story. I respect the role and understand the importance but I do not connect with it or sympathize with it the way I do with arhi.
So the gathering sympathy outside IPK is not working. Establish the sympathy using IPK as a serial. I would respect it more.
Edit:-
Again one more Anjali justification post from PH?
Sell the orange as an orange and tomato as a tomato.Pleez
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