Originally posted by: guturgutur
hi guys, thinking about the concept of IPK.. it was never a simple romance story.. and i loved the angst in it.. the makers (both the creative team and the production team, as they call themselves) managed to reach the audience's heart with sarun as arshi.. the cliche-d story became new and memorable and emotionally consuming, because of them, the team.
we have arnav who has revenge against the world on his mind, we have khushi who sees the human in every rock-hearted man (and got under arnav's armor), and in fifty episodes, they got a whole generation (and more) hooked on the story.
it was never about a pure love story. it was about the hundreds of forces keeping them apart.. and somehow, i feel that star plus saw how the jodi clicked, and did not allow the creative team to tell the story how they wanted to. the channel wanted a lovestory.. we got romance, romance and more romance where it did not gel with the main story at all... and i think that the blast from the past, about garima being the other woman in arnav's parent's life, deserved at least 30 episodes. it was an important part of the story..
yes, there were fans that happened because it was so romantic
there were fans that happened because 'it is so funny, i like that serial, khushi is so goofy!
there were fans for OMG they are gorgeous together!!
but i was one of the fans of the story.. and somehow i feel that if arhi was not performed by sarun, at least (not as beautifully, not as heart-touchingly.. but still) the story would have been told. and i am sad that the story was not told how the creatives envisioned it.. but i am glad that IPK ended with arhi together
. I will say this, though.. if the story had continued, in whatever ragged fashion, i would still have watched it. i might be bashing it everyday, but i would still contribute to the TRP, because even without barun, it was watchable.. as we saw during the kidnapping track.
for me, IPK ended on the day of the remarriage..episode 353, to be exact. for a serial that promised to be 500 episodes long, it was a bit of a cheat.. and well, thanks to everyone involved, for extending it for another 50 episodes of season 2, just for the viewers to get their daily arhi fix.
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