...ke aaja teri yaad aayi...! - Page 6

Originally posted by: adianasr

Mandy, it was extremely ridiculous on the part of the channel to think the audience will take this kind of rubbish!!!!

Akbar was a brilliant General, strategist and warrior and he was a Statesman and administrator par excellence - these are abilities that are innate - kisi ke sikhane se agar yeh aa jaayen toh Hindustan ke politicians and bureaucrats ke liye class na laga diya jaaye!!!! - and ek baar do baar spouse se opinion liya jaana dikhaya jaaye toh theek - lekin yahan toh EK ne yeh dikhaya hai ki Akbar would have been an apahijh without Jodha or the others.

I hope ppl read the biography on Akbar by Noer, Richard von Garbe, S.M Jaffer (which are very well researched books) and not just Smith and Blochmann - Infact Noer and Jaffer both state that though the period between 1560-64 seems to have been a petticoat government, it actually was not, it was a well thought out and orchestrated effort by Akbar to rid himself from the yoke of those who were using nepotism to maintain power in the least confrontationist manner - if u note, his marriage to HK, the prominence to Rajputs and specifically the Amerians, the decision to get TM and other hindus into his court were all taken by Akbar - in fact he was slowly and surely surrounding himself with ppl who he could trust and who shared his thinking regarding governance and administration.

To give credit of all this to Jodha in the name of a heroine centric show will only have a retrograde effect - and that too when Zee itself has started its new channel showing shows from across the border and slotting one of the best shows of current times ZGH at the 8.00 pm slot - who in the audience will take such crap that degrades one of the Greatest Emperors (if not the Greatest ever) in the name of natakiya rupanter?????? especially when they have the power of the remote and the option of a show that atleast does not make them cringe!!!!!

No one wants any credit taken away from Jodha - but it would have been more interesting and mature if the creatives had shown a love story in a polygamous setup - where the man loved both his special wives - yet was 'In Love' with only one - the kind of emotional explorations this could have led too are immense and adult - and with sensitive handling could have set a benchmark in television story telling.

One has to realise that Jodha was Akbar's muse - his inspiration - not the one telling him what he shd do and when he shd do it - one has to understand for every creator (and Akbar was one of the foremost as a philosopher, thinker Emperor) the muse has a prominent place - and had EK and her team shown Jodha as his muse - which was how it did seem in the initial 90 odd episodes - this mess would never have happened.

Originally posted by: The.Patthaaka.

zee's new channel zindagi is airing such brilliant shows from pakistan. They have such amazing storylines. One would be shocked to know that the same Zee is telecasting nonsense like this on other channels. JA being the classic example.

And I bet the tRP's have fallen bcoz a major chunk of the audience(me included) prefer's zindagi over zee now.

Originally posted by: Donjas

Wonderful discussion in this thread. Everyone is hoping that Ekta has got the message that the audience has sent her and now she will take remedial measures.

I also hope that ZEE gives this serial the respect it deserves, at least for the ratings it is garnered in the past year. Why would it want to pit new content on it's channel against it's top rated serial, why not against DBAH or SNS. And then after a no promotion policy, what right does ZEE have to expect ratings.

I really hope that the old magic can be revived because my feeling is that this is the last time we are going to see Akbar in TV or movies for a very long time. One reason is viewer fatigue, we have now had Akbar in one big budget movie and then a top rated serial for one year. Viewers would want a big break, just like the Star Trek franchise which has been taking a decade long break after the deluge of the 90's.

The second reason is the adverse reactions both the movie and the serial have got from hotheads,who would want the same headache again.

I can't think of any other king on whom a new series can be based. Ashoka is the closest in stature, the problem there is that we know nothing of Ashoka's life so the serial will have to be total fiction. So, after Jodha Akbar's end, we may well have to say goodbye to the historical genre for quite some time, unless of course we are interested in jingoistic stuff for which there will always be a supply.