JA - Possible reasons for the butchering of Akbar character - Page 2

Originally posted by: lashy

Why are the makers doing this? Money!

Much as we try and dissect it, Akbar's character here is still part of the Indian television industry and this industry primarily caters to a female audience. Unlike us, who are here to gain some interesting perspectives on history (with entertaining spins on the tale itself) - others like twists and drama - plotting against leads that the heroine unfolds and untangles!

The top 5 serials have prominent female leads taking charge of the serial - the men have little role in them, especially after the leads' SR is done and dusted with 😆

The men are hardly required after that as their role as romance-makers is done. It's then time for these male leads to hand over the reigns to the females so the usual SB saga can go on and on!

Sandhya/Bhabho are ALWAYS in the limelight - Suraj is still someone who's become backdrop material (the first year wasn't so)

Gopi bahu/Kokila are ALWAYS in the limelight - Ahem is someone in the backdrop

Akshara possibly enjoys twice the screen space and dialogues as Naithik (though Naithik-Akshara's romance is still on every now and again). Yet, all we see Naithik do is step out of the house with a briefcase in the morning and return in the evening for chai-pakoda😆

The list goes on and on...

JA has also joined this list, that's all! While Jalal's role might not become as bad as Ahem's, it definitely is no greater than a Naithik's at this stage...

Other historicals like MP and Buddha where this is not the case don't enjoy such TRPs. 😊

Ektha has famously (or infamously) said - Ladies are eye-candy in the movie industry and men are eye-candy in the TV industry!

Originally posted by: lashy

Why are the makers doing this? Money!

Much as we try and dissect it, Akbar's character here is still part of the Indian television industry and this industry primarily caters to a female audience. Unlike us, who are here to gain some interesting perspectives on history (with entertaining spins on the tale itself) - others like twists and drama - plotting against leads that the heroine unfolds and untangles!

The top 5 serials have prominent female leads taking charge of the serial - the men have little role in them, especially after the leads' SR is done and dusted with 😆

The men are hardly required after that as their role as romance-makers is done. It's then time for these male leads to hand over the reigns to the females so the usual SB saga can go on and on!

Sandhya/Bhabho are ALWAYS in the limelight - Suraj is still someone who's become backdrop material (the first year wasn't so)

Gopi bahu/Kokila are ALWAYS in the limelight - Ahem is someone in the backdrop

Akshara possibly enjoys twice the screen space and dialogues as Naithik (though Naithik-Akshara's romance is still on every now and again). Yet, all we see Naithik do is step out of the house with a briefcase in the morning and return in the evening for chai-pakoda😆

The list goes on and on...

JA has also joined this list, that's all! While Jalal's role might not become as bad as Ahem's, it definitely is no greater than a Naithik's at this stage...

Other historicals like MP and Buddha where this is not the case don't enjoy such TRPs. 😊

Ektha has famously (or infamously) said - Ladies are eye-candy in the movie industry and men are eye-candy in the TV industry!

Originally posted by: adianasr

Guys pls go on with ur reasons - Since I have a restriction in terms of number of posts will be liking all the posts and responding after many.

@lashy - dont you think its time for change - Audience has lapped up the show Zindagi Gulzar hai on Zee's Zindagi channel - and if you have seen it, Zaroon's character has been as beautifully etched out as Kasaf's has been - and so have all the supporting characters - and the Audience has loved the interplay of both leads - one lead has not been butchered to make way for the other - and this is the trp audience that I am talking of - infact the ultimate test at the grind is the story and not the characters - and this change has come to the Indian telly audience too.

Originally posted by: adianasr

My Q is - why are we not ready to break the norms - why are we skeptical that anything which goes against the popular norms wont work??? Why do we think that a woman oriented show has to have a weak male lead???? Why do we even think that only women oriented shows will work??? Why are we as an audience saying that other viewers are not ready for a change???? Do we have any data that proves this so - and pls trps are no data so lets not quote them - has anyone done any countrywide data collection and analysis on this???? Dont many of us on forum talk of our frnds and relatives and neighbors who have found shows that break the norms as interesting???? Why can we not have a show that has a woman as the inspiration yet treats both protagonists with justice and equality????

If a story is told well and passionately, it does make an impact on the viewers - a bigger one than blindly following the norms can ever do - the problem is that everyone wants to take the easy way out - no one is passionate about what they do anymore - This reminds me of the song 'Eye of the Tiger' from Rocky - the lyrics are so apt -

So many times it happens too fast
You trade your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past

You must fight just to keep them alive

Originally posted by: ---Khushi---

Jokes apart, imho, the primary reason for TV serials in India starting with a bang n then going astray, is

"NO BOUND SCRIPT"

The trps clearly dictate the length of roles of characters, of tracks, of sub plots, of plots, etc...We saw a classic example most recently how TM was humiliated bec the channel wanted to fit in "Naari Shakti"...

Other reasons, for JA going wrong, according to me are:

1) mainly women watch daily teleshows, n have huge appetites for saas bahu melodramas

2) Most women audiences adore the ultra feminist, always right, always bhaashaning heroine...

3)Paridhi's discomfort for romantic scenes, which was initially the USP of the show...romance is an eyesore of late in JA...of course, even the cvs r to be blamed along with PS for this for writing rank bad scenes...

4)An emerging universal trend, which I find very disturbing...villains n negativity are being increasingly accepted by all...be it shows n films or be it video games for kids, where they root for the villain to win...a reputed actor like Salman glorified corruption in Dabangg. ...Saif lootofies insurance companies in Race 1 & 2 n both films r super hits...many more examples...see the villains thriving in JA...they command promos, as against Akbar when he was given the title...think about it...