Posted:
Hey there,
Suddenly there is a lot of deep unhappiness on what I used to see as a interested, interesting, happy-go-lucky forum, and I'm not sure that I understand what is happening!
Specifically, I see that there was a lot of chest-heaving and tearing on display on the TRPs DOWN post. Me, I started thinking: really what are the alternatives? Hmm, they somehow rapidly get all other things out of the way and AK-KS are free to get together. Then I see it going two ways:
* the serial becomes about AK-KS getting back together (I hope not, because that would mean a huge tearing of the integrity of firstly the KS character and ALSO the AK character) and then (horrors!) getting married.
If this serial becomes about a married AK-KS and their domestic quarrels, I think it's going to be boring as hell. I personally think that non-domestic quarrels make for better romance than domestic quarrels. :-) Just personal intuition...
* the serial becomes about KS and AK working back to get together, painfully and slowly working out all the things that had gone wrong. (Nannu put it nicely in another posting: let KS and AK not get married, but don't let KS and Prithvi get married. I agree - the second is quite sacriligeous for KS' character!)
The latter is preferrable, of course, but if it is not to drive us up the wall, it will have to come to a conclusion, they will get together, and then .. it's back to the first option, or the serial ends, because stories like this (a love story) have to come to an end. :-)
But I will personally be quite sad when this one closes. This is why:
Confession: I have NEVER watched soaps in my life because I find them intolerable, be they US or Indian, choose whatever language you will. They have always looked like parodies of the human race to me, and that makes me violently ill! I've given almost all of them a chance - ie, a viewing for around three days or so, and become Violently Ill.
Well, until now. I found KYPH while surfing during a dinner and paused because I found the acting in the scene incredibly well done. I watched for a couple of days, and I found that I was not violently ill! :-)
* The dialogues could have been delivered by real people.
* The characters had depth and were real - Mishty, Daadi, Teddy, Dilip, Naina, Karthik, KS to a certain extent if you knew her background, and AK who mixes a real brat boy's character with the unreality of a boy who understands.
I could understand and tolerate these characters. I just can't understand the characters in the rest of the serials. They are perpetually flaring their nostrils, bulging out their eyeballs, flouncing their hair, grinding/yelling out their dialogue like the damn characters in a US soap. In KYPH, how often have you seen the girls flounce their hair and stride off? Remarkably very few times, in my perhaps ignorant opinion.
I keep hearing from forum members that the KYPH story/situations are old. There are frequent references to other serials with similar situations. I apologise for not being better informed. The story of KYPH is as old as the first Mills&Boon every printed. What works is the dressing: these are (relatively!) acceptable characters with less flounces, fewer flaring of nostrils, easier spoken lines, better body languages, certainly much better physical interactions than I have had the opportunity to see.
As an example, Parineeta is an old story - it has been picturised more than once. What worked in Parineeta 2005 was that the characters and the depiction made sense to an audience in 2005, even to an acerbic old lady, aged 73, who had seen Parineeta 1. I think KYPH is like that - it is the most real story I'm seeing on Hindi TV today.
There are other things: I think the camera work of KYPH is quite lovely. There are all manner of shots, not merely the zoomed in ones where if you look carefully, you can count the character's nose-hair! There are intelligent shots from far away, to close-ups that make for better story telling than a perpetual zoomed in version.
The one thing that I would change is the background score -- I hate the blatant manipulation of my emotions with the drums and the high-pitched music. But then, I happen to find no media that uses background music well -- all are out to manipulate us in as loud a manner as possible. You'd think they'd _just_ heard of Dolby sound systems!
This is merely my opinion and as you can probably see, quite a poorly educated one. So forgive me for butting in on an area I know very little about. I just thought I'd say that for the first time in my life, I have been able to watch a serial on TV and I think that that is a good step forward to how this industry is growing. I always found Hindi movies rather silly in several ways until I saw Hum Tum, and it's the same with KYPH. I like that things are changing, and I'm (for the moment) content to see what the KYPH writers are going to come up with next, because I think that they've done a fairly interesting job so far.
My $20 worth. :-)
-E
Suddenly there is a lot of deep unhappiness on what I used to see as a interested, interesting, happy-go-lucky forum, and I'm not sure that I understand what is happening!
Specifically, I see that there was a lot of chest-heaving and tearing on display on the TRPs DOWN post. Me, I started thinking: really what are the alternatives? Hmm, they somehow rapidly get all other things out of the way and AK-KS are free to get together. Then I see it going two ways:
* the serial becomes about AK-KS getting back together (I hope not, because that would mean a huge tearing of the integrity of firstly the KS character and ALSO the AK character) and then (horrors!) getting married.
If this serial becomes about a married AK-KS and their domestic quarrels, I think it's going to be boring as hell. I personally think that non-domestic quarrels make for better romance than domestic quarrels. :-) Just personal intuition...
* the serial becomes about KS and AK working back to get together, painfully and slowly working out all the things that had gone wrong. (Nannu put it nicely in another posting: let KS and AK not get married, but don't let KS and Prithvi get married. I agree - the second is quite sacriligeous for KS' character!)
The latter is preferrable, of course, but if it is not to drive us up the wall, it will have to come to a conclusion, they will get together, and then .. it's back to the first option, or the serial ends, because stories like this (a love story) have to come to an end. :-)
But I will personally be quite sad when this one closes. This is why:
Confession: I have NEVER watched soaps in my life because I find them intolerable, be they US or Indian, choose whatever language you will. They have always looked like parodies of the human race to me, and that makes me violently ill! I've given almost all of them a chance - ie, a viewing for around three days or so, and become Violently Ill.
Well, until now. I found KYPH while surfing during a dinner and paused because I found the acting in the scene incredibly well done. I watched for a couple of days, and I found that I was not violently ill! :-)
* The dialogues could have been delivered by real people.
* The characters had depth and were real - Mishty, Daadi, Teddy, Dilip, Naina, Karthik, KS to a certain extent if you knew her background, and AK who mixes a real brat boy's character with the unreality of a boy who understands.
I could understand and tolerate these characters. I just can't understand the characters in the rest of the serials. They are perpetually flaring their nostrils, bulging out their eyeballs, flouncing their hair, grinding/yelling out their dialogue like the damn characters in a US soap. In KYPH, how often have you seen the girls flounce their hair and stride off? Remarkably very few times, in my perhaps ignorant opinion.
I keep hearing from forum members that the KYPH story/situations are old. There are frequent references to other serials with similar situations. I apologise for not being better informed. The story of KYPH is as old as the first Mills&Boon every printed. What works is the dressing: these are (relatively!) acceptable characters with less flounces, fewer flaring of nostrils, easier spoken lines, better body languages, certainly much better physical interactions than I have had the opportunity to see.
As an example, Parineeta is an old story - it has been picturised more than once. What worked in Parineeta 2005 was that the characters and the depiction made sense to an audience in 2005, even to an acerbic old lady, aged 73, who had seen Parineeta 1. I think KYPH is like that - it is the most real story I'm seeing on Hindi TV today.
There are other things: I think the camera work of KYPH is quite lovely. There are all manner of shots, not merely the zoomed in ones where if you look carefully, you can count the character's nose-hair! There are intelligent shots from far away, to close-ups that make for better story telling than a perpetual zoomed in version.
The one thing that I would change is the background score -- I hate the blatant manipulation of my emotions with the drums and the high-pitched music. But then, I happen to find no media that uses background music well -- all are out to manipulate us in as loud a manner as possible. You'd think they'd _just_ heard of Dolby sound systems!
This is merely my opinion and as you can probably see, quite a poorly educated one. So forgive me for butting in on an area I know very little about. I just thought I'd say that for the first time in my life, I have been able to watch a serial on TV and I think that that is a good step forward to how this industry is growing. I always found Hindi movies rather silly in several ways until I saw Hum Tum, and it's the same with KYPH. I like that things are changing, and I'm (for the moment) content to see what the KYPH writers are going to come up with next, because I think that they've done a fairly interesting job so far.
My $20 worth. :-)
-E
Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon
Vanshaj
