The Glorification of Anurag Basu - Page 2

Originally posted by: RollingStones

Honestly in Ekta's serials it's always the female lead who has more dominance in show that Male Lead , I remember I made very similar topic in during YHM about Glorification of Ishita 😆.

KZK has to be rare one where they have started the show itself with Showing Female Lead as Weak/Dumb. Glorification of Anurag has started recently esp yesterday.
Anurag's characterisation for the past 1 week has gone down the drain . There are just so many fluctuations . It started with so much promise and now there is just no improvement, it has got stagnant and possibly will Fizz out sooner .

The writing of the show has been abysmal right from the start and yest it just went to Atrocious level . And it's funny because most Ekta shows starts properly with tight script and well placed Tracks , here it's just haywire .
I really doubt they had any proper bound script when they started shooting KZK. It's like they got Prerna , they shooted the Promo to create Buzz and then Later they got the Male lead and started with the Production process. They are more like checking the waves and whatever is giving them TRP they are going with it .

I really doubt with such Contrived writing how far this show can survive.

Originally posted by: Push-pull

There are different groups of people who can be stereotyped by their age, religion, culture, nationality, language and yes gender too...😉

When we talk about fans, be it male or female, swooning over their idols, be it again male or female.. They specifically look for something in them to like about.. It could be their looks, their style, their dance, their performance, their attitude, their punching dialogues, etc. And everything cannot be mapped to any specific reason stereotyping it.😊Come on everyone of us have been a hard core fan one time or the other.. Let's give them.a break..😆

When Prerna took the scarifice route, we had a group of people who enraged calling her names (sacrificing lamb, weak, mahaanta, bechaari, etc.)... Consider them as one group. There was no other groups who went gaaga over her emotional attachment with her family. Even if there was a group who wants to appreciate her, the group may not want to be bashed and fit into that category for being appreciative of the female sacrifice done for family and thus being considered regressive... Now we had a silent group among us. Thus the character was left only with criticism.😆

When Anurag jumped over the fire to save Maa's chunari, there's one group who goes gaaga over his actions and emotions and another group who makes fun of him for being an emotional fool... At least here we had two different groups balancing it out... Though the character was criticized, the character didn't go unappreciated...😉

So what's the message that the groups are giving back? Having triggered a discussion based on intellectual analysis, hope you can understand what are the groups that I am referring to and you can decide for yourself who's driving this wrong message at the end of the day!😃

Can't we just understand the characters for what they are, without being compared to each other and get into competitive appreciation or criticism, stereotyping them under whatever groups😊?

The drama runs on relationships..Truth is every relationship has something or the other to give and take, someone to hurt.. And the beauty of the relationship lies in how much one is willing to do and finding the ones worth suffering for!!!

Originally posted by: Zaya.hp

I don't have anything to add to this. You spoke very thought of mine. The utter inconsistency to glorify the hero is the stupidest part of this serial. Erica deserves a better role.

The thing is most part of the audience what hung these shows casting young people are girls. And they are happy to praise the hero for merely existing in the serial. Dev was such a flawed character. And he didn't deserve Sonakshi one bit. But nobody seems to wrap their brain around that part. The Anurag description part was so badly timed and shot in yesterday's epsiode I felt like laughing. He does simple things like calling police and he is called BRAINY! Coool.

Originally posted by: UKGirl22

When you read the interviews of many the the current male leads they say that they feel lucky to get the role they got since Indian serials focus very often on the female lead. I am relatively new to Indian serials and am not old enough to know many of the past Ekta serials. From what you guys say about Kasauti 1 it definitely seems to be the case that it was more about Prerna and Anurag came across as the weakling etc.

Clearly times have changed. Any serial you hear people lauding in one where the female lead is either secondary to the male or they are equal. I don't know if any where the female is given more importance than the male.

Serials like Ishqbaaz glorify anything the male lead does and even where they do something terrible and unforgivable - they are still forgiven and proclaimed as the best son and husband. Yeh Rishta and Yeh Mohabbatein seem to enjoy thinking of ways in which the husbands family can turn against the daughter-in-law. Sometimes the husbands support them and sometimes not but everything is always forgiven until the next time it happens again. Even Dev in Erica's previous serial is lauded as a great son and man while at the same time destroying someone career, engagement etc.

Kasauti seems definitely to want to follow this trend. When Anurag like an idiot went towards a fire (unlike Prerna who got caught there) he is a hero. She without asking for any praise stays awake at night to help her parents - but this is nothing compared to the foolish heroism of a moment. The writer even give her a line saying so and social media goes gaga over Anurag and his bravery. When the same Prerna wants to rush to the rescue of her parents - she is called emotional and foolish by the writers who make Anurag taunt her foolishness. Social media will be full of posts and tags calling her an idiot.

And so it continues. Just the day after showing Prerna as stupid for wanting to rush to the rescue of her parents, she was shown as afraid to do the same thing. Anurag locked two of the thieves in the room and said let's go. The writers then give Prerna a line that says "oh but are we ready?. Who cares about the inconsistency right - anything to make the male lead look good?

Even thinking about the Mahabharata type music and description of Anurag while he walks irritates me- to what end? In the end it was the girl who stays awake at night to help her parents who came to the rescue.

And she has to because Anurag is too busy make oral threats to whoever will listen including of course his favourite Naveen Babu. Maybe we will get more dialogues of the sort we got a few days ago - both men (one a hero the other a villain) saying Prerna meri hai. After all what are we women but dolls and toys to be fought over by men, whatever their inclination!

This is no different from what I've been saying for days. But today when I opened my insta account and typed #kasauti I was truly shocked to see the endless pictures and videos of Anurag and NONE of prerna. So let's not say that these serials and their storylines and dialogues have no effect on us. Most of these accounts are obviously run by girls like me who find Parth cute like I do. But by ignoring Prerna and Erica, we are letting serials like Ksauti and Ishqbaaz and every other one of them to keep portraying us Women as less than what we are.

Ok time for me to take deep breath.

Originally posted by: Mishti_Dahi

I was eagerly waiting for your review Jenny

And I'm so glad you posted here! I would've surely elaborated on your points but the forum rules are binding.

I absolutely adore Sonakshi, Anushka and all the FLs who can speak up for themselves and put up a fight for themselves and family, instead of choosing the sacrificial route.