The Glorification of Anurag Basu - Page 4

Originally posted by: UKGirl22

Of course you have not offended me.

Just a few clarifications in relation to my original post.

The point I made is that I have NOT seen many serials so based on my views, as I mention, on the interviews of some actors and the names people mention a lot on social media. None of the ones I have seen as successfully running have female leads as more important - if we are lucky they are just equal or less important . I myself gave examples of a few which I understood had important female leads - like the original Kasauti, Yeh Rishta and YHM.

Thank you for adding a few more examples. Haven't seen Ek Duje ke vaaste so will take your word for the storyline. I saw Dehleez and really liked it. As far as I am aware these were not successful serials and had very short lives. At least Dehleez did. Such a pity because Dehleez had so much potential. I guess that tells me something about the TRP of a storyline that has a strong and alternative female lead. InKRPKAB I mention the fact that Dev is called a good son and MAN (not brother) and no if I was a middle class educated girl I would not think someone was a good man if he made me lose my job just so that I could work for his mother. It seems weird to discuss specific scenes of that serial in this forum so I will leave it at that. I don't know the full form of the other show you mention YPNTKH.

I should say though I don't have a problem with stories that have strong male leads. I just don't like the trend of creating a strong male lead at true expense of female lead. You can show that someone has good intelligent and smart without showing someone else as being stupid, weak or afraid.

Originally posted by: --Jenny2017--

@Bold- That's a blanket statement and one that is incorrect on many levels. Most people did wrap their head around that point.

Firstly, Dev was indeed flawed. Highly flawed. And to be honest, majority of the viewers did not defend him needlessly. Nor did the writers do that. The writers wanted to sketch a raw, real and flawed ML in the form of Dev, and they did that with complete transparency. They made him commit mistakes and called him out for them, through Sonakshi. When was the last time you heard a female lead call out the male lead as "selfish, self-centred, arrogant, hypocrite, unworthy of being loved, Mumma's Boy, spineless, egoistic, rude"? There are many reasons why Dr.Bose is a benchmark for ITV FL's and this is one of them. Of course, I do not agree with all those things which Sona said (quite a few of them were incorrect in my opinion) but unlike every other FL out there, she had the fierceness and the no-nonsense attitude to call him out when he went wrong according to her judgement. Dev was never given a clean chit by anyone, and rightfully so. To be very honest, the writers punished him far more than what he deserved. Dev was loved for his goodness and criticised for his flaws. By the writers. By Sonakshi. By most viewers. As simple as that. Hence, passing a generalised judgement that Dev's flaws weren't called out is incorrect.

On that note, I have a question for you. Sonakshi too was a heavily flawed character. If you ask me, she was the more egoistic partner between the two of them. She too showed traits of rudeness, selfishness and selfcentred-ness. On many occasions. Definitely not as flawed as Dev, but substantial flaws nonetheless. Every1 seems to admire Sona's strength and maturity (I admire those traits of her myself), but how many people have you seen call her out for her flaws? The writers did not fail in that regard. The post-leap phase in the show was a role-reversal in many ways and the writers did dissect her flaws very well. But still, a lot of people don't seem to see that. But does it matter? Nope. It's the writers and the show that matter. And they didn't give Sona a clean-chit either. Again, rightfully so.

My reason for making this post was, KRPKAB was a deep show. A show which forced people to think. A show which applauded Dev and Sona for their goodness and criticised them for their flaws. Hence my disagreement to that point which yiu made.

As for Dev deserving Sona or not, I'll have to disagree on that as well. But that's a different topic and one that cannot be discussed in short. So I'll leave it there.

Hope I didn't offend you :-)

Originally posted by: reallygotme

The writing and execution of this show is worst even for Ekta stds! agreed!

BUT the initial episodes were veered very much towards Prerna, showing her perception on things and myriad of emotions.Anurag was totally sidelined.

Its only after people started praising him immensely as a character and Parth's performance and demanded more of him, storytelling started from his POV. Parth is immensely charming and fab emoting with eyes.

Erica's acting also failed to connect initially..She has some bland expressions and bad dialogue delivery. especially in the first week

IMG credit: twitter

Her stans need not come after me as I am no hater and started watching this show as a neutral impressed by posters and trailer. Noone's fan.But just staing what I noticed. If she did good in KPRAB?, good for her..My opinion is only formed after watching kzk2..maybe limited character sketch dampened her spirits. Her emoting was apt when Anurag had to wipe away her tears though!

Originally posted by: TheSupergirl

I love this post 👏 very well said. Krpkab was a prime example of not actually having a story and still getting it right through execution. It just connected with u or for that matter with anyone watching, simply because it was so real n relatable.

More praise for krpkab will shut this topic down so i will end it here 😆

Originally posted by: reallygotme

The writing and execution of this show is worst even for Ekta stds! agreed!

BUT the initial episodes were veered very much towards Prerna, showing her perception on things and myriad of emotions.Anurag was totally sidelined.

Its only after people started praising him immensely as a character and Parth's performance and demanded more of him, storytelling started from his POV. Parth is immensely charming and fab emoting with eyes.

Erica's acting also failed to connect initially..She has some bland expressions and bad dialogue delivery. especially in the first week

IMG credit: twitter

Her stans need not come after me as I am no hater and started watching this show as a neutral impressed by posters and trailer. Noone's fan.But just staing what I noticed. If she did good in KPRAB?, good for her..My opinion is only formed after watching kzk2..maybe limited character sketch dampened her spirits. Her emoting was apt when Anurag had to wipe away her tears though!

Originally posted by: --Jenny2017--

Hey lumos 😉 Good to see you in the 'Supergirl' avatar 😆

@Bold- Hmm, I'm not sure what exactly you meant there 😆 I mean, the show obviously had a concrete storyline. But as you say, it most certainly was very real and rarely felt like an on-screen fictional show.

You're right, we need to stop with KRPKAB now 😆 The moderators might be lurking around 😉