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Now, the ratings of this show are really good, but on the contrary they aren't stellar considering the usual standard of ekta shows and given the ridiculous amount of promotion star plus invested into this show unlike any channel ever has for any show, you would think this show would continuously be at least in top 10, but instead it only recently got into top 10. I was wondering why the show hasn't took off that much unlike ekta's other shows she has done and that are on air right now?
Then the only reason that I could find why kasauti would be lackluster or average in ratings compared to her other shows would be simply, that people are aware of the baseline story of kasauti as it is a reboot of the original and the show was promoted to have kept the same flavour of star crossed lovers anupre for this season.
I thought about myself and my mother here. I refused to watch this show and ridiculed the idea of it being remade on social media when the remake was announced. I thought "Why on earth is this shit being remade again? A show where the main couple are split up and paired with other people and have multiple marriages and kids... why would anybody in their right mind want to watch this crap again?"
My mother who also watched the original to a certain point gave up and regretted watching the show. When she got to know the remake, her response didn't stop at an eye-roll, and rightly so. She didn't understand like myself why on earth would the story of kasauti work now in 2018, even though indian tv still is regressive with illogical family dramas and emotional atrocities on female lead, indian tv to a certain extent has still gone through a change in terms of characters and story lines.
I started watching this season 2 only because I got sucked in by the anu-pre scenes I saw (despite originally laughing at erica-parth pairing before show went on air... boy did ekta prove me wrong). Mum still refuses to watch the show, but then again, I only watch online and for that reason I get to skip a lot of the crap and just watch anu-pre scenes, which you can't do if you watch on tv, so my mum refuses to watch.
So this makes me wonder whether the reason why KZK2 hasn't been gaining the stellar trp's that is usual of ekta shows, is due to the familiarity of the audience with KZK1 with perhaps the attitude of the audience now being the same as me and my mother who refuse to watch it as they know that the show will be a depressing story where the couple never end up together due to a bunch of stupid misunderstandings, end up being paired with other people and maybe much of the audience can't be bothered going through all this kasauti crap again?
Most shows where the main couple have been separated and paired with other people, the audience go into the show not knowing that the cv's will later do this. But here, the audience know beforehand that this will happen given the original season and this season being promoted as having the same story. Is this perhaps putting the audience off from watching?
