I have been watching the forum descend into a bit of a battle zone over the last few days and it looks like this might be just the first of many battles to come. I’ve finally read many of the comments at on various thread and wanted to say the following:
- People need to stop fooling themselves that Kasauti 1 was this amazing show. I’ve heard some of the stories and it is full of inconsistencies, bad writing sometimes, good writing other times, good actors and bad actors, good storylines and bad storylines. This is not it’s fault. It is humanly impossible to make a show run for 5 days a week, every week for 7 years consistently good. So we don’t need to constantly fight this battle that kasauti 1 is better than Kasauti 2 or vice versus. Everyone needs to accept that you may have liked kasauti 1 or currently like Kasautii 2 for a specific reason or a specific relationship and leave it at that.
- Indian series are ensemble pieces where everyone has to play a strong role not least because the leads may go on holiday, become sick, its boring to always focus on the same two people constantly etc etc. So a series can’t survive on just the leads. For example yesterday’s episode was a totally AnuPrelicous episode but almost everyone spends ages appreciating the scene of Veena, Prerna mom. However, the reality is that failures tend to be blamed on there leads, but successes are shared. None is going to say Kasautii 2 isn’t working because veena is bad but they will say it works and is successful because in addition to anupre, we also have good ensemble actors. This is the same with TRP, when it’s low it will be anupres fault and when it high it will be the ensembles work.
- The idea of Komolika (for all that many people didn’t think hina played the role well) was and is a hit. There are so many memes about her and even comedians like Kisha Kapila are doing Komolika based skits. I think the writers got Komolika 2 wrong for two reasons (1) they did not take into account the surprise incredible popularity of anupre and (2) they went with a lot of the old fashioned storyline of blackmail, pregnancy etc which are such archaic concepts. No one thinks or accept these sort of stories anymore because India has changed, even the TRP aunties. If they had gone for a different Komolika - one who was politically motivated and wanted revenge for her sister or even had a crush on anurag - they could have kept her for ages yet! Why did she have to be reduced to this caricature whose only interest was anurag? Is this all women are?
- Bajaj is coming and he is here stay. We need to get used to it. But does it have to always a fight for prerna? Why can’t the story be about more than marriages and remarriage and cheating and blackmail. In this day and age of Netflix and some crazy amazing serials why are we still stuck in the dark ages? I hope the writers learn from the Komolika experience and make bajaj an interesting character and create a story that has more than circles and circles of cheap drama.
