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Honestly speaking, I am quite surprised with the way every-one is talking about Kuch Rang being a saas-bahu drama because in all honesty, what I interpreted from the first episode till the episode telecasted on Friday has not changed. Why the sudden rage and outburst is beyond me.
The show was about a dysfunctional family and a normal family. It was suppose to follow a transition of a mature and practical love story surfacing in the life of a man who has essentially been a "mamma's boy" and had always thought about his family first.
The show started with Neha complaining about the discrimination between her and Dev's happiness when Ishwari refused to get Dev married. Her and Dev's approach towards the alliance was VERY different at that time. Dev wasn't sure if he was ready for that step in his life since marriage and thinking about himself has never been a priority for him and Ishwari wasn't ready to give Dev up because it was not a good idea for Dev to marry; a reason she kept on repeating until Natasha entered and was tied to the loss and profit of Dev's company.
So far we had Dev's journey of love evolve and him figure out that he has complete right to be himself. The current tracks focus on how Dev's two world can and cannot merge. Ishwari spent her whole life being Dev's mom and unintentionally neglecting rest of her children. Her family, her thought-process and mentality is extremely regressive. It is evident thorough Neha's upbringing and the lack of acknowledgment of her life-worries that Ishwari never learnt to stand up without the protection of a man.
She had her husband, then her brother and then her son.
Majority of Indian/South Asian families follow a dysfunctional dynamic that is usually toxic and the underlying theme of this show, from what I have interpreted; is to resonate towards building ourselves through the support of love instead of relying on love. To put it easier words and quoting Dev Dixit, "sahare ki zaroorat nahi hai, saath ki zaroorat hai."
> Dev's love for Sonakshi centers around him not just being content with her standing next to him, but needing her seal of approval on every brilliant thing he does. He puts the people close to him on a pedestal as he has put Ishwari on a pedestal of being a God.
> Ishwari has a dysfunctional and extremely toxic relationship with Dev as well where she has compartmentalize his personality. To her, Dev appears as a little boy trying to make his mother proud and besides pushing Dev to work hard, she has nothing that strikes out in her personality.
May the dynamic of a wife and mother on opposite sides make Kuch Rang appear as a Saas-bahu saga, but it has never been a saas-bahu story and never will be. So far even with minor changes in tracks here and there, the script has not wavered from the plot.
This show airing on television maybe well ahead of it's time because this show takes the regressive parts of our lives and then shows that that regression isn't good and we should move forward. Perhaps that is misinterpreted by layman viewers and that execution is the fault but the rage and anger after 80+ episodes of KRPKAB turning into a saas-bahu drama is beyond me.
If you believe otherwise, do leave your views.
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