Originally posted by: .annihilation.
RESERVED YAAY! This might take a little while to edit since I got so much to say. Now, off to reading your post.
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This might get a bit too lengthy but please kindly bare with me. 😆
Tia, your place is a safe haven for us all. <3 I don't know how this forum is like outside of your topics but I choose your place to talk than make myself my own topic because I was certain this is the best place to do so and worth the wait. Thank you for being such an incredible torch bearer to us all! 🤗 Another thing I absolutely love about this place other than you, your views or your commentary is how this placed is full of amazing views. Usually, any thread that goes beyond, say 6-8 pages, either an Appreciation thread or a thread that has transformed itself into a battle ground but yours can cross 30+ pages and it'll have such good material to read. I can't help but go through the entire thread and go on 'liking' because each post (may be different in views) but has something good to offer.
I have always wondered what the writers must be smoking? Or what makes them write the way they do? Why are they so utterly confused about their own show and its characters but an epiphany of sorts dawned upon me after yesterday's episode. (Yeah, kinda too late there. 😆) I always assumed that the writers are probably unsure of their own characters, how to shape them up and how to take the story forward in a way that brings them TRPs, keeps the channel happy and at the same time keep the audiences glued. And thus, so much of chaos and confusion. BUT OH NO. 😳
If they can write a family of characters; Bose family and write a family of characters; Dixit family and on innumerable occasions and instances themselves show the contrast (boils down to toxic vs non-toxic) between the two families so well then, what stops them from writing Ishwari and Dev in a way they should be? 😳 The answer is the writers are doing it all on purpose. Intentionally. Consciously. Deliberately. Willingly. THAT is exactly where I fail to understand what they're trying to achieve through it or what are they trying to convey through their show?
Might be easier said than done but for a moment, I'll put myself in their shoes and see what I would do with the show. Lets say, I have a story full of flawed characters and my story aims at a blend of realism and idealism within the boundaries of a fictional world.
Through Ishwari, they wanted to establish that they're mothers, women and human beings like hers out there. Okay, check.
Through Dev, they wanted to establish that they're sons out there whose top priority are their mothers and they value mother-s0n relationship to the utmost. Okay, check.
Through Sonakshi, they wanted to establish what happens to the dynamic between a mother and son who are bound by the toxic love and relationship that they share when a woman whose everything Ishwari is not enters their lives. Okay check.
Through DevAkshi's story they wanted to establish what a complicated and complex web relationships are and can be and if such relationships (love, familial, everything included) can stand the test of people, time and fate and if yes, then how. If how then what's the way to go about doing it in such a way that it still conveys a universal message of 'united we stand, divided we fall'. Okay, check.
With a season 2, they had the perfect opportunity, chance and scope to shape their characters in such a way that those who despised Ishwari could start connecting to her again, those who loathed Dev could start falling for him again, those who doubted Sonakshi could begin to understand her. There was one sure shot way to achieve this goal and it's called REDEMPTION. Sans Sonakshi and her family, I personally find every character to be a joke in this show. I see absolutely no growth, no progress, no development, no nothing in Ishwari and Dev.
Now, if I wanted my reader/viewer in a conflicted position, in a position where I'd want them to root for DevAkshi to happen, in a position where they could feel for Dev, in a position where they could sympathize with Ishwari, in a position where they'd literally be dying to sell their kidneys off if it meant a happy reunion between the two families and more importantly, DevAkshi.
What would I need to do to achieve that state? Give every flawed character, every character who has wronged the other, every character who needs it badly; redeeming qualities. Make them suffer so bad and to the degree that each one of us could just not bear it any longer and unanimously scream, 'please, stop it'. Enough. They wronged, they suffered, they redeemed themselves, it's time to give them a second chance at happiness, at love, at life.
But what's been happening in the show, it is only glorifying all that should NOT be glorified. 😳 It's either been glorifying or justifying every single thing that Dev and Ishwari say or do. They have got no sense of remorse, they feel and show no guilt, they are so goddamn blinded to their own share of faults and mistakes, they don't feel the need for introspection, retrospection and redemption, they're always going on about how others have wronged them but can't see how badly they have played with others lives. It's always I, ME and MYSELF. 🤪
Now, it's beyond me to even begin to understand or even try to root for DevAkshi's happy end. I mean, why would I want Sona to go back to Dev? In that hell hole, again? To have a second innings at toxic relationships? To try and experience another level or another kind of Hell? Unless and until, the track/story proceeds in such a manner where I get to see Dev and his family literally rot in Hell, go to the moon and back in order to win Sonakshi and Soha's love, I ain't buying this 'unconditional, undying and selfless love' Dev has for Sonakishi. Unless Dev convinces me that's dying without Soha AND Sonakshi, unless he's showing us he can't do without the TWO of them in any universe, unless he's proving himself to be worthy of Soha's father and Sonakshi's husband again, I can't make myself feel an ounce of emotion for the love of DevAkshi.
As for how Dev's character is still likeable, the show owes it all to Shaheer Sheikh. If it wouldn't have been for him, I wouldn't have felt an ounce of emotion on his ecstasy upon figuring out (like, finally!) that he's Soha's father. I CAN BET that Ishwari will be soon seen going the following,
'Jaa Dev, meri poti aur Bahu ko ghar le aa'.
She'll be reinstated to her Goddess-like status and we see get a round two of how Dev ran to Sonakshi post break up after he got momma's approval. 😆 All of my teeny weeny hopes now are on Soha. She better give Dev one hellva time in the custody battle making sure her father regrets for every single mistake of his and repents for each one of them.
PS It's amusing, really. Brain ko side mein rakh kar yeh show dekho toh comedy lagta hai aur brain ke saath dekho toh tragedy. 😳 🤣
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