Chashmish.....Like really...this show..Argghhhh? - Page 3

Originally posted by: ovaltine

From the few serials that I have watched or read updates on occasion, I have come to realize that
1) Its all a business for serial producers and TV channels.
2) A highly viewed show attracts advertising revenue.
3) A TV channel will commission a serial from a production house and keep the serial on air as long as revenue is generated.
4) Apparently the Indian viewers love these "proved and tested regressive story lines". Viewers actually tune in to watch the serial when such drama or storylines are shown.
5) The Indian population is very large and there is a huge population that supports the viewership of Indian serials.Some for time pass, some lovers of 'distress of others' , some just for drama , escape from mundane real life, some hopeful romantic idealists who live for insignificant romantic gestures between protagonists. Though the only real union of lead pairs occurs at the end of the serial before it goes off air and some purely for discussion sake with friends and family.

The sad part is that prolonged exposure to such serials has long term effects on the mentality of the viewers. They come to believe its real characters and some behaviours seen on TV become acceptable.

6) Serials are not used as a teaching or reaching out media. It doesn't generate enough revenue to stay on air.

If you were a business person out to make a profit and this is a formula that generates revenue, what would you do? Its all about money, money, money.

But for whatever reasons for watching, members of IF who come to this forum like to discuss and express their opinions and interact with each other. Some feel euphoria others disgust. No one if wrong and no one is right. Everyone has their niche and find their own circle of friends.

Happy watching, reading and discussing.

Originally posted by: Mohini19

How many times did different people use this word in today's episode? Inspector, constables, Abhi, Tannu, Alia.

Give the viewers a break. And writers, for goodness sake, you need to know when to stop.

I can't believe this show is climbing the TRP ladder. Majority of the characters in this show are already so annoying:

Abhi- The cheap good for nothing grandson and husband
Pragya- Is she really a college professor? What kinda of a role model, if any, can such a teacher be for her students?
Alia- Educated my foot. Her education taught her to scheme and scheme.
Sarla- Parents like her are the reason why kids suffer. And by the way, I am sick of watching shows where the lead actress has to tolerate nonsense so that her mom/dad doesn't get a hear attack.
Abhi's dadi- Someone slap this old woman so that he can wake up from her slumber and know the real face of her grand kids (Abhi, Alia, Rachna's would-be kid's father etc.)
Tannu- The useless good for nothing model.
Bulbul- still hiding the truth from her mother and asking Suresh to hide it too.

Oh well, the entrepreneur Ekta Kapoor churning one crap after another out of her trash bag, fooling the Indian audiences (they don't deserve any better, LOL), and continuing her crappy daily soap business.

Originally posted by: -Tia-

See they want to build up the drama- make it very dramatic. They want to make Abhi do all sorts of nonsense so that they can later bring out his guilt equally dramatic. They want Pragya to suffer like hell so that she gets all the sympathy from the viewers.

These shows are never about nuances. But about high voltage drama as they say. I would still say this show is better than the couple of other shows I watched in terms of treating the female characters, abusing males and the audacity of vamps.