(Non) Sense & (In) Sensibility - Page 2

it is fun to read the replies...thanks everyone! please keep them coming. tanchoo (tanu the choodail) and alvira are entertaining, i must say. poor things...getting gaali from so many! :)

on another note, while the violence in KKB appears innocuous compared to other shows, its very presence is disturbing to me. i am making a general statement so please do not take it as a condemnation for all shows...what is even more troubling to me about many desi soaps is how easily we the audience accept or are expected to accept the violence/violent ideoogy against women. the aggressive, angry young male twisting the woman's arm, or pinning her down, or bruising her is often romanticized. what concerns me are the young, impressionable girls who think this type behavior equates with passion or romance (he did it because he loves me and can't handle it). i hope the producers and writers of these shows choose to be more responsible...what message are they sending? am i totally off the cuff here?

We also need to consider when Abhi is really mad at Pragya. Their first confrontation the next day of wedding... and when they argue over if she loves Purab or not (she is wearing a red suit, him in black Tee, he says he will get independence on Aug 15), and when they come back from police station and Daadi shouts on him for the first time..he is also mad at Pragya for good.

well... all the nonsense and insensibility will continue to keep being shown, as long as it fetches the channel good trp. That unfortunately is the reality of Indian tv right now. tolerate whatever crap, they dish right now as thats whats grabbing the max eyeballs.

until there is a drop in trp for whatever reasons, the channel will force the PH to continue milking this nonsensical MU to the fullest extent.

and i agree with 0SD0.. pragya's torture is being laughed off as funny... but that doesnt make it less digestable for us to watch. Her convinient bravery (during rachna track) was intended by the writers to catch the hero's attention and the supposed dumbness which seems shocking and irritates us to no extent is mainly to prolong the love story. Pragya also is forced to stay in this marriage by whatever dumb reasons and abhi also isnt allowing her to leave... his outrage on being told right after she left to go to her mom's place.. (how dare she) and his not allowing her to call up her mom during her drunken phase.

The other 2 characters who irritate me to the core are bulbul and purab. I dont know what caused them to sacrifice their love, and spinelessly give in to the mehra siblings' demand. And now, allegedly both are suffering... 🤢 Who asked them to sacrifice in the 1st place? certainly not pragya. And now instead of clearing things up, purab the coward spinelessly runs away 😆 gawd... simply to create more drama.

All of us agree that the plot of the story (and revenge) is flimsy. This is not how a rockstar should have sought revenge from a girl like Pragya. How about just getting engaged with her, but then backing out or something? Also the story hasn't progressed much (we take one step forward, and then several backwards) so the niceness of Abhi gets lost somewhere. All said and done, like you said the actors are doing a fab job. Unlike many other Ekta Kapoor serials, this serial was packed with symbolisms and foreshadowing - so I guess they tie in the story together. None of the misunderstandings have ever been cleared yet (like for example, the kidnapping one). Also, neither of the characters have gotten past the eyelocks and allah wariyas to actually know each other's backgrounds. Its hightime, they start sharing some friendship (no love is necessary at this point) and then beginning sharing about their pasts. But well, will that ever happen in an Indian soap? God knows.Overall the tracks are comical in nature, Abhi and Pragya always cover up for their "love and concern for each other" and the vamps always fail. So, I am kind-of okay with the portrayal. It is not too negative. There were a few things I don't agree with, and I hope they show a proper redemption for it soon:

Originally posted by: -Tia-

But the way it is shown in soap does not indicate it's like that. Abhi could do worse to Pragya if his intention was to physically hurt her. He gets forced to do things for her such as decorate with her or to hold her hand for mehendi.. which he doesn't like. And then, he comes up with these silly ways of annoying her.

Of course it can be extrapolated and thought of that way. But I never thought Abhi is physically abusive.

Even in the dance sequences, he dropped her and all that, but they also showed she dropped him too. He fed her mirchi.. and she did too.
So, it's more a light hearted "irritating" each other than actual violence.

Tia, dropping Pragya was intentional, it could have hurt her, Abhi dropped her three times, she is lucky she didn't break her back. Add to that the public humiliation, what kind of nice human being does that? Take out his frustrations in private if he has to but what he did was uncalled for. Poking her was not funny, he was being an idiot. Her staying on in a marriage in a contract that he contrived one-sided is irrelevant to his behavior and cannot be cited as an excuse. He doesn't take marriage seriously, he wants a temporary contract to teach Pragya a lesson and then wants to waltz out of it with his bird brain GF. The fact that Pragya is not of the same mind set and takes the institution of marriage a little more seriously then him if not for herself but for others around her is not her fault and cannot be a loophole for Abhi to escape censure.

It is such portrayal of men under the guise of comedy or nok jhok or even love not yet realized that encourage impressionable girls to harbor under the misconception that strong armed tactics are okay as long as the man "loves" them. This is what continues to perpetrate the belief that women are the weaker sex and men esp husbands can do what they want and get away with it. It takes far more strength to be gentle and controlled than being immaturely sadistic and violent.

Originally posted by: soapwatcher1

It is such portrayal of men under the guise of comedy or nok jhok or even love not yet realized that encourage impressionable girls to harbor under the misconception that strong armed tactics are okay as long as the man "loves" them. This is what continues to perpetrate the belief that women are the weaker sex and men esp husbands can do what they want and get away with it. It takes far more strength to be gentle and controlled than being immaturely sadistic and violent.

I really wish some Jane Austen fan group sues ekta kapoor and balajiroduction I am very being serious!!! Frankly I don't watch the show anymore I have to admit that I am a shabbir fan girl whenever I read a WU on a cute scene with Shab, I watch only that scene cannot sit through anything in the episode I really cannot for exactly the same reasons you say.