Firstly thank you very much Sir? for writing this serial and also taking time to comment here. Its a fantastic show with well-grounded actors and one of a kind on Indian tv, but something you said there I cant get to terms with...
Why is it that TRPs always have to have the last word in every Indian tv production?
The show itself shouldn't feel obliged to the popular consensus if it will affect the integrity of the story. Whatever idea was established in the first instance should suffice to take the show forward without feeling the need to conform to popular custom that is seen in daily soaps. It would be a first if for once quality is given superiority rather than quantity, and this show has great potential to be of the former. Is it that channels do not appreciate content and substance over more superficial aspects such as popularity?
Why should we let Trps dictate how a story is told? People ought to be willing to embrace something that strives to be unusual and challenging irrespective of whether they appease the majority or not. The show in nature is akin to a rebel, as it presents a stark contrast with other shows that are occupied by extremely trivial story lines and repetitive cliches whilst this show has at its focus neither a romantic pairing nor a petty family drama but instead a controversial, perverse, somewhat disturbing story with divided attention split across its blend of odd characters who do seem like they have sprung from a thriller novel. Shows like these are few in number.
This show should retain its originality in so far as it is a new thing to the Indian audience and as a self-sustainable show that is free to dictate its own terms, exist on its own devices, differ from the mold and be led thus to rupture the obsession with TRPs by inventing new modes of storytelling
My plea is simply, keep true to the story and don't be swayed into reducing the initial idea. Im all for improvisation but the motive should be for the story/concept/characterizations as mapped out by its creators visions and not the race to popularity as my fear is that it will lose its novelty if it were to aim to appeal to the masses and more besides..
Thank you
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