MM, for the prophecy to be torpedoed, the CVs would have to avoid the angle of 'RK overshadowed in the movie he staked his house and money to make for the main purpose of securing and proving his stardom'.
If they do that, and show RK and Madhu both getting appreciated for the film, then how will they show some depressing conflict and bizarre jealousy?
Whether RK loses his money *and* his superstar-position, or loses only his superstar-position by being overshadowed by his wife, his magnificent streak of every variety of disaster possible (kudos to the CVs) now further added to will make that guruji proudly say "I told you so."
The whole overshadowing idea is negative and unnecessary, as if the writers are determined to let nothing good in this story be untainted.
A male star can be a star for a 30-year stretch into his 50s. A female star needs to get along with a heck of a lot of people to be in the reckoning for even half that duration.
And with Mehul's enthusiastic 'superstar RK is back' at the last shoot, they have glossed over Mehul's insistence on the heroine-centric film idea, leaving Madhu holding the gun as the person who advised RK to risk his money on a story that would not serve.
He was stupid enough to waste his money on a story guaranteed from the very start to downgrade his career, while being a husband whose acquiescence or lack thereof - be it about the film or the pregnancy - is far too convenient to the track's requirements.
So if he now is equally unreasonable in his attitude to her, it's just going to be a case of 'too damn late'.
If only he had refused her advice sooner and stuck with his first decision of not hiring Mehul Chopra, he would have safely retired with his hard-earned fortune unrisked and his stardom legacy safe.
He would have been a former superstar, his wealth unrisked on a transparently backfiring venture, and the ban would no longer have mattered.
He took advice he should have had the basic sense not to, and became a supporting actor at his own expense, to benefit the director and heroine who had not even been decided.
And when the director used his paralysis as the reason to get him sidelined in the remaining 40% of the film, he didn't even insist the story be worked around.
He has had very convenient reactions throughout - be it to his film, his role, his child -, but which have unfortunately for the CVs clunk-run received an inconvenient lack of mass-appreciation and sympathy-TRP contrary to the CVs hopes.
They chose to package the heroine track not positively to showcase Madhu's debut gloriously as a glad thing but rather with a depressingly defeatist tilted base of ludicrous majbooris, that too for a track that already has its entire interested viewership already in place and not the potential of getting several crores of mass-audience to get interested and therefore only the minimal expenditure on the 'film' sets and scenes, whereas there were multiple outdoor shoots for the nivaaran scenes because those had at least the slight chance of increasing viewership.
We have a couple that has provenly managed that together and in-character, they can get 3+ TRP month after month even with comparatively boring tracks.
If the CVs had bothered to remember that, and used that couple in-character without a boatload of increasing majbooris that were so unbelievable that they evoked no concern, we could have got 3+ again, and more logistical backing for this 'filming' so that the entire film wouldn't have got wrapped on a more meagre scale than proportionately comparative RK's individual film-shoots in the past.
You were right, the way this 'film' has been done, any future 'films' we may similarly just hear of the starting, ongoing and completion of with probably not even a scene of an actual shoot.
That is the downside of a high-budget show with popular and deservedly highly-paid leads in a track that has only niche attraction, if the writers won't take the mass-audience into account enough to get the TRP safe.
If they stop experimenting and keep it positive, they may stop demotivating mass-audience with the promise of conflict and depression which is fun the first time, endured the second time, and listless inadequately-mediocre-TRP-getting from the third time onward.
The couple together united as the backdrop, and the focus on the equivalent non-competitive stardom of both. Any very popular non-conflicting couple who unitedly face external odds invariably manage minimum of 3+ TRP. And that TRP could get us an actual 'film' track for a few months, rather than what they just zipped through as the mere excuse for couple-fighting. All that is hope, and in the category of 'wishes were horses' and 'castles in the sand'. The CVs will manage the least positive take, have full faith in them.
Edited by leelaa9 - 11 years ago
