Kavya, RK is not being illogical now. He became illogical weeks back to make this entire track possible.
He ceased to be the person majority of TRP-audience could relate to when he accepted the heroine-centric story.
Junoon with the level of stupidity he was conveniently shown with at that point - wasting his money on a film-story that from the very start was guaranteed to be useless for his intended purpose - was a gambit that fell flat.
Watching an endeavour where the path's start itself ensures that only defeat is at the end is not a luring or motivating point for the mass-viewership, and we got the resultant inadequate TRP that showed their disinterest and proved the track as not worthwhile in massive viewership terms.
People will accept excuses and explanations for an ongoing track if they care about the reason that will be accomplished by the process.
But the only viewership that really wants stardom track are all of us already watching and managing only 2+ TRP spectrum's lower half. It's not enough for a track in a high-budget series to be continued.
And the majority-audience has no interest in seeing the female lead becoming heroine, and they have never supported any track which shows RK majboor in any way to make any other character look better or greater.
When a male superstar invests his money and stakes his house on a film-story that will focus on an undecided heroine, and the series is about the female lead coming into the limelight because of the male lead, it does not take genius to understand that the film being financed will not only not help RK's career at all but will kickstart Madhu's star career in a way designed to ensure he would get no credit for her becoming star since she would be doing it to help him.
So she would not only be the one benefitting at his expense, but it would be unintended by both of them - a bitter ending assured weeks in advance.
There was no way in the world he would not end up overshadowed when he agreed to do a lesser role at his own expense in his first production, basically making an inadvertent public statement that he was not willing to risk his own money on an RK-centric film.
There was nothing unexpected about his being overshadowed. It was basic sense that this would be the result the very moment that Mehul said 'woman-oriented story' for a film which was supposed to secure RK's stardom, and RK was shown stupid enough to agree.
He was even given a grandiose statement (that he would be the star despite such a story) which apparently failed to convince anyone who wasn't inclined to accept reasoning for track that was anyway not to the mass-audience tastes.
His current stupidities are nothing new, very much in the same mould as all the stupidities he was shown conveniently doing to ensure the prolonging of the previous track, and the start and existence of this entire track.
So viewership is the one thing that is not a concern. We are not giving enough TRP for the CVs to worry about if any of the current viewership stops watching. And the things that majority-audience likes do manage to get good TRP, since the major point is not showing just one of the leads helpless in every consecutive track, and every subplot does not have both leads actions predictable weeks in advance as being detrimental to their stated intent and also - far more detrimental to the series TRP viewership - not to the tastes of the mass-audience who have repeatedly proven they can keep a series going in outstanding success even without any fandom.
Edited by leelaa9 - 11 years ago
Advocate Anjali Awasthi
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