Got to agree with Charu as well as Zoya, Soundarya and Subashni.😆
The bulk leave by both leads may be expected to cause a lot more work and planning required on the technical front.
But the fact is that the leave can be denied to either or both leads for having been short notice or not doable at that point, or the leave could even have been given for shorter duration. It was not.
So if the PH gave one or both leads the asked-for leave, it's rather hypocritical to then leave the leads undefended for taking inconveniently timed leave.
Either don't give the leave at all or of the duration being asked for, or give the leave and then don't stand back and keep quiet while comments are made about how unprofessional it was to take the leave.
Actors asked for leave. They presumably didn't take it by force.
Also this and previous tracks have not been successful even with both leads available. So why imply that the track would be different - and more successful (unlike the last many months and tracks) - if both leads were available?
The previous 'jailed' track was with both leads available.
So it's not as if the CVs put the male lead in jail or hospital if he's going to be absent, unlike most serials.
Rather, here it seems to be a habituated idiotic idea incorporated into every alternate track, with the bizarre misconception that the character's whose charisma gained popularity would somehow be better effective completely against his popular characterization.
If the CVs utilize the male lead in jail scenes for tracks predictably sure to be mass-unappealing, then less or more of mass-unappealing scenes won't wreck the track any worse than it would be otherwise.
And consecutive tracks have been presented in a shoddy totally viewership-lacking way month after month, even when both leads were totally available.
Duplicate track was good so long as the married male lead was fighting it out with the imposter.
But when they tried out the duplicate-swapping track here, with their favoured option of ensuring that the male lead when not residing at home is either hospitalized or jailed, they pretty much guaranteed the track's TRP-disfavour as in the same inadequate range as previous tracks.
If the track is written better, it will do better even if leads are on leave.
If it's written otherwise, both leads in every scene are unlikely to make the episode a better watch or salvage adequate viewership.
Edited by leelaa9 - 11 years ago