Manmohini these days... - Page 22

Originally posted by: Hallyumint

You haven't heard of Kyunki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi or Kahaani ghar ghar ki. They lasted for 10 years !

I remember watching shows like Bold & Beautiful Santa Barbara. They went on for 30 years.

I've now gotten out of the habit if watching soap operas.

Well let's see if u can break free of the addiction of Manmohini or not.

Yes, I heard of those Hindi serials. I think Kabhi Saas Kabhi Bahu Thi was on long before I ever started watching Indian TV and Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki, I think, was on about 10 years back. And I know about Bold and the Beautiful and Santa Barbara along with other American soap operas. I am trying to keep myself away from Manmohini as much as possible. I think I am best off watching comedy shows as well as music and dance shows, game shows, religious shows and news shows. At least those are not toxic for the most part.

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/151372512

Give me your opinion. Which of the three photographs look better. I can't decide

Originally posted by: Hallyumint

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/151372512

Give me your opinion. Which of the three photographs look better. I can't decide

Even I can not decide which looks better. They all look very good! 😊😊

Originally posted by: skanthan

Even I can not decide which looks better. They all look very good! 😊😊

That doesn't help at all !

Pick the best mo pick pls.

Originally posted by: Hallyumint

That doesn't help at all !

Pick the best mo pick pls.

The third one.

Originally posted by: skanthan

You made my day with that first sentence! 😆 Yes, I got trolled big time as did all the people who got sucked into watching Anamika. 😆 I always have said it would have been better if the Anamika serial had been with Anamika (as the actual main lead, and not a side character), Jeet and Rano through until the end. The initial episodes were good, but should have been much better. And yes, if Anamika was a webseries, or was produced by the writers of Aahat, it would have been much better! As for MTV and SAB, I do not have those channels on my channel line up. The Indian channels I have on my line up are the following Hindi channels, namely, ZeeTV, AapKa Colors, AndTV, B4U, SonyTV and NDTV along with three Punjabi channels, one Indian Tamil channel and one Sri Lankan Tamil channel.

I know the feeling. I had the same experience beginning of Nazar you remember. Then i schooled everyone really nicely. 😈 They gave me a wide berth after that 😆.

When i saw Anamika i found that tho everyone was of the same age group Jeet looked kiddish onscreen in front of Anamika. I’m not a fan either of the 2 women fighting for one guy trope. Instead of vamps i’d like a good balance of guys in serials too. More than supernatural the focus was more on saas bahu. Till date I couldn’t find a decent supernatural soap that dispensed with that until Aahat , Achanak 37 saal baad , Nazar, DD.

I like the love story of Abhir & Mishti in Yeh Rishta... I would have watched it had it been a modern story restricted to our 4 couples minus the family backdrop. There are a lot of serial’s that have interesting stories but for me they need to be in a modern setting. Take our Manmohini. It would do wonders as web series in a different genre.

The channels you mentioned are a good line up. Sab some programs you can watch on YouTube.

Originally posted by: skanthan

Yes, I heard of those Hindi serials. I think Kabhi Saas Kabhi Bahu Thi was on long before I ever started watching Indian TV and Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki, I think, was on about 10 years back. And I know about Bold and the Beautiful and Santa Barbara along with other American soap operas. I am trying to keep myself away from Manmohini as much as possible. I think I am best off watching comedy shows as well as music and dance shows, game shows, religious shows and news shows. At least those are not toxic for the most part.

For what’s it’s worth I’m struggling with the addiction called Nazar. When they went the saas bahu route i tried quitting several times unsuccessfully. It didn’t help i had to recap the series. Thankfully they finished that track & went back to purely supernatural format.

6 years back i was stuck in that same grind of frustration & entertainment. So i searched worldwide for entertainment suitable for me. I finally settled on korean dramas I haven’t looked back & have been very peaceful since. Then when I came back to Itv here were a no of shows which showed the same format. I dropped those but Nazar I wasn’t able to drop.

So I know what its like to get caught in that trap. That’s why i was saying it will be difficult to stay away. Manmo tho should come back on track in a couple of days.

Till then yes watching other shows would be great for peace of mind.

Have you heard of this show reporters from sony tv ?

Originally posted by: skanthan

Yes, I was interested in Japan and it's culture once upon a time and still do enjoy some things from Japanese culture once in a while. Actually in the time I was getting drawn towards India and it's culture along with Hinduism, I did also read up a lot on East Asian cultures, mainly Japanese culture, as well and even tried to learn Japanese and Chinese, but could not as I found those much too difficult to learn. Whenever I watched Japanese period dramas or cartoons, I watched them with subtitles as I know very little Japanese. Other cultures I took interest in were other cultures of South Asia as well as the Filipino culture, the Hawaiian culture, the British and Irish culture the Ukrainian culture, - my heritage is from Ireland, Scotland, England and Ukraine. - the indigenous cultures from the Americas and a bunch of others. But now in the area of cultures, my main interest is in South Asia. And I love trying food from different cultures. I really enjoy Indian food, particularly Punjabi food, Gujarati food, Bengali food and South Indian food, as well as Pakistani/Mughlai food, Sri Lankan food, some Filipino food, some Japanese food and finally the next best things to Indian food, namely Chinese food, both the Indo-Chinese food and the real authentic Chinese food as well as pizza.

So you come from a mixed heritage.

Mine isn't that glamorous. My grandparents are from Pakistan All my family are hindus. My mom & me are Christians.

How do u go researching these different cultures?

I wouldn't be surprised if you were an anthropologist.

👧🏻 Me my interest initially in Japan stemmed from the anime & manga side of things. Their culture is really fascinating. As a kid when my family moved to Germany i was cut off from my country. It was cold & lonely. Then i saw this anime Sailor Moon. That was good company for me.

Years back when i was dissatisfied with the condition of Itv. I looked world wide for entertainment suitable for me. I was hungering for a good story you see i didn't want a soap opera.

I first went to Pakistani dramas It was short they were modern they had good stories to tell. But it was only about family dramas. I wanted something lighter something wacky. To explore different emotions. And if i maybe honest not something conservative.

American shows. They have some good shows but then again too many seasons always ends on a cliffhanger. Romance is never satisfactory. They either have a problem with themselves or an ex pops up so they break up. All the characters something bad keeps happening to them. I couldn't relate to any of the characters etc

Then i went the telenovelas of different cultures including Filipinos. The leads had a good romance going they united early then the separation happened then it went full blown soap opera.

Then i found South Asians dramas & i felt right at home. There was freedom to explore different genres. It was strictly story based not soap opera. It was short. Most of the times the ending was satisfactory. I also enjoyed the romances there. There were no families involved. The forums were great too. Everyone enjoyed discussing what they liked what they didn't like analysing the characters. There was actual character growth shown etc

And that's my Story 🤷‍♀️

Originally posted by: Hallyumint

I know the feeling. I had the same experience beginning of Nazar you remember. Then i schooled everyone really nicely. 😈 They gave me a wide berth after that 😆.

When i saw Anamika i found that tho everyone was of the same age group Jeet looked kiddish onscreen in front of Anamika. I’m not a fan either of the 2 women fighting for one guy trope. Instead of vamps i’d like a good balance of guys in serials too. More than supernatural the focus was more on saas bahu. Till date I couldn’t find a decent supernatural soap that dispensed with that until Aahat , Achanak 37 saal baad , Nazar, DD.

I like the love story of Abhir & Mishti in Yeh Rishta... I would have watched it had it been a modern story restricted to our 4 couples minus the family backdrop. There are a lot of serial’s that have interesting stories but for me they need to be in a modern setting. Take our Manmohini. It would do wonders as web series in a different genre.

The channels you mentioned are a good line up. Sab some programs you can watch on YouTube.

That two women fighting over one guy/two guys fighting over one gal is there in soap operas all throughout the world and across all genres. As for Anamika, I remember so many times in the comments sections of the Anamika videos on YouTube, I got trolled, harassed, bullied etc by Rano, Chhavi and Jeet fans simply for liking Anamika even though I never said anything to them about Rano, Chhavi or Jeet. They do not understand that even some of the Anamika fans also loved Rano as in spite of we found her annoying sometimes. In fact, I felt sad both when Rano died and when Anamika died. 😭 But Anamika dying hurt me more. Anamika was not even wrong, though much of what she did was wrong. The real villains in that whole situation were Maharani Vasundhara/Chhavi (???) and Raja Ranvijay Singh/Jeet. Anamika should have gotten justice. Anamika at least had an excuse for her actions. She was cursed! 😡

As for supernatural, I think that in the old days of Indian culture, there was not much in the area of horror/supernatural, though the Ramayan and other stories from ancient Indian/Hindu history all have a mix of genres in them, even some horror/supernatural and the horror/supernatural genre is a recent phenomenon in South Asian culture. If only the Anamika serial had been with Anamika, Jeet and Rano through until the end and the story focused more on Anamika and her story, her past etc and less on everyone else, had Anamika acting alone in her ventures to woo Jeet in stead of the addition of those other characters, namely Shaitaan, Patalika, Chandaal which completely spoiled Anamika's character, then it could have been a superhit and by this time, Anamika Season 2 and even Anamika Season 3 would have been come and gone.

I have noticed in many of these serials that traditional, simple an/or uneducated girls were always shown as being good, cultured etc, whereas more modern, educated and/or glamorous type girls were shown as evil, i.e.: Simple, meek, and immature Rano was shown to be good while modern and glamorous Anamika was shown as evil. I guess it goes back to a prehistoric mindset that women/girls are evil, bad luck etc. I would love to see that mindset change and that there is an equal balance between males and females all throughout the world, across genres etc.

And yes, the channels I have are a very good line up! If only StarPlus had not been discontinued in Canada, I would have watched Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. I also had another channel, Big Magic International as well, but that was discontinued 4 or 5 years back.

Originally posted by: Hallyumint

For what’s it’s worth I’m struggling with the addiction called Nazar. When they went the saas bahu route i tried quitting several times unsuccessfully. It didn’t help i had to recap the series. Thankfully they finished that track & went back to purely supernatural format.

6 years back i was stuck in that same grind of frustration & entertainment. So i searched worldwide for entertainment suitable for me. I finally settled on korean dramas I haven’t looked back & have been very peaceful since. Then when I came back to Itv here were a no of shows which showed the same format. I dropped those but Nazar I wasn’t able to drop.

So I know what its like to get caught in that trap. That’s why i was saying it will be difficult to stay away. Manmo tho should come back on track in a couple of days.

Till then yes watching other shows would be great for peace of mind.

Have you heard of this show reporters from sony tv ?

When did Nazar revert back to purely supernatural? I stopped watching because I did not like that witches were always shown to be evil, when many of them are not evil at all! Yes, I did hear of Reporters, but I did not watch it. What was that show like? And even I hope that Manmohini will return to normal soon. And even now, I am still staying away aside from reading the written updates.