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Heya again Sonali!
You might not remember how I popped in a couple weeks ago, and then went MIA again - but anyway, I finally caught up with major bits of MB as a show - plus the finale week, and now your posts too.
Echoing everyone from Team IMV (which to me is synonymous with Team MB, really) the finale was a let down. It was literally like wiping the slate clean of the months that had been telecast, the layers to IMV's character suddenly all demolished, and what we get in return is a version of this character which almost sucks (excuse my language) a tad more than the original Ishwar. More perhaps, because we know the potential it had touched and sustained. The finale was like we were expected to assume and absorb that the months in between never happened. They might as well have never transformed Ishwar to IMV, if we were going to get the same loser back, sans his motivation to fight and become something too! This Ishwar is the too good to be humanly true version, and the only appeal in 'Ishwar' his anguish which raised him from ground zero is also done away with - why would anyone, anyone at all, wish to find IMV razed down to this?
Frankly, I didn't have enough time, and maybe even heart, to get as attached to this show as some of you. But I know exactly what getting attached to something 'genuinely another class' is like - and the finale just left a distasteful feeling behind. Like the audience was ripped of their expectation for high class - whether the channel is responsible, or partly even the makers - it doesn't matter. I would have personally liked to see a peace descending our version of IMV - not the loss of his rich layers. He's been shown as a character that has gone on and on relentlessly in pursuit of construction to destruct the anguish, to destroy all that he considers has wronged him! But what he manages to build up in the process, what he manages to attain - not just in material and assets, but in terms of that keen acumen for life, his rationality to look at things when they aren't touching sore chords within him - basically his evolution as a character and person - there was no need to do away with any of it. I would have thought that Devaki alone would be able to give him that peace, the peace he has unknowingly sought out in vain for years and years - the peace which would calm the revenge in him, so what would remain is the wizened IMV, with a heart more close to Ishwar's!
Unfortunately, that did not happen. And no offense to lovers of any other characters, but without a rightfully deserved proper end met out to the central protagonist and his key to revival and reform, Devaki - how can an end be happy and wholesome, whatever else wrong is righted, or not?! Meh!
It was good finding out a creation like IMV on TV - although I have maintained there's tons in this show which could have done a whole lot better - but I suppose it all ends with having to live in pretense of not having seen that finale.
Aah, maybe I just added my long banter of the same grumbling that has already done several rounds on this forum - but as someone who had caught up on the show so late, and at such a crash course speed - I felt I owed this one full and final comment.
All that aside - reading your posts has been very interesting Sonali - thank you for sticking around and doing them up 👏 The first reason I even started watching the show, was after reading a handful of your threads =) So take that for yourself, you did infuse that spirit of love for the show on this forum, enough to intrigue sheer outsiders like me =)
Nuf' said!
xx
JZee
*edit* fixed typos, ishh!
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