I agree with you. I really don't understand why America is always just picturized as instant success.
I guess I don't know both sides of the story, I was born in and still live in the US, and have never been to India. I can still say though, coming here does not guarantee instant success. My own parents and aunts/uncles came here in the 80s/early 90s and are now finally seeing the fruits of their labor. They've had to go through laborious jobs, long hours, lots of failures, lots of expenses and less than desirable conditions to get to where they are. It doesn't just come in a snap. Its just always frustrated me when it is portrayed that Americans have the easy life. Yes, maybe materially we are blessed, and I am very thankful for it, but we have to go through the same **** everyone else does in the world. Even if you are born here, success just doesn't come to you, I can tell you of a thousand failure stories. You have to work harrrrrrd, just like everywhere else. I'll give a personal example: In order to be one of the top ten students at our very prestigious high school (which is grades 9-12 and there are about 600 students in each year), you have to give up a lot. To stay in the top ten my own life has become a cycle of homework and studying, and the same goes for the other nine students. Yet we all do it because we want to be successful, and if you don't work hard you won't get it. Atlhough, I guess I present a bias in a sense, because to me success may be something different than it is to someone else. I guess that maybe where my family is is what the Deshmukh's and Karanjkar's would see as success, but considering that I already have it, I aim higher. Its all very subjective.
I don't have anything against people wanting to come here, but I just think that its horrible when they're shown fake things about instant success and come here only to have their dreams shattered.
On this actually related to the show: I understand that Shravani leaving him would make Sachin upset, but getting his visa rejected? Yeah, I get that he would be sad and all but come on, there must be some wonderful institutions of higher studies in India, I'm sure of it. I agree with another poster that in comparison to that Manav is certainly a stronger character, his wife left him, his family went to jail, and now his brother will be dead, but atleast he won't abandon his responsibilites towards his family (I hope). If Sachin thought of it like that, then he would realize that he is lucky to still have the freedom of opportunity even in India. He could've still studied more, gotten a nice job and home, and married his lady love. There was no need to give up like that. He wasn't responsible for feeding everyone and meeting their needs, he could have worked hard and found his success. I agree that this temporary defeat should have motivated him to do even more. Where there's a will there's a way. Sachin always seemed very jhakaas, so I think that this was just a lame excuse to add more drama.
It feels so nice to be on winter break and to be able to come make nice loooong posts on the PR forum. 😆