Originally posted by: Pancham101
Hi..
All daily soaps, be it American or Indian are at best formulaic, right? They are not meant for us to make sense of. I don't know how it was with Ankita and Sushant. I suspect their love story transcended the reel life and kept viewers glued. And then they had the whole Maharastrian crowd. I too love the Maharashtrian feel to the serial!
...I started watching Pavitra Rishta only after the Dec. leap. And what made me sit up and pay attention were Arjun and Purvi. I think, they too went beyond the written word and their real life understanding shone through! The sacrifice angle was going to be shown right after the Arjun-Ovi engagement. They scrapped that to capitalize on the ArVi chemistry for a few more episodes and use a few more oft repeated formulae. The writing never aspired to be more than that. I have seen requests by all you stalwarts of PR for fresher sub-plots that never came! And that is what, sadly we have to accept. We are expecting more within this format which is a daily soap!!
We are now being subjected to the love triangle formula, which apparently keeps viewers enthralled because they want to know who ends up together. But for some of us, it leads to so much heartache. Oh, but, don't they have us right where they want us? And not to forget the Gujarati crowd! By all means lets get their votes too.
After the great debacle of PR, the wedding - the beautifully shot anguish of Arjun and Purvi is what remains for us romantic fools and the writing on the wall (pun unintended) says there is no way out of it in the near future unless we are able to make a clean break from this show😒
You are right, in some ways, they do have us where they want. Quite a few of us had vowed to quit PR after the wedding fiasco, but yet, we are still here. Not enthralled at all with the current triangle, disgusted more like it, but cannot seem to get detached. That is our problem, I guess.
The ARVI story after the engagement, was nothing unique, as we were reminded, again and again, that it is a rehash of Armaan story, but what was different is the freshness that Rithvik and Asha brought to it. They made it so enthralling and beautiful, which hooked us line and sinker, so to say. It led us to believe it is more than the run of the mill and that the beauty would be retained. They showed us good, didn't they, with the wedding fiasco. Yet, the romantic fools, that we are, cannot seem to let go of them.
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