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I am not going to write any more daily analysis. I don't think it is worth it, what with the show ending in next 2 weeks. Now my only analysis of the show will come at the end of it. But I have made this post for something else. To share some experience of soap watching in last couple of years and lessons I have learnt.
Whenever a serial is ending maybe prematurely we always bash the channel, PH etc. But think about it logically. TRP is needed for a show and if the investment is more if the TRP doesn't come in then the ROI suffers. And this affects the bottomline. No channel wants to do this. Shows like EHT and BD are ahead of its time. Much much ahead. Because the people who will watch them cant watch it at that slot or for that matter in TV.
We are an online community and maybe we have preference at home. We can take remote at home. But that is not the case everywhere. I still remember the days when howmuch ever I want to watch a show, my mom will have 2-3 other shows at that time. Grandpa and grandma too will have their preferences. In reality it was like 7-10 the remote passed between mom, grandma, grandpa and papa with their shows and then news. Evening will be what we get or late night post 10:30 that too after second tv came and it was installed in the first floor. There too fight was there. Sports for brother, movie, songs or show for me. So I didn't even know what was running in TV for most of the time around 10 years back.
Now we know, because of internet. We can watch shows online. On computer or on smartphones. But we constitute hardly 15-20% of the total population in India. The vast majority are still in the condition I mentioned above. Fighting for a TV remote and most occasions not able to get it. They might watch online, watching in TV is still a difficult proportion for youngsters. Imagine a house hold with dada , dadi , mama, papa single TV. On 8:30 between Udaan and BD, dadi will take Udaan. She is elder and she needs to be respected. Because BD is something they cant relate to. For e.g it took me 2 weeks to convince my mom to watch BD. But Zee TVs Ek Tha Raja, Ek thi Rani with one epi she was convinced. Both are love stories, but the second one has put the TRP ingredient also into it. That show has a feel for youngsters, but yet elders will sit because at the onset itself they have introduced the all powerful Rajmatha Priyamvadha and Badi Rani.
Women watching the TV show needs power equations. I mean the real female antagonist in the show. It's not our need, but TRP audience need. They need to connect to the emotion of the female protoganist. Her fight. So it has to put in their plane or rather the plane of vast majority out there.
It's true but a sad truth. So will this change. Yes it will. But it will take time. When the online medium is equally monetizing as TV. When the online audience can call shots where the TV rating + Online rating decide the fate of the show, where the show might continue online if not in TV. But for that to happen it will take another 5-10 years.
So what should we do now. Instead of bashing SP and PH enjoy whatever is left of the show. Be happy that the show is ending and is not getting butchered for TRP. Yes it might have a rushed ending, but if it extends does anyone of you here wants triangle, rectangle, marry, remarry, hidden baby and complications or do you want some moments which you can recall fondly whenever you think about the show. I want the latter for any show I watch.
EHT gives me that feel, I watch epi again and again in hotstar. I watch the dubbed version in Malayalam, because it ended prematurely, rushed but then it ended rightly also, with the right message. Not with sacrifice business, not with 2 sisters running behind the same guy, not with the rape victim forced to marry the rapist as that is the most honourable thing to do. It still lingers and it will linger for years to come, telling that was a different show.
Look at DABH, it was a beautiful story. I remember watching episodes again and again online. But today the way the show has gone, I don't even feel like watching the old episodes. Will DABH be remembered the same way as EHT. Answer is no. It will be remembered as a masterpiece tampered.
And SNS, ye rishta and all will be remembered whenever people want to have a nice laugh.
Where you want to fit BD. If it is in the EHT category let us allow it to end it with dignity. I would say honorable death , than bleed it with unnecessary twists and turn for TRP so that finally we ourselves will tell end the show and TRP aunty might be watching š
So please give a good farewell to BD. Let the lasting impression of this show be such that we watch it again and again online
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