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It amazes me as I sit down to pen this post but I couldn't help myself.
I find it ironical that the woman who I have blamed for the downfall of Indian TV' standards is today behind the show I am in love with - Yeah EK... life has its way of taking you by surprise.
Anyways, I was saying I blamed her a lot because as a kid who grew up in late 80' - early 90's I had the chance to see the metamorphosis of Indian TV to an extent as private channels were introduced in the era beginning with Zee. Those days there were no dailies but weeklies and the shows ended in a stipulated amount of time. The perks of which was a good storyline since the writers weren't forced to think of tracks beyond logic and there was no drama that went on forever.
Coming to why am I ranting all of this today - well I got thinking what is this whole Mihir- Shagun and Poornima Prakash track and somehow my mind raced back to a classic show I watched while growing up that aired on Zee called Hasratein. It evolved around the story of a fallen woman called Savi - short for Savitri - ironic how she doesn't live upto her name though.
In a nutshell this is her story - Savi is the only child of her parents - a homemaker and a music teacher, her father is somewhat a decade her mother' senior. One fine day when Savi is some 8 or 9 years old her mother elopes with a student of her husband' owing to which her dad suffers a heart attack and passes away. She is raised by her bua (dad's sis)and her husband - a childless couple as their own. She ends up hating and resenting her mom for what she did and hence lies to everyone she is dead. When Savi grows up a young man Shyam sees her and falls in love with her at first sight, without any courtship or anything he lands up at her aunt' place and declares his intentions to marry her. The marriage is fixed and there is a happily ever after or so it seems.
A year after their marriage when a son is born to them Shyam learns he was in the dark about Savi' past when her mom appears one day to see her grandchild unable to hold herself back. Savi rebukes her and sends her away... finally the myth is shattered. But as a loving, caring husband Shyam supports her and lends a shoulder to his wife to cry on, he understands her and makes her realize nothing could change his love for her. Her past has no effect on their present or their future - at least he thinks that way.
When their son is a little older, Shyam encourages his wife to work since she says she is bored with not much at home. It is the beginning of the end for them. In a matter of months, Savi changes a lot from a traditional Indian woman - she is now a woman who dons western attire, who chops off her long lovely locks to match her corporate image. Shyam stays silent all through this as he thinks if it makes his wife happy he could live with this change of hers.
Only one day he learns the change in her is owing to another man, her boss, a married man with 2 kids himself and they are having an affair. Arguments ensue and Shyam asks her to break ties with one of them - she chooses her lover over her husband who walks out with their son.
The same girl who once detested, loathed her mother in a way follows her footsteps and starts living in with her lover and even has a love child with the man.
The end of the show is BLAH cos they actually killed it -as Savi is left alone with her daughter since her lover develops some health issues and is taken away by his first wife and kids to be taken care of until the end of his days since his medical treatments are so expensive Savi despite a high paying job cannot afford which they can.
Somehow when I think of this trio - Mihir, Poornima and Shagun - I feel a deja vu and think perhaps Savi' story is also gonna be shown as Shagun' story; the only changes in the tale might be the paramours of their mothers, the reasons why she is no longer seeked out by her own children and a brother, a son in this tale who suffered the most as he lost a mother, a sister and even his father by no fault of his but thankfully had Raman and the other Bhallas who took him under their wing and stayed by him making him be the loyal shadow of a man with whom he is related to via a bond of love, respect and adoration even when he has no one he can call his own even when those related to him via blood still exist.
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