Gul Khan and her obsession - Page 2

Originally posted by: Jayne

In way, it is true that Ms. Gul Khan shows us what she wants to show us...TRPs be damned.
She has many other projects in the pipeline and if the audience doesn't like what she is showing she can simply scrap it and put funding toward something else.
After Geet and IPK, she knows she can depict leads in love rather well and there is a huge fan-following for all her lead casting choices, so she is not worried. Also, as a veteran now, she knows her funding sources and likely has channel contacts built up.
Its called politics, and she is learning the game fast.

If the fate of shows were decided entirely on TRPs, many of Ms. Ekta Kapoor's shows would have been axed years ago.

I believe she got attached to QH because it was a show that had a backdrop of her personal religious community.
As she clearly stated, it was not a love-story, rather a family drama.
I think it was based on a premise of showing how multiple marriages for a man in that community brings nothing but heartache, grief, and anguish to all parties concerned... a way of depicting the injustice of it all...especially, regarding women.
She made it a point of having Zoya be modern, educated, self-sufficient, wearing jeans, etc., and having every other episode about her piety or conformation to religious dogma coming from her heart not based on her clothes or independence.
This was the real story.
The murder and cover-up and secrets of the factory were all soap-opera staples, added as spice to the broth.

In terms of the love-story, I also think that while Mr.K and Zoya were the end game, she still wanted to show the woman in turmoil of having fallen for two guys and/or the brothers having fallen for her... and perhaps the incongruity of the archaic customs surrounding the rituals around it all.
Unfortunately, casting didn't go right for her.
The actor cast as the younger brother simply did not have the acting chops, nor the looks, nor the ability to depict maturity that would have at least made him a character for whom Zoya - herself not a teenager but a sensible adult - might fall.

By the time they changed the actor the damage was done, and the new villain, Tunveer, was proving to be the reigning queen of the episodes and ultimately the show.

Many a time, the story gets twisted between concept and execution.
I think that is what happened in QH1.

I also believe that after the KSG replacement fiasco, Ms. Gul Khan finally woke up to the fact that QH1 was a runaway train and the only way to get it under control was to change tracks.
So, leap and QH2.

Now it is going as per her wishes, but I can tell she has lost her interest in the show. No longer is it a depiction of all the customs of the community with which she does not agree; instead, it is completely focused on soap-opera closure...secrets revealed, murderers caught, swindlers punished, long-lost family re-united, HEAs being set up for all, etc., all with a little dose of the daily soap-staples of romance, drama, and suspense.
At least QH2 synopsis states it is about ARI and S, and not about the family drama, so the focus has been on them.
But comparing where QH1 was at 4 months and QH2 is currently, she is heading toward a finale.

Jayne