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Thanks Leo, good post
I am in a ranting mood.
So...
Rant # 1
we have a girl who is back from her school in Australia where she was studying management. Her mother insists on finding a good match for her, and wants her to get married soon, so that the broken lives of her siblings doesn't cause problem in finding the said right match. The girl looks like her heart has been broken in Australia. She says she wants to study. Her brother and sis-in-law, who are well respected by the family and are good decision-makers first dissuade the mother from forcing anything upon the girl and let her be. They also convince the girl to get married. The family gets an 'alliance' from a family friend, who they have no reason to suspect. They do a cursory investigation of the 'rishta' and eventually decide that the match is really good. The girl, who wanted to study AND was suffering from a heartbreak suddenly wants a destination wedding in Udaipur or Jaipur. They eventually decide to hold the marriage in Delhi.
I will not get into a mode of who is right, who is wrong, modernism and regressive nature of the show. But I will just make a comment. A girl brought up in upper-middle-class Delhi in a Punjabi family in the 21st century who came back home on a holiday (?), nursing a heartbreak ended up being in the mandap in less than a month with the first alliance she got. She did not even want to get to know him, we didnt see any dates, any likes/dislikes being discussed at all. This is a fictional show, granted, but one that should go to a clinic and get a reality check once in a while.
and guess what, till this part, Shagun hasnt even played a role yet!!!
Rant#2
A man leaves his job because his principles and ethics matter more, and the very next day goes to work for a man who stole his first wife, publicly humiliated him multiple times, brought his son up to be a spoiled brat, publicly humiliated his current wife. Because? he needed money to get his younger sister married. The same younger sister from Rant#1 > the one who didnt want to get married, and who is not, by any means, a 'loser' who they quickly need to get rid off because they may not get good matches for her later.
His wife decides she needs to work more to support the large family. I am no dentist or , but I am not sure how many extra appointments were made and how much she earned in those extra appointments.Did Raman even get a month's advance salary from Ashok? because it turns out they could afford a wedding after all. Oh, and yes, I forgot to mention, they even seemed to have gathered the dowry that the dulhe raja actually wanted anyway. So there was a short (a VERY short) period of time where they were in the pits of poverty but seemed to risen very well
One could argue that Shagun's involvement in Romi stealing the money caused all this, but technically, they did get back on good terms with Malhotra after knowing about the real thief anyway.
I could go on, but I will stop...
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While, on one hand, we focus on the Shagun track and lament over the saas-bahu-fication of the show, the makers seemed to have lost the plot with everything else too. I remember Shagun's dialogue from yesterday... something like "Yahaan aag lagi hai, and you are asking me what I am doing here? like that is the biggest problem right now"... She could very well have been talking about the state of the show.
Daily soaps don't set an expectation of drama rooted in reality to begin with, but they do set an expectation of continuity as a story. The story can be ultra-regressive, but there should be a start, a middle and an end to every sub-plot. we can chose to HATE the story and the presentation of it, but the story telling has to have a natural flow. That is why, despite us squirming at a lot of shows, there are people do watch them.
At this current point in time, WHAT are the YHM makers trying to sell ?
- characters are inconsistent (I trust you, I trust you not game going on with almost everyone). I want Rinki to be happy. no, i want her to get married irrespective of her wishes. a woman can be single and still be happy. Oh no, isse shaadi kaun karega ab?
- the tracks seems to be in a state of a ball of wool that you give to a kitten and it starts playing with it
- the background music is deafening, and not in the good way of rock concerts
PS: I do apologise sincerely for my long and incoherent rant. Once in a blue-moon, I still do take this seriously.
Edited by always_a_TV_fan - 10 years ago
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