The Desi Audience Needs to Shield Itself from Kavach

The story begins with Nisha, who is Bundela khandaan's to-be bahu, dying in a tragic accident because some evil power won't let her marry her fianc. It's kind of like Karz, but in reverse. The narrative seems to be an attempt to pit black magic against belief in God in order to overpower evil.

So Manjulika (Mahek Chahal), the evil spirit' is doing everything in her power to stop Rajbir Bundela (Vivek Dahiya) from getting hitched. Cut to 5 years later, Paridhi (Mona Singh) enters the scene. She's at the same spot (literally) where Nisha lost her life. But, Paridhi has an inherent goodness in her to overpower all evil, and she does. She manages to get past the threshold despite all the negative forces stopping her, to get engaged to Rajbir.

Moving on to the casting, apart from the central female leads, the other actors do a hack-job of keeping the storyline together. But full marks to the daaru-loving daadi, her dialogue delivery is seamless.

Ekta Kapoor, the trend-setter for the small screen, is the producer here and she seems to have hit upon yet another regressive hook to keep the desi audience tuned in.

If this were one of those soaps which were bankrolled for infinite episodes depending on its popularity, the weak story line and narrative could be excusable. But with a reported 32-episode limited series, the audience should have a much more imaginative story and strong characters. If we could only look beyond the world of leave-your-brains-behind-TV drama,' the possibilities are endless.