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"The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.
In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones.Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
I just wanted to make that clear before I begun." This is n excerpt from the book 'living Nightmare' by Darren Shan
In this story some of us ( me included ) are trying to relate this to real life incidents of ours but this is NOT real life it is just a story a figment of imagination by a writer, sold to a TV channel hoping it will make money. Of course for all of this to happen they need phenomenal actors and this show has that.
I was wondering why this show was causing me to have strong feelings ( not positive ) for hero ,the heroine and the mother character. It is because I want to see my Hero in the Hero , me in the heroine and me again in the mother character but this is fiction and a dramatized one as such so really does not warrant me to have this strong feelings. When we start to want or seek to see reality in these shows than we get disappointed
I think this story has kept its characters intact have they grown I think no , have some regressed in my opinion maybe but for the most part stayed consistent. If I watch it just as a story a fiction , me being an avid reader I can see that this is good storytelling old wine in a new bottle but still good story telling because if it was not good story it wouldn't hook so many people. Is the execution of the story sloppy you bet it is, has it been dramatized for effect it has
An example of the good story telling ( only my opinion)
Dev Dixit when he broke up with Sona did it with what we call Knee Jerk reaction , was I offended yes but nevertheless he did. In reality when we have a knee jerk reaction we follow up with a process to remedy or nullify the effect but in this story Dev the hero did not and that is and will be my pet gripe. Now the writers are having Sona have the same knee jerk reaction to the slap yes the slap was bad and I feel they showed it to get maximum reactions kind of like shock value some time that sells on TV. So Sona now mortgages her dad's home in order to pay the loan not really thinking of the consequence like how Dev did when he broke up with Sona. ( Maybe it is apples to oranges but the emotions are the same) When people are pushed to the limit we do take knee jerk reactions and those do have consequences the writers have now come a full circle in showing that Sona too can get carried away with emotions and make bad decisions. This to me is good story telling
Another thing I want to mention is in yesterdays episode all the actors where phenomenal. Dev even though listened to his mom and her words and went thru the motions of assuring her he will never leave her was more concerned about how to get Sona back. Phenomenal piece of acting by the actor. Sona when her Dad says I will not let my daughter forget this had a subtle change of expression on her face again brilliant piece of acting. The actress who plays Easwari also was great yesterday she wanted to play the woe me character and she played it well . This serial does have stellar cast and maybe that is why people are not able to not watch or read the WU.
And bottom line this is a Fiction and a TV show ...and In Real Life...
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