DOTW #6 (August 25, 2017 & September 1, 2017)

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DOTW # 6 - August 25, 2017

Finally a new topic, auspicious day, it being Vinayaka Chaturti.
So I am back with new edits this time, the write up, I shall try putting a new one next time. The previous DOTW seemed to be the most popular, keep posting scenes if needed. And now for the new one.😊

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Swaragini was originally started off as the tale dealing with the incomplete love story of Shekhar and Sharmistha who have separated and moved on in life with their respective families but are later united by their daughters Swara and Ragini But soon it moved on to a tale of half-sisters and cousins, of sibling rivalry turning murderous, of love lost and betrayed, of vengeance turning into friendship, friends falling into love and lovers finding soul mates.

[Cannot resist mention here, the serial is dubbed in Arabic and aired on MBC Bollywood as "Wamin Alhabi Ma Qatal" Google translates as same as "It is love what is Killed" Any reader with knowledge of Arabic could give a better translation, but it is suitable, in a twisted way]


It was a story that pitted sister against sister, blood against blood and showed us that love can be found in the most unlikely places and at unlikely times.

An enchanting story of a man finding love when he had given up on it and a woman who stopped believing in its existence. Swara and Sanskaar are a magical, spellbinding couple, whose intense love story is undoubtedly one for the ages. It is for sublimely beautiful sagas like theirs, that ballads have been composed and epics written. They embody soul mates in every sense of the term. To see SwaSan, is to recollect the immortal lines of Rabindranath Tagore's great poem: 'Unending Love'

"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever."


An unbelievable love story of a woman who fought destiny to win the man she loved, who did not hesitate to try to kill her sister (twice), who watched her parents break up and who descended to the depths of hell to keep him only to realise that he had never had and might never love her. And in one of the contradictions of life, it was only when she gave up on him that she won him over. Ragini and Laksh represented a love story of imbalances, her intensity pitted against his immaturity and her obsessiveness matched by his impulsiveness. RagLak depict to an earthly love, capable of dusty sandstorms when crossed and creating an oasis when at peace with each other. Their love story is synonymous with what Ragini says when she, for a brief second, realises the futility of love and of her love story with Laksh

"Mohabbat buri hai, kahe jaate hain, kiye jaate hain"

A serial which kept us hooked to the inane twists in the plots, the mind numbing tracks, some were downright ridiculous😕 and others demanded a suspension of logic to remain sane. Quite a few of us stopped watching it, though we never stopped our visits to this forum and some of us took to writing to overcome the angst and agony at the tracks shown. And once it ended, it has left a huge vacuum in our hearts and we still resort to writing to relive those days.😭


(credit - write up on SwaSan - Viji (@Cogito_Ergo_Sum - how we miss her, and Shru and a few others who no longer visit this forum😭)

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And for all of us who are still unable / unwilling to leave their world:

A chance to relive those days,

An opportunity to reminisce the times that have gone by

A reason to talk about SwaSan, Swaragini and this forum

A place to come back to for as Harshada (@lovetowrite) said,

"I miss Sanskar.

I miss Swara.

I miss SwaSan.

I miss Swaragini.

I miss this forum

It has been seconded by quite a few of us though Nimmi (@ Banjaaran) put it quite well "I miss my girls and friends. I miss myself; the one I used to be in the forum; be it being writer or analyzing or drooling or bashing or even fighting. This is home and I miss my home and above all my home mates. And yes the reason why we all were here... Sanskaar and Swara and SwaSan.

For when Harshu (a big squishy hug to you) posted this thread, we found quite of our friends here and that set me thinking, (not a very nice thing, it leads to complicated things, this thread being proof or ends up with my writing stories) a general discussion thread seems to garner more response than a story so how about having a regular periodical thread where all of us can talk our hearts out on one specific topic'

And that is how this was born:




Where every week we shall select one topic to discuss it threadbare, anything thing under the sun as long as it is related to Swaragini. How do we select the topic, any of us can decide, I shall give the link where you can post the topic and the next Friday, the DOTW would be on that topic.

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Posted: 7 years ago
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RULES AND REGULATIONS😉😃

Rules and Regulations seems so formal, but then we would need a few of self imposed guidelines, so here are we with:



1. Please maintain the peace of the thread and this forum.

2. Please discuss only the topic the thread has been prepared for, if you would like to discuss anything else, please post the topic in the SR - DOTW thread and we shall prepare a new thread for the same in the coming weeks.

3. Please refrain from making personal comments against the actors, this discussion is only about the characters of Swaragini serial and the tracks already shown.

4. Please do not discuss the actors' personal lives or off screen issues in this thread.

5. Please note that discussion about one character does not mean bashing the other characters nor does it imply that being a fan of one character / one couple must necessarily involve hating everyone else.

6. There would be topics / opinions with which you might not agree with or like. Please mention your disagreement / dislike in a polite manner. If is it difficult to do so, because of being emotionally vested in the serial or the character, just mention, "I do not agree". The rest will respect your opinion.

7. Finally, the most important, as the 13th century Sufi saint said, "Raise your argument, not your voice"


One final reminder, two actually - Please do not quote any post more than once, the increase tower of quotes makes it difficult to follow as to who is responding to whom. Further, please do not spam, there would be a new DOTW every week, so there is no need to complete one before the next one starts.


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Posted: 7 years ago
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And this is the list of members, may our tribe increase (or rather not get lost in the mists of time😆)


Below is the list of members (alphabetical order of usernames)


Anahita_Leve (Dyuti) (previous UN iamreader)

Aphrodite_NV (Nivi) (previous UN Nivijo)

Banjaaran (Nimmi)

blindassassin (Veena)

Cogito_Ergo_Sum(Viji)

Elsanna (Tani)

Kaveetha (Kaveetha)

Kojagorimalik (Moumita)

Krishuuu uuu uuu (Talia)

Love To Write (Harshada)

lucky.m (Lucky)

NitaReid( Nita)

Nynaeve (Nyna)

Piyali..( )

Raaz19 (Razia)

Ria2794 (Ria)

Seriously (Kamila)

ShikhaAgrawal (Shikha)

showrav24 (showrav)

soapbubble (Bubble)

Sushma9899 (Sushma)

svg98 (Piya )

Teddy94 ( )

tiny15 (Dolly)



Please like this post or mention in comments if you would like to be included in the members' list.

Please note that contribution to the discussion is expected of every member😆 (just kidding, but then contributing to the discussion would help SwaSan / RagLak / SwarAgini and this forum alive😊

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Posted: 7 years ago
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Links




SR DOTW # 1 - How did you chance upon Swaragini Serial?

SR DOTW # 2 - Things you would change in the Swaragini Serial, if you had the power?

SR DOTW#3 - A dialogue that stayed / haunts you till date

SR DOTW#4 - Given a chance, how would you rewrite Sanskaar's proposal?

SR DOTW # 5 - The scene you liked best.


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Posted: 7 years ago
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And now for the topic of the week - Contribution by Talia (@Krishuuu )


In her own words:

Im suggesting next DOTW

So I was thinking about next discussion of the week...i thought how about we discuss ...what you would change in certain character??? Im not going for Sanskaar and Ragini as I love the depth of their characterisation...same goes for Laksh and sSwara...we all have talked lot about their impulsiveness..and mahaan attitude..i was thinking about other characters like Shekhar...sharmishtha...Dida...Pari...Adharsh etc.i love Ram...was so upset they did not utilize him in story...it would have been...different story then..if certain character behave differently in certain situation... I am ok if we add Laksh too...coz at times cvs made him do way out of character things...example..when he slapped Shekhar after his and Kavya wedding..that was soo horrible...have many example...do think about it..

I think it is brilliant, so get out you thinking caps and start rewriting the character, noting the exceptions😆. And for those who are hesitant, remember, Lord Vinayaka wrote the entire Mahabarata, as Sage Vyasa dictated it, without a break, using his own tusk. We can take a leaf out of his experience.

And for a little inspiration:




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Posted: 7 years ago
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I am spoilt for choice, do pick yours. It does not matter if we select the same character twice😆
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Posted: 7 years ago
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Stupid me again grabbing the first spot n running away! 😆
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Happy Ganesh Chaturthi to all ...🤗 May you all be blessed with happiness and prosperity
Res .. and I love new tags😳 nynu and need some time focusing on other characters😆
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Posted: 7 years ago
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im back...girls
So coming to new DOTW topic...

I am trying to remember initial days scenes...i have not watched much show that time...

I loved dida...she was best character..blunt and straight forward...the way she accused ragini of harming swara during her wedding was bold move...she left show..her character has soo much scope...she would have been swasan supporter...

i loved sharmishta's too...bold,strong and independent personality... over the time i did not like it..she looked helpless between her husband and daughter...like after kavya n lakshya wedding..they took swara with them...what was swasan fault in it...she should have stopped her husband from taking swara...

Ram...he seems nice was good too..mute mostly...but he should have spoken at times..when ragini accused sanky for molestation...only sujata n swara reacted..i felt odd that time..sanky was his son..he should have said something...reacted strongly...
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Posted: 7 years ago
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Need some time, nyna. Having guests at my home, will be busy for a few days.
Happy Ganesh Chaturthi!

*Edited

There were few characters which managed impressed me for a while in the show, but as the show progressed their behaviour changed drastically when compared to the initial days. For an instance, Annapoorna was shown as a head strong matriarch with the heart of a mother. But she was suddenly being portrayed as a brainless lady who was helpless in front of her daughter-in-laws agreeing to their whims and fancies. If her character could have played something else, the story would have been something different. Same goes for Durgaprasad too.

Ram Prasad Maheshwari was another character whose interventions could have changed the plot. Few instances, as mentioned by everybody else, left me quite bewildered. Whn Ragini accused Sanskar of molesting her, Ram should have intervened but he chose to keep quite. He chose to be a brother to Durgaprasad rather than a father to Sanskar. That disappointed me. No father will keep his mouth shut when his child is being accused of a horrendous crime. Even in the Adarsh fiasco, he chose to not speak anything when his son was being punished for no crime of his.

Parvati Gadodia was one character whose characterisation left in confusion rather than fear. Hailing from an orthodox family, she considered herself, her family and community to be superior which I can understand. But as the show progressed, she herself was in a state of confusion leaving audience also in confusion. At one instance, she favoured Swara and other moment stands with Ragini in her devious schemes. Her fluctuation of emotions should have been controlled, that is what I feel.

No words for Shekhar and Sharmishta. A hypocrite husband and a helpless wife bearing all the nonsense of in-laws.
Dada ji, always missing from the scene.

My two cents of observation from the serial.
Love,
Nivi
Edited by Aphrodite_NV - 7 years ago

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