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So this post has nothing to do directly with this show, but I really wanted all of you guys to give your opinions and ideas here, because this is a universal, and contemporary problem that is highly prevalent on indian tv. This is mostly for forum activity, but also to find your opinions on this issue.
I have read so many articles on the internet about this topic, and in every article, it is producers, channel heads, and writers that blame the audience for the content shown on tv. But is the audience really to blame?
If I gave my opinion on this, I think that regressive content and illogical tracks with poor quality story telling is a trend that was started by none other than ekta kapoor herself (mind you, she was one of the biggest culprits in these articles to blame the audience). She has created numerous trends on tv, which gained her shows so much success and ratings, that other producers and channels followed suit to practically create a formula along the lines of what have been shown in her shows that they use in every show, and now this is all the audience has become habituated to see; women being mahaan, abusive men shown as romantic heroes, a mother-in-law can never get along with her daughter-in-law and the mother is always shows as being possessive about her son, men misunderstanding their wives and separation tracks.
The audience has becomes used to such melodramatic shows, and tv is also over-saturated with these kind of shows that progressive and creative content is no more than a needle in a haystack, which either goes unnoticed by the audience, or audience who notice it just find it boring because it doesn't conform to the melodramatic formula of shows they have become used to watching.
Another reason is that viewers who want to watch something different and progressive are not able to watch them by their own will as the tv controls are mostly in the hands of women, and so if they want to watch something different they have to watch online. Can't blame the women for that considering like I said, progressive content is a needle in a haystack and there is so much regressive and over-dramatic shows on tv that they can't seem to digest watching anything different.
My opinion on this topic is that the audience have become used to seeing regressive and un-creative content with the same used and recycled tracks by ratings-hungry channels, and producers and writers are made to follow a formula to create the same regressive content they think the audience WANT to watch, but in actual, they are just too used to seeing such shows to make a shift in their preferences.
For there to be change, more producers need to stop making less regressive and melodramatic shows, and be more creative and progressive with the shows, so that it comes to a point where regressive saas-bahu and family dramas are the needle in a haystack, and tv becomes saturated with progressive and creative content, with progressive content becoming more noticeable to the audience. When there will be less kitchen politic shows on tv and more creative content, who will even pay attention to regressive content? The audience simply need to be made used to seeing certain content for them to be able to watch it. Open your eyes channels!
So I've given my long-winded opinion, but what do you guys think? Who do you guys think is responsible for the poor quality stories and regressive content shown on tv? The audience, or channels/ producers/ writers? Do you guys also agree with my needle in a haystack theory/ idea in regards to the ratio of progressive to regressive content existing on tv? Do you also think the audience has merely been made habituated into watching regressive content by the people who make these shows? What do you guys think should be done about it?
