Before launch promos, media releases and then interviews of producer, writer, director and all three leads repeatedly promised viewers about Haasil being a thrilling love triangle with three strong grey characters where one simple lady lawyer enters lives of two rich brothers creating conflict. This is supposed to run paced and in lines of thriller Hindi movies like Race, Hamraaz etc. Haasil was also routed as first time full fledged high budgeted thrilling stylish finite serial on TV shot mostly overseas, outdoors and less on studio sets similar to some bollywood flick. 😛
I have said this few times earlier too.. I may be termed a neutral viewer of this show, had no specific favorites of any actors/actresses when this show started and neither now after seeing all these episodes.. Neither was I fixated on any pair, because I started this show with open mind expecting to be a thrilling love triangle and for simple reason such stories till climax are supposed to keep you on edge with who will be end game or sometimes even surprise you with no end games with an unpredictable twist.
When read that for two years makers/writers were working on story and script and then selection of cast, expected a sleek flick with good characterization, emotional connect, consistences, gripping plots along with unpredictable twists and turns with great performances extracted using good direction. Also expected they are clear who their target audience is when they decided to air this show on SonyTV at 9.30pm prime time week day slot instead of making it as webseries, youtube film or hindi movie..
Hence as neutral viewer I watched this show with open mind to get enjoyment from love and thrills, but alas...😔
A spineless modern highly educated female lead making mockery of marriage for convenience getting trapped so easily, an obsessed psycho killer who doesn't actually know what love means and a confused playboy a rich brat turned overnight a saint..these are three strong grey leads??? and then overall this show failed with orthodox, liberal, mixed and hifi section of audiences from different age groups due to one dominating topic 'Kundali Dosh' that overshadowed every other plot line resulting in a marriage and how to keep it going, while each section of audience had found different reason to disengage from the show. All this is shown setup in a 2017 modern fiction drama in an Indian metro city with two families supposedly with good family ties and then its about brothers sharing same surname, even if one is adopted wanting to treat a girl as an toy..😛
Once a section of audience gets disengaged after that they don't easily get back into TV shows based on what producers, writers and directors keep defending about their show or characters or plot lines on social media.. sorry they never got it right that its the content shown in actual episodes that has to speak on behalf of them and reflect their vision and passion. Keep on saying none of the three leads are positive or negative but elecast something else on screen? There is a clear cut line that distinguishes submissive, aggressive, saint, grey, negative and pitch dark characters in TV fiction shows, which majority audiences may possibly have been pre-conditioned over the years!
Coming to pairing, it may not be a high dominator for this kind of a show as to who looks physically good on screen as a couple, there have been many TV jodis who for years together enjoyed astonishing fan following without physically looking compatible. Reality is all characters lacked depth and basic emotional connect with viewers as none of the 3 love stories of 3 leads portrayed in the initial month had any strong foundation set to evoke sensibilities and romantic feelers in the viewers to relate to their so called deep love.
So even if makers/writers made younger one a psycho instead of elder brother, still fate and response of audience towards Haasil could not have changed with so many lapses and mockeries..👎🏼
Edited by 47AL - 8 years ago