Originally posted by: Doc.love
Hey all.. 😊
JhanviK.. excellent post... ⭐️👏
Anoosree and Silver bell...excellent comments.. 👏😊 I agree with you all...
I started watching the show from the gurujee track; then later i got soo hooked to it that i watched some of the earlier episodes also. It was not my own discovery. It was a show my friend Brishty had fallen in love with..and she recommended it to me. She told me that there is this show in which the hero wants to become a sanyaasi...and the heroine has been "planted" by his parents for him as a temptation and invitation towards the worldly life. I clearly remember how we had a long discussion about what a true sanyaasi entails, who were Vishwamitra and Menaka, and being aspiring writers, we both discussed how their love story would evolve and how it would be like... I was skeptical of the prospective tragic end, but Brishty was like, "this is the modern era... i am sure they will give a good ending to the show"...etc.
The mere concept of a supposedly forbidden love was soo intriguing that without any further thought, I decided to give it a go. Mind you, I DID NOT like Akshay and Sheen in the beginning, but their acting, Naren Pooja's innocent chemistry, the fact that the heroine was stronger than the hero physically, mentally and emotionally were all fascinating for me. The songs of the show, malanga re, jogiya...and then moraa piyaa...they were all beautiful to my ears. All these factors absolutely made me fall in love with the show.
I dont watch many shows on Indian tv. And when i watch a show, i try to detatch my own writer's mind from what I am seeing... this way i feel that i can do justice to the work of some other person, look into someone else's mind and i can learn a lot . The initial writing and the story was absolutely fantastic. It was soo brilliant, the dialogues, the poetry...that it used to be such a delight to watch it all.
I always had an issue with the over usage of negativity in the show, the villains almost always winning, but still I kept watching and watching. When the 1st leap came, my friend was so disgusted by the turn of events and our expectations that she quit the show. I, on the other hand, kept watching and kept hoping for better and better tracks...i loved the angry avatar of Naren and for me, Akshay and Sheen had become my favorites and i sooo hoped to see DEVELOPEMENT in their relation... but alas...they did not develope their relationship at all...instead they DESTROYED it! 😕🥱 .. I think writers aur cvs ka qasur nahi hai... As anoosree once pointed out, that writing tragedy and then showing it onscreen and then getting audience to watch it is not an easy thing...I totally agree... but now that whole tragedy has turned into dread and for me, slowly slowly, it has killed all the good feelings for the show I once had. .For me, It all has come to a point now where I have no intrigue left, not an ounce of fascination is left...no more interesting second guessing, no more wait... even Akshay and Sheen are like two expressionless people for me who do not have any spark left between them. (Pardon me...they are not expressionless..they are brilliant actors...but they have lost their charm as Naren Pooja for me). I havent watched the episodes recently... I switch them on and the minute Naren and Pooja's endless suffering and Harish,Supriya's bakwas faces come on the screen, my moods gets off and i change the channel. I set the show for recording long time ago, so its episodes get recorded in my tv for me to watch later...but i dont even watch the recorded epis.now.I simply delete them without ever watching. I hate to say, it actually hurts...but I have lost interest in the show. Regardless of all that, I still want to know its ending. I want to find out how they will incorporate all the elements of VishMenaka's story and from the epic Ramayana in the end. So for that, I will keep a check on it off an on.
This show was one of its own kind, unique and thought provoking on many accounts. It will remain in my memories for a long time...as it was my TRUE LOVE once... and one cannot forget one's true love so easily! 😛😛😉
Having said all that , in the end, I would like to wish the team of PA all the best for their future endeavours and projects... 😊 may they learn from their mistakes from this show...and may they give us beautiful shows in future.