Is it trp that has made writers go berserk? Up until hs walking towards babita to propose had made Patiala babes a sensible, refreshingly simple yet engaging story involving women empowerment, mother daughter relationship and a nuanced budding love story।. And then suddenly in the name of a twist, it all started going pear shape
Had the writers wanted to bring in the imarti past angle, here how they should have treated the plot:
1: when the story line was at the stage on minni mom moving in with hs, they should have started giving depth to hs character.
2: shown hs to be still living in past memories, drinking to forget, flash backs of good times with imarti, marriage photo on the wall
3: hs starts off being distant to babita, living in the past. And slowly, starting to warm to babita and minni. His liking for babita increases over a period of episodes, all this happening while ashok Mita story line going on
4: as his fondness for babita increases, his delving in past starts decreasing, no more flash backs of imarti.
5: writers should have done this background work and then carried on with the lovely way their blossoming relationship was shown. The pot making scene was the high point of this serial. Such subtelty, such grace, such intimacy, very aesthetically shot
6: finally when HS is about to propose at puja time, he actually does so. This should have been followed by several episode s where the 2 go deeper in their bonding, in their emotional connection.
7 once their relationship was shown as on firm footing even married, then you should have brought up the past court case, and shown that hs confides in babita and how together they face the challenge