I wasn’t actually planning on saying anything about the current season, but today I couldn’t stop myself after the blatant attempt to whitewash the ma-beta manipulation/emotional abuse by guilt-tripping an already vulnerable woman/wife/mother. So I might as well get my frustrations out and be done with it. So there goes my rant…
Firstly, I get that the writers have changed for this season, but to this extent that they couldn’t care to even know the basic storyline??? Seriously it was annoying and hilarious to hear ishwari claiming that she had suffered a lot in her life before and with dev’s arrival into her life all her happiness returned. Are these writers really that dumb or just plain lazy to even know the backstory. The writers should know dev is the eldest son of ishwari, after which she had 3 healthy daughters. That means her husband was still alive until then, who was the head of the family and took care of the family. Also dev wasn’t a long lost son like ayush, who entered her life one fine day with the price money of a lottery ticket to get her out of her impoverished life. It was dev’s education and talent that resulted in their current lifestyle which happened gradually over the years.
Secondly, this show is setting an example as to what happens when you try to milk the cow too much. The show makers, channel and the actors seem to have overestimated themselves and underestimated the audience, believing they can piggyback on the show’s past success. Unfortunately the same seems to have backfired big time for them. This show (both s1 and s2) despite its shortcomings was still a beautiful show for its brilliant acting and the flawed yet relatable storyline. This s3 is seriously a debacle. Right from the first week the story has been all over the place; be it the legitimacy of ayush being the real son with the still unclear dna status; the drastic change in characters from what was supposed to have been their redemptions in previous seasons; or the confused situation as to why the once-so-in-love couple have drifted so far apart.
If there has been any consistency in this show, it has been the favoritism the makers and writers have towards the ishwari/dev characters. I don’t know if it’s the characters they favor or the actors, because the whitewashing of these 2 characters without any proper redemption or apology from them has been another consistent thing in this show.
Lastly, if the writers don’t have the guts to accept that their characters are flawed or at least accept the shortcomings of their own created characters, why even show them doing all the things they do? You portray them as selfish/manipulative/emotionally abusive characters with blatant disregard for other’s feelings, but still force the audience to think they are just being misconstrued. In the end, the fl becomes the scapegoat for this, who is supposed to be viewed as nothing but a selfish woman to have any kind of self respect or have the audacity to fight or even beg for some kind of recognition in her own life.
As someone mentioned here, this show was never a progressive show as a lot of people were made to believe. This was nothing but just a slightly realistic version of how even a loving/educated/successful married girl with self-respect and wishes can become a victim against the vicious circle of expectations and responsibility towards her husband and in-laws in life…
Edited by Sanleema - 4 years ago