Ābhāḷācī Māyā on Sun Marathi - Page 4

Sunanda is openly suggesting that Raghav should be marrying Urmila, and no one is reminding her, marriage between māme bhāū and ātte bahīṇa is not done!

Pardon my "no true Scotsman" fallacy, but Sunanda is not an authentic Marathi character. No one who answers to Marathi custom would expect to get away with this proposal!

The creatives cannot be unaware that a Marathi audience will find this plot unbelievable. Some viewers may even protest that Ābhāḷācī Māyā is making a mockery of Marathi custom, disrespecting our values, hurting our religious sensibilities etc. Are they so devoted to telling a Tamil story to a Marathi audience that they just don't care about backlash?

Which of the three cousin-pairings is most incestuous?

Marrying a girl cousin that your mother breastfed?

Marrying a girl cousin who thinks of you as an elder brother?

Marrying a girl cousin who is not your māme bahīṇa?

Take the poll here:

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/161333619

There are so many gratuitous mentions of suicide on this show! And not one mention that counselling might help suicidal individuals to come to terms with their lives, and medication prescribed by a psychiatrist can also save lives.

Does Vikas Pandurang Patil as the dialogue writer simply translate the Tamil into Marathi, or are there discussions within the creative team about maybe telling the story responsibly, and doing some good with their power to reach millions of people?

A few months ago, Vidya's housekeeper Bhagyashri lost her daughter to suicide after not letting her choose her own husband. The parents of the young woman whose dead body Ranajit put in place of Ambika said that she had committed suicide. And now Raghav's family and neighbours are bragging about his two suicide attempts as proof of how much he loves Ambika! Often, they mention suicide in the same breath as self-improvement and setting up a business.

In a village where neighbours have watched Raghav grow up, would they really talk so casually about his suicide attempts? I don't think so. In the few hours that I spent in a village in Maharashtra, everyone that I met had excellent manners, spoke quietly, and was respectful of family privacy. I got only one personal question from someone that I had just met, who was more interested in asking me to confirm that a certain American politician must be no good because his race is lazy. I doubt that this suicide-proves-love attitude is common in villages, but if anyone is learning romance from TV, shows like Ābhāḷācī Māyā may make it a mainstream attitude.

It shouldn't need to be said, but Raghav's unwillingness to live without Ambika's love doesn't mean that Ambika has to love him.

Till now, they are following the original closely, did you see sekhar in female get up? That too was in original. As it is copy pasted I cant comment much.

The one reason why this show is high in trp in the original is because of the unpredictable story line and change in character graph.

In future, Raghav will being grey shaded and positive at times (he started off as purely negative)
Sekhar will be negative (started off as positive)
Ashu will be negative from episode 400 onwards (started off as the most innocent and positive)

Obviously, the story writer will sacrifice any character's integrity for the most trivial reason.

Vinita resents Rangarav and Raghav because they disrespected her husband. I cannot imagine her dancing with them, and yet she did.

Vinita who is quick to point at any scandal would not dance to a remix of the tamāśā movie song "He vāganaṃ baraṃ navhaṃ!"

Jayadev put up a notice offering a prize for finding any mistake in the rukhavata, and the notice began with the word sūcanā misspelled as sucanā!

The wedding officiant mispronounced śubha-puṇya-tithau as śubha-puṇya-tithoho, and immediately the day became inauspicious with a dead body at the wedding venue.

Is the dead body Abhijit? I mean, Ambika just left him behind as they were running for their lives.

Stupid Jayadev only told Inspector Pratap, "Yes, I know Shalini Kirtikar." He never relayed what Ambika told him, that Shalini and Maya and Ranajit conspired to kidnap Ambika and poison everyone at the wedding. Maybe they shouldn't have thrown out the evidence khīra in a hurry? If merely naming someone as a suspect leads to arrest, wouldn't that be especially true when the suspect is on parole?

There should be welts all over the bodies of Shalini and Maya after the way Ambika beat them up with a wooden club. No one notices? They're not walking with any difficulty, nor complaining of headache after so many blows to their heads.

All of their efforts to stop the wedding now are too late because completion of saptapadī means that Ambika and Raghav are legally married. Kanyādāna after saptapadī makes no sense.

Out of nowhere, the prophecy that Ambika's marriage will strain her relationship with Jayadev got fulfilled. It makes no sense that Raghav, whose current personality is selflessly considerate of Ambika, would dictate that she has disowned Jayadev.

Has Raghav forgotten that Jayadev got him out of jail, that time he attacked Vidya? Or that Jayadev signed over some farmland to Rangarav for no good reason? Or that Jayadev convinced Vidya not to have Raghav arrested for framing her for corruption? Or that Jayadev accepted Raghav's proposal for Ambika after he had tried to trick her into marriage, kidnapped her etc.? Or that Jayadev covered Raghav's business losses? Or that Jayadev confessed to murder just because Raghav was the prime suspect?

In a blink, Raghav went from defending Ambika's honour to putting Ambika-humiliating Rangarav on a pedestal, from proving himself to Jayadev to refusing to forgive him.

On the other hand, Jayadev should have known that Rangarav, an abusive husband, would make a terrible father-in-law. Ambika's life was fine without marriage. Sarasvati's life was not fine without divorce. If only Jayadev's family values had been about keeping women safe and happy, not placating the men who abuse them! He wouldn't be in the position of apologizing to the man who s***-shamed his sister publicly.

It's never too late. Jayadev's focus should be on telling Ambika and Sarasvati that they always have a home with him.

The writers seem to have shaken plot points out of a bag in random order to write such scenes. When Shekhar was introduced, his family was his vahinī. He was presumed dead for a few days, and we never saw her reaction. As soon as Shekhar found out that Shalini and Maya were deceiving him for revenge and endangering his life, he conspired with them.

I feel sorry for the actors and whoever else has to throw character history out the window and play each scene like an improvised skit.

Is this show written with the intention to spread the most harmful misinformation about domestic violence?

How can Sarasvati say to Ambika with a straight face that having a baby is the solution to an abusive marriage? That the wife-beater Rangarav mellowed as soon as his son was born? We saw him dragging you by the hair and holding a stick up to your eye, Sarasvati, not even a year ago! And wasn't it just last month that you stood before the Pañcāyata, pleading for divorce, while he speculated that you were promiscuous before marriage?

If there are any young wives in the real world whose in-laws are pointing at this show and saying, "Listen to her! If you feel lonely and estranged, have a baby to bring you closer," who is going to rescue them when they find themselves anchored to a dependent child while their husbands remain free to develop worse habits?

Kusum's situation: she eloped, her parents forgave her for the grandchild's sake, and her in-laws welcomed them, is quite the opposite of Ambika's situation: Jayadev and Hira Ājī are trying to reconcile, but Rangarav and Sunanda are isolating Ambika and Sarasvati, and they will isolate their grandchild too, just for spite.

In every new episode, the writers are writing Jayadev's feelings for Vidya as if they don't remember what he did in the last scene!

Months ago, after falling on top of Vidya, Jayadev was lying in bed, smiling at the thought of her. Now, forgetting that, he denies wanting to marry Vidya.

Then he visits her house, insists on cooking dinner with her, flirts with her, and exchanges chains. At home, he rehearses how he should propose to her, with Pitya advising him to stage an action movie scene.

Right after that, Jayadev needs Ambika to tell him that what he is feeling for Vidya is called love! As if he didn't know!

Dreaming of Vidya, Jayadev says, "I'm a gūṇḍa, and you're so educated and refined." How can a Sarapañca who hands over his property to every wife-beater also be a gūṇḍa, a gangster? Urged by Pitya, Jayadev tries to propose to Vidya, and even asks Ambika to be his proxy.

And then, out of nowhere, Jayadev promises Vinita that he will marry Ashvini immediately! In the next scene, he asks Ashvini why she is upset, as if he doesn't know that she thinks of him as her big brother and was counting on his promise to help her marry Abhijit.

Vishvanath and Vinita are hopelessly abusive parents who should be under psychiatric observation for their threats of suicide, but Jayadev was supposed to be a gentleman. Any man who would agree to force a girl into marriage, basically threatening that he could rape her at any time, is not a gentleman. And when the girl sees him as her big brother, it's an incestuous betrayal of her trust.

No continuity and no integrity for this character! Shame!