Originally posted by: Eternalallure
I think the core premise of the story was second chances. It was about mistakes, guilt, redemption and forgiveness. And how these can shape a person and also develop into love.
I would say Katha and Viaan's story was more a love story than the majority of the shows currently on TV have. The focus never shifted from Kaviaan's love and their journey, either together or individually.
I cannot think of one show that is not an out and out family drama. Either the shows are female centric with pseudo-feminism and fake empowerment and long moral lectures. Or about unreasonably big families and its perpetually zimmedaariyon ke bojh ke tale daughter. Or the most favourite theme of extra-marital affairs with a confused dumb hero, 2 sautans, multiple weddings, and child kidnappings. Kuch hua ho ya nhi atleast there were no fake pregnancies that nobody could catch on for 9 months, no cringe sibling rivalry with evil sisters eyeing their own sister's husbands, and no leads that stay eternally young in their 30s even after multiple leaps and grown-ass adult kids and are still trying to finish their love stories while their kids have their own (looking at those kachra bhagyas)
And these are supposedly family shows. What kind of family systems do these people think we have in our country where there's no sanctity of marriage, and no relationship is sacred. Where sisters plot against sisters, men have two wives, women have multiple children with multiple men, every medical personnel is a fraud and fake gundas are as easy to hire as ordering food online. Itv is a mess and it will always be. Whatever it's fault, you rarely come across shows like KA in itv.
Agreed, KA never waivered off Katha and Viaan. KaViaan love story is much better that majority of ITV stories currently. Every track introduced was a significant progression to their journey. I have said it before too. Even fatherhood track which so many people find boring, I like it because it was significant to their journey.
What is definition of love story then? From what I have deduced from here in over 5 months of journey on IF and in general I know, Love story should be tale of lovers and romance between them. If that is the definition, then, this show is not a good example of a love story.
Romance part in this story was very small. There was zero romance for 150 episodes. Butterfly phase began at 100the episode. Love realization happened at 130th episode. If someone is looking for Romance between leads in each episode and thinks of that as definition of love story then, this show isn't their cup of tea. But, yes I don't any other TV serials who are better than KA at telling a love story.
If you ask me, it is hard to assign any one particular genre to this show. It is about Drama,workplace, family, relationships, parenting, romance. It is a balanced mix of all this with Katha and Viaan at centre. On wikipedia, they have also labebled it as psychological. But, why does that matter, it is an amazing story and I like it and admire it.
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