Originally posted by: sanfan
Hmmm interesting points
In fact I was an IPK viewer but I will not touch that kind of show with a barge pole now 😂😂😂 it’s a jaded concept and I don’t think this men as rehab projects work beyond a point 😂😂😂
LOL I didn't really consider IPK as a show about "men as rehab projects"....it was a typical romance novel plot which exists very much in today's romance novels also....but yeah people outgrow those shows depending on the stage of life they are at.
But then the Q is, what replaces it? Mature love stories? On Indian TV?
....yeah that's always going to be a pipe dream.....most producers on ITV are incapable of funding any project with a mature portrayal of relationships.....all they have is push/pull drama at the max and the execution of that is always a hit or miss.
Problem these days is also that no one wants to bother making effort on writing coherent love stories so their lazy excuse is now is that they are writing "flawed" characters and not "perfect" characters.....lol in the guise of this, they are just writing cheap immoral crap and trying to justify that as "layered drama"
So then you have to ask yourself....was entertainment simpler when atleast makers could get the basic brooding ML formula right even in the confines of "men as rehab projects"? lol is the current fake wokeness era better where FLs are applauded simply over the degree to which they can degrade and insult the love of the MLs as "toxic"?
....FLs of today don't solve any problems and just go around giving empty bhaashans but are somehow applauded as "stronger" than the classic Ekta heroines....lol
Heck even Gul's bubbly heroines which I couldn't stand most of the time seem Oscar-worthy now as compared to today's ITV FLs 
Edited by AreYaar - 7 months ago
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