Originally posted by: AreYaar
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 
many may not like to hear but IPK was the result of Gul's success with Geet. Maan - kinda first angry young man was super unique , larger than life character and based on that she launched IPKKND. Of course IPK was bigger launch as it was in the main channel and very entertaining as well.
Why I am still stuck in GHSOP as, Maan was not the case of 'men as rehab project' but he was a man with all solution. A gyani baba in fact
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I am still waiting for the show where the story is based on trust of each other the way I had witnessed there. And hoping for a story where it revolves around leads and where there is no scope of third wheel. In case of Maaneet - there was no scope of a third wheel. Both were busy showing ego to each other and then pamper each other's ego.
Then the way Anirudh took J's stand and the way the Shaadi was highlighted, there was again hope of seeing some next level trust wala relationship. But all my hopes in vain.
Now seeing the way writers have lacked creativity due to TRP hungry pH, I have completely lost hope in ITV. I try only selective shows and all eventually turn out to be disaster and disappointment.
With Imlie, I thought it would go that way even though characters were completely different but interesting.
Imlie is my another favorite till Adilie. But result hurts thus taking away the everlasting impact that Maaneet left.
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