Originally posted by: Aadi04
Even maati was imlie … in a variation
And it flopped as everyone saw
....because their "variation" of showing the elder sister as the FL and both being real sisters from the get go made the plot all the more gross....lol in Imlie, FL-PL didn't know they were half-sisters for a long time.
Only successful Hindi remake of Ishti is Imlie and so far no one else has been able to match its success on Hindi TV.....Leena and the SP management team don't want to accept that the stars only aligned for Imlie in terms of casting, writing, execution....you can't lazily repeat the formula so easily over and over.
And Leena's casting standards have dropped extra badly off late....she seems unable to find leads with chemistry anymore. Krushal-Hiba had chemistry for Jhanak 1, that is why it worked too.....but seeing Gen 2 casting toh 
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