When the show started, RG was acting natural and real and people actually felt for the woman we now see as Panauti. The story of the show has been dragged and Anupamaa started to come off as unreal and crazy. The actor has to say the lines in same accent, be a terrible dancer, has the same unhygienic habits and her voice for help has become a voice of shrieking crazy banshee. She has become so pathetic that her abusers have actually become tolerable and likeable. The writers never tried to truly experiment with the character. They changed Sirat's accent to more normal version but made Maa's accent worse. She is supposed to be a fantastic chef but none of her recipes seem to be appealing. She always steps in a new field and instead of being a human about it and learn it from scratch, she is convinced that she is meant to be on the top. Somehow she uses her emotional tactics to rise and then she ditches these fields like they never existed. Writers never gave the character a make over. All moms don't wear suti saree. Many moms wear simple salwar kameez and western outfits and indo western sarees and a variety of outfits. There are even simple women of Baa' age who are educated, modern and classy, unlike the older women shown in the show. My both grandmas are like that. They are not elites like Kotharis or poor like Asha Bhavan denizens but they are classy and graceful. People respect them for their experience. They are women who spend decades trying tooth and nail focussed on a singular objective and they have to learn and achieve. Upma never learns. She has created an image of herself as an abla bechaari maa and uses it as a weapon to rise in the top. RG isn't the only actress stuck in some backward regressive role for 5 years. Sriti Jha and Rupal Patel's characters Pragya and Kokila had so many regressive elements but they acted for 7+ years and gave their heart and soul to their performances. RG gives pathetic expressions and has zero percent relatability factor. There is no variation in her character. She never tried to change her look or accent at least. To truly become independent, she had to upgrade herself a bit but she refuses because her bhakts have convinced her she is best in everything. Anupamaa could have been a short term netflix series and we might have seen some character development but soaps don't work that way. I wish a better actress like Sriti and Rupal gets the role.
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