BALH Naya Season EDT Week #5: July 14-July 18 - Page 55

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Your 1st paragraph pretty much sums it up. Let’s be honest, none of the ITV shows are really worth getting emotionally invested in.

Life can be tough sometimes, and we all need a bit of distraction. I can’t speak for others, but for me, BALH is just that, a time pass, an escape from reality and more importantly a chance to interact with people here and have a laugh at someone else’s expense.

Originally posted by: mango.falooda

If I had to describe the show, I would call it flakey and time pass. I am not super invested because there is nothing emotional about it. Randomly dancing, random siblings appearing, random girlfriend appearing and so on. There is nothing connecting these threads and there is no emotional stake to any of the stuff.

What should be taken seriously is presented in almost brainless forgetful manner. Take Revathi's issue. Out of nowhere, she is introduced. So all of a sudden, we are supposed to care about what happens to her. The girl ends up at home and then goes to sleep while her sister and jiju are missing. Right?!

If you are going to be talking about real life issues like catfishing and blackmail, then use these as hooks to reel in the audience and totally explore the fallouts. Instead, it is done in five minute exposition like someone spitting out the memorized physics chapter 1. Most of the audience will forget this mini arc because it barely existed.

They are making it seem like we should care about Revathi but there is no talk about how stupid this girl is. There is no real discussion for the audience where we can talk about how folks are so in love with the idea of being in love that they fall prey to online love scammers. In the last few years, romance scams are some of the biggest criminals.

There is no discussion about why Revathi is sending photos to people she has never met -- What should one do to protect themselves? There is no discussion of cyber police or cyber laws. Yes, individual choice is all there but are you stupidly putting yourself in danger when you send photos of yourself to a random stranger who you have never met. Why are people so desperate for love and relationship that they fall prey to criminals?

Again, no education point on how even with established relationships like people dating for a few years, these photos and videos are then used to blackmail people either for money or to stay in the relationship or to coerce some intimacy. Sometimes, there are idiots who share photos of their ex or gf in whatsapp group with other boys. Why????? 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Then, my biggest peeve is that this mini arc will be completely hidden from parents because appa has heart problems instead of talking it through as a family and finding real solutions. But oh, we don't do that in Indian families which is why these crimes only come to surface when it is parents who report them and have children who actually communicate their issues.

Basically if you watch an episode of crime patrol, all of these would be covered with a lot more gravitas and horror. These are real issues that should be shown more seriously and heart -- then as audience, we would want to tune in because we want to know how it will turn out. We will be on the edge of the seat because we know there is a twinge of reality here.

Even if we see Rishab randomly taking off his shirt and randomly getting stuck in freezer, we would be invested because the buildup from being in arc with serious problems means we would care about what happens. Instead, it is funny and comical. Yea, Rishab looks good and yea, there is chemistry and glances and we are just watching half asleep as we need time pass. Romance without real emotional hooks just falls flat. 🤷🤷🤷

P.S -- randomly tagging people who posted in last few pages. so apologies if I missed anyone.

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Originally posted by: sunshining

Your 1st paragraph pretty much sums it up. Let’s be honest, none of the ITV shows are really worth getting emotionally invested in.

Life can be tough sometimes, and we all need a bit of distraction. I can’t speak for others, but for me, BALH is just that, a time pass, an escape from reality and more importantly a chance to interact with people here and have a laugh at someone else’s expense.

So true -- that is exactly why we watch dramas. 👍

Yea, I will admit I like the tropes like random shower scenes but I want to feel ooh lala feel.

I want to be curious to tune in. I have serious amnesia when it comes to watching dramas and get very easily distracted and lose interest if I don't care about the characters or arc.

Right now, I am watching and enjoying BALH4 as time pass but will I continue to tune it a few months from now if it is just like this? Probably not. 🤷 I have lost count of the number of dramas I watch and then drop because I get bored 😅

Originally posted by: BombayChic

True that. I mean the logic of taking him to some snow clad place presumably manali in an hour? Better she could have put him in a cold storage warehouse or something 🤣 kuch toh sense banta. Or better could have killed him off with some poison injection. 😜 I dont trust TV plots too but as you said its breaking all trp cliches🤣 i found the whole scene with bhagya extremely cringe not romantic. She acted okay though. Also can they not show a man so close , centimeters away to a womans face to show romance , whats with this tv obsession .. HC can pull off a good scene from a feet away too. It looks forced for the heck of it.

Im just sad that he is being wasted yet again in this show

Originally posted by: Pr1yanka

Im just sad that he is being wasted yet again in this show

Well, he clearly doesn’t think so, he seems to be genuinely enjoying it. I guess he’s realised that ITV shows can only offer so much, and instead of fighting it, he’s lowered his expectations and just learnt to embrace it for what it is.

Originally posted by: sunshining

Well, he clearly doesn’t think so, he seems to be genuinely enjoying it. I guess he’s realised that ITV shows can only offer so much, and instead of fighting it, he’s lowered his expectations and just learn to embrace it for what it is.

lol yeah the above was my opinion…woh kya bolega…ussey earn karna hai…woh toh rajan shahi ke saath bhi photo click karwa raha hai…

Originally posted by: firewings_diya

https://x.com/Kanika03271756/status/1946823570065387642?t=tgObCjx6CivV_jhSgYJEFQ&s=19

This is so funny. I can't stop laughing.

Akshu ka badla, Rishabh playing lauta do in BG.

He is reading our IF theories Diya.😂😂😂

Originally posted by: Pr1yanka

lol yeah the above was my opinion…woh kya bolega…ussey earn karna hai…woh toh rajan shahi ke saath bhi photo click karwa raha hai…

HC is actually really professional. Uske kaam ke beech main there should not be anything coming, then only he gets irritated. Baaki he has been in ITV from 2 decades now. He knows he needs to stay relevant and not let people destroy his personality on SM. Otherwise he will not get work. His fans also tend to do that sometimes unfortunately.

Taking pictures with RS and YRKKH Gen4 cast was a classic move to tell he doesn't have problem with anyone.

Originally posted by: mango.falooda

I get what you are saying with writers trying to experiment but I feel the writers are not being smart in their approach even if they want a finite series. You need to have hooks for the audience to care. That then translates to TRPs

You cannot randomly introduce a character and expect the audience to be interested. I care about idiots in crime patrol episode but did I care about what happened to Mia or Revathi? Nope. 😂

This is a super dysfunctional family where all of the kids are emotionally stunted fools and all of them including the parents need whacks on their heads. 😅

Basically this is a family that focused solely on marks that none of the children are really street smart or have any idea how to navigate real life. This makes them all prime targets for villains.

I would be okay with such idiocy if the drama was willing to explore the fallouts of such stupidity and show how the characters change and grow. That can make for great emotional arcs and get the audience totally invested in these characters and tuning in week after after week.

However, given the saccharine sweet approach, I don't think we will get that. This makes me wonder how they will even get to 2026 (I read a comment here that this show is being intended for a year?) Right now, I can skip episodes and not really miss anything because nothing has really happened.

The real draw is HC and Shivangi and they are doing a good job but if the writers don't do more, then the actors cannot sell the drama despite best efforts.

The biggest hook of any drama is the push pull of romance and there is none here. For a strong romantic arc, you need conflicts to prevent the couple from really being a couple. This means there has to be villains or some dramatic incident that tears them apart. They have to not want to be together while they are together. That is one method of push pull.

If we are going with BALH/arranged marriage type romance arc, then we need awkwardness and the navigation of building a relationship as strangers. Yes, the writers have given a little of that but so far, I don't feel the push pull really.

I think they need to skip some of the sweetness and bring the angst in order to create push pull feel. Yes, we have the promo but so far, they have not shown that Rishab is actually mysterious. If they had given us hints of that from the beginning, then we would be lot more hooked on trying to decipher which is real and which is acting.

Agree. I didn't care about Revathi either.😂😂😂 But I tend to let go lot of things when watching ITV, otherwise I can't enjoy it.

Bold 1- I agree, that's what they are intending to do from next week. RishRee Romance arc hasn't started yet, till now it was all about the family and Bhagya's messy life, and some little bit of attraction and the angest in very few scenes. From Friday's episode it has changed gears. So, I am hoping to see the push pull myself between them in coming episodes.

Bold 2- Actually the breadcrumbs were all over the place in many scenes. I predicted few things as far as the initial jhumka and Gajra scene at the Kalyana Mandapam which came true now. Lot of people's theories in this forum has actually been on mark before the promo was released. But yeah, things were very very suttle. That's what I am loving about BALH, it is not having things on the face a lot, but there are so many suttle things in the undertone. HC and Shivi are actually doing a really brilliant job.💕💕💕💕