Originally posted by: JustRandomGirl
Isnt there a lot of ITV shows in the past where the leads have a huge gap like this?! But tab toh no one complained. I am not supporting such a huge age gap like this in real life but just curious. I read the plot of the Marathi version Mujhe interesting laga 💀 (cause of the twists)
Yes, unfortunately there have been plenty. Kasam Se, Molki starring Amar himself iirc, Bandini with Ronit are a few examples that come to mind. But most of these shows were made back in the early 2000s or the previous decade. I think ironically it’s in the past 6 years or so itself that we have had a wake up call regarding how wrong that is. Maybe a silly thing but I think we got exposed to global content in lockdown and realised that shows don’t need to have such couples just for the sake of shock value or something, or at least address the issue when you go there.
Ironically, the only show that did the reverse, older woman younger guy called Astitva on Zee showed how such marriages fail ultimately no matter what; not when it’s the other way around.
I guess awareness and education of concepts such as grooming with conversations that made us think is the difference now. We all grew up watching stuff that our parents also did somehow and we know that their generation saw Amitabh romance a 18 year old as a 50 plus guy in his movies like it was the most normal thing in the world, Hollywood and other regional industries have their own counterparts.
It’s only now that we see that was wrong too.
Somehow the conversation never happened before because it was so normalised but now it’s being called out and rightly so. Now it doesn’t even depend what the medium is or who the actors are.
What makes romance based shows icky is that they make an underage girl or someone who is quite clearly very young have romantic scenes with someone twice her age and that influences an entire generation which is wrong.
I know I am obviously coming across as a Dhurandhar fan and it has a similar couple but the difference is Dhar never had them do any uncomfortable and unnecessary scenes for the shock or titillation factor. The most intimate moments have them simply hugging each other, a forehead kiss and a moment when she’s shown sitting on his lap but in the whole movie Sara was not made to expose or do anything icky with Ranveer. The plot also reveals why he aimed to marry her but the treatment is what saves the scene.
they don't look like 16 and 22 at all! They wasted the potential and talent this show had so badly! And the story isnt even that bad but but the age is hard to digest.
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