Originally posted by: The_Best
Exactly. Like show such things but don’t romanticize or glorify it. And I don’t understand this saying that they only have few years of age difference when the problem remains the same - the girl is still a minor/child and the ml is an adult. Or saying the ml doesn’t know her age when that makes it worse as that means the makers is using that to make ml look innocent and justify why he’s getting attracted to her. Now I saw a new promo of this show, and they are showing the fl is having feelings for him. Full on grooming and pedophilia glorification. I heard the OG version of this was banned in Turkey 3 times, but the saher makers still decided to take this show and make it for itv audience. Glad its trps are down. May its ratings continue to decrease and the show gets cancelled asap.
I never watched BV but heard about it. Glad makers there were sensible and didn’t romanticize child rape there. I am glad it was a super successful show. Such shows are needed
Didn’t know Saher was inspired by some Turkish show but it suddenly makes a lot of sense. There was another Turkish remake with Aditi Sharma, a few years ago and while I love her as an actress, I couldn’t watch it because the show basically was about her falling in love with her boss. Not an issue, but the premise then gets murky. She is a widow who works as an architect at a firm and is a single mom. Her son is diagnosed with cancer and the treatment is expensive. She asks for a loan from her boss and is willing to have it deducted from her salary. She even quotes the amount as a very specific number. He agrees but says she must sleep with him.
She agrees despite being revolted by the proposal as nothing matters more to her but her son’s life. Not even her dignity and self respect. The guy finds out via his mom and her best friend somehow that he essentially blackmailed a desperate widow trying to save her child into sleeping with him and he apologises. He says he was raised by a single mom too who was a widow and if he’d known her circumstances in the entirety earlier he wouldn’t have even accepted to get paid back but helped her out as it is.
They get married in the end.
I couldn’t ever fathom such a thing.
BV is an exception. Even when they showed uncomfortable things they never glamorised them. They made sure we as audience felt uncomfortable with the fact that such a thing was happening and was considered normal. They made us see child widows, teens who had to go through puberty, marital rape and things like a man old enough to be a father marrying a girl who could have been his child but never made them glamorous.
Edited by EkPaheli - 5 months ago
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