Originally posted by: dipshit
I think this has been done before - with Kasam Se (I never watched it but people have mentioned it).
Yes, you're right - a 40+ man romancing an 18 year old girl is depraved and borderline illegal (at least in the UK I think). But this isn't a story of some 40 year old sugar daddy seducing some naive little nymph. This is a story of circumstances necessitating a marriage between two people different in almost every way (including age) and finding common ground, respect, understanding that crosses all these things. A bond of a different kind of love to that we are use to seeing on TV where people fall in love all over the place usually on stupidly superficial things (initially anyway).
That's the crux of the show and why I watch it, rather than any other love story that's been shown right now. Have you read Sense and Sensibilty by Jane Austen? There's a touching and telling love story of the Captain and Marrion which has a similar old man/young woman story done tastefully.
To be honest, it's just nice to see a story where we are not supposed to believe that an earth shattering/ soul destorying/ world ending love results from about 5 meetings, a few winks and kisses and asman se gira sign.