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It was a treat reading the post followed by all the reply's,
Koolsadu you are very articulate and obviously very well read. I agree with you on most parts, specially about television sending a wrong message, specially when they don't know how it would affect the viewers. We are in a day and age when the television has become a part of everyday life and the media has an amazing capacity to make a difference in a very positive way. But unfortunately most often this previlage is misused. I think producers, directors, creatives start off with a good intention. To provide entertainment, send a message and then obviously make money off it. But in the process of daily dealings and problems/situations they come up with easy alternatives. I say this from some personal experience, since i know some people very closely who are in script writing and know how exactly the industry works. Very often they have the writers change for silly reasons, they have some parts or scenes put in because some producers or actors think they need to be in. So I really don't think that when the so called creatives are writing a story they have thought of how the character is going to grow or what will happen next. Un like a movie where there is a start, middle and an end. The soaps go on depending on viewership, demographics, budget and finally daily problems like some one is sick or not wanting to work any longer and so forth.
We as viewers can only try to voice our opnion so that if some one is reading they would think of making appropriate changes. Having said that I do want to ask a question and that is why is the scene of taking bangles out of the flame so disturbing. I understand teenagers watching and family's of middle class not being able to control what the kids watch to certain extent. But why is it MORE disturbing than AMMA abusing Rads ALL the time? Why is it more disturbing to see Rads taking them out of the fire than Amma actually throwing it in? or characters like chachaji, mrinalini, arjun coming up with these plans of distroying someone? People like Devki (loving mother) not standing up for her daughter. Its finally a message a person takes from a scene. The chance of some one actually mimicing the scene that is getting some valuable out of a flame for the sake of love is very remote. But the chance of a young individual not standing up for what is right and taking mental abuse from people in our society is very high.
The scene was followed by Dev throwing away the bangles which was very significant, saying that these material things don't matter. Its the way a person looks at it. I feel its more important for the kids to have a stronger understanding of right and wrong behavior. Now again cutting the hand scene was not something i enjoyed personally. But i did not understand it that well. It was very disturbing and the reasoning was not good enough for me.
And I am not saying that Rads putting her hand in fire was something i enjoyed but it had drama and good follow-up. I did not from any angle think what Rads did was right. But I enjoyed her intention behind it, her love for DEV and the message that was sent to Amma, Followed by Dev's reaction. People do crazy things in love like Koolsadu mentioned how Parvati starved herself to attain Lord Shiva.
This serial has shown some amount of spiritual, mystic actions in the past not making it an everyday story. Like the part where Rads is locked in her room and she needs to go to do the puja and magically the door gets opend and they kind of show that it was lord krishna that did it. So one can look at the fire scene and think that her hand did not get burned completely or she did not get third degree burns because lord krishna was protecting her.
Again just my opinion If I have said anything to hurt anyone i am really sorry. this was a very interesting discussion.
Koolsadu you are very articulate and obviously very well read. I agree with you on most parts, specially about television sending a wrong message, specially when they don't know how it would affect the viewers. We are in a day and age when the television has become a part of everyday life and the media has an amazing capacity to make a difference in a very positive way. But unfortunately most often this previlage is misused. I think producers, directors, creatives start off with a good intention. To provide entertainment, send a message and then obviously make money off it. But in the process of daily dealings and problems/situations they come up with easy alternatives. I say this from some personal experience, since i know some people very closely who are in script writing and know how exactly the industry works. Very often they have the writers change for silly reasons, they have some parts or scenes put in because some producers or actors think they need to be in. So I really don't think that when the so called creatives are writing a story they have thought of how the character is going to grow or what will happen next. Un like a movie where there is a start, middle and an end. The soaps go on depending on viewership, demographics, budget and finally daily problems like some one is sick or not wanting to work any longer and so forth.
We as viewers can only try to voice our opnion so that if some one is reading they would think of making appropriate changes. Having said that I do want to ask a question and that is why is the scene of taking bangles out of the flame so disturbing. I understand teenagers watching and family's of middle class not being able to control what the kids watch to certain extent. But why is it MORE disturbing than AMMA abusing Rads ALL the time? Why is it more disturbing to see Rads taking them out of the fire than Amma actually throwing it in? or characters like chachaji, mrinalini, arjun coming up with these plans of distroying someone? People like Devki (loving mother) not standing up for her daughter. Its finally a message a person takes from a scene. The chance of some one actually mimicing the scene that is getting some valuable out of a flame for the sake of love is very remote. But the chance of a young individual not standing up for what is right and taking mental abuse from people in our society is very high.
The scene was followed by Dev throwing away the bangles which was very significant, saying that these material things don't matter. Its the way a person looks at it. I feel its more important for the kids to have a stronger understanding of right and wrong behavior. Now again cutting the hand scene was not something i enjoyed personally. But i did not understand it that well. It was very disturbing and the reasoning was not good enough for me.
And I am not saying that Rads putting her hand in fire was something i enjoyed but it had drama and good follow-up. I did not from any angle think what Rads did was right. But I enjoyed her intention behind it, her love for DEV and the message that was sent to Amma, Followed by Dev's reaction. People do crazy things in love like Koolsadu mentioned how Parvati starved herself to attain Lord Shiva.
This serial has shown some amount of spiritual, mystic actions in the past not making it an everyday story. Like the part where Rads is locked in her room and she needs to go to do the puja and magically the door gets opend and they kind of show that it was lord krishna that did it. So one can look at the fire scene and think that her hand did not get burned completely or she did not get third degree burns because lord krishna was protecting her.
Again just my opinion If I have said anything to hurt anyone i am really sorry. this was a very interesting discussion.
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