And everytime i read these posts I think all this fight is for nothing because that is soo not the criteria by which the final decision will be made. The final decision will be based on something much much more important than ALL this and that No one is thinking about.
Confused ????? Let me explain.
In the world of business and showbiz there is a very famous saying:
ITS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY HONEY.
And keeping this philosophy in mind I can pretty confidently say IT WILL BE and HAS to be AR
At the end of the day for the channel, production house and actors its about the money. Money means more advertisements, adv means more viewrship and viewership means high TRP.
And the Cv's have learnt it the hard way that for DMG TRP's = AR.
Its a fact and NO ONE can DENY that. Not even the SR fans. SR may have a big fan base but the AR fan base is much much bigger. It has to be since it has been built over almost 3 yrs.
Every poll conducted by the CV's and channel or independent poll have all shown that the absolute majority of fans want AR. They win by a huuuugggggeeee margin. So no one can deny that Not even the CV's themselves.
I wont be wrong if I say that 95% of the loyal viewers of DMG1 loved AR ( KaSh, KaJen or KaSu) and atleast 85% of these viewers watched the show mainly for AR. These are the loyal viewers of the show for the last 2.5 yrs. When the CV's tried to run the show without AR they hit their face hard on the ground. And see the results .....they had to get them back to save their a**.
If we take the avg results of all the polls we can see that more than 80% of the current viewership of the show is in favour of AR. The SR fans are mostly new viewers and few old ones.
There is a law in business which says that it is profitable to retain your old and loyal customers rather that to attract new ones.
So if you were the CV's what would you do. Risk losing 80% of old, loyal viewership or risk losing 20% of your new viewers. Which would make more business sense to you????
The answer is obvious. Earlier when KSG was not there they tried everything to turn everyone in favour of SR. But it DID NOT WORK. Now that he is back and they can easily show what the majority of viewers want pls give me one good reason why they will not do it.
It makes absolute business sense for the CV's to go for AR in the end and that is what I think they will do.
Now coming to the other point that everyone discusses here.
For all the SR fans who say that its against Indian "tradition" for a married women to leave her husband and that CV"s will be giving out a wrong message by doing that and for All the AR fans who say that AR have been in true love for 2,5 yrs and the CV's can't break that just like that I have news for you The CV's care two hoots about all this.
They are here to entertain us and make money. They are not here to teach us lessons about life and what is wrong n right or to fullfill our wishes and desires.
Tell me when has DMG ever been about giving us the right msg.???
Is it giving the right msg when they show a guy clicking obscene pics wid a girl to blackmail her, when a girl lies to her parents about what actually she is studying, when a guy impersonates someone else and enters a hospital to take revenge, and many more. When during all these things we did not raise any objection about wrong messages ....why now???? What makes ppl think that suddenly the CV's are going to think about giving out lessons in life to their viewers.
And do you really think they care about how the sentiments of sooo many fans will be hurt if they break AR up and don't give them a proper ending???? The answer is NOOO. If the case was that SR fans were more and Sr were getting them the TRPs then they will not think twice before killing off the AR love story.
The CV's n channel are going to do whatever gets them TRPs and fortunately that is AR. The fans sentiments n nothing else matters to them in this. So we can fight all we want but at the end of them money is the one deciding factor for them.
And Business sense tells that they should go with AR if they want the show to succeed. Its not about who is better AR or SR.
If they don't go with AR then all things else kept aside, from the point of view of business it will the biggest stupidity on their part.
That why I think it will be AR in the end.
Pls reply n comment.
PS: After seeing this weeks episodes one thing is clear that Riddhima still loves Armaan and the only reason she's with Sid is because she is married to him and being the traditional girl that she is she won't think about leaving Sid especially when she feels obligated to him for helping herout so much. Her dialogue today where she told him " Armaan mera ateet hai. Meri shadi tumse hui hai aur yahi ab meri sachayi hai aur mein isi ke sath jeeyungi" (or something to that effect) proves that marriage IS THE ONLY thing binding her. If she would have loved Sid she would have said " Armaan mera ateet hai. Lekin ab mein tumse pyar karti hun aur yahi meri sachayi hai" or some thing like that. Just an observation.
PS: SR n AR fans r both welcome to comment. This is an objective post and not about SR or AR is better. So pls don't bash each other here.