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Tarak Mehta series started with Social messages with tones of laughter. Now it has degenerated into Social messages with tones of boredom.
They think we are some illiterate folks from Jhumary Talaiyaa without any civic manners or emotions. So instead of making us laugh, they only give lectures.
Social problems provide best raw-material to generate clean comedy (unlike the vulgar stuff on Comedy Circus on Sony TV). But Tarak Mehta & Co. is now showing only social problems part, without generating any comedy out of it. (Jetha insulted by Daya- Champak for his obesity during a 26th Jan. track, doesn't mean that they utilized the patriotism premise to generate comedy.)
Nowadays they don't create comedy out of situation; they only try to fill the situation with ready-made filler templates like Jetha insulted by Daya-Champak-Baghaa or Phone call from Daya's mom.
Lets take a look at some of the social-message story tracks in descending order of their boredom.
Bald Tappu & his friend suffering from cancer
Message: don't tease bald kids at school. Cancer awareness
Problems:
More than a week is wasted on a single premise: Tarak, Jetha family trying to convince Tappu not to get bald without even disclosing the reason.
Hardly any laughter flares in this track, except every 15th minute Daya says something to irritate Jetha in high-pitch voice, and we are supposed to laugh at Jetha's agony. This is getting overdone.
Adding insult to the injury, Baghaa comes to help Jetha. Like Jetha, we too feel irritated because of his presence.
Now in every episode, Daya's mom calls and Daya starts laughing like a maniac, and talking in a high-pitched voice.
In short they're painfully trying to drag the script.
And most important question : Why they left the whole track of Tarak, Jetha doing party because Champak is gone on Shirdi Yaatra??
I don't see no point in glorying an over-pampered kid (Tappu) who goes unpunished for his every mischief and thus sending bad example for all kids who watch this series. Why make him hero one more time? They should have used Pinkoo to get bald and emerge as hero in this track, but no one cares about Pinkoo who doesn't even have mom and dad! :D
26th January, Angry colonel
Message: India has lot potential, don't become cynical Just because of 2G scam.
Problems:
No built-in laughter flares so they inserted the conventional templates: Champak insulting Jetha, phone calls from daya's mom and even the cheap comic situations like Tarak & Co. taking cover,
Even a 5th grade school kid won't laugh from that knowing the gun-fire sound was coming from the door-bell.
If they do a survey of age-income-literacy profile of Tarak Mehta fan, they'll know most of us belong to urban educated middle class. And the kind of cheap door-bell comedy they're trying to generate (like in Papad Pol, Ring-wrong-ring etc.) will definitely fail to make most of us laugh.
Credit-card scam
Message: don't overspend, know your credit card limit
Problem: but story-premise was stretched to unbelievable level: Even Komal & Madhavi not knowing anything about credit card!
Stolen sports car
Message: don't buy vehicle from unknown persons without papers
Problem: Not much, except that Police station scene was over-stretched because every society member would come one by one and Babita would explain them same thing over and over again.
Saree Sale:
Message: don't buy stuff without bills.
Problem: they dragged 2 weeks just doing Protest- Garba-dance outside Satyawaan's shop.
31st Liquor Party
Message: 31 December is not for drinking. Celebrate it with your family.
Problem: none
Tappu's Child-marriage
Message: Child-marriage is bad + Parody of glorified child-brides like Balika Vadhu
Problem: None. Every minute was filled with a genuine laughter flare. They indeed generated comedy out of the situation.
Kidneys of Sheikh's brother
Message: don't buy or sale organs, donate them.
Problem: None. Infact one of the best episodes in this series.
Conclusions:
Anjali's boring diet-drama is now replaced with boring phone-calls from Daya's mom.
Retards like Baghaa make even Popatlal appear to be a decent man!
Daya only exists to irritate Jetha & create comedy out of it. (That's what script writer thinks) Compare her today's character with her old character in Kitty-party & fight with Madhvi, Daya goes silent etc stories. They've demoted Daya's character from a good housewife to a retard who laughs hysterically & speaks in high-pitch voice. Every fan, even with a pinch of respect for Daya, resents this treatment to her character.
They've forgotten that Champak can create comedy by himself (Blanket donation to poors, Mobile phone, Child-marriage etc episodes). So now they use Champak only for insulting Jetha, and not for any comedy outside that boundary.
In short, either the script-writer has been changed or he is not getting paid well.
Tarak Mehta production team itself needs to study the old episodes on social awareness.
With initial episodes in first year of Tarak Mehta, they set extreme high-standards of clean comedy, now they fail to meet their own standards.
[quote=Armu4eva]
The success of producer Asit Modi's Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah seems to have given him a swollen head as sources tell us that Asit regularly gets into a fit of rage, yells at his efficient writing duo Raju Odedra and Rajen Upad, only because he wants them to write the script the way he wants it to be.
"Needless to say, Raju and Rajen have their own style of writing and do not find the producer's style alluring enough to attract the attention of audiences," says our source...[/quote]
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