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First off I did not mistype the serial acronym. This show is more of BLAH BLAH BLAH than anything that has come out of Ekta factory so far. Especially so, since there was quite a bit of hype created around it. For me the way the show began was absolutely wrong and thats where Ekta lost her grip on the show if she ever had it.
I would've preferred to open the show on Ram and Priya closing the door on the last of the guests on the first day of their married life and the awkwardness that still lingers between them.
What was the point of all this drama. All other characters could have been slowly introduced and built into the fabric of the story. At least we would've been spared this morbid overdose of caricatures.
One would expect a 33 year old working woman to be a strong individual. Sadly, Priya comes across as woolly-headed as a 12 year-old. Funnily, the students she is teaching are more practical and with it than her.
(Btw, Ekta, step out of the studio and see the real world - No one teaches Keats in TOEFL classes, they are meant only to reinforce vocabulary. And Keats is not synonymous with a lecture on Love. Keats belonged to the Romantic period, he had nothing to do with romantic love. Wish either you or someone in your crew had ever attended college).
Gaudy makeup, overuse of glitter, loud characterization has been beaten to death. 10:30 pm is not the time to sledge-hammer the viewers. The show would've done well to have taken some pointers out of Kismat. YRF knows how to show opulence without overdoing it. Balaji seems to tilt towards nouveau riche, out of villages, zero-exposure, and therefore loud and jarring.
Except for Sakshi, Ram, his friend and Chahak all other characters are mis-cast and are either shrieking or sleepwalking through the serial. This seems to be like "We have 5 actors sitting in the studio and no show to report to, so okay put them in the first available sequinned horror, shoot 3 dialogs from a random script, and voila we have today's episode ready".
Overall this was a brilliant concept, successful in snagging two very fine actors in the lead role - sadly let down by the following:
I would've preferred to open the show on Ram and Priya closing the door on the last of the guests on the first day of their married life and the awkwardness that still lingers between them.
What was the point of all this drama. All other characters could have been slowly introduced and built into the fabric of the story. At least we would've been spared this morbid overdose of caricatures.
One would expect a 33 year old working woman to be a strong individual. Sadly, Priya comes across as woolly-headed as a 12 year-old. Funnily, the students she is teaching are more practical and with it than her.
(Btw, Ekta, step out of the studio and see the real world - No one teaches Keats in TOEFL classes, they are meant only to reinforce vocabulary. And Keats is not synonymous with a lecture on Love. Keats belonged to the Romantic period, he had nothing to do with romantic love. Wish either you or someone in your crew had ever attended college).
Gaudy makeup, overuse of glitter, loud characterization has been beaten to death. 10:30 pm is not the time to sledge-hammer the viewers. The show would've done well to have taken some pointers out of Kismat. YRF knows how to show opulence without overdoing it. Balaji seems to tilt towards nouveau riche, out of villages, zero-exposure, and therefore loud and jarring.
Except for Sakshi, Ram, his friend and Chahak all other characters are mis-cast and are either shrieking or sleepwalking through the serial. This seems to be like "We have 5 actors sitting in the studio and no show to report to, so okay put them in the first available sequinned horror, shoot 3 dialogs from a random script, and voila we have today's episode ready".
Overall this was a brilliant concept, successful in snagging two very fine actors in the lead role - sadly let down by the following:
- Costume Department
- Art Department
- Research Team
- Casting Department
- Writing Team
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