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I used to watch a show called IPKKND which I thought was "different". Well, from now on, I will still watch it.
We are masochistic people after all. Love to BE tortured, love to SEE a girl being tortured (in an emotional see saw) in the name of love.
But, I will watch it with the new realization that this was "just another of those serial products from the assembly line production chain of the factory called SP".
I would not have said it, if I knew they had any chance of correcting their gaping flaws any more.
But, unfortunately they don't. They can think that umpteen innovative ways of romancing will cover us with enough goose bumps to last our life time. But the actual scenes required to redeem this mess are very different. And whosoever is creating 'this' now, does not have the capacity to think of it.
The lack of those scenes will always bother me. And do read on more to know why. Hopefully, you will understand my practicality behind it.
In the Intro section in this forum, you have to mention why you like this show.
I think, of all the things that they read from there, the CVs found holding on to BS and SI the easiest way to keep the show on air.
There is no doubt that we LOVE these two people and speaking for myself, i am a sucker for romance too. I love the intensity and passion of it. I know when it works for the heroine to think with her heart and when with her mind for the hero to feel the suitable feelings towards her.
But above everything, there is a question of being "individuals by their own right". That is where the show was different.
People got "inspired" to write so many OS, FFs on the two characters because they understood how each would behave under different circumstances. And this individuality is what made the leads do an honest soul-searching for 7 long months before giving a 'name' to their feelings.
The moment you start playing around with your character, you lose your identity. And if that is gone, this becomes the story of the kind of 'love' that any body can feel any day for some one.
I am sure the CVs are racking their brains to come up with more Arnav-ish and Khushi-ish moments to keep us glued as I said. And all the drama, ambiguous looks (that we are going crazy while deciphering) and "keep the tension up" way of direction is essentially for keeping viewers hooked as well.
Except that, the kind of viewers who liked the "difference" in the show will keep thinking
"Why, why did Arnav not give Khushi's khushiness a single thought? Why after all this time did he not at least speak to her- even with his "know the human psyche" methods - about what is with her and Shyam?
"Why, why did Khushi behave most uncharacteristically dumbly that day?" ?
"He didn't have to trust her in the end..that is his 'past' ...that is his 'flaw'...but not behaving in 'Arnav's way'? How could that happen??"
To me, that will kind of spoil the mood when next Arnav will look at her with "tormented love" in his eyes. I would think - "So he is tormented becoz he loves the home-breaker of his Di or because he hates what he is doing to his innocent 'love'" ??
It might be a good tool to keep me thinking except that the story all over has to show consistency with that given train of thought, which I know for a fact is not the CVs cup of tea. Not because of creativity issues but because in a daily soap format, you cannot manage so many open-ended strings successfully simply because of the little time that goes into 'thinking'.
That is why they should have just sat back and thought - "What would Arnav/Khushi do now?" and let it happen instead of bringing in the usual soap cliches of creating drama.
Well, now that they have done that, there is no turning back. Just going to enjoy ArHi touching and grabbing and reading symbolisms out of that.š
p.s. - Hoping to present some of those redeeming scenes to my like-minded emotionally spent friends in the forum in some time.
Anupamaa
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