Punar Vivah-one eyed or two eyed?!!

Hey everyone…..

I wanted to make this post from a long time but I was waiting that maybe I don't need this post to make. But after a long wait and because of current track going on, I can't resist myself from making this post.

Today I want to share my views on PUNAR VIVAH. I started watching this serial because of Gurmeet. I was excited and after watching the first promo, I became more curious about show.

When I watched the promos of this show, I thought punar vivah is story of two persons who have lost their loves and they will be going to tie again in the bond of marriage. I thought their remarriage will be on their own wish. I mean definitely a arrange marriage. But when I watched the show, the story line was little different but interesting and I really enjoyed the show, the way remarriage was shown. The way Yash and Aarti grew about their responsibility of parents. I love yash's love towards Arpita. I love how he loves his children. I love how he respects Aarti …

I was enjoying watching this show. I got to learn new things and loved the flow of serial.

I started watching the show for Gurmeet but I fell in love with both the characters. First I fell in love with Yash and after that for Aarti's character too.

I remember the day I watched the promo of Aarti's realization of love. I was so excited. I was waiting for this track. When this track started, I loved the confusion of Aarti towards love and her feelings but I didn't liked vidhi and pratik's involvement in that because we don't need anyone to make realize that we are in love. I still remember that was Friday's episode when they showed Aarti's confession of love to unconscious Yash( the day Yash was stuck in his car and Aarti reached there to rescue him). But after the episode ends, I wasn't happy. I looked at my sister and I told her I didn't like this episode. She asked me why?? She said It was good…..but I told her no it wasn't good enough to show the love aspect of a girl.

I told her if they wanted to show the realization this pure way (Aarti walking on fire), then it should have been elaborated, otherwise they should have saved this beautiful sequence for later……

Somehow I felt disconnected there. I told my sister that day, there are two ways for writer of PV to take this story. One is that peak and pure way where this story become eternal and TRPs plus fan ship will become small words for describing this story. And other way could be where it will just sink like titanic of emotions. I left that congested feeling about that sequence with the night with a thought that it might be my over-expectations from Love. After watching the further two-three episodes, I discussed with my sister that they took the middle way, somewhere between eternality and dramatic love.

I love PV for showing a journey of a couple who remarried. This show is different from female-oriented and saas-bahu saga. I love the way they showed YASH as well as AARTI as individuals. Personally I love Aarti more as Aarti but not as an ideal daughter in law and ideal wife. I love Yash more as Yash rather than a perfect son or a brother. Individual characteristics which are elements of a person make me more attached to a character.

Neelam track, the way it is shown was more made for showing Aarti as perfect daughter in law and removing all the misconceptions of Scindhiya family about Aarti. That was good purpose but in this race of proving to a stubborn conservative family, I lost Aarti as a strong girl whom I used to adore as Aarti Dube. And YASH, his POV and monologues kept on decreasing and still sinking. It made me a little worried about story which I can see going towards an end where this show will stand in same category as other shows. Women are stronger and more mature. I being a girl can understand that. But when I see a story, I see it as a person who wants to see a wife as well as a husband who makes AarYa. A story is beyond the female or male lead. It's just like a car which runs on 4 parallel wheels. If one wheel will be truck sized then I don't see a car running smoothly.

I personally dislike the way women are portrayed in Indian soaps. They are supposed to be an ideal and the ones who know and do anything. My fear about Punar Vivah is that it won't turn into a female- oriented show where I see the story from only one eye. Other eye is as important as first. It'd be same fear if they'd show Yash's POV and struggle only. It's a story of two persons and their journey then how I could not fear to lose most amazing story of my entire viewership!!

The current track is totally one-sided. In race of closing the open ends of Scindhiya's towards Aarti, Yash is becoming more like a mind-puppet of mine (I try to get his feelings hypothetically in my mind) because they aren't showing his input to this relationship. I miss to see what he thinks!! I have to assume a lot of things because I am not seeing those in PV.

Story is progressive but I can only see it from Aarti's eyes. How she understood Yash, How she proved herself, how she won Palak and Payal's love!! What about Yash??!! I want to see his part too.

Punar Vivah is a challenge in itself for a man as well as for a woman. It's equally challenging for both. It can't be plane on one and high tided on other. Punar Vivah is one show which made me clap for the thought. But it's not only about woman and her thorny way. It's also about a Man and his progressive way.

Hope to see it as balanced as a seesaw which can be tilting in one way and then another but never stand still or static

Originally posted by: 123mitul

i think its a part of yash's characterization. i too become disappointed on him for being indifferent. but he is son of a very orthodox family. his family doesn't allow him to do much. remember the scene where gayatri & vidhi told him that its mother's duty to take care of the kids. moreover, he is still mourning. but i admit that he should be more proactive now.