I've never addressed you face to face. Such a pity. :'(
So i thought, I'll do it now. First things first, are any of you professionally trained?
Good now that question is out of the way- there are two possible answers for it; Yes,but ignorant and No, but still ignorant.
The point at hand- Anjali is a character you've been trying so hard to promote.
What Roughly happened in the IPK Creatives Room.
SHIT SHIT OMGGG THEY DON"T LIKE HER. ABORT MISSION. I SAID ABORT MISSION. (Emphasis on ABORT.)
She is a woman who has lost everything. Twice now. She is in more pain than Arnav and she deserves more pity than Khushi. Here is a woman who has been brushed aside by men whom she valued a great deal (her first lover and now Shyam.) and her marriage has fallen apart. For a woman such as Anjali there is nothing more important than marital bliss.
She feels unloved and helpless. As a woman I feel great pity for her. I've witnessed fallen marriages and there is nothing more painful than your husband walking out on you and your child being fatherless. Anjali has faced this twice. It's a miracle she's as strong as she is. A very good angle you got going there.
Her clingy disposition and need for attention is very legitimate and you want to establish that. I get that. But do the audience? That would be a NO.
You don't need to give her screen time to get generate pity. You don't need to dedicate an entire episode to her to tell us how bad she's feeling. A well timed flashback and a sad line will do it.
It's not about how hard you try to make her loved but how effective your ways are. Unfortunately your way sucks.
Instead of feeling pity/sadness etc we're feeling hate/disgust etc. We cringe when she comes on to screen.
This is a combination of bad screenplay and bad acting which stems from the fact that the direction is bad.
Why are you not using your trump card? A Pregnant Woman. Nobody generates more pity than a pregnant woman.
The fact is nobody is convinced she's pregnant. Only that she's mentally unstable.
This is just taking the audience for granted to a whole new level. She's seven months pregnant for God's sake.
You wonder why we make fun of you- thats your answer. You don't take us seriously then we don't either.
Cant you afford a baby bump? I don't think anyone even expects it to be all classy. Just something to show us that she's carrying a baby and not an alien as light as air. At this point I don't even mind stuffed pillows.
And if for some reason the baby bump is out of the question, can you atleast not focus on her uber flat stomach so much? That's the worst case scenario.
Anjali is perhaps the most important aspect of this track. The track that you have laid down since the first promo. This is the marquee of Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon. And unless you make people understand Anjali, everything is going to go down the drain.
~Rockerchic
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