Originally posted by: Shivandi
The first thing I would argue is that Shiv is no longer a parallel main lead. Gauri was a parallel female lead, but Shiv's wild popularity has brought him center stage. Not just that, but the main lead is Anandi. No male or female here - she's not the female lead, she is the lead. She was the one with whom we started the story, and she is the one we're following. Jagdish and the Singhs, although integral to her story, and integral to the social message, are a part of her story. And now, so is Shiv. So I would say that Shiv and Jagdish are both the main male leads or parallel main leads. It's balika vadhu, not balak var. You are right she is the lead and J is the other central,character with rest of the characters revolving around them.The story is looking at the lives of these two characters right from their childhood through adolescence to young adults to adults and the hanging equations in their realtion and how that affects their other relationships and how it influences the way they perceive their lives.
On to structure - I didn't elaborate when it came to Jagdish, but even his story had a structure. By structure, I mean each episode had a key point, and a key point wasn't repeated again and again, and was resolved quickly. So one episode would be about his not helping Gauri out, another of Gauri's selfishness, another of lies, each a point in a deteriorating relationship. As opposed to - redemption, redemption, redemption, more redemption. And no SR-problem, no SR-problems, no SR-problems, still no SR-problems.J 's story has a different structure because of the kind of man he is.He is quick to changes his mind and the story changes accordingly.
As for Aanndi her character has been designed that way she is stable and for her to change it takes a lot more.Most likely from on Jagya's story will drag because he has reached to the stage where Annadi was when she was abandoned and where she was in a state that she wasn't ready for a relationship
There also weren't as many random and draggy episodes, like Makar Sakrant.Makar sankrant I agree every one thinks that is dragged but I.'m in a minority there.I thought a lot of story was told with makar sankranti as the back drop.They showed Anandi building bridges with the new additions in her life namely the Shekhars.And most importantly she tld him how much his love and support meant to her and what he means to her.She effectively tld him with out him her life would have been like a kite fallen by the side with no strings.That is a phenomenal admisssion coming from her.She gave him her first gift which was brave of her given the fact the last time she had given gift to the man in her life was so cruelly rejected by him.
Back to Shiv, if he is one of two parallel male leads or one of two main male leads, he deserves a bit more time, especially as Anandi finds out about him, as you said, since it's her POV. I never meant to say he isn't a fleshed out character - he's bursting with personality, and there are very few characters who are like that. But there's no harm revealing key points in his life in conversations. The problem is, conversations are literally never about him sometimes, and that's just not realistic.He and Ganga previously Gauri fall in the same category.That's what the story tellers have us believe.He obviously gets the same amount of footage as Ganga wil get and GAuri used to get.The points will be revealed as per the requirements of the story.Just like they revealed about Gauri's childhood or Ganga's childhood.
I also wasn't asking for equal footage for him, but just a little more than the negligible levels we're seeing now. Because back then, we saw him with Bheem Singh, we saw him on the phone, we saw him with police, etc. There's less of that stuff now. As for that matter even Anandi's has not been shown working till now.And once his professional aspect is needed in the story I am sure they will show him in office.It is not the story of Shiraj Shekhar IAS
Also, again, I wasn't asking for fb's. Nor am I asking for more screen space for Shekhars than Singhs, but a little more than just what rasams they like and 'statue' and what they think of Anandi. There's plenty of space to go around, what with unnecessarily long and repetitive scenes and dialogue.By showing more of Shekhars what exactly will they tell us?That how Anandi will bond with her in laws?Which they have already shown with the Shinghs showing her doing the samething winniing their hearts is what exactly a telly bahu does are we really interseted in seeing that?They show Shings more because they are more relevant to the theme of the story.Shekhars were just brought in to show a different world through them.But they made it very clear that her life is in Jaitser that's the reason why Shivraj Shekhar was brought in to Jaitser.They did not take Anandi out of Jaitser to make her meet a new man.If they want to give importance to the Shekhars and keep the story moving they will have to bring them to Jaitser and get them involved in the main story rather than just show them as in laws of Anandi and them causing trouble and demanding attention and getting footage and screen space.
My final point was just about that - BV has been different, but they're giving in to the trp trap. They'll have even more trp's if they don't drag this SR thing out, and so they shouldn't.BV is different because it stuck to the basic story it started off and stuck to it's theme and all the tracks they have shown so far has been about the plight of women in Rural India.Agreed SR shouldn't be dragged this way.
Episode formatting - I guess we just differ in opinion then. We can agree to disagree. 😊
The makers have been telling us that this is the story of a balika vadhu whose wings have been clipped because of bal vivah and the story of her naadan bewakoof balak var who let his bal vivah color his life and vision and fell into a pit.The story is about her growing wings and him getting himself out of the pit that he fell into.The episodes have to be divided to tell these two stories.
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