TV like any other business is about making money. It needs to in order to fund making of the shows. So I have no problem with that.
The show was brilliant in the first 4 months. They had good TRPs and hence was attracting advertsing.That was not the problem.
They started with a concept. For a couple of months they let the characters build up which did not fit the original concept. Then suddenly they decided to go back to orignal concept which in itself was not the problem but if you are going to change track you need a fundamental reason. It cannot be a lame reason of a dead wife turning up and divorce not being acceptable in the 21st century.
From then it was a downward spiral where each step they took to shock and improve TRPs resulted in the show sinking to a new low and viewers being disgusted and leaving because basic values, morals and principles worldover were being violated/ignored/insulted on a daily basis. Even God was not spared - Sitamaiya who epitomises a monogamous relationship was maligned beyond belief.
Finally we have the 6 month leap, it was leap that bought with it all the unresolved issues. They have finally found some writers that can write logical, interesting, entertaining storyline, who were resolving issues but the channel expected miracles in weeks without any promos, no new montage. What was destroyed in 6 months cannot be saved and turned around in 6 weeks.
What a waste of steller cast who could have taken this show to a new level and broken ground in terms of storyline that is not about handing out men/women/childern like candy in the name of sacrifice, siblings having realtionship with same man/woman etc.
I have to say Zee must be really proud of the fact that it had a bunch of writers who were arrogant enough to believe that they knew better than the audiance they were paid to entertain as to what was acceptable. It must a first time in history that bunch of people were paid for taking something brilliant and destroying it.
Edited by payal7 - 12 years ago