| Doing it differently Vaidehi goes slumming At least, this is one show that's been interesting this past week. Sony's Vaidehi, has returned to the household as a brash imposter, talking slang and being the very opposite of the dignified bahu she was shown as earlier. To her credit, Pallavi Kulkarni is doing a commendable job of talking out of the side of her mouth, hitching up her sari as she sits down to dinner among the marble topped elegance of her palatial house. Although the rest of the gang continues to drape pallus over their heads and wear black ties to dinner, the protagonist is a relief to sore eyes. May the track continue for a while. It's good when tracks change in long running soaps and the soap folks get a chance to look and act a bit differently. But sometimes, even when there are generation leaps, the elder protagonists go on looking younger by the day. It must be viewer apathy at its worst when Kumkum and her husband Sumit look not a day older than 30 and their kids on the show are already married. When Kumkum told Sumit this week, "Bachche bade ho gaye hain, Sumit," (The kids have grown up, Sumit), I couldn't decide whether it was pathetic or laughable. Do viewers really identify with such shows? Or are they just happy to go on gawking at Hussain (who plays evergreen Sumit) every afternoon when there's little better to do otherwise? **** |
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