Deshmukh family will return to chawl again:Warning pg3 - Page 2

Originally posted by: pallavi25

Yes, most of the apartments in US do have much smaller room than the Deshmukh chawl. Even the private houses here have smaller bedrooms than the ones shown in D chawl. Ive never lived in Mumbai, only visited it once, Ive never seen a chawl but I think chawls are kind of low income apartments, like tenement housing or projects in the US.

Deshmukh chawl looked more realistic in the earliest days, when the rooms looked smaller and more cramped. But the chawl they showed recently is much bigger and sprawling and has a private bathroom instead of shared latrines in regular chawls.

In reality I would guess the rooms in chawls are much smaller and cramped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chawl

Here is a picture of a real chawl from outside:

BTW I have heard of NRIs going back to India and staying in their ancestral houses with very few modern amenities or luxuries.

Originally posted by: naava

Well, i don't live in the usa so not sure about the apt size there. My point wasnt' so much that the chawl shown in the serial wasn't realistic (it obviously wasnt' because for one it would be hard to get tv camera's into a real chawl.😆..and yes i assume they are like tenements or low income areas anywhere in the world).

My point was the reaction of the viewers always saying how tiny and backward the living quarters that were being shown were...what was being shown wasn't typical, and that's ok. but.to anyone, a room with a huge sofa seating at least 5, many upholstered chairs a table that seats at least 10 with still much empty space in the center of the room...has to be spacious by any bodies standards. How it's furnished is another matter, and yes the D chawl was modest and humble in it's furnishings, not upscale, modern and glamorous like DK's

I was just amused more than anything ... the real world of tenement living is indeed like your real photo..tiny cramped places 1/4 the size of the Deshmukh's...and still housing 8-10 people. And yes Pallavi I am pretty sure the original shoots were in a more normal looking chawl.

It's not a big deal one way or the other, it was just that i had to chuckle when i saw such spaciousness being called cramped and tiny...

Originally posted by: pallavi25

Manav is a builder so maybe he expanded his smaller chawl by adding the next door flat to his and adding more rooms? 😛

But even Gauri's parents' chawl had huge rooms, like the bedroom and living room were really big! In India even modern flats dont have such big rooms. 😆 Chawls usually have 1 or 2 smaller rooms which is shared by the whole family.

More than the size of the rooms, I think whats unrealistic is the corporation water system, how can an NRI family enjoy lugging buckets of water upstairs every morning for cooking and drinking? 😕

Ekta wants to show how humble ArMaan are and how down to earth and loving their roots, their origin and where they had come from...

Originally posted by: naava

I bet that's what happened, Manav upgraded the chawl when he returned but they forgot to show us...maybe that's why he was so crabby.

I too was thinking how big Gauri's parents home was ...I think they forget to show the bucket brigade for Gauri's family and also Sulo...or maybe there there are chawls with running water and chawls' without running water.😆...

Nothing wrong with loving your origins & honoring your humble beginnings but you could do it in other ways and enjoy some of the amenities of modern life. !!😃

Originally posted by: naava

I'm sure they will all end up back there, of course you can't have an Indian soap based in Canada.

But i am amused, confused by one thing. The readers on the forum keep talking about how small the Deshmukh house is in the chawl. Yes it is small for so many people, but frankly, the size of those rooms, the spacious bedroom, a real kitchen...it looks like a mansion to me ! Not glamorous like DK's house, or the ones in Canada, but the Deshmukh chawl looks huge, spacious and lovely. I have lived for the past year in a 9 meter flat ! Yes, 9 meters ! It is a 1/2 bed, a small chest, a wall with a sink etc..it's not a "room" in a larger house, it IS the whole "house".

So i'ts all in the eye of the beholder. If the D's house is the poverty of the Indian chawl, except for drawing the water daily, I'd say India is a VERY rich luxurious country. Of course i know this is a fictional place, but the readers seem to think the Deshmukh house is realistically showing the true poverty level of India's chawl living.

Is it?? 😕

Originally posted by: ehmmbhvirman

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