Originally posted by: ruchisahay
Yes, it is not given that Rubina is gone from the show. They are going to wait to see what happens after a month. So probably the characters/story may stay same for a month or so. If ratings fall further or do not improve, Divya might be brought back. Or they can brought back Divya as a changed character to glorify Sarita even further.đ Would Rubina agree to that - she can't decide the storyline but can definitely decide her own terms. Unlike movies, TV stars do not have that much bandwidth to experiment as their entire career (in lead role) would not span more than 4-5 shows (considering shows are long running).
Ruchi, I don't know how much autonomy and say actors have in TV business. It is all the matter of supply and demand. There is too much competition. Also, PH/Channel have the upper hand in deciding on the role of a character. Usually, very few actors in TV industry get a chance to play a lead in more than two shows. Rubina has already played in lead in two shows - one was a super hit and another was a moderate success. She got a chance to play another lead in an existing show, but that show was towards its end and got closed within a month. So technically, this is the fourth show where she got a lead role.
Well that has always been my gripe. People did bash Raj for not giving Sarita a wife's status. But not for not standing by Divya. I feel he has wronged Divya a lot - esp. because he keeps claiming he loves her a lot. According to these shows, a boy's life has many dimensions - love, career, family. For girl, it's all about husband and his family. Sarita disrespected her own parents to prove her great love for Raj when all they were doing was support her - how sick is that! I understand that it's not fair for a girl's parents to intervene between a husband and wife. But Raj-Sarita relationship was never private - everything was on public display. Why can't a girl balance her own and husband's family without doing injustice to either. Also, I read comments that Divya chose career over Raj - why should there be a choice at all? Why can't it be both (as it is for guys). It's high time shows understood the current generation and add more dimensions to their leading ladies' life.
You hit it right. He wronged Divya a lot too. Of course he being a young guy from a dysfunctional family more than likely did not have emotional maturity to take care of a wife who had responsibility of siblings. But if Divya had done what Raj has done - abandon the love at a crucial point and then marry somebody without telling that person about her past and then not giving him wife's rights, she would be reviled right now. Most would be after both the husband and the lover to abandon her and what not. Instead her Raj here is considered a prize whom either Divya or Sarita should win. Divya in fact is being called selfish for choosing her underage siblings over her love.
The girls who choose career over marriage or who wants to have both are considered the bad girls. They do not generate any sympathy from most. Those are the double standards of the viewing public as well. But then I am not sure if viewing public should be considered totally at fault. If all shows show this kind of regressive mentality, viewers probably would choose the lesser of evils so to speak. .
I am sure if a new concept is shown, many would go for that. But very few PH have either the guts or imagination to show something different. All serials are usually recycled by copying ideas from each other.
As far "good girls and bad boys " , well that's been the norm in movies as well. In movie Cocktail, Saif Khan had all the fun in the world and then chose to settle with the good girl. Whereas the bad girl was left all alone. So, yes, society always accepts bad boys far more easily than bad girls. But Divya wasn't shown as a bad girl either - she never came between a married couple. It was Raj who was a problem, not Divya. So, I can't understand why people have problem with Divya's character. Even my MIL who gave up on PV was ticked off by Raj's lack of respect for Sarita (by romancing Divya in their bedroom). She never had any problem with Divya.
I agree that it was Raj who was invading Divya's space. If they had shown this in context of his character (obsession, neediness for Divya because she was the normal one in his life), then it would have been fine. But Raj is now depicted as this great human being who was doing whatever he was doing because of his love for Divya. In almost episode, Sarita is praising him for teaching her love and what not. Sarita is being depicted as this ideal wife who waited for 10 years for her husband to love her. Not many are questioning her for disrespecting her parents or questioning her parents to not look into her life for 10 years. Instead, she is being praised for standing for Raj against her parents. To me, Sarita is coming as somebody who needs therapy because she is a obsessive characters who likes to play victim by hurting herself. But instead according to CVs, she is an ideal wife who will be eventually rewarded by getting the love of Raj.
Unfortunately such regressive shows only send a bad message.
Not only Sarita, but Divya is also shown to abandon her career for a guy. First she did it for Raj and then she was ok doing it for Gaurav too. Now she is shown to want to go back to her TV career because to get away from her love. What nonsense is this? Why isn't it shown that she wants both - love and career?
What you wrote about that movie is unfortunately very true. Bad girls are shown to die to make up for their bad past. In this PH's show that I had watched briefly at a friend's recommendation, there was a side character who came out to be more interesting to me than the lead characters because of the complexity of her character. She wanted both a career and her love and was shown as a more normal typical type of person. But within couple of months, they showed her realizing her folly of wanting a career and she became a one-dimensional typical bahu character.
Same is the case here. Viewers are not abandoning it because the theme is bold đ Is there a central theme anymore
đ Yes, there is - how to get TRPs.
I don't know about other shows at this time slot - this was my first tryst with a TV show (have been forced to watch some episodes for company but never paid attention to characters before) and it didn't go that well đ. I am back to Indian idol and DID for now. Maybe will watch the show on lord Shiva (read the Shiva trilogy by Amish and am greatly interested in watching any show related to lord Shiva). No idea how good or bad is the show - any feedback đ?
Ruchi, I have read good reviews of that trilogy. I haven't yet bought the series, so can't comment on it. But I was turned off from the movie version of it because I heard that Karan Johan is going to make a movie on it with Hritik as Shiv.
The TV serial Mahadev has the best Shivji I have ever seen. I watched it for couple of months. I left it when they started dragging the show by showing stories that I have never ever heard of. They are currently playing Ramayan in it, so it may have become good again. But haven't checked it out for some time now. But the actor playing Shiv is very good. If he plays Shiv on Amish's trilogy in movies, I would go for those movies. But Hritik playing Shiv is not working for me.
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