Is RR on the right track..... - Page 9

Originally posted by: FairyLiquidSoap

Pri interesting question

A bit of read for you as always but my answer is there somewhere😃

Hmm I am going to say it out RR does not have the emotional connect for me whether it be the characters or story presently All have lost resonance and yet I watch as a bad habit and because I can come to IF and share or joke whenever I get some free time RR initially had a great feel to it the grandeur in the settings the costumes the actors and I don't mean just the leads and most importantly a spectacular story waiting to be told It had a very superior feel for a desi soap and was quite enjoyable viewing The editing the continuity the scene flow were technically excellent not to mention the direction Oscar worthy hell no but certainly far more superior to other desi soaps

Then somewhere something happened whether it was the business divorce or the panicking over the TRP or a bad marketing strategy but RR lost its edge and plot Tracks open and close without rhyme and reason I appreciate there are no ever lasting MU but I also don't like the abrupt endings without proper closure The continuity is very badly missing The episodes always give me a feeling they are in some mighty rush to catch a train ergo fast and furious without making sense to the story

I did not join IF till near after 6 months of another serial airing because I saw no need to have any explanation of the story or characters I understood both perspectives as the story ensured and despite being handicapped in the Hindi language department Made do with YT English links it started with the premise of the promo and the story and wham both the characters got to you in the first week itself and worked till apocalypse

ST made one vital error in the beginning and people can argue till Kingdom come but alpha male characters and weakly written Female leads don't make for attractive TV viewing for the common folks Proven once already when the FL got dumbed down to accommodate the greatness of the ML and the TRP just sank He made the ML morally superior and the FL fanatical and on the wrong foot and compounded it by building up such a powerful sympathy for the male at the cost of making the FL seem stupid at times that regular TRP viewers were put off My Rajasthani neighbor case in point They started of as avid viewers especially when the military angle was playing and then got chuffed over the FL and the way the writers handled her They wanted to know why her side of the story was not being shown ( so they too think like me so I must be a TRP aunty myself😆) The more they showed him right and her wrong the more the disinterest set in for them (By the way never knew Bollywood and Desi TV was a great icebreaker to start conversations till I found out serendipitously) Take all the no 1 soaps of all 3 major networks and you will know what the audience want Do I want to watch them no I cant stand that genre but do I also want to watch a serial that is beautiful in random episodes but otherwise makes no sense that I have to come to IF to figure who said what to whom and why which the average viewer will not do Probably they will watch scenes that appeal and then always the remote to change when it does not

I am flummoxed and rather confused now Ok they wanted romance fine but again they are going about it rather inconsistently what happened to those 8 vows Was that scene conceived just to showcase AS method acting skills? For I don't see any reason right now given the current track and if they resurrect it later when all this romance is now about to bloom it will be a Doh moment for me and again disconnect for this love should have come up after a couple of weeks (notice I say week not months because of RR track record) of the vachans not hours By the way they are technically in a live in relationship with the blessings of the family elders and unlike Laila Paro has the advantage she is sharing a house with him so the Supreme Court ruling is on her side😛

I am not a fan of either character or actor for me to rise above and beyond the tracks and accept what is being shown I am increasingly giggling over the bloopers and blunders while a practical joke is being played on me when I am looking for dark intense Mohini and Sumer constantly come in my face Where is Mala Where is Tejawat and most importantly where the hell is Laila she needs to come out and play now

Having the hero look like a class act and the Heroine like a crass fool in many situations is certainly not helping the numbers I don't feel like crying for Paro as there has been minimum sympathy accorded to her sketch by the writers so I have no impactful connect Now with Rudra after feeling the emotional connect in the beginning I then found the repeated intentional and deliberate pull and tug the heart strings so overdone I emotionally distanced because of the overkill and don't feel a thing for him either

I am not going to question the writers over the way the plot should thicken for this is soap not real life and the only way dear Rudra could have avoided the loss of his job if ever in the first place was by handing her over to a women's prison cell in a military camp but then RR would never have progressed after that😆 but I do question the repeated usage of the FL as the scapegoat for the story to move forward and this happens in love stories only why?

Right now Rudra still has his halo and Paro does not evoke sympathy and until he loses it and she evokes it the numbers will not increase unless the PH and channel are content with the current loyal niche audience they have for RR In which case I will now and then make my Kostin / random posts to find some way of letting of steam and if I don't check into the forum for over 2 weeks you can safely assume I have quit RR

I forgot

the writers gave a Hail Mary Pass i guess so I do admire the spunkiness of Paro now and it is refreshing to watch a FL as open and direct as she is so and the leads communication NO MU ever all spoken out except Rudra's 2 secrets which will be the focus next I hope so that is the plus point

Originally posted by: mimosa658

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Word! can't agree more with you. You have penned down exactly my feelings, which I couldn't have done myself so well. Also the reason to watch it! For me its not even a habit. I watch it, so that I can come to this forum and have some fun. Thats the sole reason I watch it nowadays.

Originally posted by: radhikalaya

I am no expert in the art of how to tell a story on TV, but I do watch a fair bit of TV. I will be honest, I do watch all kinds of genres even. Not ashamed to say that I also watch saas bahu dramas and loud sitcoms 😆 Yes, love stories makes one more invested. But I can tell an engaging story when I see one. I think RR has much promise. But somehow it has not transcended that and achieved its full. Sure there have been some streaks of brilliance, but not consistent.

Firstly I have to say, I don't find the storyline too bad. Itne paise mein itna hi milega. At the end of the day it is a daily soap, so by that standard it is not bad 😆Except that I feel there is too much reliance on Paro and Rudra only. Everyone else is just giving reactions. Which is yet another reason why I would like to see Rudra and Paro separate so that they can also tell us stories of some of the other characters.

Like Mohini is so chill about killing people, maybe some investment in her backstory will be nice. The actor playing Maithili is pretty good, but she needs to be more than just Paro & Rudra's shipper. Surely they can explore the baby angle. Even silly Sumer's Jaipur dreams. Also, while they have handled the Paro & Maithili friendship nicely, I think they can have conversations about things other than a man. Even if they can't bring back Tejawat, Mala and Laila, Dilsher must be be brought back. He is a good actor and has a fab equation with Rudra, Paro, Daanveer and Mohini. He is entertaining.

I feel the show suffers on execution. I think the first director change they got was good. He gave the story a sense of tehraav, which was important. If the pace were better, I think Paro would not have seemed so bizarre and Rudra so bi-polar. I like the fact that Paro is all spunky now and has a sense of calm strength. Which is lovely to see. But the overzealous religion thing is problematic. But there is going to be a separation by the looks of it and frankly that is the best thing that can happen to this show. Also, Ashish needs a haircut. In fact, I think that is the reason why the BSD won't reinstate him. He does not conform to the very strict requirements of what a soldier's hair should look like. The devil is after all in the details 😆

Originally posted by: Sangana

Liked it!

Originally posted by: ttt1

the reason i ma sticking with the show is largely cos of the forum , but the reason i started watching this show is cos i felt /feel that this show had potential to be a meaning full show

i feel the makers also had a lot of expectation from this show

doesn't seem to have reached the expectation of the makers ,

as a viewer it is not my concern , but i like to find the reason

Originally posted by: -PD-

sorry to ask, may be you feel it is a stupid question (as i watch RR on and off) may be i missed the point in any of the episode...question is "why kaki want to kill paro? what are her reasons"