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priya_al thumbnail
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Posted: 15 years ago
#31
Oh ... wasn't 'deranged' stronger than 'stupid' (although when 'stupid' made it into the annals of psychiatry back in the dark ages, 'deranged' may not have been a cognitive disorder)?

its my way dun wanna say thngs in ur way! 😉
yeh its not a novel
Oh! You are cute!!! 😆 No dearie, the addition of the article 'a' completely changes the meaning ... I said 'is not novel' ... I did not say 'is not a novel' ... I know .... I know ... English is a devil of a language ... good thing we grow up with it!

well.. i added 'a' by mstke newys
But ... wait, wait, wait ... some have already confessed to it giving them 'food for thought' ...

well.. some of the pts do make us think.....

I could not agree with you more!! If only I had known that through school ... and university ... shucks!! 😆

that's ur fault if u din knw it while going through school n uni
😆

Edited by priya_al - 15 years ago
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Posted: 15 years ago
#32

To repeat the cliche, yes everyone is entitled to their opinion....

I've actually really enjoyed the show (though I must hunt youtube for it every week since I dont have any Indian channels at home).

I know you ask why, but honestly I don't know. I guess entertainment is subjective that some things appeal and some just don't (I for the life of me can't understand how my husband watches some of the things he does). But I'd say I like the show just because it makes me smile. Not because it makes me think or wonder about the meaning of life. But just because.
Anyway as an aside - while it is great to voice opinions because that's what a forum ultimately is (rather than a temple for people to worship something), and I do appreciate your wit, is it really necessary to use a condescending tone while responding to others? I'm not too frequent a visitor to the forums apart from trying to find those youtube links so I'm not sure if I have the right to question the tone someone uses (and i apologize for that). But well, it's just a thought.
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Posted: 15 years ago
#33

Respect your opinion..

Sorry to disagree!!

For me this show is very simplistic.. very simple..simple (awesome!) actors, simple plain dialogues.. clothes.. sets(errmm.. ok.. I give in here!)

The storyline is very simple every week.. I don't see money flowing around anywhere in the serial..

All in the simplicity… and really simple things take lot more effort to make it look so!!! If you know what I mean..

This show is such a pleasant break from the melodrama on TV nowadays (including the daily news!)!!

So for me it is 50mins of simple enjoyment!

Thanks.

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Posted: 15 years ago
#34

Respect your opinion..

Great!

Sorry to disagree!!

There is not only little cause, but absolutely none for you to be sorry ...
All in the simplicity… and really simple things take lot more effort to make it look so!!! If you know what I mean..
Hmmm ... I was just bashed for using that term 😊 ... oh ... OK ... a variant of it 😊 I'm trying hard to think of where/when I have known simple things have required a lot of effort (I confess I'm not able to sink my teeth into this) ... but that's just me ...
This show is such a pleasant break from the melodrama on TV nowadays
I cannot help but agree about the amount of melodrama! Man! I tell ya!
Since the protocol on this forum seems to involve a great deal of respect, so must I ... I respect your ability to enjoy it ... I hope that some future episode tickles me too ... until then I do have the BBC to fall back on 😊
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Posted: 15 years ago
#35
going off topic, just wanted to say I like your writing style!!

oh oh! Are you sure you wanna say this?😉 In any event, I appreciate your saying so ... glad it doesn't abrade you ...
I'm not interested.....I'll leave you to your kind of entertainment
Awww! C'mon ... give me a chance at proselityzing 😆
Have a nice day.
You too! Well ... I will ... tomorrow ... I'm getting close to that daily tryst with a pillow ... and someone else ... in the form of a book 😊
its my way dun wanna say thngs in ur way!
Of course you do!! I was attempting to be funny ... dash it! Missed again!
well.. some of the pts do make us think.....
So you say! I'd certainly like to know (if only for the simple reason of getting to know you - which may now be the last thing on your mind) ... but your wanting to know what that is, and me to never finding out, is your prerogative!
that's ur fault if u din knw it while going through school n uni
Bloody 'ell!! I must be getting old ... here's another failed attempt at humor ... the point was - if I had known that one could be taken to the trough but not forced to drink, I would have had a much more fun time ... instead, I had to study!! Yuck!!
I guess entertainment is subjective that some things appeal and some just don't
I could not argue with that ... my not finding (thus far) appeal in this serial sure has even less appeal for the denizens of this forum 😆
(I for the life of me can't understand how my husband watches some of the things he does)
Isn't that so true?!! What is it about husbands?!😊 And I don't even have one! Anyhoo ... I ain't steppin' into the Rishta.com offices in the hopes of finding my knight in shining armor! But I'm not questioning their abilities ... I'm sure it's a swankin' nice office ... very competent people ... it just ain't mah cup a tea!
rather than a temple for people to worship something
I'm a strong proponent of never worshipping anything! Well ... at least not the inhabitants of the sanctum sanctorum of temples and the like ... there's plenty of humans I idolize ... and that will do very nicely for me ...
I do appreciate your wit, is it really necessary to use a condescending tone while responding to others?
If the wit is apparent, why would you characterize it as condescending (and I'm delighted that it's discernible to your eyes ... actually your brain ... starting with the visual cortex .. eyes just being dumb sensors)? 😊
Oh ... I'm probably being breathtakingly presumptuous, but for 'wit is to condescension as mass is to energy', think Oscar Wilde ... as one example ... he's still considered to be horribly funny ... no? I personally like this quip of his: 'bigamy is having one wife too many ... so is monogamy'!!! 😆😆
But let's assume my tone is condescending ... in parts (please? Pretty please?) ... would you consider the nature of that which elicited the 'superciliousness' (gosh! I hope that's the right form of that word ... I have a really bad habit at neology)? Besides, when I said I was a crusty old fossil, I wasn't joking y'know ... I'll keep y'all guessing about how old a fossil I really am! Trust me ... it's old enough ...
if I have the right to question the tone someone uses
I'll grant you the right to question me ... with complete abandon ... but must forewarn you as well ... be prepared for a response 😆
Please also cease and desist from apologizing ... it's completely unnecessary ... Come ... let's be friends!
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Posted: 15 years ago
#36
first of all i completely respect your opinion
to each its own and some people vent out while i am sure a lot of others who dislike this show do not.
however, i just want to say that as you say, its not the glamor quotient in the show that appeals to all of us at the forum who absolutely love this show.
the show actually has a very sweet message each time. in fact, rohan mehra is potrayed as a very nice genuine guy and so are the other charaters, there are no vamps and negative people so you are nt really learning anything bad or something..
also,it shows the difficulties of finding spouses sometimes due to the conventions in the society and sometimes due to your own flaws which need to be overcome.. i personally feel that all this is rather smart as unlike many other indian tv shows, social messages are being conveyed in a rather entertaining and light hearted way with isha and rohan's chemistry in the backdrop,and perhaps in a more slightly modern way too so i dont think there is anything wrong with it and that is the reason why i absolutely love this show.each time, for me at least, its super effective in teaching me something quite interesting but thats a cherry on top. just the whole package of the show is appealing in general because its not that horrible actors are wearing stunning clothes in a stunning office with no plot whatsoever.
it has a fantastic set of actors and a plot that deserves an applause and just because its being produced by yash raj who i am sure do not have financial problems and are thus spending generously on their television projects, i cannot dislike the show because the set looks beautiful through out the episode or the people at rishta.com get to wear brilliant clothes =)

p.s = sorry for spelling or grammatical errors in advance( oh and specially sorry for the fact i have barely punctuated)
Edited by rrk401 - 15 years ago
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Posted: 15 years ago
#37

Originally posted by: SValeCalGal

I have not seen the serial since its inception, but if I extrapolate based on what I saw yesterday, I should remain unmoved ... but enough about me ... tell me what were/are these morsels that caused/cause you to cogitate ... and about what ... there's something I'm missing ... and I hate being left out in the cold 😔



As far as I know, extrapolation (even the figurative one to certain extent) is an inexact process and thus the conclusions reached through the means of extrapolation are more or less conjectures with a high factor of uncertainty involved, is it not? (Do correct me if I am wrong, I see correction as a way of learning and what could be better than learning something from someone who is much older , experienced and well-informed than I am?! I assure you I am not retaliating here , I mean what I say, sincerely!). Yet ,assuming that the definition of extrapolation which I stated before is right (courtesy my little knowledge on Mathematics and research on Wikipedia ), I would like to say that the very basis through which you have reached to a conclusion about this show overall , is a fallacy and so, I cannot accept your argument regarding Rishta.com in general, as a valid one. However, I will not take away from you or look down on your opinion about the episodes and scenes which you have watched, I see they did not appeal to you personally, so I have no say on that front but I did find your 'simpleton' statement (more or less) directed at all those who found those very episodes or scenes appealing, to be derisive. Now it might have happened unintentionally but I doubt that, having observed your satirical style of writing . I am fond of sarcasm and satires myself but sadly, lampooning doesn't cater to my tastes, then again that just might be me assuming things though (the 'simpleton' that I am!).

Despite being a 'simpleton' , I do have my reasons for watching this show, reasons which I would like to believe are plausible and are worthy of some (at least femto percent) consideration by even the highest order of intellects. One of them includes the element of identifiability, for instance, I could relate to the scene in the most recent episode where Rohan makes a deal with Isha and promises to marry her if they are still single and unmarried at 65, as my friend made a similar deal with me (in zest) sometime back,except he has promised to marry me 25 years sooner i.e., at 40, if we are unmarried and single till then (40 is far off considering my present age). That aside, I was impressed with the way Isha was shown struggling to accept her 55-year-old father's relationship with a 35-year-old woman in the earlier episodes, actually I like her scenes with her father, that relationship is portrayed beautifully in my opinion, I guess the extrapolation might have compromised on these details, never mind. There have been many more instances like that in the preceeding episodes w.r.t all the characters which
personally
appealed to me about this show. Please do forgive me for I used to find the goofball humor of Naved & Ravi lame on Boogie Woogie, most of their jokes were unoriginal and I rarely found them funny (although I loved that BW never dramatized anything and strictly concentrated on the dance), the humor in Rishta.com is more suitable to my tastes though.

Having said that, I am not overlooking the heavy American Romantic Comedy movie influence on the show, especially the stereotypical prude and the "dude" characters of the leads, despite that, the show has managed to impress me overall, for a lot of reasons, some of which I have already mentioned.

Bottomline: I find that there is more to Rishta.com than its swanky setting.

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Posted: 15 years ago
#38
So you say! I'd certainly like to know (if only for the simple reason of getting to know you - which may now be the last thing on your mind) ... but your wanting to know what that is, and me to never finding out, is your prerogative!

hmmm u watched only the last epi of it rite.. if u can watch de epi 4 on youtube u vl knw it by urself.. last epi was just for fun.. though they had shown a msg saying one shud always give priority to their career.. be it evn if they are sacrificing on their luv life..
dun u think its a gud msg whch has gone through for us.. esp. wen ppl these days are more interested in getting into r/ships n giving secnd priority to their careers!
Please dun ask me now if i have ever come across a certain person who has given their career up for the sake of their love!
Bloody 'ell!! I must be getting old ... here's another failed attempt at humor ... the point was - if I had known that one could be taken to the trough but not forced to drink, I would have had a much more fun time ... instead, I had to study!! Yuck!!

😕well so was i! din mean to hrt u or sumthng.. sorry for tat


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Posted: 15 years ago
#39
hmmm u watched only the last epi of it rite.. if u can watch de epi 4 on youtube u vl knw it by urself..
That's a good idea ... I'll do that ... just hope the picture quality is decent ...
though they had shown a msg saying one shud always give priority to their career..
Right! So here's where an elaboration of the process would have been of benefit (dunno, perhaps they've covered this in one of the past epis):
So how long has Rohan's relationship with Sukreet (?) been in existence? If it's been an appreciable length of time, then she might have guessed by now that he's either commitment averse, or just not as much in luuuuuvvvv as she ... so OK ... maybe, she hasn't ... now, given that situation, why should she give priority to a (potentially) vacuous relationship at the cost of her career? Had she known that he was not commitment averse, she might not have even contemplated interviewing ... unless she's simply trying to assess her marketability ... and then ... they're hemming and hawing over glasses of champagne (it would have been sparkling wine if it had come from any other part of the world other than Champagne, France 😆) ... you wanna ruin a perfectly good meal by dancing around a subject such as that? 😊
Oh ... and I fail to see the fascination with NY! This part of the US (commonly known as God's own country) is infinitely preferable! We have sun, balmy breezes, and you actually have to seek out snow ... so ... folks ... send your characters to 'Sunny California'!! 😆
That whole scene was set up so the 2 could sit across from each other dealing with almost identical issues ... see, if I had known where Isha was headed for her date, wouldn't I give her some privacy by not popping up at the same damn restaurant for my date?! And he's sending her a dress?!! Like she doesn't have any in her wardrobe? Oh ... I do like the fact that Indian women are dressing in 'un-native' garb as much as Indian men (who've been 'Pant-suited' much too long) ...
Then! The part that tee'd me off a tad was where the Kapoor fella is now a Veep at the young age of 32! Sorry lads, but most of us are barely able to wipe our noses clean by then ... hardly able to be heading up organizations distributed across the globe ... it's not beyond the realm of possibility I suppose ... but I routinely gag at the general snotty attitude of the parvenu Indian in these parts - who are thought to be the best thing since a slice of white bread - (when we begin to hire, then look down upon our Mexican/South American domestic help, we have earned the right to be declared 'snotty') ... so couldn't he have been just a bit 'lower on the food chain'?
Food for thought?
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Posted: 15 years ago
#40
well so was i! din mean to hrt u or sumthng.. sorry for tat
Don't be silly! You didn't hurt me! Geez ... did I fail to put a smiley face after the 'Yuck'? But you gotta agree - hitting the books is just the pits!! No? 😆

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