Reading the spoilers of the week has totally sunk my heart. I am all set to go to Haridwar. Anything other than the current stupid track.
To be honest, I do not care much for INSA romance. What I really care for in interesting storyline and some kind of dominant theme getting flashed to me.
Presently there is no story.
There was no story to begin with so Saanchi was given the hurdle of her life Indu Singh. Infact when the show started, looking at Indu Singh in the promos, intuitively told me that soft Saanchi and rugged Indu Singh do not look compatible and I couldn't feel the chemistry but winced about the suggested storyline between the college goonda and the student Saanchi who will somehow get hurdles in the storyline.
Soon the suggested storyline of initial days fizzled out as there never seemed any hurdles there for Saanchi in completing her education.
Some kind of dominant theme flashed to me --- three years of college life ...BORE...to be pursued by a college gunda ...BORE ...to get married to a college Gunda ---UNBELIEVEABLE 😕 ...this is when I decided to follow-up on the show on a regular basis to find out what pans out. So what has panned out in last two months. Hate Story. What do I feel now ? BORED as ever I was to begin with.
Why is this show boring when the other Saas Babu rigmarole is not Bore ?
Because College days are days of dreams, hopes and inspirations.
Saas Bahu days are days of hard reality, mundane activities, turning the leaves day by day in the same fashion, solving one problem, going to next problem. At least it is a reality show of mundane life MINUS the TEARS.
I am too old for college and even if I retain part of the inspired student in me, then this college story is bore. Where are the typical student activities ? From a show's point, where are the extra-curricular activities ? I was a student like Saanchi...studious types, class-room+library+campus garden with friends. What did I do in college. Read all books that I could find. Read so much that next level of pursuing Masters track seemed an obvious conclusion to the Bachelor's program, but YET the Masters program seemed so INCOMPETENT to prepare me for my life ahead. I was mentally getting disillusioned about my BA. When in MA, finally I could make up my mind on what I actually wanted to do in life and then prepared for MBA.
College life is also about evaluation of dreams, hopes and inspirations.
Some students like my sister capture this phase through poetry...anguish expressed in poetry.
Some students like my brother get the phase as idiotic phase but somehow lands up with friends who are serious about life and what livelihood they can have. They embark on a track which is not academic but focuses more on getting diplomas that may get you job in this ever competitive India. Together they join the leagues of kids/nerds/entrepreneurs who land up doing something so different that regular academics may never have suggested anything. Theirs is the life, a result of the need of the hour and pursuing that. An ever present questioning parents only quelled after seeing results in few years.
Some like my friends plan for other job oriented courses after finish of college. Graceful natural progression in life.
All of this ...was a phase in 1991 to 2000
Now what happens in an Indian College who knows ?
Definitely none of the examples I had were inclined for romance. It was more of a personally TENSE phase only to be OBLIVATED through Camaraderie and Friendships on the Campus...the much needed solace from personal anxiety.
This is the reason why College is rampant with friendships/jokes/participations/discussions/forums etc
Hence my initial dislike at the projection when Indu Singh was made to stand opposite to Saanchi. Saanchi has no time for romance. So Saanchi is all right to dislike and reject Indu Singh's advances. But what is wrong about the story is that Saanchi could not shut Indu Singh from her life with intelligence. Of course it is not her fault. It is the CVs convoluted story to have the two fixed up.
What I am driving at by writing so aimlessly ?
That the current track is the reality of the same intuition I had about Saanchi-Indu Singh in the beginning ? that it was a big bore to watch...
Yes.
Saanchi has come far away from the meek -beautiful girl and is now the aggressive woman who wants to avenge herself.
Indu Singh never had a useful character to begin with and yet Aniruddha Dave made him popular with audience for the same reason...to kill the boring college time in absence of all extra-curricular activities.
What are we to do now ?
I guess I stopped by in DISBELIEF to watch the spectacle of Saanchi getting married to Indu Singh. Now I am pretty bored of the game between the two and the remnant college student within me yearns to go to classroom to attend a lecture, finish an assignment, go to library, read, then read newspapers and then think what I can do further so that I know I can get a job. I am going back to do that.
