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Posted: 14 years ago
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The show showed immense potential initially. There was great concept, good characters, good actors and the show was moving in the right direction but then I wonder what happened??

It addresses some very real issues most important being forced marriages, the journey when two stargers are put together for life, for better for worse. It also touches upon acceptance, the reality/myth of MIL-DIL relationships, sibling rivalry (in this case cousin rivalry) et al.

Gopi's character started out as an oppressed but sweet n kind hearted girl, who promised to match up to Aham's standards in the initial days. She even managed to jump into the fire to save Hetal, trap a thief and saved Aham from a snake attack.

All this now has gradually transformed into Gopi being a weakling who stutters before she speaks and cannot compete a sentence or communicate much. She has become simple minded bordering closely to stupid which btw has got onto everybody's nerves. Viewers understand that she has no formal education but her behaving like a simpleton is too much to handle and pushing the viewer a little too far.

In todays episode, which promised to be a cracker, Gopi doesn't use her head / brains or presence of mind which she so conveniently used in earlier episodes. She was thinking on her feet during the thief episode, she was brave in the snake / sandook in the well/ fire incident. She used her brains when Kinjal was missing but now all that which depicted Gopi's real character and made her adorable are being questioned not by the viewers but by the CVs.

There are too many loose ends in the show, which leads to such a disconnect. I wish we are not taken for granted and are aslo allowed a sneak peek into Aham's head, his thought process could be vital in understanding hot now, n fizzled the next minute behavior.

Is anyone listening... at all ?1?!!
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Posted: 14 years ago
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Agree with you completely. All we can do is rant and rave, they are not listening to us. The more we complain the worst the episode gets.


If after all that she has done for Modi's, and Ahem has noticed this, his heart hasn't melted yet, what are the chances his heart will melt in the future?
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Posted: 14 years ago
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I have been watching the series for the past couple of months n wanted to catch up with the episodes aired earlier. I think Aham knew what he was getting into, he seemed rather impressed with her initially.

But as the story got tangled between the possessive mother and the training to get the "perfect" DIL, the focus shifted from Aham-Gopi relationship and when the Cvs realized this hey put in some crazy scenes of him being super arrogant but if you see some initial episodes, Aham is shown as cultured bloke who even apologizes to wayfarers on whom the driver splashed water, he did not look like a guy who would abuse a woman, esp since Kokila mould him. He was shown as treating Gopi with respect until the wedding , it came down from "aap" to "tum".

Also, Kokila was earlier depicted as a possessive mother who did not want to let go of her son, she had the most beautiful transformation, to a supportive MIL and as woman of principles who never backed down from calling the spade a spade.

If Aham's problem is with Gopi being without formal education, steps had to be taken by Kokila, the ever concerned Hetal or adoring BIL Jigar to try and rectify the issue asap. nothing has moved in that direction in fact we are far from it.

Why doesn't Gopi take initiative for once instead of being handheld by Kokila at each step. She could approach Kokila for private classes. This would do wonders to her low self esteem n confidence. If the Cvs think Aham;s love will come to gopi unconditionally without her changing, in an "as-is" mode then they are far from reality. Making Dhokla each day, re-doing the room are not gonna help much.

Please show us something sane, real and practical,

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Posted: 14 years ago
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Agree with you again, and yes initially he was very impressed with her and things went from aap to tum, turning point was the whole necklace business, and then him finding out about her being illiterate. At that point he started to hate her or repressed his feelings. Like you said there are too many loose ends, they need to be cleared. But at this point there are so many, how would the CVs begin to clear any of it up? Do they even remember? I think they've changed writers of the story so many times, they can't get the story on the right track.
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Posted: 14 years ago
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Originally posted by: angelirebelli

I have been watching the series for the past couple of months n wanted to catch up with the episodes aired earlier. I think Aham knew what he was getting into, he seemed rather impressed with her initially.


But as the story got tangled between the possessive mother and the training to get the "perfect" DIL, the focus shifted from Aham-Gopi relationship and when the Cvs realized this hey put in some crazy scenes of him being super arrogant but if you see some initial episodes, Aham is shown as cultured bloke who even apologizes to wayfarers on whom the driver splashed water, he did not look like a guy who would abuse a woman, esp since Kokila mould him. He was shown as treating Gopi with respect until the wedding , it came down from "aap" to "tum".

Also, Kokila was earlier depicted as a possessive mother who did not want to let go of her son, she had the most beautiful transformation, to a supportive MIL and as woman of principles who never backed down from calling the spade a spade.

If Aham's problem is with Gopi being without formal education, steps had to be taken by Kokila, the ever concerned Hetal or adoring BIL Jigar to try and rectify the issue asap. nothing has moved in that direction in fact we are far from it.

Why doesn't Gopi take initiative for once instead of being handheld by Kokila at each step. She could approach Kokila for private classes. This would do wonders to her low self esteem n confidence. If the Cvs think Aham;s love will come to gopi unconditionally without her changing, in an "as-is" mode then they are far from reality. Making Dhokla each day, re-doing the room are not gonna help much.

Please show us something sane, real and practical,

I agree with you on most of the points. There were couple of instances earlier in the episode where he is outright rude to a servant girl when she said she was illiterate. Secondly on his marriage day when a beggar woman was begging for alms after blessing him, he rudely put down the window.
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Posted: 14 years ago
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I agree with both Angelirebelli and Shilpa.

It begs the question of the value of the wife in her husbands home. The question can be derived in different ways: Does the wife merely assimilates into her husbands life and enhance his life? or Is there compromise in marriage? or perhaps other questions can be asked too.
In Ahem and Gopi's relationship, Gopi fulfils Ahem's world. She lays his clothes out, prepares hismeals, keeps his (not their) room clean, etc. She has enhanced his life, eg winning the contract, saving him from the snake. How has he fulfilled her life?
As far as Ahem is concerned, he stated 'she is doing her duty'. What duty is he doing to Gopi? He seldom sees any good that she does. He has to proded by his mum to to offer her any rewards.
In the case of Gopi, she is comprising herself constantly. She has to persistantly cope with her cousin and aunt in waging abuse - in childhood and in marriage.
It is nearing a year of marriage, he has shown very little concern for her well-being, let alone supporting her in the slightest way or even treating her with dignity. Maybe in reality relationships like this show some change occurring. Maybe not too.
Excuse me if I am not dithering.
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Posted: 14 years ago
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Originally posted by: swasthi

I agree with both Angelirebelli and Shilpa.

It begs the question of the value of the wife in her husbands home. The question can be derived in different ways: Does the wife merely assimilates into her husbands life and enhance his life? or Is there compromise in marriage? or perhaps other questions can be asked too.
In Ahem and Gopi's relationship, Gopi fulfils Ahem's world. She lays his clothes out, prepares hismeals, keeps his (not their) room clean, etc. She has enhanced his life, eg winning the contract, saving him from the snake. How has he fulfilled her life?
As far as Ahem is concerned, he stated 'she is doing her duty'. What duty is he doing to Gopi? He seldom sees any good that she does. He has to proded by his mum to to offer her any rewards.
In the case of Gopi, she is comprising herself constantly. She has to persistantly cope with her cousin and aunt in waging abuse - in childhood and in marriage.
It is nearing a year of marriage, he has shown very little concern for her well-being, let alone supporting her in the slightest way or even treating her with dignity. Maybe in reality relationships like this show some change occurring. Maybe not too.
Excuse me if I am not dithering.

Ahem is still in love with Anita! He doesn't even want to know her. What a marriage!
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Posted: 14 years ago
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the wait is now killing interest we waited for a year its not moving anywhere
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Posted: 14 years ago
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I know what you mean. The CV's really need to do something and I guess not all loose ends can be tied but they can at least try with some of the men starting with Kinjal confessing to what she did or we the viewers getting into Ahem's head to see how he views everything that's been happening. Apart from Kokila no other character has had any positive changes to them, in fact Gopi seems more miserable in her in laws home than she was in her maternal home, she's also more abused, treated like a live in servant and just looked down upon in general. She doesn't seem capable of doing anything own her own and despite everything if Ahem does one little nice thing for her, she misconstrues it as being love despite the fact that he has made it very clear that he does not and will not love her.
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Posted: 14 years ago
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i agree with all comments in this thread. I really think Ahem was starting to like gopi initially, but then things changed drastically.

I think that in the real world if this story happened and a son in the love of a mother married a girl, he would try to work it out even if he found out she was uneducated, then as a successful business he would rectify that situation ASAP. However, here even Ahem is shown as a dumb husband. He is a businessman, he should think of solutions to resolve issues, you dont get to CEO positions without having ideas on how to resolve issues.

So at the end of it all, the show has taken a great idea of forced marriage and as Angelirebell stated, just forgotten about it and switched over to deception land.

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