Originally posted by: lal04
Arshicsji, your great sense of positivity and your persistent effort to present something sensible and entertaining always amaze me. Although there is hardly anything worthy to write about in the recent episodes you come up with a substantial feedback. Of late the viewers have been delivering a tirade against kumud's new found behaviour and ranting on about the unfairness of it all. It really has got on our nerves and we have been using various adjectives to describe her behaviour. The way she reacts to the most endearing character of the show (her hubby) and the way she conducts herself is unjustifiable leading to our utter disapproval. The main problem lies in the shoddy writing of our 'beloved' script writers. Our bechari imaginary character kumud is at their mercy and the shortcomings and flaws in the characterization must be attributed only to them who are now busy concocting a plot for the upcoming Mumbai sequence. From the beginning saras and kumud share the bond of true compatibility. Writers in their attempt to create conflicts between their characters made kumud a victim. It is always the loving and caring side of saras and the headstrong side of kumud are exploited by the writers(the latter one once projected positively, now with shades of grey). Various circumstances have shown us that saras always doesn't figure high on her list of priorities. Before we judge her acts we must consider all her circumstances. Circumstances alter cases. What may be good, wise or to be praised in some circumstances (eg: egoistic kumud was not ready to give in when saras refused her rishta, when kumud defended her dad opposing LN and saras, when saras called off marriage she decided to throw him out of her life,move on,marry Pramad etc - all proved her uprightness not arrogance) may be bad, foolish or to be blamed in other circumstances(eg: when she trusted Pramad instead of saras, when she proposed saras-kusum marriage, when she neither confided in saras or supported him in extreme situations etc). These circumstances are created and manipulated by the writers to such an extent that the characters are artificially twisted to fit them into certain mould and to make the associated events happen which in turn constitute the so-called tracks. The current set of writers are not well versed with the personality traits of characters and they often misrepresent their inherent qualities on the basis of their own fabricated events or tracks. On their whims and fancies they tweak the characters and make them behave in a certain way to suit bizarre situations and unreasonable purposes. Along the way characters lose their consistency and originality and become totally unrelatable. The ongoing scenario is one fine instance out of many. The nakhrewali act of kumud and desais' transformation from modern,progressive mindset to regressive one are the obvious result of cvs use of ineffective time-pass(or dragging) techniques which seem inappropriate and irrelevant. The family is shown to be insensitive and thoughtless of kabir's state of mind, his wishes and priorities (age, of course). Fillers are unavoidable in daily soaps but should be well made, fun or engaging. The following filling-up methods didn't serve the desired purpose. First samud's nok-jhoks were intended for bringing in some lighter moments and romance but turned out differently due to lousy writing and poor portrayal of kumud. Next the whole absurd act of desai parivar indulging in kabir's marriage talks, imposing their opinion on him appears senseless and contrived. As an alternative they can show beautiful, intense emotional confrontation scenes involving LN and kabir or saras and kabir giving kabir the much needed moral support, strength and comfort. Well-written, poignant emotional scenes are sure to strike a chord with the viewers. The same writers who gave us many fun-filled moments during samud marriage celebrations (patang seq, saras beautiful love confession, his sardarji act, mothi seq, engagement, sangeet -all well presented and engaging) are now treating us with tedious and boring fillers. Lastly, today's episode was the best in otherwise boring week. The highlights were samud's heart to heart convo, dugba's presence and final twist involving school and children. Kindly bear with the long post and analytical approach.
Perfectly written lal04, I suppose the frequent change of writers and the fact that there is a chain of free lance writers who do multiple shows simultaneously, and the fact they have to fill in six days every week would all be contributing to this
Plus, I wonder if writers ever look back at their own stories and connect them, or do they think only in tracks?
For instance, this whole kabir ki shadi thing, don't they even realise that they have pegged kabir at 21 years old, so there is no desperate need to get married
If they had to show fillers around kabir, it could have been around getting assimilated in a family like Desais !
The level of writing makes it extremely hard to relate to characters, especially Guniyal , this time she gave a stern talk to Kumud, but most of the time, she appears to the most inane character in the show!
The biggest victim is of course Kumud, who having been given the trait of headstrong, is very often made to look extremely obstinate and arrogant. The writers just haven't been able to maintain Kumud as the strong woman who is also extremely loving, and understands rishton ki maryada very well
Here, the whole won't go to Mumbai was carried to a ridiculous extreme, and made Kumud look extremely bad.
This should have been the first sequence - Kumud's fear about leaving her family, and then Saras and the family, do all this cute things to convince her,
Anyway, I wish the PH would concentrate on getting and retaining a good set of writers who focus on quality work
