Chepu Bytes - Page 3

Originally posted by: Arshics

Originally posted by: hotdogg

Arshi,

You said it right on Mumbai track...

I felt the same when it abruptly started...especially since my faith in the mediocricity of the current writers is more stronger than yours 😉...

...however there was so much excitement in the forum when this track started that I did not want to rain down on it...especially since I do not see the show nowadays...so why spoil the mood?

...considering the show is being shot in mumbai, shooting a show in a flat is much cheaper than:
- maintaining a huge set (physical infrastructure which will need maintenance even if it is a set),
- stylish costume inventory for the women in cast, especially for kumud
- shoot time (getting entire female cast ready with costumes, managing these during the shoot, waiting for the hairdo setting etc. etc.) ...

Now all kumud might need is to just put on a dress, blow dry her hair and you are ready to go...Noticed in the epis I watched yesterday that this anushka is also in a jeans and tshirt/dress all the time...real easy- weasy...😎

...Agree with you that the problem is on a more fundamental level - the creative story.

On one hand the writers seem to want to adhere to the essence of the source which is:
1) the travails of saraswatichandra (not kumud) and how it impacts everyone (especially seperation from kumud)...which would make this a male protagonist driven show
2) placed in a similar (and modern) cultural setting - the village of RN & Mumbai.

On the other hand TRPs dictate:
1) a women-centric show, complete with mundane stereotyped housewifey stuff like going to market, elaborate food making, hubby comes first etc.
2) dumbing down and negligible presence of the male in a modern setting ...this one has saras doing some 'important' stuff no one knows about (like in all those umpteen shows where the males are suited - booted and run some crores of buisness)
3) an external villian or villianess/vamp...
4) stupid younger siblings who provide 'comic' relief by trying to be 'endearing'.

Now, if the writers are the TRP show types, the center of gravity is shifting towards the 'other hand'...add the economic reason's, upcoming renewal date and they just cannot experiment with any meaningful or realistic adaption in the story...and so we are stuck with the lowest common denominator - just another TV soap...

...and that's a real problem due to the residual memory for some of us - the previous generation of fans - and we really can't do anything about it...

Na Biwi Na Bachha Na Baap Bada Na Maiyan
The Whole Thing Is That Ke Bhaiya Sabse Bada Rupaiya

p.s.
Lal04-
Like your posts...I guess would have loved to exchange notes if you had been around in the halcyon days where the story was prime, was real and drove some of us oldies nuts with its subtleties...

Originally posted by: Arshics

Waise, I would be extremely suspicious and scared of a guy who lit romantic candles in his bedroom every night, kyon ki khushiyan kabhi bhi aa sakti hai!

I mean its the bachelor pad of a single guy living alone and he, every night creates this romantic ambience, in the off chance that khushiyan ( a girl to sleep in his bed? ) will walk in kabhi bhi? is just weird, and khatre ki ghanti

and when he invites the young neighboring couple to come and sleep in that bed,

without even knowing them well - double weird! And khatre ki double ghanti.

remember Saras's bedroom in Dubai - functional, modern, tasteful yet manly! Yahan toh itna iska bedroom bahut made for a romantic couple tha!

That guy is screaming loud and clear, look at me, I am a pervert, and our dobos are deaf and blind

Originally posted by: hotdogg

And then you had kumud roaming around all alone, in a stranger's unfamiliar house, in her nightdress, in the middle of the night, after hearing a breaking / strange sound...which woman does that?...