Whatever I am saying in this post is with repect to the Hindi TV industry and the present Hindi serial scenario...I am not comparing any shows in particualr with SGP but I am talking about hindi daily soaps as whole
What I have felt is that nowadays almost every hindi television show has got a so called great Indian family consisting of many members starting from dada-dadi to pota-poti...Whenever you switch hindi channels,you will atleast find 8 out of 10 shows depicting such a family...But the common practice which I have seen is that in those shows,except the lead pair,the other charachters depicting the relatives of the lead are sidelined...They merely stand as a support to the lead and nothing else.....But here in Sasural Genda Phool,I have seen that each and every charachter has been etched in such a manner that you actually cant concentrate on just the lead pair...Right from the starting we have seen that each and every member of the Kashyap Family has some or the other back story which has been portryaed in the show..Starting from Badi Ma whose husband has left her alone to Radha Bua whose husband could do such a pathetic thing with her...each charachter has a story to tell...If you recollect,in the initial episodes,the show showed a conversation between Suhana and Dolly DiDI where even Dolly Didi had a small thing to share about her husband...like first she thoght her husband wud be lakhon mein ek...and later she found that he was indeed one of the lakh of people..nothing special...(i actually loved that dialogue).......
Even Meena who is supposed to portray a maid in the house has a story which was brought out by Badi Ma which i guess none of the other shows would even care to tell......And not just story,every charachter has a prominent role to play...each and every charachter gets ample screen space along with the leads...may it be the sweet scenes between Sushaan,Dadaji-Dadiji or Elesh-Disha or Indser consoling Rajni......and its not just the husband-wife sequence here....U get to see great father-daughter scenes with KK-Sanju-Suhana and great Mother-Son scenes with Badi ma-Inder or Rano-Ishaan
I had read in a TB interview with sadia siddiqui(radha Bua),she told that she took the role of Radha Bua in SGP becuase she knew that this was a Ravi Ojha show and she was damn sure that she wouldnt be wasted...And thats so true....
I guess after Baa bahu aur baby and Jasuben Jayantilal....this indeed is a great indian family which is in real...The whole set up of the sasural has been done in such a way that u will find such families now and then in ur muhalla..........
This was just according to my POV😛...so please let me know ur POV too😉......and please dont mind my long post😆