The success of a serial is directly proportional to the brilliance of the writing team. I guess our writers have never seen any masterpiece TV series of english countries. It's not that the writers there are out of the world, its just that they are well prepared before hand. Before starting the series, the writers give the ultimatum that we have this much of story, which will be enough for running it to lets say 5 seasons. And if they want to extend after that, the preparation starts well before. And if suppose, the audience are not liking the storyline, the whole writing team is replaced by another in order to save it from axing. For the sake general information, the writing team of a TV series there, consists of 20-25 people who are working day-night rather than the writing team team of Indian Serials which consists of hardly 5-8 people.
SGP was adapted from OBS. The writers of OBS( and also of SGP) had a brilliant script because of which OBS ran successfullyđ. Seeing the success of OBS, they decided to make a hindi version of it. And it worked. They included heavy casting in their show and the actors were spot on. Jay, Ragini, Supriya Ji and others did the hell of a job and can be said that they did better than OBS.
Seeing the success, the production house decided to extend the storyline. But the fact is that there was never a storyline prepared for the extension. OBS track was till the amnesia of Ishaan and SGP became dull immediately after that. The tracks became meaningless. Its because the writers were not well prepared with the tracks. They were just cashing in on the popularity of SGP's cast. Like other serials of Indian Television, the makers thought that the storyline will be accepted seeing the popularity of stars. But it never happened. SGP's ratings started falling down and it never climbed up.
Some of the meaningless tracks in my view are:
- Sushaan goin to Mumbai ( they extended it to 5-6 months showing again the triangle of Ishaan-Suhana-Sonali)
- Dragging of Sanjana- Deepak track ( that was pathetic)
- Suhana in Tv Serial
The only track which had some meaning was the disclosing of Bade Papa's intentions. SGP had a gr8 cast. A good storyline would saved it. SGP is goin off air because SP doesn't need a show which is constantly dipping ( that too when IPL is coming up) plus I guess the writers also didn't have much to show.
Even after so much of bashing, I would like to say SGP would remain the best drama show of Indian Television with the unique concept "Slice of Life" ( as it is called). The actors had tremendous impact on the audience and every single of them portrayed positivity in their respective manner.
In the end, I would prefer to say " I will miss SGP" rather than saying " Yeh SGP kab band hoga". I don't want a season 2 of it neither I want any other show to be made on this concept. For the sake of my obsession with SGP and Suhana-Ishaan, I want only and only one SGP to be there sitting on the top of classics.