Weepy, dramatic tale of five sisters
Bhagwan ne mujhe mota banaya toh usme mere kya galti," wails the moti sister who has been rejected by several suitors in the past. This sure has got to be the most pathetic line in the history of soaps. Hasn't the scriptwriter of Sanware Sapke Sapne Preeto heard of a concept called exercise? Or he/she as fat and lazy as Meeta, who is desperate to get married but refuses to stop eating. Meeta is the eldest sister but mercifully, not the protagonist of the soap. Her ego and her complexes are as large as her size and she vents her ire on her pretty younger sister Ishmit — the beauty of the family. Ishmit is equally spineless and pathetic too. Which self-respecting girl will tolerate advances made by her lecherous brother-in-law, only because her sister threatens to commit suicide if the engagement is called off? So, how does moti Meeta get hitched? A family friend and match-match maker with the most devious mind plots to get her engaged to the once married Bobby Singh.
She tells the parents to hide the pretty daughters and pretend they have just one daughter, Meeta, when Bobby comes to visit them. The simple parents who are desperate to get rid of their antsy daughter agree to this hair-brained scheme but obviously the mother forgets her part and calls out for one of her daughters. The truth is out and Bobby, the rogue with roving eyes, instantly falls for Ishmit. That's when the chudail matchmaker convinces him to marry the plain Jane and he can reap the benefits of flirting with his sisters-in-law.
Again the script writer and the producer need to be kicked in the rear for promoting such derogatory lines where the girls are treated like products at a bargain store — buy one and get three free! Disgusting! So, who is Preeto? She is only sane and sensible member of the family, the daughter who is the son of the household and is determined to expose her jiju once she figures out his evil intentions. The silly Ishmit, instead of confessing to being harassed by her jiju, prefers to hold on to her secret and play the weeping willow instead. It's really hard to feel any kind of sympathy for such women. Instead of protecting her sister from further misery, Ishmit threatens to commit suicide after Preeto accidentally discovers that their jiju has been hitting on Ishmit.
So, what do these five sisters do besides waiting in the wings to get married? While the youngest two siblings are studying, the older ones don't seem to have any kind of goal in life. One is not even sure if Ishmit actually works though she is seeing gallivanting all over the city on her two-wheeler.
If you have a weakness for melodramatic plots and silly weeping women, watch this serial.
