Originally posted by: Sweet_Krishna
I am sure if Ekta had released Kehne ko Humsafar on TV, it would have met same dissection and criticism. If you see that show , hubby behaved absolutely selfishly towards a devoted, dutiful wife. But serial was presented in a way that you empathized with both the women. They literally showed daughter "understanding" why her father fell in love with another woman! It was only 14 episodes so things were very crisp and to the point.
Agreed and if she had released it on TV, it wouldn't be a 14-episode series. It would run for 14 years maybe with plots and turns and twists and deaths and reincarnations and plastic surgery until the original point of the show would get lost.
That's also why shows like I named above don't work. Because much of the audience would rather watch mindless serials than shows that probe you, question you, force you to think. Isn't that why shows like Naagin and Kumkum Bhagya are on the top of the TRP charts each week? I'm sorry. I'm not trying to bash these shows. I'm sure they are great for their viewers, but still. Kumkum is like a kidnappings galore show. And Naagin is great fiction-wise, but it's a show I can watch while I'm cooking dinner or playing games with my family because there's no real thought involved.
My other issue here is that the CVs bungled up in a bid to get more TRPs. The shows I named above (and even others that I didn't but fall in the same category) chose to go off air rather than ruin their concepts. Why couldn't Silsila do the same? Why couldn't it stick to its concept and, when the channel put it under the scanner, just say bye-bye and close the show off properly? Why are they ruining the show in a bid to get TRPs?
Edited by ProfMcGonagall - 6 years ago
