Why is foolishness glorified in Indian soaps?

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Posted: 10 years ago
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i just don't understand how a scheming mutant like dadi raised such a fool like ragini. guys at the cost of getting jooto ki barsaat, the cvs have just crossed the line between simple, simple-minded and dimwitted with ragini. how was dadi's story believable at all? why would laksh say such harsh things instead of remaining silent, buy himself and ragini both heartache, if what he confessed wasn't true?!? why would Ragini's straightforward sister go along with this insanely stupid plan? why would laksh going to see his parents be an indication that whatever he confessed to ragini was somehow a big joke? and most importantly, why is being a gullible fool who cries buckets of tears due to her own follies, glorified and sympathized with as a sanskaari trait in indian soaps?!? theres nothing praise-worthy about being a pretty fool. you don't need to be a modern person to have you wits about you. thats such an insult to all of our grandmothers and even mothers who grew up in very traditional molds but were anything but fools! i can only speak for my own aaji, but I'm sure many will agree, she runs a tight ship and at 66 is wiser and more worldly than my aai and me put together!
i feel like they aren't doing Ragini's character justice. she showed SO much silent strength and growth in defending her family and telling laksh's hitler father the truth with her head held high and standing up for her father's happiness. so this version of ragini i really find almost borderline offensive. should she not have major issues trying to believe anything dadi says?!? dadi did lie to her about accidentally having killed her mother. idk guys, if you are that delusional and know so little about how to be a person with basic intelligence than i really think you deserve whats coming to you. sounds harsh? absolutely. but i just can't tolerate how serials seem to pass off being socially clueless as being sweet and innocent! its NEVER a good quality to b that insanely gullible. you can say oh she was emotionally distressed and dadi provided her comfort so she believed her. but then i fully expect her to analyze the situation once she's calm and realize how insane and utterly implausible dadi's story was. since that won't happen, i get to stand by my statement, Ragini's character just regressed or rather digressed from her path of character growth in showing internal strength and maturity.

please feel free to disagree! cordial discord is the best part of being in any forum! but i do urge that you back up any opinion with a logically sound argument. 😊

and hitler dadi doesn't care for anyone. she's only using her supposed 'laado' as an excuse to justify how low she's willing to go to stroke her own ego. what does shomi and shekhar have to do with laksh and ragini? laksh left his father's house on principal, not only for the garodia family. so in effect, even if laksh accepts ragini, he wouldn't accept his father's principal that demands shekhar to be separated from shomi in order for ragini to b accepted as a DIL in his family. surely a cunning woman like her can see that, if not she's as much of a fool as ragini, one blinded by misplaced trust, the other by her misguided ego.

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Mdmadona thumbnail
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Posted: 10 years ago
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agree!
felt the samešŸ˜”
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Agree wit u.. Aftr ystrdys epi i really dnt like Ragini.. She is a fool šŸ‘ŽšŸ¼..
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Originally posted by: --swathy--

Agree wit u.. Aftr ystrdys epi i really dnt like Ragini.. She is a fool šŸ‘ŽšŸ¼..


no she is not a fool ...,but confusedšŸ˜• ...girl in love and heartbreak ..😭...does she know how bad is her dadi maa...no naaa...so how come she will suspect it that she is lying to her about laksh ...

she is a girl who walk on the way her elders tell her to she do not know the secrets behind it...but i think laksh will tell her the truth of her dadimaa... that she is playing with all the lives...after learning the whole truth from swara...

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Posted: 10 years ago
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Originally posted by: --swathy--

Agree wit u.. Aftr ystrdys epi i really dnt like Ragini.. She is a fool šŸ‘ŽšŸ¼..



She's really a fool !!! no one could believe that story!!! Now I don't like her šŸ‘ŽšŸ¼
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Laskh told her the truth, she is stupid to believe the woman who caused her mother's death, therefore is she was to get hurt by Swara and Laskh's love story, I wouldnt give two rats about it, as she would deserve it for allowing stupidity to rule her.
She should have clocked how uncomfortable Laskh has been with her throughout their so called lubb story, how he always seems to be looking for Swara etc, but nope ma'am like her idiotic grandmother want to live in Lala-Land, toh aab hum kya kare. Suffer!
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Ya it ws really disappointng to watch ragini buy such a stry. She heard the whole truth frm laksh and didn't evn thnk for a sec b4 she believd dadi's stry.
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Posted: 10 years ago
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The serial had started very well, but recently bringing laksh's to stay at rag in' s residence and then he interfering with swaragini 's family matters was abnormal and difficult to absorb. Also the cvs trying to create this love triangle (almost typical of all serials) makes this serial too mundane. It is getting difficult to keep one' s interest, to continue to watch the serial- although the actors and the Bangla hindi fusion was something interesting to watch.
Edited by skydome - 10 years ago
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Posted: 10 years ago
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i totally agree with you Indian serials have a tendency of maintaining a very thin line between being innocent and being dumb. Also they try to work around the cliched idea that traditional girls are extremely naive and gullible. i was extremely disappointed by the way Ragini reacted..i understand that Swara is street smart and slightly more open minded but portraying Ragini as a gullible individual who has no opinion of her own is wrong. unfortunately character development is something which is blatantly ignored in Indian serials.
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Originally posted by: creationschhavi


no she is not a fool ...,but confusedšŸ˜• ...girl in love and heartbreak ..😭...does she know how bad is her dadi maa...no naaa...so how come she will suspect it that she is lying to her about laksh ...

She knows that her grandma is capable of lying to her. her grandma lied to her about shomi and swara's character, lied to her about dida doing some stupid jaadu tona, lied to her about killing her mother. i think after all this, any remotely sane person with an IQ level of 60 (basic human IQ if your not disabled) would take dadi's words with a pinch of salt. but apparently ragini's IQ level is below that. again as i mentioned before, once she's a bit more emotionally stable, if she evaluates her grandma's story and can reach the logical conclusion that her grandma made up that implausible story to relief her heartache, i stand by my opinion- she's being a delusional fool. Again give me solid reason to believe otherwise and i will.

she is a girl who walk on the way her elders tell her to she do not know the secrets behind it...but i think laksh will tell her the truth of her dadimaa... that she is playing with all the lives...after learning the whole truth from swara...

thank you chavi for your counter reply!

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