Originally posted by: PreetD
Dina_Dee - I confess I'm a sucker for romance plots in anything, I love love stories. The thing with tv shows is that they have the time to be able to build a good foundation to develop a relationship on. Especially since in Indian television once you're with someone, you're with them come what may.
I wish that I had been able to watch JJKN, we didn't have the Indian channels at the time though, but I did catch it from time to time when I would hang out at a friend's house. It looked good from what I remember. I don't know how the romance went in that one but in Ugly Betty, Betty and Daniel (her boss) both had other relationships and it wasn't until the end of the series (which was cancelled too soon) that they moved towards actually making them a couple. Betty had grown a lot and so had Daniel so it had that foundation to build a good relationship on you know.
JazzyM - regarding why can't two good people get together and develop the storyline, my mom's staple response to remarks like that from me are always, how will the story continue?
I think the big thing that's missing in the Indian television I have seen is that once a couple gets together they don't know what to do anymore to properly keep the story going. Either the couple gets put on the backburner or there's obstacle after obstacle facing the couple. One of my most favourite shows is Once Upon a Time, it's all about True Love and once you're couple gets together on the show you know they're going to be together until the end, I mean it's a given for true love couples on the show. But here's the thing, once the couple gets together they are given obstacles and the story now becomes how does this couple work through issues and problems TOGETHER. In Indian shows it always boils down to ridiculous misunderstandings, hiding things from your spouse, and contrived family drama where one person always comes out trying to be mahan or self-sacrificing, relationships of unequal balance, and sometimes outright emotional abuse (usually on the part of the male in the relationship).
I mean Dhruv and Thapki could have completely worked in my opinion but they rushed into it and I just don't buy the love story here. Dhruv should have been the layered multi-dimensional character. Instead he's the overly nice guy now that is smitten with this sweet innocent girl. Whereas with Bihaan you have a guy that actually challenged Thapki, she's competely different when she's with him if that makes sense and that's what's intriguing about their story.
I think I'm just rambling now and it's way too late. I need to get to bed. Thanks so much for everyone that's been involved in this discussion :)