An analysis: Why current storyline backfired?

An analysis: Why the current storyline backfired?

Well, well, well. The CV's may have thought the new storyline will up the ratings of AJ, instead it has been dragged down to number 21: out from top 10, out from top 20, to now in the top 30!!! Can it get any worse?

What are the CVs going to do about that? Have they analysed what's gone wrong? Here is one viewer's analysis.

- For one there were too many drastic changes: The seven year leap was a bad idea (Ha! Ha! Now we know. Ok, I won't rub it in)

- Laali's marriage to the doc, even worse - She changes into Shyamli, a boring housewife, looking after somebody else's children instead of her own. Her own child is being brought up by somebody else.

- The love story of Shekhar and Laali shifts focus to now Shailendra and Laali. The doc is in love with Laali and Laali herself appears to be half in love with the doc.

- Too many characters. With two households to cover now, the screen time for everyone has been reduced, including that of Loha, Ranvijay, Sumitra, Jamuni, Rekha, which means less focus on character development; which means we hardly see these characters anymore.

- Focus on social issues has declined (poverty, class barriers, caste system, etc)

- The fantastic dialogue that made the serial so interesting today has become pathetic dialogue

- Incoherence in the story telling style. The story is not told in a steady manner, it leaps and jumps from place to place leaving viewers bewildered.

- Storylines are left hanging with so many questions unanswered. So many things are left to the viewers to figure out themselves.

- Blunders have increased in every episode (Eg. a shot in the stomach leads to amnesia)

- Too many marriages, and no divorce (Shekhar and Laali have five marriages between them)

- Aside from the actor portraying Shekhar, everyone else's acting has declined (no fault of anyone's, just that not enough time has been given to them to show their acting style. (There was a time when we were bowled over by these actors great acting. No such thing now.)

- We still haven't been told what has happened to Riddhi and Grandfather Ayodhya Singh

- All the storylines in AJ always seemed to be rushed ... sort of told in a hurried style, as if they are missing the plane or something. Due to this, details are left out, which causes confusion and bewilderment.

- Lack of research on topics

- Inconsistencies in storylines, lack of details

- Hats off to the writers for making even the medical profession look silly

By the way who were the original writers of Agle Janam?

I agree with all of your points and to me the BIGGEST mistake was to change Laali's character. They took away all the flavor and colouring of the show by turning a bubbly, emotion filled Laali into boring Shyamli.

the major problem is which i said before is:

1. changing laali's character...humans do not like change and this did not help the show.

2. after the waris storyline all went downhill.

3. the main part of the story was finished..so the creatives had to end it.

old or new creatives the show is a goner... 😭 😭

Yeah i agree with you. There have been too many changes to the show that have spoilt it. Every point is right. Yes i have noticed the writers have changed since the show took a leap,so no wonder why the show has gone downhill,such a shame,the original writer was the one who could think of something original.

wow!!! great analysis...u should be a critic...anyhow, very true. i stopped watching AJ few weeks ago when i first saw shekhar in a mental asylum b/c. i knew that the story was going down the drain. AJ used to be one of my fav. shows! they don't give that much time to loha anymore! come on he's the best! i didn't even know they had a seven yr. leap, i thought it was five years. i hope we get our old AJ back...what's up with all the shows nowadays? first DMG, then MJHT, and now AJ...really creatives?

Originally posted by: Neela10

the main part of the story was finished..so the creatives had to end it.


<font size="3">Telenovelle, actually, I don't agree with ending the story. If you take AJ as an ordinary story, then I would say okay finish it - the waaris story is finished, so let's be done with it.

But Agle Janam was not an ordinary story. They started off with great social issues that fascinated viewers. And there are still so many topics that they can discuss, and it can only be done thru a show like Agle Janam. If it ends, then once again, we look out for some silly serial with hope that this time things will be different. But it won't.

AJ for me is the first and last Hindi serial I would be seeing.

Check out Australian soap operas such as Neighbors, Home and Away, English TV serial Coronation Street, New Zealand, Shortland Street - all have been going on for years and years and years and still going strong. How come Indians can't maintain their soap operas with the same fervor. </font>

there are soaps that have been on for a long time and have maintained a strong following. i watch american soaps and they have also been going on for many years. the story is always connected and before one story is up then another one is already started so there is no gap left in between.
i don't think any indian soap has stayed on that long..the longest might be 4-5 years.

i watch american soaps and they have also been going on for many years. the story is always connected and before one story is up then another one is already started so there is no gap left in between. i don't think any indian soap has stayed on that long..the longest might be 4-5 years.

Yeah, I agree with you - the Americans are so good, really stylish and very, very slick in the way they tell their stories. The special effects is great and their understanding of human behavior excellent. They also make blunders, but they are so slick that often you don't notice it, unless you see it two or three times. They also make their characters look and sound so intelligent, including the police and the medical profession. For instance, a doctor may have a very small role to play in an episode, but he/she comes out looking smart, really professional and knowing exactly what he/she is talking about. In contrast our very smart Indian writers make the police and the medical profession look extremely silly. That is why they need to do research before they put pen to paper.

By the way my favorite in the US include - CSI (Crime Scene Investigation); Bostan Legal, Shark; Grey's Anatomy; Ugly Betty; Desperate Housewives, House, horror such as Supernatural, Ghost Hunters, etc but I will watch anything Sci-fi - currently am watching Outer Limits on Hulu - lots of short stories there - discussing everything from genetic engineering, time travel, parallel universes, out-of-body experiences, cloning, alien abductions, wormholes, surrogacy, android, alternate history, tapping into human brain wave, sinister experiments, conspiracy, parallel consciousness.