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Kshama Rao, K Shama Rao Posted: Dec 03, 2010 at 1943 hrs IST
Rishton Se Badi Pratha
Monday to Friday, 7.30 pm, Colors
In keeping with their issue-based shows, Colors has taken up honour killings as the subject of its newly-launched Rishton Se Badi Pratha.
It's about Abhay, the youngest scion of a wealthy business family who's getting married to a girl of his parents' choice. However, he loves Surabhi, the sister of his jijaji, Rannvijay. Extremely short-tempered and uncouth, Vijay is a young incarnation of Gabbar Singh (at least the signature tune that accompanies him reminds you of Gabbar!) and believes in only one mantra — shoot at sight. He is the typical brother who is so possessive of his sister that one dirty look from a stranger and he is dead! He thinks nothing of giving his wife a dressing down and treats her like a doormat. His mother too is scared of his temper and the only person who backs him wholeheartedly is his father.
Meanwhile, Abhay's family regrets the day they married their daughter off to Rannvijay. There is an older brother who loses it occasionally and another one who knows to keep his cool. The women are mercifully vocal. The father is powerful too but doesn't believe in misusing it and there is a matriarch who has the final word!
Interestingly, Surabhi is pregnant and has revealed it to Abhay, who now wants to elope with her on his wedding day.
The couple is bound to face the consequences and the current episodes are only an indicator of things to come. The story moves briskly and the performances are decent, especially Nimay Bali as the boy's father and Faisal Raza Khan as the monstrous brother. The lead pair — Vishal Karwal as Abhay and Shalini Chandran as Surabhi — looks fresh and delivers, especially the girl.
We have read and heard a great deal about honour killings where families uphold their honour and prestige, even if it means killing their own blood. It's a chilling scenario that the city audiences are not familiar with and so, just like they woke up to child marriages in Balika Vadhu, Rishton Se Badi Pratha could follow the same path. Yes, the proceedings are sometimes melodramatic but that's something you have to deal with! It's strange though to see Rannvijay giving a piece of his mind to his wife's younger sister for wearing salwar kurtas with a revealing (hardly) neckline but letting his sister dance happily at one of the shaadi functions in front of men! To be fair, yes he scowls at her, butwe can't deny the fact that he has double standards. Also, it's a bit difficult to digest the fact that a girl who has been living under the thumb of her terror-of-a- brother had the courage to carry her lover's child!
That apart, the show is still engaging enough, thanks to the milieu and characters we would dread to even be with, forget live with them!
Verdict: ***
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