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I teach high school and I am always in the company of teens. One of the reasons for watching this show was the presence of teens on this show. Sadly, I have seen very little real "teen time" on this show.
Sweet Suhani is stuck in the US on a flimsy pretext. Her portrayal was good, "real" but the wardrobe did a bad job on her. What the script writers did not understand about the US application system is that once you get your acceptance letter from the school, you can finish up all formalities via email and a bank wire. Also, from the time of your acceptance (which happens in March-April) and then Graduation (May-June) and then vacation until fall semester starting in Aug-Sept, you are not needed to be there physically. The timeline is totally whacky in this show to say the least.
Now the diva, Nishi. For an 18 year old, she is so spoilt. I do think that when you compare Suhani with Nishi, the latter does appear to be a brat- selfish, wanting to marry her beau at all costs etc. Evidently, her mom is footing the bill for her college education and the least she can do is get her degree and a steady job before settling down in life. In yesterday's episode, Nishi does say that she is ready to cancel her wedding if it means that they need to sell the flat, but she was not very emphatic about it. It was more like a half-hearted attempt to earn brownie points from her mom. Frankly, the character is not well etched out by the writers.
Same goes for Arav, the Indian brother. I don't know what has happened in India in the past 20 years (as I have been here in the US for those years), but the average teen in India appears to be more "demanding" and less "caring" about their parents. There appears to be an entitlement mentality amongst the kids.
Here in the US, the kids know their limits. Either they take up a job and earn their own money to pay for their "parties" or they just stay quiet and don't make ridiculous demands of their parents and money unless the parents themselves offer. When we were growing up in India, we never asked our parents for a party for our birthday- on the contrary, the tradition was go to the temple first thing in the morning and offering our thanks for a wonderful life followed by a visit to grandparents' home to get their blessings and then off to school with a bag of candy for all teachers and classmates. Parties were to be "seen" in Hindi movies with fancy cakes and decorations. If mom had learned to bake a cake from aunt, then we would get treated to a home made cake (made in the Bajaj oven borrowed from a neighbor or better yet, in a TTK pressure cooker in the steamer try!).
Then comes the sweet US brother (forget his name). He again shows the simplicity of being an average teen, interested in girls. What surprises me is that he doesn't have an interest in anything else. The average teen is either interested in video games or playing some sport, music or something and leverages that to find a "girl". That is the usual high schooler you will see here. Again, an incomplete character sketch by the writers.
If I see these teens, I find that Pam has done a better job raising them as non-demanding individuals when compared to egoistic Ragini with her mother's support of bringing up her two kids. Absolutely no sanskars. Pathetic.
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