Software Symph 4--Walking to Ranthambore on 146 - Page 7

Originally posted by: swaram

Somehow Rana Dagubatti comes to my mind always, maybe bec he has the height and the beard and the brooding looks. I His character in the telugu movie Leader was somewhat like R&B. What do you think?

I have always mentioned Rana keeping in mind his charaxter and looks from the movie Leader..

I had to make this post after reading soaps and stars. N, Brace yourself for one damn long post this is going to be!! Hope u see this as healthy and only healthy .

It's no secret that Creative liberty,Visual appeal, entertainment , drama, sex, sexual appeal and last but not the least, content r all part of the package which drives mediums across the entertainment industry like films, television in general , print media like, newspapers, books, magazines etc or the broadcast media like radio and tv. There is no escaping that fact.
Drama sells . There's drama everywhere , in real life too. Crimes too. Crimes and criminals irrespective of age , (like in the heinous rape of the lady who died in Delhi,the minor, a teenager is believed to hv punctured her intestines ) are also harsh realities of the world in which we live.So Criminal teens exist too.
Now coming bk to soaps, I don't know if you hv caught on to any of the tamil soaps in regional channels. They r drab in terms of visual appeal but still manage to run for 3- 4 yrs cos of the content and cultural differences. There r these friends of mine in Delhi,when we lived there, who used to catch my MIL watching tamil serials when they used to visit me at my home, and they agreed that such soaps wouldn't stand a chance in hindi. Even in the hindi shows , which hv a rustic , rural bk ground , there is a lot of bling , tacky makeup done on the actresses playing the so called middle class women.
Escapism , N,. ...Even the TRP aunties do not believe for one moment, in all this exaggerated visual appeal shown like going to bed in wigs, makeup , big designer bindis , dares etc with their footwear on, but take it as it's their escape from normal day to day lives. At the end of the day , it's a show .Soaps and shows are businesses which r humongous livelihood opportunities for thousands in the last 2 decades and they hv their own fences too...in this unforgiving , competitive industry.

Nisha, In SoSy, what's the fun and where's the drama if II and R&B 's wedding , was to proceed without a hiccup. There's drama in Savita Bhalla's death too. With utmost respect, Why did you decide on 'jumped pushed' as a form of death for her, I mean you could have even penned death due to heart attack in her case and R&B could have still been upset with his Dad. B'Cos , to me, 'jumped' sounds   more dramatic than an heart attack, marking Ranjan a lonely defeated figure to the reader in me. There's this sympathy created for the hero here,by making his mom die. You also could hv had Savita bhalla moving out with R&B, showing her to be strong. In one of her weakest moments, She lost trust in self, in her husband and even in her children , including her favourite R&B. This is fiction but you hv definitely heard of such things happening in real too.

Super Bowl half times r hell of a lot of money. Cricket is our fancy too . I hv not been brought up on foot ball and I am still new to this country. N, forget Katy perry and Super Bowl, even the broadcast media has strengthened its visual appeal, compare Doordarshan news of yesteryears to the swanky 24/7 news channels today. On that topic N, here r my 2 cents worth, do you think, a team of half naked men gyrating to the moves would hv enough appeal in a sports stadium, I hv heard, it would in a gay bar . I am not saying that feminine sexual appeal is law of nature, but the opposite seems to defy in what appears to have been accepted as the law of nature. My personal belief though is , each to their own . There's room for everyone and the worlds is a big place. IPL in India and cricket as an entertainment package is successfully running like nobody's business . For each of the teams, it's billions invested and they would adopt every trick in the book to make it viable.They hv a job to do and they do it as they deem fit.
And for us , again we know, as viewers, we r not bound, we hv the remote control in our hands and watch whatever catches our fancy.You do that, don't you. ? I am saying this as u chose not to watch the game , yet caught the half time show. We all do that too.My grandmom says, serials parkelena ,24 mani nerumum , news than parthindrukkunam.( if I don't watch serials, then I hv to watch news or sports and that does not attract me. )She says, you go to a shop and if you do not like anything, u either change the product or the brand, same way, even here while watching tv, you choose what to watch, news, soaps, sports , documentaries, reality Shows, it's all there and you as the consumer, are kings.

N, I was wondering, what's modernism and morals, ?and who defines morality?You and I know that not all skimpily clad beings r immoral and not all fully clad beings are moral . Not for one moment I am advocating sleaze here.I mean not just costumes r sleaze here, there r bigger forms of sleaze and mud out in the world , dirty politics for ex, again I am not condemning politics in general.

N, For me our conscience, our inner being is the biggest adjudicator or Our Gods on morality and values that we hv been handed down.

And With that I ...


In the last 3- 4 yrs, BALH and YHM were the only two shows I watched for a few months and then I grew out of it, I hv no regrets though and I choose not to condemn it, I choose to let it be as we all learn to coexist and survive and we r smart and selfish enough to take out our gains.

I am one of the proudest eaders of your story but still had this to say and I very much appreciate your views and thoughts too.

Haha, dekh, mein Ishita vishwanathan Iyer jaise lecture dene lagi hoon, koi aake mere mooh band karwana pleej!!!

Lots of love
KG.

Originally posted by: nividances

Congrats on thread 4 Nisha! 👏😃

I didn't have a chance to comment about this on the last thread so I'll just put it in here. I really loved the part about Ranjan. I'm really rooting for him in this entire situation because my heart goes out to the poor man. He wants his son's happiness so much that he is willing to pull himself out of his only son's wedding...that's got to be such a big blow. 😭

Coming to the more recent update, Amma is being logical here in seeing that II's happiness lies with R&B. I'm sure it can't be easy for her as a mother to give approval for the relationship, but I'm glad that she is able to look past her own prejudices against this marriage and understand her daughter's feelings. Appa is on the opposite end of the spectrum but I hope he will sort out his issues soon. I don't think he will ever be completely happy with the wedding, but I just want him to give his indifferent (😕?? not sure if this is the correct word to use here) acceptance.

The Baldev-II convo gave me a good laugh. 😆

I think that jab at YHM took the prize for the funniest line you've written so far. Satire at its best. 👍🏼

yes me too rooting for him .. glad to find company 😳

Main uthi.. Train se utar bhi gayi.. Ghar bhi pahunch gayi.. Update nahi nikla ab tak 😭
Aayega update ya main so jaaoon??

I did manage to scramble and reach here and the only time I recall that this is part of yhm IF is when this moves to a new thread! Bravo girl! The feathers on ur cap truly deserved!

Oh I love Bally II convo! How real can you get, and like how amma is gradually reluctantly inching towards an approval. She knows in her heart that there can be none other for II but years of cultural schooling is not easy to shed that easily... 

II & amma  convo in the kitchen in the previous update, was a peep in to my past... Don't know how many lives this tale has touched... seems like a zillion to me now

Edited by Nisha0604 - 9 years ago

Originally posted by: kg1404

N, I was wondering, what's modernism and morals, ?and who defines morality?You and I know that not all skimpily clad beings r immoral and not all fully clad beings are moral . Not for one moment I am advocating sleaze here.I mean not just costumes r sleaze here, there r bigger forms of sleaze and mud out in the world , dirty politics for ex, again I am not condemning politics in general.

N, For me our conscience, our inner being is the biggest adjudicator or Our Gods on morality and values that we hv been handed down.


Lots of love
KG.

 I have met, befriended fellow mates who are living in' and they are such wonderful souls, and have seen much married couples play truant... which makes me question - how do we define  morality

True to the word, our inner being is the biggest adjudicator .

KG


Do I need Ekta Kapoor's brand of "lessons in goodness of the heart, pureness of the soul through perverted sex therapy😃


Edited by Nisha0604 - 9 years ago

Another beautiful update!
I loved the emotions and the thought process of II bere.. True logic and reasin.. Is it really okay to leave your parents for a man whom you know for 2 months? Is it really okay to live without him if nothing can move forward?
IS THIS INFACTUATION???
Am in awe.. Every girl goes through this.. Every girl has these questions in mind..
RB is RB.. Talks less.. Maybe has something in head.. He should maybe be more considerate now.. Or as he observed has II become more demanding in one day..
Horoscopes had to match.. But why is she afraid????

Nisha the page number is wrong pa..