I used to watch YRHPK on Hotstar before lockdown and I have watched almost all the episodes from the beginning till MishBir and KuKu's wedding. When it began, I was so happy for many reasons. I was fed up of the immature couple Kaira on YRKKH and the track where Kartik stole Keerti's baby was the nail in the coffin for me. I was excited to see YRHPK begin then and I was hooked since the first episode. There were so many issues to tackle, so many characters and relationships to explore, and so many mysteries to unfold and I was so excited to see them develop. Mishti's self-doubt and journey towards self-confidence, the truth of Naman coming out in front of Mishti, a reentry of Karishma with her new husband, Mishti reconnecting with the Singhanias and working out her issues with Devyaani, the whole truth behind why Devyaani gave away Mishti to Rajshri, Kuhu and Mishti understanding each other and wholeheartedly accepting each other (since both have complicated childhoods and abandonment issues), and so so much more.
I was also excited because I was familiar with all the characters from YRKKH and I have followed them until Naman turned negative (When I refer to YRKKH, I mean when Akshara-Naitik were the leads and before Shivangi and Mohsin entered). The specialty with YRKKH was that there was no external villain. The writers explored problems that arose in a joint family and none of the characters were outright evil. They were just complicated and had different personalities which led to conflicts. And with the resolution of each conflict, every character learned something or made amends and we saw real character development. I was hoping to see such conflicts and character development in YRHPK as well, but instead, they turned Jasmeet and Meenakshi into scheming plotting vamps. Instead of giving Kuhu any sense of ethics, they turned her into Mishti's enemy. None of us know why Jasmeet is staying in Rajkot with Rajshri-Vishambhar and Varsha when her husband Anshu, her son Nannu, and I'm assuming her mother and father-in-law (Sunaina and Omi) are in London.
I was watching the previous episodes of YRKKH earlier where Anshu-Jasmeet were getting married and Naman and Karishma have just made their entries, and I cannot fathom that these characters are the same ones that we see in YRHPK. Jasmeet, Naman, Karishma all got butchered.
After the lockdown, I have only seen a couple of episodes and that too only where Abir has an outburst and confronts his family (after the truth of Mishti's PTSD comes out and when Mishti's inability to bear a child comes out). And seeing the current state of the show, I can tell that YRHPK is another ITV show that started out with great promise but due to poor writing, went down the drain as it got caught up in the race of TRPs. Three of my favorite shows have unfortunately gone this way: YRHPK (after lockdown), YRKKH (after the entry of the Goenkas), and YHM (after their set change and time slot change).
Edited by Aditii - 3 years ago
comment:
p_commentcount