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Hi YHMians!
Woke up to some awesome news of multiple awards for this amazing show and decided to make a post I have been wanting to make for a while - so please bear with me - am going to ramble a bit😆.
Having never - ever followed any television show this ardently and having never - ever watched or bothered about any telly awards show - the exhilarated feeling hearing of all these awards is a new feeling for me😳😆.So blame the longish post on that high!😆😉
Coming to the point - what is it that makes YHM the show that it has come to be in the last 7 months and 150+ episodes.
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What YHM promised and what it delivered :
I remember watching one of the launch videos of YHM with the cast and the Star TV marketing guy and Ekta Kapoor and the repeated question was - Why is this show at 11pm - is the content such that it cannot be telecast at another slot? If so - how will the rural centres (which drive TRPs) relate to this show? and so on?
Both the channel and Ekta maintained and justified this beautifully. Esp Ekta said something to the score of ' its high time we gave the urban - Mumbai, Delhi audiences something that they can watch after reaching home tired at 10 -1 0 30pm'. And that they would want to create a new set of TV audiences in the cities using this show.
YHM delivered this and how - am sure the producers and the channel are patting their own backs now 😆😆. This is one of the most watched shows ever in the 11PM slot ever and not just that it has created and brought in a totally fresh viewership to Indian Television - the lot who would have shied away from even being caught dead discussing a Hindi TV soap😆. (I can relate cos I fall in that category😆).
The TRPs are rocking week on week and the show is doing fabulously in international markets too.The UK ratings are proof enough - Am 100% sure its peaking in US, Canada and the MIddle East too.👏👏
High on Content, fast paced script and the 'the humour' :
This is the only only soap that I have seen (among the limited ones I have seen), has a very fast pace in spite of dealing with some real life issues very deftly and with a whacky dry sense of humour.This is rare coming from a Indian telly stable.👏
Some editing glitches aside - the show has some great writers who have a flair for comedy, drama and romance - all 3 genres have been done well till now.
A special mention to the humour element in this show . Even in the most dramatic sequences we have that one line or reaction that totally takes you bu surprise and cracks you up (Credit to Karan Patel here👏 - and the writers for allowing him to take liberties👏)
Indian shows are normally either just comedy(which also is slapstick mostly - or few comic side characters that just come in to mouth comic lines), just drama - romance, horror-suspense. This show has blended all genres amazingly well till date and has a set of leads who have awesome comic timing - Great going👏
The Superb cast and performances:
I am one of those souls who began watching YHM for Ruhi😃..I kinda had time to spare and the show was late night - and the kid was freaking cute and the unique mother - daughter bond intrigued me.
Few episodes on and I just couldn't take my eyes off the lead pair - and this was in the early days of YHM where IshRa hardly met ot spoke (in a civil manner😆) , save those few beautiful eyelocks. I was so hooked then - cos I spent quite a lot of the serial time trying to understand just what was it that was so attractive about this pair 😆 and I think I have still not managed to put a finger on exactly what makes them so magical every time they are on screen - everything - the body language, the gestures, the comfort - heck most of the beautiful IshRa scenes have been the ones which don't even have dialogues - That my folks is great great chemistry👏 and a great job by the casting team.
And then the performances - there are just so so many scenes taken to a totally new level by just the way they have been delivered - And that level has just kept getting better. Finger crossed for some rocking times ahead⭐️.
Consistency :
Yes - we all know the inevitable - All telly shows come with a life of few 100 interesting episodes and then they all go downhill (Have seen a lotta posts on this forum fearing that). For someone who has not followed any Ekta / non Ekta serial in the past - except few isolated scenes and articles here and there - I can vouch for the fact that this serial has been intriguing till now.
Except for a few drags (the DNA thingy and now the accident drama) , most such tracks have also led to a crescendo which justified them .
I so - so wish Indian tellys come with a tight bound script and are broken into seasons like their US counterparts giving breathing space to cast and creatives - but...but ..(before you guys hate me for this!!..😊)..YHM has been consistent and addictive - and I pray it continues to do so and the makers surprise us by sticking to their planned timelines to run the show - whatever be the TRP/Business implications. I would want to remember YHM fondly even years from now for being unique here too😳.
Here I end my long first post on this forum with a huge round of applause to everyone associated with the show - and the relentless fans who support them.👏👏👏
Here is hoping for many many more accolades and happy times to come!!
Ending with a disclaimer that all the views here are solely mine - and not to berate or belittle anyone or any viewpoints on this forum😊
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