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Hey y'all, I'm kind of new in this forum, been silently lurking here for a while now, and really surprised to see this forum suddenly so active as compared to the last time i was here👏
So I'm here to give my opinions as to why this show pulled me back into the tv world. I haven't really followed any shows in past 1-2 years but YUDKBH was a straight Go for me. I saw the initial promo, which looked really cute but i expected it to be some cliched/silly/teenage drama, going by how usual tv shows go. But one day i randomly caught one episode (the one where Sameer stole her shoes) and haven't looked back since! It was nothing like i expected, it was like a breath of fresh air, no heavy make up, no high voltage drama, no disney style evil vamps, no over the top expressions. To be honest it seemed too good to be true, i was waiting for someone to break the spell, but luckily the magic is still on.
So the aforementioned things come first as to why this show is soo good-
1.No heavy accessories, no wierd unmatched dressing - accredited to the 90s school setting, no OTT expressions or disney villians.
2. Beautifully narration, which mellows down any dramatic scene to a realistic level, adds more intrigue to the whole story and ofcourse all the 'Yeh un dino ki baat hai jab...'s , can't really say they make me nostalgic, as being a 1995 born malayali, my earliest childhood memories are of 2000 and they are much different from the way things were in Ahmadabad, but it paints a very beautiful picture of a simpler time.
3. Then ofcourse the 90s setting (which could have gone both ways, but beautiful it remained) The songs, the dressing, the talks, movie references... I almost wanna time travel back to the 90s. And the school setting is an additional plus, each classroom mischief evokes a memory.
4. Then there are the characters, it very rarely that we get some very innocent yet flawed yet lovable characters either in the leads or in the supporting characters. But this show has achieved to establish such very relatable qualities in almost every character. Nobody is too good nor too bad, this again brings it further from fiction and closer to reality
5. Then pairing. Every popular show has a wonderful lead pair who's chemistry keeps us hooked to the show, but tell me how often does this happen that a good chunk of viewers are equally excited by the multiple parallel pairings! Munna-Swati, Arjun-Shefali, Pandit-Preeti, they could give us seperate shows about these individual pairs and i would jump right in! And that is the most satisfying thing about this show, so far there wasn't any filler scenes or characters, every little bit of the episode we get is wholesome entertainment.
6. The casting, all of them look tailor made for their roles. Everyone looks so natural in the character and the on-screen bonding comes out so good, especially Sameer-Naanu. It shows how much effort must have gone into assembling this cast.
All these things are what rejuvenated television for me, its really a revolution of sorts, thank you Makers of YUDKBH and Sony TV.
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