Originally posted by: DotDash
sorry to jump into your conversation. Was reading your posts and I have always wondered about what works in these serials. I have not watched Ghum, but follow Jhanak On and Off, canât stand Bose family but love Ani-Jhanak scenes. So I thought will add my 2 cents on Bold above. I agree with everything that you have said, toxicity is never an issue with audience. In my opinion, it doesnât matter what kind of toxicity though or whether it is acceptable or not as long as it is called out by one of the leads..
Take Jhanak for instance, they show extreme scenes and then balance it out by either Jhanak or Ani speaking out against it and that works for audience I guess. Take for example, marriage reversal rasams they showed, Bose took Jhanak to a Ghaat (river bank) and did pooja with literally bangle breaking and sindoor mitana in a temple with Panditji, she endured all that silently but then when she was told to wear white Sari she spoke up and refused saying I wonât do it as it symbolises that Ani is dead and how can you as family make me do that. So in this whole toxic fiasco we see Jhanakâs suffering, her taking stand for Aniâs well being and then Ani jumping in river to save Jahank. All ticks for a great recipe I guess.
And for leads too, there is a balance in their behaviour to each other too. they show Ani and Jhanak being extremely rude to each other in one instance and then going extra mile to care for each other the next, which kind of gives an impression to audience that even though leads are being jerks now but they do care for each other and their behaviour is stemming out of jealousy/helplessness in love etc, probably something the TRP audience donât mind đ¤ˇââď¸
Also bad characters are bad, they are not grey. I think no one here would defend Bose behaviour at any point.
Also as you said for Ghum, in Jhanak too Ani and Jhanak both drop truth bombs on Bose and Shirsti. Those scenes are really fun to watch. And Ani literally is the most ardent champion of Jhanakâs career more than Jhanak herself. He wants to see her reach the heights of success and in monologues says things like I will be the happiest and will silently watch you from afar when you are famous. I think he gets a lot of brownie points with TRP audience for that inspite of scenes like throwing bank paper in Jhanakâs face đ so balance is definitely the key.
Sorry my 2 cents turned out really long.
Finally I do think Garimaâs aesthetic scenes add to the mix. From camera angles to costumes (mind you Jhanak mostly is in ordinary clothes but her choice of colors etc make the scene visually appealing I guess) to songs everything just lift up the scenes and bring out the emotions. And that is why when you see stand alone clips it makes you go and check out the rest. I think Garima did that for yrkkh too previously but look at it now, I think it misses that oomph.
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