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Earnshaw09

@Earnshaw09

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Posted: 8 years ago

I've this inquisitiveness that, why most of the script writers of television shows are in a rush? They start up with a good storyline and then mess up on the way. Three such dramas including this, as I've observed that, either the father is the antagonist or the mother. There is bitterness, deceitfulness,and dishonesty in parent-child relationships, which is so unreal, and writers seem to get so many viewers with this kind of script! Can't there be one drama which thoroughly entertains us?

As for this show, it has just begun, and before there could be some good chemistry built up between the lead characters,Abhishek and Meera,the plots for bringing a gulf between them is already written. I hoped to see some nice romance,but it's all the same, "khichdi ". No offence to the fans of the drama, but we can always discuss our views.

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BoxedIn

@BoxedIn

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Posted: 8 years ago

Sony's latest go-to strategy for generating TRPs must be their newly discovered trope of crappy parenting and all the drama which ensues from it, thanks to the convenient excuse it affords the protagonists for doing insane melodramatic stuff. 😆 Good thing this show hasn't gone down that route yet, but never say never in desi tv. 😆

On a serious note though, a few hurdles and some conflict in a love story is great, in fact needed, as long it's introduced organically and not just forced into the plot for the sake of drama. I don't think BBKD is anywhere near the drama quotient of the other shows you seem to be referring to, but I get your point, it would be nice if they would first concentrate on building Abhi and Meera's love story and their interactions without the burden of family problems from this early stage. The non-stop family drama certainly weighs the show down more than anything. That said, however, equations like those of Abhi-Babli or Meera and her parents do have great potential and I hope the writers capitalize on it in some way.

As for your point about dysfunctional parent-child relationships in these shows, I'd say they are fairly common in real life as well and can make for very interesting stories too. But they need to be handled with a certain sensitivity which the TRP-driven content of our shows cannot sustain. Hence all these shows which start off well but soon lapse into the same old formulaic plots.

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C0raline

@C0raline

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Posted: 8 years ago

Originally posted by: BoxedIn
Sony's latest go-to strategy for generating TRPs must be their newly discovered trope of crappy parenting and all the drama which ensues from it, thanks to the convenient excuse it affords the protagonists for doing insane melodramatic stuff. 😆 Good thing this show hasn't gone down that route yet, but never say never in desi tv. 😆
On a serious note though, a few hurdles and some conflict in a love story is great, in fact needed, as long it's introduced organically and not just forced into the plot for the sake of drama. I don't think BBKD is anywhere near the drama quotient of the other shows you seem to be referring to, but I get your point, it would be nice if they would first concentrate on building Abhi and Meera's love story and their interactions without the burden of family problems from this early stage. The non-stop family drama certainly weighs the show down more than anything. That said, however, equations like those of Abhi-Babli or Meera and her parents do have great potential and I hope the writers capitalize on it in some way.

As for your point about dysfunctional parent-child relationships in these shows, I'd say they are fairly common in real life as well and can make for very interesting stories too. But they need to be handled with a certain sensitivity which the TRP-driven content of our shows cannot sustain. Hence all these shows which start off well but soon lapse into the same old formulaic plots.

Bad parenting is not as uncommon in real life as we would like to believe. The problem is that the whole parenting is put on such a pedestal by Indian society and all kinds of media that people do not realize that parents are people too and hence are subject to all human flaws.

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