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Indian Express: Jassi celebrated a birthday last week. She's been with us for a year, and we can still say, Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin (Sony). This is not entirely complimentary: a year ago she was a plain and simple girl; 365 days later, she's a commemorative stamp. From flesh and bones to paper. Hmmmmn. Still, she arrived on the screen, an oddity in the world of beautiful bahus and braced for battle. A battle she won, despite much higher viewership ratings for Parvati, Prerna and Tulsi (the K serials). Jassi delights viewers, she exasperates them with her goody-goodiness and irritates them with her single-minded obsession of that cad, Armaan. Yet, alongwith the rest of the cast, she more than holds her own against our favourite parivars because Jassi has life and energy and smiles through the tears. Our bahus, betis, behens go boohoo all the time while our saas, sons and saalas go sob-sob. That's the difference between them.
Jassi has left her imprint on TV — and we're not talking about the stamp now — in more than one way. The saas-bahus are politely being asked to make way for younger people on their own serials and in new prime time shows like Dekho Magar Pyar Se (Star Plus), Hum 2 Hain Na, Ayushmaan (Sony), Saathiya (Sahara) or Meri Disha (Zee). It's fresh if not always refreshing but we will discuss that next week. For now, wish Jassi, wish that she does not become a prisoner of her own image and grows up before her next birthday.
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