IPK3 Frustration Thread - Page 20

In India you pray to one devi and abuse another.

Originally posted by: _SuMmEr_LoVe_

I agree with everything you said and echo the same sentiment.

Also I never appreciated this back then maybe because I was too young but yes Ekta kapoor had guts. She had the guts to showcase and address marital rape on national tele 👏

And yet here we are 10 years later not being able to protray something as simple as a anti hero.

Disappointing really.

Originally posted by: Ayuzawa

Tbh in india even today marital rape is not a crime.

for all of Ekta's flaws a survey held once did show that around 40% of rural women understood their rights and were empowered through her serials.

and i really had thought that gul would create her own legacy with this show.

Originally posted by: MrDarcyfan

Agree with you TM the show did not live up to what was expected even from day 1. I don't agree with the general comments here that dark themes are not accepted by audiences. I am not from India, and do not contribute to Indian TRP audience and never did. I am a foreigner who started to watch Indian shows and liked them. Like people watched Korean shows. I like family drama and romance and even thriller / crime dramas. In western shows I watch pretty much every genre.

Wuthering Heights is a story I love and it was dark. Very dark and even depressing. But it had such a "Pull factor and such a romance even in the dysfunction. An impossible love that never actually reached it's destination but that itself made it a great love. THAT is how you tell a dark love story people remember forever. Heathcliff was bent on revenge too. He hated Cathy's family. They deserves it too. But he loved her. Advay aka Dev could have been the same. But the issue here was the TERRIBLE execution. The confused narrative.

That dark anti hero they showed in the Rabba Ve promos (which I saw on Twitter) got me wanting to check the show out, despite my lack of respect for Gul Khan. (coz frankly she deserves non). Also, I was partial to Barun, so wanted to see this show for him. I must say he made a big mistake signing this show. I don't think it turned out anywhere close to what he expected or wanted. Dark themes are accepted by Indian audiences too I am sure. Subaghyavati Bava was liked by people from what I understand (never saw it) and now Beyhadh, which has a psycho female lead is also liked by many. Maybe not TRP audience as such, but it is a hit online and has been well received. I watch it online and it has millions of hits per episode, thousands of comments and even English subtitles. Even Ek Haseena Thi was a dark story and was well recived.

So I do NOT accept that low TRP is due to pathetic TRP aunties. No this is not that. It is pathetic story, and useless confused execution. No proper character development for either ML or FL and no relatability. Loner male leads may not be liked in "general but there are people who like them and if SP were not so TRP hungry, they could risk going full throttle on a story like this. I even remember commenting on the original promo that Advay needs to walk the talk when it comes to being Dark. But that never happened. Week 3 they started PP Baba nonsense and Advay started looking like some collage boy trying to score. Chandani went from PTSD victim to Tashan queen and then again to PTSD victim in 6 weeks. The story went for a toss almost from week 2. This show really has nothing that appealing about it, and that is why there is no TRP. Anyone stating otherwise is wilfully blind.

I saw a promo from another channel of a Bride who gets betrayed in love. Ishq Mai Marjawa. I understand that is a negative male lead. I wonder how that will be played out and how it will be received? Will TRP aunties hate that too? Or will "Execution be the difference between this show and that! Dark themes are being used a lot even in Indian shows. There IS an appetite for it. But it needs to be a VERY good script and must be presented with conviction, or else it wont pick up an audience be it TRP or online. This show is failing in both, because no one wants to see a story with no head or tail, and that is what this is. It's simply not cutting it. We need to accept this show is just not good. End of story.

Originally posted by: Kavithasweets

by the way the revnge is still on 😛

@2filmy.

Originally posted by: Niks77

. Like I said many good shows with good content have been very successful in India! So I think it's the makers who need to make an effort! People will eat what is served! For instance even I started watching this show because there was nothing better to watch! Now I have kind of quit!

Sorry to intervene
I agree with both of us
POW did not work I was shocked ... it was really good content ... but still I would say some content is not easy viewing and not preferred by all people for everyday viewing
I watched epic while I was in India ... the channel has pretty good content ... stories by Rabindranathtagore , lost recipes etc
So what's happening is that with no Masala content the channel is able to attract very good talent .. the hosts , actors were all veteran... so what I mean is some content itself is niche viewing like epic
And some are meant for mass viewing ,( watch , forget about it), that happens in movies also ... while we say drisyam failed ...queen was a mega hit ... so the audience does not reject everything that's not a perticular genre

Bottomline Just because movies like happy new year was a sleeper hit , or a movie like death in a gunj failed does not mean audience will accept all masala movies with a Khan or will reject all content based movies

Here with IPK they are trying to make a masala movie whereas the genre and viewers are not exactly the mass viewing kind .. so they are caught in between
the makers lost track of who they are catering to ... this is a result of that

Originally posted by: Ayuzawa

@2filmy.

I watched the episode today. and then went and watched the dusshera promo because of a VM i am working on. biggest mistake of my life.😭

I am telling you again he will complete his revenge
He has taken a short break now
I hope you will still watch the show

Originally posted by: Ayuzawa

i know. i saw that today. but i still stand on my point. i lost my connect to his reveng the moment he packed his bags and came back. i stood by Advay's actions till now because he wanted everyone not just Chandani to pay for their crimes. Chandani was just part of his grand scheme. but now he feels like a demented person who is going to abuse Chandani simply coz he hates her and want's her out of his life and Indrani and everyone else involved in his parents death live scot free.

and later he may decide to return to find out the truth after he feels for Chandani but what about till then? a plan he has been constructing for sixteen years we never got time to witness it. how did he just end it with such a chota revenge? he knows properly that Indrani was the main conspirator but doesn't even get her to fall to her knees.