All fair points! I agree, malahi vaadalvat prachand avadte, mhanje it gets melodramatic after a point and kind of long, but the character development was excellent, beyond a doubt. Vishakha pasun te agdi Jaysingh Rajput cha character, everybody had a reason for their behaviour, demeanor and views. Lockdown madhe mi pahile kahi episodes vaadavlat che, ani most of them have aged well.
But let's not forget a few things. One, vaadavlat was written by a very accomplished and talented writer, Abhay Paranjape, and he wrote the story, screenplay and dialogues. There is a certain coherency which comes about when the same person manages all three narration related departments. That uniformity is seen lacking in the few Marathi serials I have watched in the recent past. Secondly, I don't know how everybody else perceives Chinmay Mandlekar as a writer, but I really like his writing and thinking style and story development techniques (Please note, I do not watch Chandra Aahe Sakshila, this opinion of mine is based on his past work like Eka Lagnachi Dusri Goshta and Vaadalvat). So the reason I brought him up is sometime back I came across an interview of his where he discussed his approach to storytelling. In that same interview, he acknowledged the fact that the way serial narratives are treated today and the way they were treated in the past are wildly different. Writing is another job at the end of the day, and khapta te pikta ha vichar tya profession la hi applicable aahech. Shubhmangal Online peksha ajun anek incredible ani unimaginable storylines aslelya serials astilch ki itar channels war. Mhanun hya serial chya aslya impractical goshti mi defend karat naie.
Aso, among other things, he said the audience's taste has a lot to do with which stories and plotlines are greenlit. In the vaadalvat era, channels didn't bother about plotlines and narration development. Today channel heads and so many other people have a say in characters and stories. And I also know this because I have a few friends who work in the Marathi entertainment industry. So Chinmay Mandlekar tya interview madhe je mhanala te mala agdi patla. Writers sodun anek lokanche haat astat hya process madhe which sometimes can mess things up.
In summation, mala evdhach mhanaychay ki the industry as a whole along with audience likes and dislikes have changed over the years. And like the saying 'You can't please everybody' goes, masses na awadta mhanun he sagla challay ani tyat aplyasarkhya kahi lokanchya preferences na mahatwa dila jaat nai, asa mala vatata.
Sorry for the long post, but mpp123's vaadalvat reference forced me to write all this. Feel free to skip/ignore if it gets too much or too boring :)
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