Originally posted by: Krantikari
I think the main issue is that the audience wasn't ready for such a convoluted story...because they aren't used to it. When the tradition in ITV is to spoonfeed audience about who's good and evil by establishing clear cut boundaries between them...and always holding third parties (villains/vamps) responsible for the problems in the FL's life (who is an eternal bechaari😆), it's easy to scapegoat the ML for everything. This audience has been trained to point the finger at someone and blame...so when there was no traditional vamp/villain to point the finger at for all of the problems in Imlie Devi's life Adi became their target who they've always struggled to interpret because he's different from their archetypal hero.
To this day I still see people saying Adi was a cheater and Adilie relationship was EMA. Jo log cheating, bigamy aur EMA ko ek hi cheez samajh te hai woh kya samjhenge iss story ko.😆
The claims that Imlie was a teenage nasamajh bachchi are kind of funny. Firstly, she never acted like a 'teenager' after getting married to Adi...she always acted like this serene & wise woman who's ready to give understanding to Adi without expecting anything in return. She basically talked her self up a lot but failed to walk the walk. I can understand teenagers being nasamajh and making wild declarations but no one's character changes overnight the way Imlie's has. Her character was established as a woman who's faith in Sita Maiyya and marriage underpins all her decision making....but overnight she lost her faith in her marriage, burned her MS, left Adi and parked herself in a random guy's house (while she was still married btw).😆 If she was able to walk away so easily, her 'societal conditioning' and 'Stockholm Syndrome' to her 'captor' (Adi) wasn't very powerful, eh?😛
@bold: THIS. That is the crux of Imlie in many ways.
And yes, the rest is a testament to people conditioned to seeing typical characters....whether it is the clearly defined "vamp" or the clearly defined so called "grey ML with sobby backstory"😆.....yeh dono na milein toh main leads hi cheaters, paapi, scum of the earth etc😆.....the fact that they are confused to this date about how to characterize Adilie as an EMA😆.
Imlie was a child woman like many of the FLs on ITV are more or less but her faith had that interesting paradox of naivete and wisdom in it.....that is what grounded her character in this story in a very powerful way in the middle of such convoluted circumstances. You don't destroy a faith like that when your story is already convoluted....you test that faith, maybe shake it a bit but ultimately you should REINFORCE it so that the core of the story holds. Sadly, Imlie was shown to totally forget her faith and obsess over a new false God. LOL for so long Malini was hailed as some goddess in this story and I always said she is a false God who was being glorified excessively when she was clearly a weak minded obsessive woman.....this Aryan turned out to be a new false God that Imlie latched herself on to and the makers went overboard in propping up. LOL irony wohi hai ki readymade God reference tha in the story with Sita Maiyya but makers felt the need to give Imlie other false Gods to obsess over.....pehle Didi, baad mein Boss.....lol
The makers still don't get that the story was working for so long cuz Imlie was indeed walking the walk, not just talking for the heck of it. Yes, she was a confused 18 year old dealing with a lot but her convictions had weight when she spoke - she didn't sound hollow. The first crack came when the makers showed her believing AC so randomly that Adi had gone back to Malini and she simply walked away from him over that (but not before giving a grand bhaashan to AC that she has given apna haq in daan to Malini).....lol after all Adi had said to her, after all she had seen of him when he came to PD3, she believed something like that and just walked away.....that is when the talk from Imlie started becoming hollow. But we as the audience were still willing to forgive and look past that writing fail since we thought Imlie's overall faith was still holding.....but the makers made sure to fully burn that to the ground via Imlie only.....lol
Then they proceeded to UNMAKE all her convictions.....lol from a girl who was very clear about the rights and wrongs in her life, she was shown suddenly enamored by a random rich guy who almost ran her over. LOL she left NO stone unturned to compare this guy to Adi from day one and constantly put down Adi in comparison to him - yeh baatein yeh khud bhool gayi hai ab as she plays abla victim over haaye mujhe overnight MU kaise kar liya....never bothered to clarify even for a single moment why she feels the need to hail a guy she barely knows.....but ab us sabko "unsaid rishta of dard buddies" karke mainstream kar diya.....lol
Baat wahin aake ruk gayi that if you are rich businessman, then you suddenly manage to change the whole perspective of a girl who had conviction in her roots and her faith....lol suddenly only rich businessman ka perspective becomes all knowing and all powerful and the girl who was once rooted now must remake herself in his image to "progress". 😆
Mujhe suddenly yaad aaya ki Om used to have his general fanbase in IB who used to claim he is the best character cuz he is so unlike Shivaay the "typical rude businessman ML"😆....then the same Om was turned into a cheap Shivaay clone when DBO started cuz woh bhi suddenly "businessman" ban gaya tha😆.....and the same fangirls who once hailed Om for being "different" from Shivaay were suddenly hailing how "hot" he is as this "businessman" and ab chemistry dikh rahi hai logon ko cuz rude businessman ke saamne illiterate bubbly FL thi.....lol sound familiar? So Imlie was rendered the same....suddenly there was "chemistry" only when wannabe rude businessman character appeared. Everything before this was Stockholm Syndrome, EMA, doormat Imlie😆
And faith? Woh kya hota hai? lol it was never needed in these stories anyways unless it's there to provide token bhaashans to rude BUSINESSMAN ML......remember BUSINESSMAN is a must.....ek aam aadmi ki deffo koi aukaat nahin for fangirls 😆
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