none of the top shows have had sizzling chemistry ..Saathiya, Diya aur Baati etc are standing examples ..even Rishta’s season 1 romance was placid at best .. …all this chemistry talk is only for online audience ..rest people want mirch masala, tracks that are engaging etc ..chemistry can at best be icing on the cake but not every cake even needs icing ..bottom line, the show has been let down by very inconsistent writing ..tracks that had the potential for high drama were underwhelmingly executed …TV shows can survive bad acting even but not bad writing ..they still have a lot of meat left in the story ..but they really need to up the writing game before it is too late ..for almost a year now, they have been spinning this triangle tale ..it has gotten stale now and they’re still not done milking it …!I think the very fact that a certain actor is working or not is dependant on so many other factors than just the show's TRP! And the TRP isn't made by just good chemistry between leads or green flag couples! Rishta atleast, imo has had a trajectory that's been up and down dependant on its tracks, celebrations, side characters and their stories etc. and the biggest of them all is how well the other shows on the channel have been performing too! No one character, however loved and accepted he may be can carry the show single-handedly (and I'm talking about both the loved characters from previous gen - lead and extended cameo)! It surely needs to be backed with good writing and consistent story-telling.
That has been Rishta's biggest flaw! They aren't consistent. They weren't in Season 3, and they surely aren't now. So however well RoPu and Sam do, unless they get supported by good writing and sensible track points, the show is surely going to be a dull watch! But in saying that, Rishta hasn't ever been as continually exciting or fast paced as other shows. They believe in stretching plots, celebrations, fights everything! That's how they have been sustaining for longer than all the other exciting shows around and still remain very much in the TRP race. So they do know what to serve and how much to serve. It's just that for some reason they haven't been able to get it right in the writing department this time so they are a bit all over the shop wrt sub plots and closing loops with open plots! Hopefully it improves. But if it doesn't, I'm not going to stick around to vent! Lol!
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