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Character Analysis
Thanks Vidya! ❤️
Bold - I have hope coz underneath everything else, there is love! And I have hope that Good will triumph over evil eventually !
Yeh banda needs to understand ki yeh sabko khush rakh nehi payega! Toh behtar yeh khud ka khushi chune 
bold1: I agree... what makes the story sometimes feel so disconnected!
added one more thing in the write-up...
bold2: i wonder if that is ever going to happen. Right now it looks like they are already worlds apart, but somehow they manage to make people hope for Runak. 🤷🏻♀️
So well thought through Vira.
Thanks for pulling it all together.
Imlie had the exact same formula - it was a rollercoaster ride that never gave the leads any real happiness till the end, but the audience was hooked like no other show...it was an addicition that hurt but still folks were invested in it.
The psychology you capture is real....what it teaches us abt us :)
The Curious Case of Makers of this show!
First of all know, this isn't a love letter! But I wanted to waste some valuable time of my life to write about this because recently I have been thinking a lot and I feel we did a lot of analysis of the characters but we never really discussed or analyzed the makers of this show. We continued to fail at our analysis of the characters because we never tried to understand the makers. So, let's start at the source.
I am going to add a few things here, feel free to add more to this...
Twisted:
This is the word that comes to my mind when I think about makers. First of all, realize this, someone actually thought to write a love story between to-be Jija and Sali and sell that to the Indian public who taboos this kind of love. If this isn't a twisted thought then what is?
(This also reminds me of the Bridgeton season two love story, where also to-be groom of the younger sister falls in love with her older sister and forces himself to marry the younger sister. That was in a much older era, and this is in the newer era. An impossible love story to tell but it happens anyway... and it works, we watched it anyway and loved it!)
Wicked Genius:
The fact that we want to ship Runak is immoral itself. We should judge ourselves. We want a guy to break up and go against his family to marry the younger sister of his to-be-wife. Makers are making us want this immoral love to happen. So I think they are wicked geniuses in that sense.
Keeping a balance with morals:
We all have been complaining quite a bit about fewer Runak romance scenes between the leads. I feel this is very much intentional from the makers. We can hate them for it as we love our leads so much that we want to see them being romantic with each other. Cliche scenes I feel were intentionally avoided, because they wanted to develop a deep emotional connection to justify their relationship to us. If they gave romantic scenes that will portray the leads of the show as well ..." perverts"!
Writing Anirudh bose:
This character is really something. That is too much goodness in him for someone to hate him completely, and some traits belong to a villain in storytelling generally. For example, he wishes to take revenge on a woman he loves because she hurt him and did not follow what he wanted, he dares to ask Jhanak to stay in his life but promises to marry her sister simply because he lacks the guts to face the society and his family, lying to his fiance to visit her sister just to confirm if she is romancing with another guy or not lol ... think about this leaving your love for Anirudh aside, these traits are generally of a villain in the story and in real life we won't like a man like Anirudh to be our fiance 😆 Lot of people hate this about him and I don't blame them! But most of us want him and love him!
Makers have taken a lot of liberties with this character and we will sound like idiots if we try to tell this story in plain English to someone who does not follow this show. Ask me how? I told my husband two lines and his first question was, so why is he marrying this woman?
People who wrote this guy and made us fall in love with him, do you expect them to give us a straightforward love story? Hell no!
Love for most bizarre situations:
The bizarre characters, and bizarre love story demand bizarre situations. We have seen a few, Hindu wedding reversal rasams, calling marriage fake or half, marrying people online, hitting a child with a mental condition... What a bizarre Indian family who is afraid of losing their izzat in society resort to! This won't be the end!
Love for reality and family drama:
The fact that they show so much family drama that we get fed up with it, they want to show family dynamics. They don't want to show a love story where two people meet, fall in love, and happily live ever after. No, they want to involve the family in this, showing how much impossible this love story is. How family and their opinions count as well and how they impact the love story of the two we want to witness. They certainly missed balance in between and it was quite repetitive but now they are adding more colors to the characters. What we want is a straightforward love story, they don't have any intention to show it.
Triggering the audience:
They know the formula of what triggers the audience. Does it matter to them if you are watching the show because you hate it or because you love it? The fact that I am investing so much time in writing about the show tells me they must be doing something right to attract me, the person who was far far away from toxic drama, loves sci-fi TV shows, and likes episodes with limited amount. They pitch the promos and precaps by exactly cutting them so that it triggers us and we have more curiosity to learn more. How many of us vowed to leave the show and came back still? 🤷🏻♀️
Love for extremes:
The leads of this show are two extremes. The situation is extreme. The decisions they make are always extreme. Their conversations are extreme. The love is extreme. The insults and toxicity are extreme. The hate is extreme. The extreme family with extremely poor people and rich living under the same roof.
There is never a middle ground. It leaves us begging for some normalcy in the show because we don't want to feel these extreme emotions anymore. So this is something to understand and make peace with, we have not signed up for a normal love story. But I bet that is what is making us come back! We think we will witness extreme romance as well!
Not getting influenced by audience opinion:
Some things play a part here, like budget, etc but they know what they want to show. I think they do 🤔... Because with so much backlash they dared to break Runak apart in the worst way possible. Took the risk of breaking audiences' hearts, knowing fewer romance scenes wouldn't earn them TRP. I want to also think of this as a good thing. I want a storyteller that tells the story they want to tell and not what people want to hear! That is what makes it an interesting story.
Leaving judgment to the audience:
Very often I see dialogues in the case of Jhanak and Anirudh that make us a question, are they for real? What the hell are they trying to say? I feel this is very intentional! Audiences have already connected with the characters, they are leaving the task of interpretation to us. It's like observing an art piece. Everyone interprets it differently. Painters simply paint it without any subtitles, leaving the interpretation to the viewers. This is why we all feel we are in a moral dilemma all the time when we want so hard to love Anirudh Bose or Jhanak Raina but they say something stupid in their head and we just go bonkers!
One track one major outcome:
No multiple wins. This is a ploy to extend the track. A recent example, Shristi deserved to be jailed for life but they only wanted Jhanak to be free from Anirush's promises and from Basus, so that will only achieve that. No matter how much we cry!
There are some other known traits of the makers of this show...
For example, love for weddings, leaving things open-ended way too often... but we all know that! I hope they slowly fill up these gaps.
I hope this gives you guys a chance to think and realize this isn't the regular makers and a regular story, so far at least! So can we expect normal things? May be now we need to learn to keep our expectations in check and always expect the unexpected.
Bold1: then you are never leaving. 😂Ani and Jhanak falling out of love, hmm, one of them might have to do something absolutely crazy ...like murdering someone
bold2: I agree... but know it's going to take forever... 😂 know that 😉
Originally posted by: rysohini
Bold - I have hope coz underneath everything else, there is love! And I have hope that Good will triumph over evil eventually !
Yeh banda needs to understand ki yeh sabko khush rakh nehi payega! Toh behtar yeh khud ka khushi chune
Bold1 : I expect them to do the same thing here unfortunately 😒... the more we ask for it, the more they are going to keep us away from it! Why give us what we want right away and lose the money?
Bold2: I am learning new things about myself. 😂 The makers of this show have really played a number on me for sure! I am doing things I have never done before! It absolutely drives me nuts when I think about it!
I swear this is going to be my last itv show!
So well thought through Vira.
Thanks for pulling it all together.
Imlie had the exact same formula - it was a rollercoaster ride that never gave the leads any real happiness till the end, but the audience was hooked like no other show...it was an addicition that hurt but still folks were invested in it.
The psychology you capture is real....what it teaches us abt us :)
Bold - Yehi shaq mujhe bhi hai dost 
Bold1: then you are never leaving. 😂Ani and Jhanak falling out of love, hmm, one of them might have to do something absolutely crazy ...like murdering someone
bold2: I agree... but know it's going to take forever... 😂 know that 😉
Bold1 : I expect them to do the same thing here unfortunately 😒... the more we ask for it, the more they are going to keep us away from it! Why give us what we want right away and lose the money?
Bold2: I am learning new things about myself. 😂 The makers of this show have really played a number on me for sure! I am doing things I have never done before! It absolutely drives me nuts when I think about it!
I swear this is going to be my last itv show!
100% - One more damning thing, so many other shows out there that are not so intense or sadistic, do I watch them? - NO....why I have to zone in on just the twisted ones...I don't even want to try to get an answer to this.
God I KNOW!! I don't want to go there! Because I am sure I am not going to find good explanations
100% - One more damning thing, so many other shows out there that are not so intense or sadistic, do I watch them? - NO....why I have to zone in on just the twisted ones...I don't even want to try to get an answer to this.
The Curious Case of Makers of this show!
First of all know, this isn't a love letter! But I wanted to waste some valuable time of my life to write about this because recently I have been thinking a lot and I feel we did a lot of analysis of the characters but we never really discussed or analyzed the makers of this show. We continued to fail at our analysis of the characters because we never tried to understand the makers. So, let's start at the source.
I am going to add a few things here, feel free to add more to this...
Twisted:
This is the word that comes to my mind when I think about makers. First of all, realize this, someone actually thought to write a love story between to-be Jija and Sali and sell that to the Indian public who taboos this kind of love. If this isn't a twisted thought then what is?
(This also reminds me of the Bridgeton season two love story, where also to-be groom of the younger sister falls in love with her older sister and forces himself to marry the younger sister. That was in a much older era, and this is in the newer era. An impossible love story to tell but it happens anyway... and it works, we watched it anyway and loved it!)
Wicked Genius:
The fact that we want to ship Runak is immoral itself. We should judge ourselves. We want a guy to break up and go against his family to marry the younger sister of his to-be-wife. Makers are making us want this immoral love to happen. So I think they are wicked geniuses in that sense.
Keeping a balance with morals:
We all have been complaining quite a bit about fewer Runak romance scenes between the leads. I feel this is very much intentional from the makers. We can hate them for it as we love our leads so much that we want to see them being romantic with each other. Cliche scenes I feel were intentionally avoided, because they wanted to develop a deep emotional connection to justify their relationship to us. If they gave romantic scenes that will portray the leads of the show as well ..." perverts"!
Writing Anirudh bose:
This character is really something. That is too much goodness in him for someone to hate him completely, and some traits belong to a villain in storytelling generally. For example, he wishes to take revenge on a woman he loves because she hurt him and did not follow what he wanted, he dares to ask Jhanak to stay in his life but promises to marry her sister simply because he lacks the guts to face the society and his family, lying to his fiance to visit her sister just to confirm if she is romancing with another guy or not lol ... think about this leaving your love for Anirudh aside, these traits are generally of a villain in the story and in real life we won't like a man like Anirudh to be our fiance 😆 Lot of people hate this about him and I don't blame them! But most of us want him and love him!
Makers have taken a lot of liberties with this character and we will sound like idiots if we try to tell this story in plain English to someone who does not follow this show. Ask me how? I told my husband two lines and his first question was, so why is he marrying this woman?
People who wrote this guy and made us fall in love with him, do you expect them to give us a straightforward love story? Hell no!
Love for most bizarre situations:
The bizarre characters, and bizarre love story demand bizarre situations. We have seen a few, Hindu wedding reversal rasams, calling marriage fake or half, marrying people online, hitting a child with a mental condition... What a bizarre Indian family who is afraid of losing their izzat in society resort to! This won't be the end!
Love for reality and family drama:
The fact that they show so much family drama that we get fed up with it, they want to show family dynamics. They don't want to show a love story where two people meet, fall in love, and happily live ever after. No, they want to involve the family in this, showing how much impossible this love story is. How family and their opinions count as well and how they impact the love story of the two we want to witness. They certainly missed balance in between and it was quite repetitive but now they are adding more colors to the characters. What we want is a straightforward love story, they don't have any intention to show it.
Triggering the audience:
They know the formula of what triggers the audience. Does it matter to them if you are watching the show because you hate it or because you love it? The fact that I am investing so much time in writing about the show tells me they must be doing something right to attract me, the person who was far far away from toxic drama, loves sci-fi TV shows, and likes episodes with limited amount. They pitch the promos and precaps by exactly cutting them so that it triggers us and we have more curiosity to learn more. How many of us vowed to leave the show and came back still? 🤷🏻♀️
Love for extremes:
The leads of this show are two extremes. The situation is extreme. The decisions they make are always extreme. Their conversations are extreme. The love is extreme. The insults and toxicity are extreme. The hate is extreme. The extreme family with extremely poor people and rich living under the same roof.
There is never a middle ground. It leaves us begging for some normalcy in the show because we don't want to feel these extreme emotions anymore. So this is something to understand and make peace with, we have not signed up for a normal love story. But I bet that is what is making us come back! We think we will witness extreme romance as well!
Not getting influenced by audience opinion:
Some things play a part here, like budget, etc but they know what they want to show. I think they do 🤔... Because with so much backlash they dared to break Runak apart in the worst way possible. Took the risk of breaking audiences' hearts, knowing fewer romance scenes wouldn't earn them TRP. I want to also think of this as a good thing. I want a storyteller that tells the story they want to tell and not what people want to hear! That is what makes it an interesting story.
Leaving judgment to the audience:
Very often I see dialogues in the case of Jhanak and Anirudh that make us a question, are they for real? What the hell are they trying to say? I feel this is very intentional! Audiences have already connected with the characters, they are leaving the task of interpretation to us. It's like observing an art piece. Everyone interprets it differently. Painters simply paint it without any subtitles, leaving the interpretation to the viewers. This is why we all feel we are in a moral dilemma all the time when we want so hard to love Anirudh Bose or Jhanak Raina but they say something stupid in their head and we just go bonkers!
One track one major outcome:
No multiple wins. This is a ploy to extend the track. A recent example, Shristi deserved to be jailed for life but they only wanted Jhanak to be free from Anirush's promises and from Basus, so that will only achieve that. No matter how much we cry!
There are some other known traits of the makers of this show...
For example, love for weddings, leaving things open-ended way too often... but we all know that! I hope they slowly fill up these gaps.
I hope this gives you guys a chance to think and realize this isn't the regular makers and a regular story, so far at least! So can we expect normal things? May be now we need to learn to keep our expectations in check and always expect the unexpected.
Wow amazing write up Vira!
People are still sticking to the show thinking RuNak will get back together one day, otherwise its so hard to watch tue crap they are showing. This is like a snake and ladder game - when we think we reached the top we fail and fall back to the bottom, and keep climbing just to be fallen again 😂
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