(Pic adopted from MidDay)
I was never a fan of the Mega serials, be in Tamil or in Hindi.. All that changed last year when Ansh Gujral entered in the lives of Virani's of Kyunki... He brought a new dimension of serial villainry and long after he is dead, we still cant ditch Ekta Kapoor..
Having watched the serial for over a year now, I think I have lost my patience now with the numerous 'selective overhearings' that move the serial ahead.. all the viranis live under one roof.. (well.. dont take it wrong.. they run the viranis group of industries, so they are multimillionaires). They never lock their own bedrooms even when they sleep in the night. (A poor crying Tanya entered into her husband-and-his-wife's room before biding adieu). People talk to each other as though eyes are behind.. and wrong people, during wrong time, overhear wrong conversations....
The negative characters disappear, all of a sudden.. (anyone know what happened to Tejal bhuaji?) Vishal's murder still remains unsolved, god knows what happened to Rathi.. Where was Aditya Gujral when Ansh Gujral-Virani was shot dead by his own mother? (Matrix, matrix matrix style of a murder it was.. I am sure there would have been floods in Indian household on that day).
If the Viranis handle their family matters in such a stupid way, I used to wonder, how come their business is able to run so successfully? The script-writers always make sure that there is one utterly negative character all the time in the show, whom Tulsi has to defeat.. No wonder BJP thought she can defeat Cong. candidates in elections..
Hardly any child is being brought up by his/her own parents.. No couples stay happily together for more than a year.. Do these people try to show that the rich-posh bungalows of business magnets have all these silk-saree-ladden-kitchen-politics going on? God save them...
Dont our people love it? The serial has crossed 5 years and over 1000 episodes and planning to break the world record... (already an Indian record)..
I am sure all of you living in US would have seen the video cassettes of Kyunki... (and many others too, if u live in big cities) in Indian grocery stores.. Rent one, having 5-6 episodes for 1 or 2 bucks, and sleep at 12 or 1 in the night...
What was the effect of the serial on me? I am tempted to say "Jai Sri Krishna" to my grocery stores uncles and aunties.... then I say myself, "not yet, boy... u are not a gujju..".
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