Originally posted by Neha_S
Priya and Family
Priya: Sakshi as a confident, working woman who earns for her family and unconditionally loves them is not exactly a surprise. She is just an Ekta heroine with jeans and a flashy dupatta. From what I saw of her she is very principled, selfless and ignored by her mother. Also she is someone who is totally in love with the idea of love. We have seen such girls before in many Ek's serials but
one thing that I liked about Priya was her self of maturity and her lack of sad faces. She smiles and doesnt simpers... She walks on confidently knowing that she is too old for marriage and she takes her mother's lack of attention in her stride.Her family is so typical. A mother obsessed with the younger,prettier daughter and has no time for Priya, a doting but helpless father , a beloved but clueless sister. Is it really given that a mother of an unmarried daughter would be inattentive? No its not and I wish I saw that a lil more but one thing I can identify is
that since she believes Priya is past her prime she could be more willing to bestow her attention on Aisha who might still be well-married.Ram and Family
A hardworking, soft hearted and soft bellied π business man who is shrewd enough to read through slides and naive enough to buy a company merely to attend his sister's wedding. Interesting!!I loved his hard and soft edges. I also feel his loneliness as he is spurned by his step mother. But once again the family is so typical. A clueless, uncaring step mom who cant see beyond her flawed children and has no feelings for the step son who adores them all. Reminds me of Dhadkan!! Also it has some storyline potential.
Strengths:
Loneliness is the theme that underlies the first episode, Another theme is how wrong footed unmarried old people feel: Ram with his guest who believes it his daughter's wedding and Sakshi with the beauty pageant receptionist. So it promotes marriages at the right time.
The last frame reinforces the loneliness that they both feel while being with their families. This is why people need to get married because after a point your family members move on with lives and u are left alone and lonely.
Overall
Not a brilliant start but an interesting one. Looking forward to more of it. I give a 6.5 / 10
Your thoughts?
Hey Neha - I liked your post, especially @bold. I agree that Priya's mother is neglectful of Priya rather than indifferent; and that she probably feels that Priya has passed the point where she can be "helped".
I also liked that both Ram and Priya are well aware of their "deficiencies" (I airquote, because I don't feel that they are deficiencies, only that they are perceived so by others) but don't wallow in misery or self-pity.
I see your point about the show promoting marriage "at the right time" by making Ram and Priya feel wrongfooted, but I would say that this is a case of the people around them being narrow-minded enough to make them feel wrongfooted. The guy at the beauty pageant counter didn't have to be as rude as he was; had he given Priya a second's chance, she would have explained the whole story. His refusal to even accept the thought that she could be the candidate was a reflection on himself (and on the "norms" imposed by society) and not on Priya's marriage status or lack of it.
Both feel the loneliness set in, though they have their happiness in their jobs; but if the show advocates marriage purely on the argument that unmarried people will be lonely, then it will do us all a disservice. The show needs to show, at first at least, that the reasons for getting married are not so that they can alleviate boredom, loneliness or any other such internal fears - but purely because they suit on a fundamental and universal level. Marriage for marriage's sake has been done to death, and is not something that I would like to see.