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Can you believe this? I know we're not supposed to have comparison posts, but I just can't help it. Please no one mind, but it's important that we discuss this once and for all. So let the movie begin.
Scene 1: A man enters the Set India office with a concept for a show in 1997. That show is CID.
Cut to scene 2: It's the year 2000 and CID is still going strong. A new record for Set India.
Cut to scene 3: It's the year 2004 and CID has just entered the Guinness World Book for shooting an episode in 111 minutes non-stop.
Cut to scene 4: It's the year 2006 and CID has doubled in time from 22 minutes to an average of 46 minute-episodes.
Cut to: 2010 the episodes come twice a week now.
Cut to: In 2012 CID celebrates 15 years on Indian Television. A world record.
Cut to: In 2012 FW starts a new show Hum Ne Li Hai Shapath. Or is it CID Part 2???
That's the question that seems to haunt all of us. Is Shapath really a new show? Is Life Ok really a new channel? Why does it seem that Life OK is hell bent on becoming another Sony? Why does it seem that every Shapath episode has been watched before? Why???
I started Shapath because I felt I would get something new. Something different. Something hatke. But now I'm starting to feel that there is nothing different about this show except for one thing...the cast.
But then are they really? Sure the actors are different. Sure the characters' names are different. But what is the Shapath duo really but another CID duo? They have the arguments, they have the eye conversations, they have the understanding without talking, and they have that friendship.
So what sets CID and Shapath apart from each other now? What is the difference between the two? What I ask? If we have Body in Mid-Air, The Man-Eater, and The Case of the Vanishing Magician renamed to Khushi's Murder, The Child Eater, and Bandar and the Magicians, does that mean that Shapath is different? Whose to blame for this where we now have to wait for a weekend to see Shapath only to find that the cases are similar to CID, they are solved in one episode, and we're left with nothing but a bad taste of deception in our mouth?
I know that everyone has their opinions. And everyone is welcome to their opinions. You want to counter me, please do. I look forward to seeing everyone's remarks. But right now all I can say is, I feel cheated. I don't know by who, but I feel deceived. There is nothing Shapath-like about this show anymore. Where is that original difference? Where is that original Shapath? Where did it disappear? And why did it disappear? Why...why...why...
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