Thanks Indu! 😃
I see, upon scanning a few pages back, that we are on the same page about the TRPs, though I am still not above wondering if there has been some huge mistake. 😕
I any case, I am sure we can regain the TRPs in no time once Aarti's truth is out. It has been hard to connect to her of late, and as we know, the TRPs depend a great deal on the audience's connection with Aarti. Whenever she is humiliated they drop, and whenever see succeeds, especially with Yash, they rise.
Based on PV and other shows' TRPs, it speaks a lot to the audience's preferences and if my following inferences have any logic at all, it makes me very sad. The male protagonist is allowed to be angry, tortured, aggressive and a plain jerk and it works fine for TRPs, after all that is hot... and expected. The female simply cannot have faults, other than loving her husband and his family too much. 🤔
I said when they had Aarti go ahead with the BMT without Yash's knowledge that they were taking a big risk. Usually on shows, the female lead does nothing wrong and is misunderstood, her actions twisted by the vamp/villain and in the end she is proven pure. In effect, she has no agency, everything happens to her. But here, they actually had Aarti make the mistakes rather than Yash simply believing she did and inflicting the punishment. That was a huge risk; it also gave the woman agency, even if it was to do something horrendously wrong. And I would go so far as to suggest that the audience wasn't ready for it. They weren't ready for a character who had promised, since the kidnapping, to be the usual, cliched pativrata wife who would do nothing when her husband misunderstood her, but cry rivers and wait for him to find out the truth, and then when push came to shove, went behind her husband and family's back to save her ex... with her innocent kid's bone marrow, no less.
They were also probably unprepared for a Prashant who was not an outright antagonist.
If this is the case then the TRPs are going to shoot up now with Aarti's truth coming out and Prashant turning selfish and antagonistic. BUT if, and especially if, this is what the TRPs are reflecting, then I am prouder than ever of the Mittals for telling the story this way, for giving a female protagonist agency and for letting her actually make the mistake she is going to be blamed for!
Edited by Samanalyse - 11 years ago
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