Fanaah

Why Fanaah did not work ~ 10 reasons

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Posted: 9 years ago

Ok friends as we all know fanaah started off with a huge hype and excitement and then had poor ratings.

First please don't tell me it Fanaah is a hit because clearly it isnt. Orelse this forum would have been atleast more active if not popular due to  the following reasons.

1. Being a supernatural show, it should have generated excitement. But it didnt.

2. It had popular actors and two heart-throbs of the industry. But it still did not work whereas PKYEK worked with newcomers.

3. One of kind show, promotions and what not. Still no use.

4. Time of airing, 6 PM.. Excellent timing and has no competition either. Still people dont tune into MTV.


Now, why?


Here are my 10 reasons. Please feel free to add.

1) The first episode itself was a disaster showing what future episodes will offer us.
Seriously, was Pankaj Udaas' song with young Vivan and Dhara needed in the first epi? And that too it stretched for whole 15 minutes.. It was a disappointment.

2) Young love-story.. Who is interested in detailing? At 14 people are innocent, but not idiots. Vivan was clearly shown that. Dhara pretends she hates him and preet says she wanted to get pastries for him? And that guy believed. Cant he see Dhara is being forced?

3) The childhood love (where 14 years is not childhood and no one is a bachcha) was stretched for whole ONE MONTH. What did the screenplay writer's think. Audience are too patient? No SIr, they arent, especially when nonsensical crap is being shown and they are wasting precious half and hour on your show. You got to respect them.

4) They quite know very well that we are watching only for Kundra and Rithvik, but there are no signs of them.

5) IMPORTANT: In every episode a minimum of 3 SONGS and 10 FLASHBACK SCENES are shown. Enough to get us aspirins. Who needs them? In a supernatural show, who needs bollywood songs for every scene. They seriously made us lose interest in the scene coz they arent relevant and irritating. If the entire story till date is calculated it could have happened only in one week. 3 days for childhood love story, 4 days for grown up things. But they inserted these songs and flashbacks (complete unnecessarily) and dragged it for two months.

6) Chetna's poor acting. Need I say more. Why doesnt she get replaced? Or let her attend some workshop/institute before shooting.

7) The same rubber-band stretching drama continued after leap too.. REPEAT OF POINT NO.5.

8) Vivan's poor characterization. It made me think why did Kundra take up the role. I was his fan in KMH and Gumrah days, my siggy box was incomplete without Arjuhi and I felt he took this up only for Vikas.

9) NO SIGN OF RITHVIK. I guess producers and creatives forgot that Rithvik is the star of masses. Very few have international appeal and he is one among them. He was used for aggressive promotions of the show and now suddenly we hear the show will go off air.
Let us calculate, Kid's love story - one month, second month for grown up vivan-dhara, and in a week show wraps up. And we here like fools waiting for him. Do they think season-2 will work if betrayed audience like this?

10) Poor Direction. Infact if i were to give rate the direction i would give "no rating" and this is different for zero rating mind you. Yep, whoever the director is feel fortunate if you get zero rating by someone. Does he think that cast is very experienced, they are stars and they'll know how to portray themselves? A star or a newcomer, they need a direction, a coaching, a vision - which is director's responsibility. 



I didnt intend to hurt anyone - anyone means anyone here in i-f, not directors and cvs.
I'm sure all of you are feeling the same way as I am.
Feel free to express your views.

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The_Imane thumbnail
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Posted: 9 years ago
Ur wiews but i just love fannah and i dont thing visha younglove dtory could have been shown only in a week
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This content was originally posted by: The_Imane

Ur wiews but i just love fannah and i dont thing visha younglove dtory could have been shown only in a week

i agree! i actually adored young vidha! 😊 qand preeman are awsum! 😊⭐️

and i find the story well narrated!

just my opinion!
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Posted: 9 years ago
To be honest, Preet and Anshuman's love story is the only good thing in the show!!!!






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Posted: 9 years ago
I disagree to certain points and agree to certain.

It is up to you but I love young Dhara and Vivaan story and enjoyed it to a bit. That was only I used to enjoy this show.

About Vivaan characterisation I agree but still I will not doubt Karan's decision.. come on he got to play vampire it has to be strong enough it is a start he haven't even turned vampire so we have to wait how he is as a vampire.

Chetna she is not that bad.. good as Dhara to some level.

I agree Ritwik... I think they should have not promoted him from season 1 if he is entry was from season 2 but than it is good in other way atleast for one who is Ritwik fan and waiting for him knows the story so when he will come we will not feel out of explanation.

Fanaah is flop or not I don't know? Yes forum activity is less even I don't visit this forum but I knew whoever see Fanaah love them excluding me. I watch because of my brother and mom.. they watch so apparently automatically I get to watch it.

I love Anshuman and Preet story ... but I was disappointed when they replaced original Anshuman still I appreciate new actor he got into the skin of the character in short span of time.

I am little shocked still why they need to close season one so early but I learned Karan is not well so they are closing it and they will come with season2 soon.

How season 2 will turn that time will say.

About direction I feel funny when nurse drank watchman's blood... her character has no grip and significance in story. I am little bored with her character.

I kind of don't like this show as personal view is because there is no grip in story and all they have to show is magic magic and magic... too much of magic which gave away my little interest in it.Edited by beautiful_heart - 9 years ago
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Posted: 9 years ago
Have my agreements and disgareements with some of the reasons Tich.

But I'll go with two primary reasons that disappointed me as a viewer -

slow story, almost a drag at points

wait for Rithvik when they heavily promoted with him. And even Karan came 3-4 weeks after the show started


Either they shouldn't have promoted it with Rithvik & Karan to grab eye balls, or had a better grip on the story. Its new and innovative, this concept, don't make it into a dragged drama please

Ratan, Anita, Yuvraj, Nakul (old Anshuman) were all so good, as is Karan, and Chetna's acting leaves a LOT to be desired. Wouldn't mind at all they bring a better actor else as Dhara in season 2.

Hope season 2 is back by October and we have better things than what we got in season 1.

And speedy recovery wishes to Karan and Ratan.
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Posted: 9 years ago
I had expectations from Fanaah and was totally disappointed. Fanaah was promoted so much by Rithvik and Karan but at the end every thing lacked substance.

Initially I was interested in Fanaah only because of Rithvik but still I wanted to watch this show from the start because it seemed different from the shows on Indian Television.

Love story of young Vivan-Dhara could have been crisper, but it was still better than their older version's story. Too much of magic stuff which I didn't enjoy and did not find any chemistry between Karan-Chetna.

I agree the BG songs and flashbacks were a pain. There were times when Fanaah's pace was slower than Ekta's daily soaps. This was suppose to be a seasonal show not a 1000 episode daily soap.

They shouldn't have promoted Rithvik when they knew he would not be shown for months.

All the actors of Fanaah (except Chetna) were good but sadly when story and execution is bad, actors can't do much.

I hope they come back with Season 2 with a better script.
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Posted: 9 years ago
I would like to say that everyone in the forum loved the young Vivaan and Dhara and their love story. That made the forum active as I think. The show started with a bang because most of the fans only want to watch RD and KK respectively. 
The makes couldn't arrange the story and episodes. This is a supernatural show, there supposed to vampires, witches and werewolves. The story of/behind them. I think I hardly saw Preet making spell in one or two episodes. Then we saw after a long time that Farida is a she-werewolf. We only saw Ira wandering here to there in search for moonstone. Why are other vampires searching for it?


Acting and the actors: Kundra's character should've been more stronger and Chetna needs to improve in her acting skills. 

Time slot is shared with IPKKND..EBP so there is a competition. 
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My reasons:
1. Extremely poor characterization of Dhara. If there is one female lead I absolutely loathe in all TV shows I ever watched, then it has to be her. Just to save Vivaan's life, she easily let Adriksh's life be sacrificed. She could have searched for more ways to save Vivaan in the 4 years that she was away from Preet.
2. Replacing of Nakul by Yuvraj. Honestly it was Nakul's style of portrayal of Anshuman which made me connect to him and he was the only character I could appreciate, but ever since Yuvraj's entry, I just could not connect to his character any more or adore him like I did earlier. 
3. No logic behind breaking the myths or showing the supernatural stuff. While I agree that supernatural does give one a lot of creative freedom, but there should be a proper explanation for what you are showing. It should not be mere statements. Till date I dont know the reason why Anshuman - supposedly the strongest vampire in the world, loses all his powers in front of Preet when nothing happens to werewolves. Then again, no explanation is given to how Ira can wear rosary, held it in her hand and roam around in church freely. If you are going to break a long standing myth, then there should be an explanation for it. But that was not the case with Fanaah. 
4. Giving importance to irrelevant scenes and rushing the important ones. So many episodes were wasted on Dhara crying, flashbacks of Vivaan-Dhara and Preet-Anshuman, but the entire Preet vs the werewolves fight was done away in just 5 minutes. 
Edited by ..Bournville.. - 9 years ago
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Posted: 9 years ago
This content was originally posted by: Gudakesha



1. Being a supernatural show, it should have generated excitement. But it didnt.


Here are my 10 reasons. Please feel free to add.


3) The childhood love (where 14 years is not childhood and no one is a bachcha) was stretched for whole ONE MONTH. What did the screenplay writer's think. Audience are too patient? No SIr, they arent, especially when nonsensical crap is being shown and they are wasting precious half and hour on your show. You got to respect them.

4) They quite know very well that we are watching only for Kundra and Rithvik, but there are no signs of them.

5) IMPORTANT: In every episode a minimum of 3 SONGS and 10 FLASHBACK SCENES are shown. Enough to get us aspirins. Who needs them? In a supernatural show, who needs bollywood songs for every scene. They seriously made us lose interest in the scene coz they arent relevant and irritating.  they inserted these songs and flashbacks (complete unnecessarily) and dragged it for two months.

6) Chetna's poor acting. Need I say more. Why doesnt she get replaced? Or let her attend some workshop/institute before shooting.

7) The same rubber-band stretching drama continued after leap too.. REPEAT OF POINT NO.5.

8) Vivan's poor characterization. It made me think why did Kundra take up the role. I was his fan in KMH and Gumrah days, my siggy box was incomplete without Arjuhi and I felt he took this up only for Vikas.


10) Poor Direction. Infact if i were to give rate the direction i would give "no rating" and this is different for zero rating mind you. Yep, whoever the director is feel fortunate if you get zero rating by someone. Does he think that cast is very experienced, they are stars and they'll know how to portray themselves? A star or a newcomer, they need a direction, a coaching, a vision - which is director's responsibility. 




^^Points i agree with..

About ratings-I do not know because we had no news about that..but i assume Fanaah may not have done great with ratings..or at least not up to the makers' expectations..

Regarding the forum activity-I recently started watching KYY and I'm smitten by it.. LITERALLY! I went to the forum.. n there is so much activity there.. I went to youtube to catch up on older epis.. n i was quite surprised that Fanaah had more views/likes compared to KYY.. almost double. I don't know how that show is doing either in terms of ratings.. I do not know how popular it is or if it is a Hit or a flop. But personally I really love that show n i really hope it does well becoz it's really good in terms of writing, direction, characters, actors..

P.S. PKYEK worked with newcomers?🤔 I'd seen both the lead actors before in other shows. Anyway I wasn't impressed with their acting.