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Ekta Kapoor B'day Spl: 'टेलीविजन क्वीन' हैं एकता कपूर, पापा जीतेंद्र की एक शर्त की वजह से हैं आजतक कुंवारी

Ekta Kapoor B’day Spl: ‘टेलीविजन क्वीन’ हैं एकता कपूर, पापा जीतेंद्र की एक शर्त की वजह से हैं आजतक कुंवारी

बॉलीवुड एक्टर जीतेंद्र (Jeetendra) और शोभा कपूर (Shobha Kapoor) की लाडली एकता कपूर को दुनिया ‘टेलीविजन क्वीन’ के नाम से जानती है. एकता कपूर आज अपना स्पेशल डे सेलिब्रेट कर रही हैं. जन्म 7 जून 1975 में जन्मीं एकता आज 47 बरस (Ekta Kapoor 47th Birthday) का हो चुकी हैं. करीब 25 साल पहले उन्होंने ‘मानो या ना मानो’ सीरियल से टेलीविजन की दुनिया में कदम रखा था और तब से न जाने कितने सुपरहिट हिट शोज दे चुकी…

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Marathi TV Serials

I belong to a typical Maharashtrian family that switches on the TV sets for Zee Marathi, Colors Marathi or Star Pravah from 7:00 PM to 10 or 11 PM. Thanks to Ekta Kapoor for extending the prime time slots on television. Nevertheless Zee Marathi is a majorly watched channel in most of the Marathi households and there are good reasons to it. It was the only 24 hours Marathi channel that aired serials and shows along with news bulletins. Once upon a time it gave tremendous shows that still have a recall value. It has set a bench mark with the title songs, characters, actors and the stories. And suddenly came a phase when it started becoming unbelievable and illogical. This channel nowadays disturbs the hell out me when I am watching its serials. I will give you a gist of their plots and you will soon know why they are disheartening. The serials range from an extra marital affair to pre marriage pregnancy from an ex and relationship which is neither deciding a divorce nor any marital bliss. The shows do not set any example and leave you in more stress and trauma.

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So it starts with a serial which is now gone off air where a bride to be finds that she is pregnant and her to be groom realizes it on their wedding day. He and his aunt are gynecologist and the groom decides to keep it under wraps to save her family from embarrassment. Soon the bride’s sister gets involved and helps her sister’s husband to cope with the situation as her wedded sister is snobbish and blunt and doesn’t care until she is getting finances for her lifestyle. So basically the husband and his wife’s sister are the protagonists. Soon these two unknowingly get involved and the relation status is now complicated. Yes this is the story. But I absolutely want to ask this actress if she truly believes in the character and is this the image of a girl that she wants to portray for her society? It is so disturbing to see that she is not bothered in her life, disowns her child uses her husband’s money for all the nonsensical habits and gives away on her duties. And this makes her a really good actor as people hate her. But I clearly don’t know what is the positive side to call it a family show that was aired at 8:30 pm? It certainly sides those who already have a trust and loyalty problems in the society. Do the actors really believe in the shows they do? The show has had such a brilliant topic but never had a message that could change the thought and convinced us to start changing. It could happen to anybody. The show started really well but went all over the wrong places while it could be taken in a good way. At the end after a lot of drama and struggle to divorce the protagonists decide to get married but only after the permission of the little daughter of the vamp who they choose to raise. She disagrees and they pick to stay single. There is a catch. Single until that girl agrees for the marriage after growing up. According to the viewers it was a different end and more matured one. I felt it was a dumb end. That girl does not even know what marriage means and just one ‘no’ from a 3 year old decides the fate of two adults. What if after few years she does not want to accept it and feels unusual to see them getting married? Already a turbulence of being disowned from her biological mother and not known to her real father forcefully carries the burden of her aunt and said father’s wedding put on hold. Well the show went off air burying all these minute and real matured thoughts.

The next show is about extra marital affair. But again this happened to be such a loosely and hopelessly handled story. It is about a man who is married and has a son yet falls for a girl in his office. She is only interested in his money and the luxuries he provides her. His wife comes to know and she confronts while in return she is asked to leave the house and his ladylove comes home. Disappointment starts here. The wife stays at her neighbour’s house to teach this man a lesson by staying in the same building. Unbelievable. How can anyone take a family conflict out in public and involve the entire building in her emotional traumas. After months he is made to realize through a plan that the girl is not worth and he throws her out and comes in the concept of gharwali and baharwali where he continues the affair outside and brings wife home. She again comes to know and this time throws him out of the house. There are other developments too to support the situations in the serial. But yes this is what the serial is up to. Basically he is a characterless man. Again how do you wish to change the society and its thinking while you encourage the act by doing so? The wife wants to beat the girl in their colony’s competition to prove her true wife spirits. Dear, she is sharing your bed with your husband in your house and you are bothered about colony games. This is how loosely handled it is. At times they tried some emotional scenes but did not cover up. Yes but its appreciable how they portrayed this wife as strong and courageous to make an attempt to make her own finances and become independent.

They select subjects that are more likely to happen today and has a lot of potential to get positive response. They must be made in such a way that it creates an impact on our minds. These shows go on to become a success and gather a lot of fans but they do not make place in people’s hearts. Most fans come from small towns and villages who do not have any other source of entertainment. Anything away from their daily routine attracts them. They see more colours in such shows as their lives are not as colourful as for those staying in cities in the mid of malls and smart phones. By saying this I don’t mean to say that people from big cities and metros don’t watch these shows, they do. In fact they consume it more on the apps and YouTube and websites but watch it and forget it. Most of the viewers are the old people who have TV as their only friend. Some get so involved that they take it to their hearts and stress their minds. Is it really worth being affected? The shows shows should be stress relievers and not givers. Point is that it isn’t taking anybody of us anywhere unlike a Satyamev Jayate or Kaun Banega Crorepati or any other reality shows. These makers have a platform where they can show the reflection of the society and initiate a change but what is happening is the other way round. The serials should be a reflection of the society giving some solution and perspective. They make shows that make the society to act in the opposite of expected throwing few ideas of disapproval.

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Baarish 2 review: Asha Negi, Sharman Joshi’s drama is as torturous as Mumbai’s annual rain chaos - tv

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Baarish 2 Cast: Asha Negi, Sharman Joshi Creator: Ekta Kapoor

There is no easy way to say it: Baarish 2 — from Ekta Kapoor’s stable of romance/family drama — does not remind you of gentle pitter-patter of raindrops and nature re-energising itself. Instead, it puts you slam-dunk in the middle of a torrential Mumbai downpour where you struggle for your very life as you pick your way through manholes. Binge watching Sharman Joshi and Asha Negi-starrer Baarish 2 is not something I would advise, especially during the lockdown. The story of a couple breaking up over the flimsiest of reasons is stagnant and dated.

 Watch Baarish 2 trailer here

2009’s successful rags to riches tragic love story, Pavitra Rishta, starred Asha as a middle class Marathi girl. More than a decade later, Asha is still playing the same role in Baarish 2. No offence meant towards her get-up or character background, but as an actor we expect some progression in her choice of work. While the human race is still searching for just one reason to feel good about the arrival of the year 2020, Asha and team seems to be stuck in the 2000s. Despite a selective but noteworthy work, Asha fails to give us even one reason why she agreed to do this never-ending tale of messy family drama and caricaturist performances.

It comes as no surprise that creator Ekta Kapoor doesn’t believe in happy endings — ’the end’, to be precise. Known for introducing the trend of generation leaps that seem t go over centuries on Indian TV, the showmaker continues to serve the tried and tested recipes with hardly any improvisation. After inducing some interest with an innocent love story of a rich adopted businessman and a Marathi middle class girl high on principles, the second season turns out to be all that the ardent fanbase of Ekta Kapoor’s serials has been watching for more than a decade now. The middle class woman is still tagged a gold-digger and the innocent act of a friend feeding cake to a married woman continues to be reason enough to ignite the fire of jealously and betrayal. Just like the days of Komolika, the small screen characters still believe everything they hear and the heroine still prefers to keep mum rather than taking a stand for herself when wronged by the man she loves.

Asha Negi and Sharman Joshi in a still from Baarish 2.

The second season, just like the first, digs deep into reasons that led the ‘perfect couple’ Anuj and Gauravi to call it quits. While it builds up successfully to quite an extent with old school love and bearable antics of romance, it eventually turns out to be a cringeworthy experience which makes you check the calendar yet again. Indeed, it’s 2020 and this is an unnecessary agony you best avoid.

As shooting for all shows and films remains stalled amid lockdown, the show promises to be a saving grace for the dedicated target audience of daily soaps. And one criteria truly fulfilled by this new outing is the never-ending runtime. The endless number of twists and turns are far from raising curiousity and look as dragged as a broken car in heavy rain. It leaves the viewer with a restlessness to witness a conclusive love story but the makers are yet not done with dragging the painful saga of a complicated husband-wife relationship and outdated family chaos.

Spread across 11 episodes and more to come (with no official word about the end), Baarish 2 also marks the comeback of Bollywood star Jeetendra as a marriage counsellor. Even he seems far from reaching a conclusion as to why the lead couple is headed towards divorce, just like the makers who are in no mood to bring the story to a logical conclusion. Keeping a count of the episodes, it would have been a better idea to serve it on the regular entertainment channels which already have a dedicated audience waiting to lap it up.

A still from Baarish 2.

Also read: Puneet Issar on playing Duryodhan in Mahabharat: ‘My body turned black and blue after climax fight scene with Bheem’

Streaming on Altbalaji and Zee 5, Baarish 2 hits the reputation earned by past efforts such as Sakshi Tanwar and Mona Singh’s MOM or Vikrant Massey and Harleen Sethi’s Broken But Beautiful. Even Shweta Tiwari’s Hum Tum And Them was a decent progression with children dealing with their divorced parents in a mature way. But Baarish 2 takes the two streaming platforms a decade back.

If you are desperately willing to watch some typical Ekta Kapoor’s brand of drama, tune in to the comparatively better stuff offered by the same streaming services. Better let go of this one.

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