There are ever so many that are similar to this serial.Īt one end of the spectrum you have a naïve, dutiful, blindly devoted wife - even if the writing is on the wall that her husband is unfaithful to her, she can only blame the other woman and not him. But, of late, it borders on the ridiculous. Only a dearth of ideas could result in such retrograde concepts. There's a scene in which the young widow (Yuvashri) is told in no uncertain terms that adorning your hair with flowers and sporting a bindi are privileges not all get! Regression at its zenith you could say. But even there you had the common factors of a working couple, a widowed mother, an extra-marital affair - and later, ever so many things. Once they began to overdo things, it failed to sustain interest. The storyline could only be stretched up to a point. The serial on Raj began in a reasonably interesting manner. What is appalling is the insensitive depiction of women, and strangely it is women viewers who lap it all up and crave for more. And what ensues is a serial that has innumerable plots and sub-plots that meander through many an irksome terrain. GENERALLY A wailing heroine, a scheming second lead, a suffering mother, a wayward husband - these broad lines should suffice for a television writer to go for his kill. Article found on da serial from the hindu website
