Star Plus and the Super-Exaggerated Expressions!!!

Just today, after a very long time, i was watching this program which i'm sure many pakistani and indian women are familiar with, famous because of its beloved heroine 'Akshara'. Yes, i'm talking about 'Yeh rishta kya kehlata hai'. And this is very surprising even for me that i actually remember the name so well, and i'm not going to deny that i'm actually proud of this fact, not because you guys might think that i really like this program, that is completely far from the truth. But the fact, that i have gained a huge lesson in human patience by being able to watch this program, every 5 days of the week at sharp 10;30 pm in karachi, for the insufferable three months that i just spent there recently. Yes, after coming back to dubai, i started counting my blessings, one of which includes, getting rescued from the daily Akshara torture.

Alright, maybe, i've exaggerated a little, the three months in pakistan, were not insufferable, they were actually very amazing, but anything linked with star plus, makes my life insufferable.
The thing with this drama, program, daily soap, or whatever you call it, is the fact the everyone looks so bloody fake in it. The weird expressions on every one's faces, the funny, huge, freaky smiles, that don't seem to fade away at all. For e.g, bhola or some character of that sort, usually involved in doing ghar ke kaam wagaira, had to go get some groceries, and this is how he goes about it; eyes completely wide-open, ready to pop-out, a goofy ear-to-ear smile on his face, and says, "Acha amma, ab hum bazaar jaahuth hain". And the reaction from the amma is of course the usual huge, and equally comical looking, ear-to-ear smile, which is hilarious when watched occasionally, although im my case when it becomes a daily torment, it just simply pisses me off.

I do not get it, what has happened to originality, showing real, actual, believeable emotions, how can women, tune themselves to these daily programs, which seem so pointless and are highly boring. Although i have made an observation that the storyline is pretty much the same in every sort of program, whether be it english pakistani or indian, it is all usually always about, love hate hypocrisy friendship, same old stories and same patterns emerging from every program, but what really makes the difference is the direction, the acting, the ability to be able to connect with the actors, and humour and sarcasm, which makes the program genuinely funny and a realistic storyline. These are the necessary ingredients for any program and any soap. I believe, Indian TV should definitely try changing their style, or else, the audience particularly the women who end up watching it, will eventually always stay the same, weird and totally fake.

Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza.

Finally, the controversy ends.
I’m sure the after math of this whole complicated mess, has left everyone a little sad, especially Geo TV and Star News. The most disappointed of all the people would be the media since their TRP ratings had only increased thanks to Ayesha Siddiqui.

However, I’m still wondering, who out of all these three families, (Maliks, Mirzas and Siddiquis), has really gained. All of them have been terribly humiliated, including Ayesha, and even though she must be under the impression that she has finally gained justice and all, but it really seems that all she was planning to do was cause trouble and gain attention. I believe she could have sorted this all out respectably, by talking to the families concerned or by taking legal action instead of going to the media. Media has no power over legal issues, it is known only for exaggerating everything and had she been genuinely smarter, she would have wasted less time in thinking over different ways of how to insult shoaib malik and put more time in getting a quick solution to this mess which both she and shoaib had originally created.

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