: ’’KYUNKI SAAS BHI KABHI BAHU THI’’ is a daily soap( which never manages to gather much lather, just gallons of downmarket glycerine) on Star Plus on the Mon-Thu slot at 10:30 pm.
This grand old family(?????) saga from the Ekta Kapoor stable has been entertaining the ’’aunty brigade’’ for more than three years and torturing the rest of poor souls for more than three years which of course seems like more than century.
The show was quite okay in the beginning with the story revolving around a wealthy Gujarati family , the Viranis and the relationship between the midldle-class protagonist Tulsi and her in-laws.Well, twists and turns, more twists and turns, beginniing of torture and when the story reached a dead-end , we had a generation leap of 20 years.
It was interesting in the beginning but for how long can you stretch a rubber-band? The new generation went through the same rounds of marriage, re-marriage, re-re- marriage, misunderstandings, dfemented kitchen politics to the extent that ppl like me started using this serial as a grand sleep-inducer. My doc’s happy because am no longer using tranquilizers...am using KSKBT!
The characters of Tulsi, Mihir, Ba, Savita, Gautam, Sahil, Damini, Ganga, etc have either been exhausted completely or they’ve reached a dead-end or else they are like half-baked plum cakes or over-baked apricot cakes.
No consistencey in characterization, no logic in plots and sub-plots, terrible miscasting and the creative writers of KSKBT need to be given a life-saving drug and a long holiday package to Europe so that they can re-discover their creative juices.
Biggest problem of this soap is that right people stand up for wrong things at the right time and come to their senses only when the damage is done and then go blaming GOD for everything and expect miracles.Excuse me? Are we still living in the Bronze Age?
Education, values, morals, ethics are sung about in this serial but as they say, its all show and no substance. You guys must be thinking that why haven’t I talked about the plor of this serial. Well, darlings, my miniscule brain is still trying to understand the ’’plot’’ of this serial.
Perhaps the plot is to give the viewers a Phd degree in ruthless ’’kitchen politics’’ or lessons on how to ’’cheat your spouse and then make craetive use of glycerine glands’’ or ’’how to stand by wrong people and watch the damage with popcorns and then cry over spilled mango juice( fave drink in all KKekta aunty soaps’’ or how to do’’ rounds of Tulsi plant every morning together and then fight a la Saumrai inside’’ or ’’how to fool people into beleiveing that you are one perfect family while the inside story resembles World War 2’’...............my guess list goes on.Can you help me with that?
KSKBT IS FULL OF CHINKS IN ITS ARMOUR. It is Smriti Iraani’s acting prowess and her ability to find emapathy with the women audience that is keeping the serial going.Also, Hiten-Gauri pairing brought new life to this soggy waterbag soap but for howlong? Now, they are wasting themselves here.Women in this serial are hybrid crosses of Hitler and Benito Mussolini who have men pinned to their ’’kanjivaram’’ pallus and if there are any real men here, well, they are either so grossly negative that your TV threatens to commit suicide the moment they come on the screen or else they are poorly sketched hal-baked potatoes.
KSKBT is an example of a script thriving on cheap thrills to hog TRPs, tattered battered and shattered kitchen politics, family feuds which never find a solution, a whole plethora of actors who don’t even know what they are doing in this soap.Now, we have another generation leap coming up. Now what does Kkekta aunty expect tortured viewers like us to do?I’ll probably jump out of the window even as the aunties of my family and friends’ circle gear up tio watch sleep-inducing shenanaigans of the world’s greatest zoological park- the viranis.
If you rate this review as useless, you are intelligent because what useful review can you expect me to write on such a soap?
DOMINUS VOBISCUM SPIRITUO TUO.