Hi friends,
The idiom, ‘once bitten, twice shy’ doesn’t
apply to Uttaran, a serial on the channel COLORS. Hats off to the script
writers, they did it again! Like 1 botched up marriage wasnt enough, they
went ahead with another ‘doomed wedding’. I guess all our negative reviews
didnt reach the script writers in the first place! THAT’S WHY THEY DID IT AGAIN
:-(
Uttaran which started out as a meaningful
serial that depicted the plight of a poor girl, ’Icha’ HAS NOW BECOME A HUGE,
IRRITATING & FRIGHTFUL MESS! Somebody please clean up this mess.
‘Icha( Hitchki)’, the protagonist, as the name
of the serial suggests, had to live on the old and used things of her rich
friend’tapasya(Tapu)’ Fate made the 2 girls from extreme backgrounds, friends
for life. It was delightful to see the younger Icha frolicking with her friend,
fishing in ponds, finding intelligent solutions to childish problems, helping
her mother. Even the younger thakurain, ’Tapasya’ was adorable. She was so
protective of her best buddy ‘Icha’, occasionally getting misguided by her shrewd and conniving ‘nani’ who
isn’t even the real mother of the thakurain, just a wicked massi! Why do these
rich families in serials love keeping and taking care of ‘EXTRA BAGGAGE’ in their
homes? These people should be chucked out first! But then yaar, we have to
live with this sad reality of serials, NO extra baggage means NO extra
atyachar, NO extra atyachar means NO extra t.r.p!
Unfortunately,
the characters of the serial grew up. Tapu transforms into ‘Taps’, a SPOILT CAT
( oh, I mean brat!) and Hitchki transforms into Mother Teresa. They are as
different as chalk and cheese but still friends. At this point enters Veer, a rich
and smart bachelor who comes to meet Tapasya vying for the prospects of
marrying her. Her arrogance repulses him(she herself is least bothered) and he
falls for the beautiful but meek Icha instead. One thing leads to another, and
Icha and Veer are about to get married. The morally right thing to do was to
get them both blissfully married(OMG, they used to look so good together!).
But when have serials ever been morally right?
Taps is gold-struck when she sees the rich
gifts sent to Icha by her ‘sasural’ to be. She then emotionally coerces Icha
into making her get married to Veer instead. And the dumb Icha, actually does
it. All the while Veer thinks he is getting married to the girl of his dreams
but he comes back home after the marriage to find his worst nightmare! The
story then slogs ahead, the end result being that Veer doesn’t accept Tapasya.
He still loves Icha, Icha loves Tapasya and Tapasya loves Veer(I warned you,
it was a big mess!). And here enters Vansh(just to make the mess bigger!)
Vansh is the reclusive elder brother of Veer
who is suffering from substance abuse problems. He meets Icha at a
rehabilitation centre and instantly starts liking her. The scheming Tapasya
plays her part well, and before you know it, Vansh falls in love with Icha
decides to get married to her. Veer is heart-broken but does not stand in the
way of his brother’s love(what did such a good guy do to deserve all this, I
ask?). But Tapasya wasn’t satisfied even after snatching away her friend’s
love, almost murdering her and finally getting her married to a drug-addict.
She did the ultimate malevolent act of telling Vansh about Veer and Icha. Uptil
now, nobody had told him about their past.
Veer’s marriage to Tapasya was an utter
DISASTER(I am writing this in capital to accentuate the meaning!). With the
upcoming marriage of Icha to Vansh, the directors had a chance to redeem
themselves by setting things straight. But no, they further entangled the huge
mess by getting Icha married to Vansh today. What should I call this marriage, a
CATASTROPHE?!
There are so many flaws the story-line. First
of all, Icha needs to be whacked in the head with a bat. Even after being shot
at the orders of Tapasya, she continues to wash her feet and drink the dirty
water too! What rubbish, in today’s reality even an 8 year old can
distinguish between a good and bad friend. And Poor Veer, he is tossed around like a
tennis ball by both Tapasya and Icha! He has a weak character in the story, a
total waste of such a talented actor.
The se