painting the television red....!!!

A prime time show is a gamble which can make or mar the Gross Rating Point of any channel. And with the current scenario of each channel eating into the other channel's pie, no programming head can afford to make a wrong move.

gulal : fresh and colorful

With Bidaai successfully completing its 3 year run, the 9pm slot on Star Plus Fixed Point Chart lay empty. Not forgetting the BIG BOSSES who are sitting on Hot Seats in Sony and Colors. Therefore Star needed to come up with a show which could rule the 9 pm slot the moment Big Boss and KBC get over in December this year. And once again Star plus a winner all the way.

Yes people Gulal is here and she will definitely win your hearts. Not only the show has a unique concept, what makes the show different is the high production value and amazing screenplay. The plot has been kept simple, yet the entire episode is gripping enough to keep the viewers hooked. 

Next good thing about the show is its great cinematography. (with great cinematography i have kept other indian television shows as the benchmark) The camera angles have gone much beyond the OTS and POV shots. The camera manages to make the shots look all the more great. Especially the outdoor shot in the desert and the mela scenes are really well shot. In fact the first episode seems to have been shot on RED and thus we see such an amazing result.

Not to forget the great performances by all the actors alike have added life to the show. Be it Rahil Azmi or Manoj Joshi, each actor has given his best. But who takes your breadth away is Mansi Parek. She seems to light up the screen the moment she is there. Even the small time gujarati actors have performed brilliantly.

On the whole, the show seems to be a sure shot winner and if the makers stick to the high standards that we saw in the first week the show will definitely become a numero uno show in just a couple of days.

So be ready to get your lives painted by Gulal. She is here to stay.

Bidaai - end of a sapna

On 13th November a top rated show for Star Plus - Bidaai : Sapna Babul Ka - came to an end with marathon 2 hour episode. The show had been a top rated show for Star Plus and if you remember correctly, Sadhana and Ragini ( the protagonists of the show) had given Tulsi and Parvati run for their money.( ultimately shantiniketan and aggarwal house had to lock their palatial houses and shut their doors for the viewers)

The show started almost 3 years back. The show was accepted well by the emotional indian audience. Also the show was a welcomed change for the channel as well as the audience who had been feeding on decade old K series. Sadhana and Ragini became a household name. What made this show worth a watch was the simple storyline as well as identifiable characters and plot. The characters and the situations were acceptable by the audience. The screenplay was well written and each episode had enough scenes to wet the kerchief of the women audience of the country.

The show became the highest TRP grosser for Star Plus. But as time progressed, the show ran out of plot. It started taking recourse to deaths, remarriages, illegitimate child and so on. So what happened then. The TRPs fell. The show no longer remained the number one of the Hindi Speaking Market. Though the show managed to remain in top ten slot, it lost the sheen, the simplicity and emotions. It became just another show on television. And after the two leads of the show- Ranveer and Sadhana - were killed in the show, the show never regained the number one position. ( Though worth noting is the fact the both these characters were killed so that they could work on the other projects for the same production house)

The decision to end the show, in my point of view, was the best decision that the makers could take. Not because the show was no the longer number one show, but because as Ekta Kapoor had once said, its better to end a show even when it is doing well and be remembered throughout as a hit show rather than dying a death when no one is even noticing.

The show had enough high points during its run. Be its Sadhana's marriage to Alekh or Ranveer's to Ragini- all these tracks generated sky rocketing TRPs. Now its time to see if Gulal ( the new show replacing Bidaai) will manage to garner equaly high TRPs or not. Till then lets bid adieu to a show that was well made and helped Star Plus to retain its numero uno spot even after Kyunki and Kahaani were put in a box.

Adieu Bidaai......!!! I am sure people would remember the show atleast for some time to come.