ROFL or UGHHH!

So they're wrapping up the political track early due to viewer feedback. Felt that one and a half months would have been far too long, but the way they were going last week was very good and made me believe that the girls, chiefly Nupur and Gunjan would have strong roles to play, and I was quite happy about that. So the news that they're wrapping up quickly has left me with mixed feelings - particularly as Nupur will be the main heroine and Gunjan will be sidelined yet again.

And this time my objection is not only because Gunjan is my favourite. It's because there WAS a message to be got across - that victims of eve-teasing can also stand up and fight back, even if they are are weak or timid as Gunjan - and I think cv's have lost a golden opportunity in delivering this message. At the least, Gunjan could talk to the media and give her statement - along with some questions - if Valentines' day celebrations are against Indian culture, are eve-teasing, acid attacks and rape a part of Indian culture? Are we to passively accept them and not fight back? Is this the message being passed to the youth of today - that to celebrate friendship and love is uncultured and 'ashleel' while to accept rude and vulgar remarks from strangers, to accept that girls today are unsafe travelling to work and study, is acceptable and is a celebration of the supreme self-sacrificing nature of Indian womanhood? Such hard-hitting questions, especially if asked in Gunjan's soft firm tone could stop anyone in their tracks.

I am glad that it is Nupur, and not Samrat or Mayank, who is leading the fight. But I am unhappy that Gunjan is not adding her voice at all. Unless she does in the next couple of days as they wrap up.

And UGHHH ... the latest article on Rati - that she has wrapped up things in her trademark style - with running and shouting under the hot sun ... means that the finale will be dramatic, over the top and completely filmy and unbelievable. Another lame end to what promised to be a decent track. Why do creatives listen to audiences when they shouldn't and not when they should?

Edit: after episode - as I expected, Nupur running under hot sun, runs into barn ... for heaven's sake girl, use your brains, DON'T run into closed place! Stay in public! Early part of episode - good part, the way the guys talk to the police and stay peaceful while getting beaten up - munnabhai? or RDB? Didn't like - Gunjan panicking and sending Nups out - for once, she's lost her calm and her usual good sense. Would have thought it would be the other way around - Nupur wanting to go but torn at leaving Gunjan alone. Oh well, G's entitled to panic, I guess. Hospital scene, okay - a touch of humor was needed. Media scene - :( Have no expectations from this track, so waiting for wrap up.