Cast: Ram Kapoor, Sakshi Tanwar, Renuka Israni, Eva Grover
Seen on: Monday - Thursday, 10.30 pm, Sony
Two well-known actors were returning to prime-time fiction after a long time. The title was borrowed from a popular song and the promos were teasing. Little wonder then, when Bade Achhe Lagte Hain Yeh Dharti Yeh Nadiya Yeh Raina Aur Tum (quite a mouthful) went on air, expectations were sky high. Sadly, after watching the first couple of episodes, I felt it was a case of great appetisers but an insipid main course and before I could turn away the desserts, producer Ekta Kapoor allegedly sacked the original director and got a trusted old hand to liven up the proceedings. And so, the viewers can now probably look forward to the magic of its two lead actors, Sakshi Tanwar and Ram Kapoor and I can perhaps have that dessert.
Priya Sharma is in her 30s. She teaches at TOEFL –– her ambitious, ex-Miss Bhubaneshwar mother calls them tuitions –– and is her papa’s simple, ideal girl. Her younger sister is an aspiring model and the apple of her mother’s eye. There is a brother too. Theirs is a well-to-do middle-class family but her mother has pinned all her hopes on her younger daughter. She feels, the girl would be a supermodel one day and will change their drab existence forever.
Ram Kapoor (that’s his character’s name too) is a globe-trotting businessman. He lives with his stepmother, a stepbrother and two stepsisters. He buys everything money can for the happiness of his family but the mother uses him for her convenience and he’s bereft of maternal love. In his 40s, he is portly and single. He’s given up all the hopes of marriage though his best friend-cum-business associate is sure he will find the right girl if he looks hard enough.
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