DOTW:Parallel tracks in CID episodes

In the last few months, starting from Aakhri Chunauti, we've been seeing episodes which are interconnected by a background story. After Aakshri Chunauti we had Daya's Shaadi track and now we have Abhijeet's Ateeth. Edited by visrom - 13 years ago

Visrom u r absolutly right..we all guys are getting bore from this kind of series.
well, muja iss kind of stories sa bht zyada problem nai haa ager yah stories series ki kind ma na hon tu.
Like Behroopiya.just start and fininshed the story in more than two episodes.Atleast we will remember the story with good thoughts.
FW just trying to built a suspense. just intoduce the title by adding more more and more killing stories and make it long. thats  not a good idea.
we all guys are fed up with this.
Because of this thing i m now not interested in AKAKR series, bcz i knw in the last everythng is okay by saying that its all was drama to caught the criminals.
Aur iss beautiful dialogue ko suanan k lye huma abi atleast 2 weeks ka tu aur wait karna ho gaa.May be more than it.

Well, I beleive the story should revolve around Promo and not the other way round.  Offlate, in CID, Promo has nothing to do with the actual story.  This is misleading, sets wrong expectations and in the end, people feel dejected and annoyed.  We come and vent our feelings in the forum 😆   To be honest, the stories should be right through.  If we are talking about Abhijeet ka Ateet ka Raaz (AKAKR) then the story should be just that not some other stories and only in the end or somewhere in between for a minuscule seconds they show AKAKR

totally agree with u visrom i feel these stories are only for the sake of advertisement,or for viewer's attraction,in some cases they ,are not even complete,and of course not at all related to the main episode.

I completly agree with you Visrom. They just need to come up with new ideas instead of dragging a boring series which can be completed within two episodes. I think BP Singh is least concerned about the TRP's. Behroopiya Was The best episode.........

Well if episodes of the series don't contain parallel stories, the series will finish within 2-3 weeks only. So to increase their length, these stories are included in each episode. These stories shift our focus from the main series, distract us, fetch impatience to a great extent. Also due to these stories we get to see less of our trio who are, I hope you all will agree, one of the main reasons why we watch it.

i have no prblms with parallel tracks. but these tracks should not last more than 4 episodes.

                 it gets a bit irritating if a track continues for 7-8 episodes. e.g. AC or AKAKR.

       parallel tracks are of course possible. an investigation team might have 2 cases in their hands. it of course happens.
       however in a series,  the parallel cases have to be good. also the distribution of focus should be kept well. if that would hv happened with AC, it would have been a huge success.

       & as for beherupiya, as a 2hr spcl episode it was rocking( my all time favourite!! 👏👏👏👏) .
      
               but it wuld not be bad if it were a series. say just for 3 or 4 episodes. rocky enters as abhijeet in the first one, then daya is suspecting him through the 2nd & 3rd episodes, & at the end of the 3rd rocky manages to convince everyone that daya is rocky. & then the 4th one completely focusing on it. also, there must be decent parallel cases. then it would hv been good as a series.😊

In the Abhijeet in Danger series,  we can see parallel khooni stories and Abhijeet and Daya carrying on investigation as if nothing has happened. Aditi was digging into this issue in the background. Don't you all think if the same series were shown now, we would be annoyed that it is going on for a month and a half? Wouldn't we be annoyed with the parallel tracks?
Hmm.. Thats a good question. The main difference between then and now is ( I suppose), we didnt have a promo showing just the last scene where Aditi points at Abhijeet before the episode. If it was so, I am sure people would have got annoyed seeing the whole episode and landing with only one impactful scene keeping in mind the promo of the day.
These days, we see a special promo made for the entire series(which is just to give a vivid idea about the series) and then the inidividual promos showing the only important and related scene of the episode. We wait for that one scene for 1 long hour..and find it only in the last 5 minutes of the episode. Isnt that annoying? And moreover, in the rest of the khooni story, sometimes the team behaves as if nothing is actually going on in the background !! Af if they had a split personality sort of thing. One minute back they were crying for their mates, and next minute they are making fun of some khooni !! I wished, they could relate their own stories well !!
The best thing about CID is its one episode-one day format which attracts more and more viewers who cannot always watch series which require time and regularity. So, finishing off an episode in one day is always better. IMO, the 2 hour special episodes are interesting.They give a "movie" feeling at the end of the day. A complete exciting and interesting episode. In those  hours, we end up going through a lot of emotions and not left with confused minds at the end. The loose ends are also sorted out easily if its a single episode. Even from the writers point of view, it becomes clear !! Mistakes like AC-9 would not have occurred so easily if it was a single episode written by a single writer. So many writers trying to combine their efforts and working style lands up to a mess at times !!!!

But yes, from TRPS point of view, it doesnt solve the problem in the long term. So, we know why we have these background stories all the time, and why we have channel promoting them most often.

Edited by Shagnika - 13 years ago