Why Now????? - Page 2

Originally posted by: Courageous_Leo

I fully agree with you. There was no history in this historical show 😆...What an irony. But the question is then how does it manage to grab audience at the first place. Well preleap story was fully fictional...Starting from Dharma-Bindusar epic non existent love, Helena being the villain, Noor , Ashoka's birth, his upbringing in jungle for 14 years(vanvaas 😆)...But there was an element of interest. The build up which made the story interesting. Another reason could be very limited information about Ashoka's childhood. So we can say audience were fine with "Creative freedom". Also the excellent performers we had in the form of Chanakya, Ashoka Sushim...That might have worked for the show.And the most important thing is the element of romance was missing till the coming of Kaurwaki.

Yes Ahankara was there. She was a fictional character for many and Asandhmitra for many. But the romance element was subtle . Even after KAurwaki entered the show, the teenage love story was limited. Ashoka was not a puppy. He was very well focused on his mission. Yes there was nothing historical, but every element was there in the show. So nobody complained.

After leap, the expectations were risen to greater heights. Because we wanted to see the history which we have read till now. But cv's had other plans. They were totally into romance ignoring every other aspect of Ashoka's life. And the result is out.Its not Mohit's fault. Its the fault of cv's who misunderstood their target audience . Who thought that the audience consists of Teenage boys and girls who would love to see the lovey dovey couple and will forget the real concept.

Originally posted by: Vrikodar

Whatever it is, in my opinion contilloe missed a great opportunity to create a legendary show.

They had wonderful actors both pre & post leap. If they had went according to correct history then CAS would have been a great show.

Originally posted by: BeyondHorizon

Hello all,

I am not a regular member in this forum and neither have I followed the show on a regular basis. Now that the show is finally ending I can see a lot of members blaming the CVs for the poor representation of one of the great historical events that shaped the future. I am not able to understand why that point is being highlighted now. When has this show ever been true to historical facts right from its inception? Why didn't anybody here raise their voice then? 😕

1. Chanakya was much before Asoka's time. Yet everyone seemed to be perfectly OK with this track 😕 Some even termed it as one of the best phases of the show. Why? Just because we had a good actor playing that role? When was it true as per history? Chanakya did not live long enough to even know Asoka's existence let alone mentor him to become one of world's greatest emperors.

2. Coming to Dharma and Bindusara, where is it mentioned that Bindusara met her after he was wounded in a war? Or that she practiced medicine? Or he believed her to be dead when she had given birth to his son who would become his successor? 14 years Asoka stayed away from his legacy living the life of a commoner but nobody complained. Only because Siddharth Nigam did a fantabulous job? 😕 Also when was Rani Dharma Bindusaar's eternal love?

3. Was Asoka really the most loved prince and was Sushim the monster he was portrayed to be? Asoka wanted the throne to fulfill his ambitions not to serve mankind in the name of Akhand Bharat. But almost everyone here seemed to be OK with it coz hey no matter what history says, the hero needs to be the quintessential good guy who is a savior and that was what Sid portrayed. A morally ethical Asoka though that wasn't what was said about Asoka.

4. Coming to one of the best villains in the show - Helena. Was she even a villain for real? 😕 Where is it mentioned she was forced into the marriage? She was in love with Chandragupta Maurya. There is no mention of Justin but for argument's sake we can say Helena had a son called Justin. Or maybe I am not well versed with this part of history (please do pardon me in that case) Nobody had a problem with that. Everyone were happy with that in fact.

5. Was there a princess called Ahankara? We assumed she is another version of Asandamitra. For that matter does history ever mention that Asoka knew any of the women he later married during his childhood days, let alone be his childhood sweetheart? But then Sid and Tunisha looked good and their bond was portrayed well. So teekh hai, ye galati bhi maaf hai 😆

6. Coming to Kaurvaki, she was never a princess but most of us here who have watched Santosh Sivam's version of Asoka, Kaurvaki though not a princess of Kalinga was raised to be one 😕 And for the sake of fictionalizing historical fact it was presented in a manner that Kaurvaki was Asoka's eternal love and Devi just an obligation but in reality Asoka had wooed Devi and married her 😆 But who cares? Everyone wants to believe every other emperor had an eternal love story 🤣 So ye bhi maaf 😆

7. Asoka had as many as 99 step brothers but as per the show we have only two competitors - Sushim and Siamak (of all the 99 brothers CVs had to choose Siamak who probably never even existed or say he did, I am sure he was no secret love child of Bindusaar's non existent Arabian wife and Greek half brother 😆) In the beginning of the leap, Sushim was flanked by a couple of his step brothers who served as his bodyguards but what happened to them later on? They vanished just like they had come. So its 97 less for Asoka now to kill for the throne 🤣

These are some of the points I could think of for the pre leap track and post leap the lesser said the better 😛 But coming to the point, history was already screwed. Did the leap screw it? It probably only added to the long list of mistakes the CVs had already made. Everyone blamed Mohit and Soumya for the dip in TRPs. Mohit is one of the finest actors we have in Indian television lately and the fact that he immortalized Lord Shiva on Indian TV testifies it. Till DKDM we did not have many shows which focused on Lord Shiva unlike Lord Vishnu. I don't think anyone needs to say how good Mohit was. Many of us were excited when the news was first out that Mohit will play Asoka. What was Mohit's fault if CVs handled the storyline poorly? Or if he looked older than Pallavi who played his mother Dhrama? Ageing on screen could be an actor's choice but does this really say much about their professionalism? An actor should become the character whether the character is old or not. I am sure if these actors had to age in a KJo movie they would have no qualms 😆 Not saying this since I am a Mohit fan but I had to make this comment seeing the amount of negativity towards him. And then we have Soumya Seth. I am certainly no huge fan of hers and I openly criticised her for her acting in the early days but she did improve later on. Though not nearly good enough but yet I believe improvement is better than perfection. Coming to Kaurvaki its not her fault if CVs made a khachra out of the character. I am sure she did not ask the CVs to do that. If now everyone wants to say makers screwed Asoka post leap is it fair? From a historical standpoint it was screwed long before that. It would be right to say from a fictional POV it was screwed but the leap did not really screw the historical facts. I probably wanted to say this from a long time but for some reason couldn't 😆

Please do share your views on this and also sorry if I offended anybody here 😳 That was certainly not my intent. I just wanted to state my views and hear from u guys as well.

Originally posted by: kaatayani

I mainly started watching the show post leap (i watched only snippets of pre leap, but I was really sick watching so much unnecessary and illogical fiction being meted out, tht i refrained)

and since day 1 of the leap i am having issues with the CVs.. now i feel that why even i wanted MR in this show?? He was purely wasted 😭😭