My dear Shailaja,
Regarding Nandini, I have by now almost run out of both ideas and words. In the Friday night precap, I looked at her and then I looked at Chandragupta in profile,and then back at her. My heart sank.
I am dead tired of critiquing her, and I think I am going to do an imitation of Gandhiji's Three Monkeys from now on as far as she is concerned. That will not do the show any good, but it will be beneficial for my BP.
Don't pin your hopes on any drastic rewriting of her character. Bharatmata is the voice of the CVs and they are delighted with her. I hope they at least notice that the viewers do not seem to share their self-satisfaction, for the TRPs are sinking.
As for the performance, we shall see what we shall see. For starters, I would like to take a large pair of scissors to those corkscrew curls.
Jodha Akbar, I am told, did not pick up till the Shahi Shaadi Saptah, which began with Episode 35. So maybe, now that CGM and Nandini will get married and start sniping at each other, the TRPs might rise. As things are, they look very depressing. It is an Ekta show, and so the channel will cut it a lot more of slack than usual, but there are limits to everything. Besides, I want a real, solid hit for Rajat, not a limping also ran.
In the meantime, let us keep our fingers tightly crossed for the ratings to rise. Mine already look like a pretzel!😉😉
Shyamala Aunty
Originally posted by: shailusri1983
That missing "not" was a typographical error. Regarding Nandini, Aunty, I feel the script is doing terrible disservice to her. It is neither spectacularly grey nor a perfect white haloed one. The character being churned out is just approaching stupidity, crudity and blind off the mark vindictiveness. Her ideas are misplaced, her anger is misplaced, her trust is misplaced, her truth is misplaced.
Now when I think of it, I cannot completely blame Sweta entirely for it. She is not doing an excellent job but she is not doing a bad job either. She is doing a pretty decent job of whatever is dished to her by the CVs as her character. It is surely not her fault that all her co-stars are turning up with excellent performances while her scenes turn out average and at times flat. They are obviously getting meatier characters at this point of time and meatier roles too. Not every actor has the ability to rise above a lack luster script. I sincerely hope that her script will drastically change after the marriage and she too is able to deliver the goods.