Originally posted by: Animal.Lover
Big hug aunty 🤗
An adda it sure is for the likes of us, and the most pleasantly stimulating one, truth be told!
Because sometimes I do visit that other "analysis" (?) thread in humor, and each time I cannot help but marvel at the girl's spirit of optimism. Rajat might have given up on the show, but she hasn't 😆
My dear, the stuff there is so sachcharine that it will give the likes of you and me diabetes. It is not optimism, it is adoration,that too of the blind variety, and there is no arguing with that, is there?
Although, more than her, there is this other forum member whose admiration for the show is plain truculent. She calls herself Munni, I don't know if that's her real name, because it's too docile for someone with that kind of a virtual disposition, and a rather grim, albeit aptly chosen Rajat image for dp 😛
Oho, so you landed up in that briar patch, is it?😆She is Shreya, and she is fiercely protective of Rajat. She tolerates me because no one else can praise him as eloquently as I can, but at times she used to try to quarrel even with me when she felt that I was not being warm enough or even critical! But I never quarrel with youngsters!
The Tanu Khan fan comment was hilarious though 😆
Aunty, you are right in not returning to the show, it's in total ruins now, which is so sad given the fact that it had just started to build up to be a decent show since last month. These days Rajat looks exhausted, defeated rather, and I actually feel bad for him. As you said somewhere before, even the Jodha worshiping Jalal had worlds more "Jalal" (luster) about him, than this Chandra, who looks undeniably "grahan"ed.
I am hoping too that the show ends by it's 200th or 250th, at least that way the part-apathetic-part-curious ones like me would know for sure what finally happened in the CN universe. And honestly, I don't care so much about the CN love story anymore, mostly because nowadays I feel Nandini deserves better. I just want a proper, excruciating and wrathful Helena and Apama expose, that's all! For me, it'll be the most satisfying episode, and I shall watch it twice, with popcorn and fries 😆
Well, whatever I have been hearing about the last 20 odd episodes after I quit, and that little video clip that was posted a few pages earlier on this thread, make me feel that I was wise to leave when I did.
For one thing, though the Roman legionnaire look for Chandra's costume, abandoning the 9 yard angavastram, is welcome, his new streaked haircut is not, and nor did I like the demented glare he stuck to in that video clip. Nor am I ready to see Chandragupta Maurya, who literally worshipped Chanakya in real life, argue with him and contradict him in front of Apama. It is ugly and intolerable. 😡I think this script is by now beyond redemption.
This thread HAS to live on till then at least, I don't think the solo moderator even exists anymore, and I don't blame her 😆 So the page count may easily go up to 500, and that would definitely mean outliving the show itself 😆
Well, the sole mod must be pleased to have at least one peacable and well behaved thread, so I do not think she will close us down on grounds of the length!😉
I completely agree about Mohit Raina as well, who even till the end of that colossal chaos continued to look so convincingly involved. But aunty, somehow I have always loved the teen version of Asoka a lot more (don't know his name) than the adult one.
That is the problem with a historical or mythological show where the junior male lead is so good and so popular that he makes life very difficult for the adult version. It was the same with Faisal in Maharana Pratap, with Siddharth in Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat, and of course with Rajat in Prithviraj Chauhan.
Siddharth was loved as the young Ashoka, though he was a rather unbelievable Goody Two Shoes, and then came Mohit Raina, twice as large as Siddharth, and shackled by a lousy script that left him with nothing to do but to moon after Kaurwaki.
Mohit is an excellent actor, and not only in Mahadev. I have seen him in the snatches of Bandini that I stumbled across, and he was very convincing. He can do comedy with perfect conviction, and he was excellent in the love scenes in CAS, for which of course there was no scope in Mahadev. He can also handle uncontrollable rage without going over the top. What I liked about him as a person in the last 2 weeks of CAS was that he did not shut up shop and sleepwalk thru those episodes. He did his best to the end, and that was admirable.
Although I really like Raina otherwise - especially as Mahadev - he was wow! DKDM had a brilliant cast mostly, no doubt - the best television versions of Mahadev, Narayan and Kartikeya especially. Because generally, in mytho shows like these, either they cast a wonderful Shiva and the Narayan is a let down, or viceversa.
But DKDM got BOTH just right...under the same roof (show) 👏
I agree, my dear. Even Narada was perfect, as was the sleazy Indra.
But it was not as Mahadev that Mohit was at his best in DKD Mahadev. It was as the turbulent, star-crossed, doomed, tragic Jalandhar. I wrote in that forum only for the 6 weeks of the Jalandhar track, and if I say so myself, those posts were really good. So much so that the writer, Utkarsh Naithani, and I became good friends, and towards the end of the Jalandhar track, he wrote a scene that he told me was specially for me, as he felt only I would understand it properly.
If you have missed that track, do try and catch up with it. It was from early May to early June 2013. And if you feel up to it, with my posts as well. Half of them are on Utkarsh's FB page, however, including some of the best, written over the last 10 days. But I have all of them, as Mohit Raina's webpage administrator asked for them and posted them there.
Accha, who do you think was a better Parvati, aunty? I liked Sonarika the most. God knows why she left.
Sonarika, of course. She was a real, statuesque beauty, and was the perfect Parvati. She was foolish to quarrel with the PH, apparently over parity with Mohit, and leave. And the show suffered too, of course, but I think she lost more.
Also, do you think Rajat should do another historical after CN?
If it is going to be an Ekta production, NO! She will reduce him to something that is less than 50% of Chandra, just as she has made this Chandra less than 50% of Jalal. Besides, what major historical character is left for him to play, unless it is Chandragupta Vikramaditya of the Gupta dynasty or Harshavardhan? Shivaji, perhaps.
The problem is that a non-historical seems to almost always mean a soap, and there are no strong male roles in those. I would ideally like him to play a Holmesian character, the lead in a detective series, or a famous tycoon or a hotshot lawyer in a show centred on him.
OK, my eyes are kaput by now.Bye, my dear.
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