Originally posted by: sashashyam
1 . Oho, so you landed up in that briar patch, is it?😆She is Shreya, and she is fiercely protective of Rajat.
2. 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.
3. 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!😉
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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. 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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