Originally posted by: austen-eliot
Yuck and yuck!! HC's laugh! What do people see in him?! Hadn't seen him in anything before, but when the news came out that he was coming into yrkkh, I saw a segment of his on Sbs, just celebrating 18 years of that channel, and I was like this guy is going to step into Mohsin's place? 😒
So I am the minority here in that I really like MK's looks, yes he's a pretty boy kind but I still like it, he has such a sweet face..and you know Kartik's character fits so well with his looks. Most of the S2 fandom, and the show actually ran on this..saw Kartik only as Naira's eternal lover, that was his USP..and so without that, when they showed him move on after Naira's death, it seemed like his character was just killed. But you know from how his sketch was drawn from the first..when he was living with the Maheshwaris, how he used to be always ready to give a helping hand to everyone, even when he was working for Naitik, before his involvement with Naira..from all of that initial depiction and then also throughout in various vignettes he is seen as a very kind-hearted, compassionate people-loving person, without any snobbish traits at all. This was the portrait of Kartik that I find so endearing and his crazy love for Naira is not the only or the most lovable thing about him for me. In that way I found it more attractive than Naira's character which seemed to me to have a smugness about it which was so off-putting. So in the course of the show's run, they did hack and butcher the characters to bring the estrangement and angst, but that sound base of Kartik's character's decency stays with me. And in the last Sirat track, it came out with full force, mellowed with added maturity and from having lived through deep grief.
Even in his face-offs with his father, there is still an underlying acknowledgement on Kartik's part that Manish was elder to him, and their arguments looked more natural as that of being between a father and grown up son at loggerheads. But the way Abhimanyu wantonly humiliates his father is so mean and vulgar. I so hate it when they compare the two father - son duos.
As for Mohsin, the actor, from everywhere in his interviews and other interactions I've seen and, more importantly, from all his co-actors and other colleagues, he is always talked of as a humble, polite and down-to-earth guy.. Even his fan girls who've met him say how decent and nice he is. Nowhere have I ever seen anyone other than Snow say that he is rude and arrogant. Why do feel so Snow?
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