I agree Angie, Avi has the best voice modulation.. and yes the haridwar scene, that was amazing, may be the best of all.. He has all the qualities need for the best actor.. but his CV team drastically failed to dig his qualities out, instead they played with vamps around him, giving him monotonous lines and face all the time... Finally who loose, the same production team, because if Avi is lucky enough, he can join with best production, and CV team who value their work and bring out this germ polished in new charactor. He is able to carry the weight of the show on his shoulder.. So good luck with that..
Angie what was happening with CB is open for everyone to see.....We all saw it and commented on it. It is sad that the actors were not given any prior warning. Infact they were told of the 6 months extension....which we even got confirmed from Zee UK but then abdruptly the show was stopped.The show still had stories to tell...they needed a good creative team consisting of people who had imagination and could translate that into words and dialogues....who could write a screenplay based on a straight line and not circles. Screenplay is the backbone of any drama and if the backbone is not strong, the drama will crumble....thats what happened in CB.They also needed a good director who could translate the word and dialogues into scenes and help the actors in projecting the writers thoughts as emotions. The actors were already there, what was lacking was the beginning and the middle. They also needed a good editor who would then have put ogether all the scenes as beads are put together to form a necklace......here the necklace would have been the episodes of CB.The original theme is the part that attracts the viewers to the story and they usually watch it keeping that in mind......so any deviation from that will confuse the viewers and people will loose interest. Here I think one of the problems was Kanha.....they have shown Kanha coming and saving Radhika from every small accident.......then why won't he save her from the big one? If Kanha has told her he will never take away Dev from her then why will Dev die? If Kanha has put her through all these just to test her...is God really so cruel? Is Kanha the inner subscious or the actual physical God himself? To me he was subsonscious and that helped me explain much of the story to myself but if he is the actual one then I all these questions prop up. If this is a spiritual love story and is based on ehsas.....then although Dev as Abhay has lost his memory his ehsaas should not be lost......the list is endless.Now the acting part.......Dev was a very strong and independent man........he had enough self confidence in him to face the world for his beliefs and stand up for what is right. The only time I think I saw him faltering was during the Rajpurohit pooja where he succumbed tosociety and requested Radhika to sit in place of Vishaka. Having said all this Dev was not perfect...he too had his flaws and instead of exploring thse flaws they went for cheap gimmicks. Avinash did a very good job as Dev. His voice modulaton is usually to the mark......his expressions are very good and he has very expressive eyes. Thats why most of the time words were not needed to project his emotoins. When Abhay was first introduced , my first thught was that that atlast a complex male characters wih loads of layers to peel. ......but alas it ended up as a character with no layers and Avinash was robbed off a very good chance to potray a much more difficult character than Dev......I like grey characters.........I also like complex characters, because they are much more interesting and they usually have more facets to explore...........thats why Radhika was my favourite.....as a character her very complex nature interested and attracted me.