Q1) What is your view in this topic? Where do you think FW is faltering in giving us solid villains.
According to me,the plot,the positive characters as well as the negative characters have an equal share in a crime story.Even if one of these is not up to the mark,the story fails.In the recent past,the plots of most of the stories have also faltered,in addition to the villians.So we cannot blame just the one who plays the villian for doing a bad job.FW is faltering in every department nowadays-be it the plot,the side actors,the proper distribution of the main actors,the background music... the list is seemingly endless!Its high time FW does a self-checking and figures out where its lacking and what needs to be done to get back to form.
Q2) Do you think have gone from bad to worse as far as Villains in CID are concerned ??
Not really,as even in 07 we had the don who's one of the worst villians in C.I.D., whereas in 09 we had Rocky,who was a first class villian.Now again this year we've had the great H.D.,who is at par with the previous don.So we cant say that the standard of villians has been constantly deteriorating.
Q3) What impression did the promo give you of HD ?? Did HD live upto your expectations ??
The HD in the promo was wicked,suave,classy, and looked every bit like an International Don.I was expecting a superb act from HD,which would leave us gasping and hating him to the core.The HD in the finale was not even 5 percent of an "international don."He gave me an impression of a chalu-chapaty,local Mumbaiyya tapori,not fit from any angle to be called a hard-core criminal/don.Basically,the HD in the promo and the one in the finale were poles apart..
Q4) What about Criminals during normal cases, how do you think they are being characterized ??
The characterisation is poor,as they r using the same actors as villians in more than one cases.That way they spoil the whole suspense of the story,b'coz looking at the actor only we can make out that he/she is the villian. FW better pay more attention to the screen tests of the side-actors,sometimes a villian just doesnt act like one.Its very important for the audience to be convinced that so and so is a villian who can commit a grave crime like murder or can mutilate dead bodies.
5) Who has been the best and worst Villain in CID so far and why? Which actor rose above the script and created a better Villain purely on performance?
In my opinion,the best villian was Nakul.Rahil Azam did full justice to the character of Nakul.The worst villians were both the dons.I somehow cant decide who was worst.Murli Sharma's performance was good,even though the plot of Dr. O was poor and similarly the man-eater really managed well to scare the wits out of me,although the story was unimpressive.
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