Soumya, if you watch the first episodes of the show, you would feel that nothing of these weird things were planned, Ranaji was very much royal by lineage and actions too (you should get back to hear Rajmata's dialogues about how the riyassat, raeesi, and tahzeeb sirf wirassat mein milte hai, and another scene where she was looking at her husband's portrait- which looked like Ranaji!- and talking to Yashoda about how much Bari Ranaji would have been proud of Ranaji for winning the war and coming back and she also said that she wants to thank God not only as a Rani but as a mother too for protecting her son in the battelfield, and she said that Ranaji respected the Parampara of Singh dev vansh and he made his defunt dad's name shine!!! ), so I don't think they planned this twist at all nor did they plan to dumb Ranaji's character at least not to this extent! he was a perceptive, witty man who was fighting his inner demons (death of his wife and the wounds of the world war- he had two flashbacks of world war, one when soldiers were welcoming him firing rifles into the air, and another during a lavish party when he heard fireworks-) and who wanted to become a good king and started off really well with his mission (apart from the lagan on water thing, there were other things like building homes for praja, and something about listening to paraj's complaints) and he was royal to the T, respected by everyone, he had many people around him, Bhanoo, Anuruday, Deewanji... soldiers all around, he was oozing royalty in his mannerism, body language, polite but very sophisticated and his entourage too was showing him the respect due to a Raja. I used to like his interactions with Bhano he seemed to be to Ranaji what Yashoda was to Rajmata though we never heard Ranaji share very private things with him, but I remember Bhano was the one who took the horse to Ranaji when he came back from World war, he knew Ranaji liked ghor sawari, Bhano saved his life doing that, and I also remember that Bhano asked Ranaji about that book about dreams, only when you really have more than just a professional relationship with your Raja you can ask these things and I remember Ranaji told him what it was about!!
Gayatri too was special, she wasn't mahan, she was a clever girl, she used to have things her way, she loved her parents and all, but she stood for herself (minus with her bhabis, I don't know why maybe she considered them really her own and overlooked whatever they said or did), she was at times very brave even reckless 😆The way she drove that car and wrote a note to the Raja asking him to allow women to drive, I liked her tit for tat with soldiers when they tried to do ghar ki talashi post the pot falling incident, I liked Ranaji's reaction to her words, what a build up that was yaar, I thought at some point in the future they will make Ranaji remember these things about this bahador girl, I thought they might discuss that book they both were reading about dreams and many other things... Somehow I think Cvs were going in this direction but I don't know what happened to them, did they change?!, were they pressurized by channel, I can't say exactly what happened but show was going really well, and I still can't believe they forgot everything about consistency/storytelling and just kept trying the standard formulas of desi soap world!!
Show was supposed to be something else, even Gayatri's big brother had a role in the show, he was supposed to be a freedom fighter,
I came across this old article below about him, her dad too used to mention that hawa badal rahi hai, riassati khatm hoti jarahi hai and Rajas/Mahrajas don't have the same power like before..
Kartik Soni excited about his new look in Zee TV's Ek Tha Raja...
Kartik Soni is simply excited about his new avatar, as
he is all set to play a freedom fighter in Zee TV's upcoming show, Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani (Sphere Origins).
Completely different when compared to his fun-loving character in Colors' Sanskaar - Dharohar Apno Ki, Kartik will play a man holding to his ideologies in his new show.
Also, from being seen wearing trendy clothes, he will now sport a dhoti and kurta for the first time ever.
Talking about his newest and different role, Kartik told us, "It is simply amazing to be part of such a huge show asEk Tha Raja. I will play the role of Shyam, who is the elder brother of the protagonist, Drashti Dhami. He will be a very sensible and mature guy, very protective about his sister. Shyam will follow his father's path, and will want to keep away from the kitchen drama created by his nagging wife."
Kartik who hails from Bhopal did a lot of preparations to get into the skin of this character. "Basically, the man treads the path of a freedom fighter. And in order to get the body language, dressing sense of freedom fighters of Bhopal in that era, I met up with many of my grandfather's friends who are still living there. I read a lot about them. Since I am from Bhopal, I could connect easily with the dialect. Yes, it is really tough to carry the dhoti and kurta. But I am now getting used to it."
Talking about his camaraderie with the co-actors, he stated, "We had a superb time while shooting in Bikaner. Drashti, Moon Banerjee (mother), Vikas (brother) and I had a whale of a time and gel well with each other."
Kartik, way to go!!
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