I believe popularity ratings are directly linked to how well an actor performs and looks in the last few weeks. I noticed that this week Gurmeet slipped to number 2, behind Karan Singh Grover.
Unfortunately, poor Gurmeet has been subject to bad dialogues and inept direction this whole week. This is bad for him because this was a crucial week for all of us who watch Geet regularly. And of course, Gurmeet couples these issues with his own issues—diction problems, 5 and half expressions and coping with a co-star who is proving to be a much better actor. Don't care if I am booed off the forum or if this post is locked too… but the fact is that Drasti is performing much, much better than Gurmeet in these last few weeks. She is mixing the right amount of feistiness, helplessness and strength in her role. She is emoting with her eyes all the time and you feel for that girl.
Gurmeet on the other hand seems to have been stuck in "I have great abs" corner and the directors are just not letting him out from there. And to add to his woes, suddenly the Dev actor's role is getting enhanced. Besides, the one who displaced him this week, Karan Singh Grover had a super "love scene" episode and lots of tears and trauma right after that episode. He is playing the role of the pained, rejected lover really well.
When I compare that performance with Guru's this week—which should have had all of us on the edge of our seat—I can't help but say Dude you missed the bus and how.
Suddenly Geet, the serial is back to being about Geet ONLY and not about Mann any more. While that's great and that is what the basic premise of the serial, it is sad to see such a strong male character like MANN take a back seat. I genuinely believe that more than the women, it is the male characters who need a revamp on Indian TV because they currently fill only three slots: wimps or villains or mama's boy. Mann was part of the revamp; he had that something different about him—he believed a woman should make her own choices and that was fabulous about him.
I have a few suggestions for damage control and am sure your other fans will bay for my blood for penning these down. But dude I want you back at number 1 position (above Karan Singh Grover) in the celebrity rating in a couple of weeks.
Mann, aka Gurmeet f you want to stay on the top...get tough with the script guys, the dialogue guys, put on your thinking cap and concentrate on your acting. Great abs, black belts in martial arts and veggie shakes in the morning are all fine but more than that you need to concentrate on this guy MANN. You are getting confused about who he is. Get back into his skin.. or whatever new skin he is being shaped in and make sure these guys tell you what they are planning for MANN for the whole of next month. That way you can prepare the subtle nuances, add touches to his scenes that only you can bring. But for that you have to know where they are taking this dude...if not the final destination, at lease some direction. If the script guys and the director is confused, they will confuse you too. You need to give us those searing looks with your eyes and convince us you are MANN, the Superman, not this wishy-washy character they have turned you into.
And check the camera angles you are getting--mostly they are off key in the sensitive scenes like your monologue on Friday. It was just not flattering to you. The way Karan Singh Grover eyes welled up with tears.. (you did a better scene in the episode on thursday), the whole look, the softer life, the easier way of talking to himself…it got KSG brownie points. Mann could have been a zillion times better even of he had to be angry at himself in the Friday scene...but sorry to say he was not.
Suddenly there are too many production problems, bad lighting, continuity bloopers. It all adds up in the final product. Someone should watch that too.
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