Honestly, I find this assumption that Nakul and Surbhi have to somehow post selfies and sit on the same chair and braid each others hair to sell their on screen chemistry incredibly off putting. Also, why do they need to be friends to do their job? Some of the best, legendary actors and biggest lead pairs of Hollywood AND Bollywood cannot STAND each other, and it makes them even hotter on screen. These two burn up my laptop just fine.
I have no idea why anyone should repeatedly ask them to interview together or post selfies together or do anything together, really other than shoot their scenes. No wonder they get ignored. We are maybe loudest, but we are by no means their biggest audience. Other than a few die hard fans who all seem to live on this forum, the huge huge majority of serial watchers are normal people who tune in now and then and wouldn't know what a Rumya or a Shivika is if it bit them on the butt.
We are the obsessed ones, we are not the whole audience, but a tiny tiny group of nuts who found each other online. Its good to keep in mind the way we watch Ishqbaaz, and the way we analyze the show or the characters is absolutely odd and not what the entire world outside does. For most actors, writers and producers, I bet we forumwasis are pretty weird, because we are so invested in the show, and they probably wonder WHY, when its not our job like it is for them.
Why do we expect our lead pair to perform for the camera to further our obsession? BTW, interviewing is a part of promotions and no one can say Gul doesn't make damn sure her show isn't on Saas-Bahu shows every day. Both leads give interviews. But I remember seeing morphed images of Sanaya and Barun just before the poor girl's wedding, and crazy videos made of Dhrashti and Vivian from Madhubala-- real borderline harassment stuff. I don't know if Nakul and Surbhi are best friends or hate each others guts, but come on, respect their privacy and their right to have a private life, even with each other--they are after all professional work colleagues,.
Why should your liking their work onscreen depend on whether they show up offscreen together? I went diving into the net, and people apparently spam them asking them to pose together or do this or that, get real emotional and threaten to stop watching and send hate messages and demand responses and nonsense like that on these two's social media all the time. Its ugly and crass and embarrassing for the rest of us fans, when one or two people lose their damn minds. We all look insane then.
The performance stops after the camera shuts off. We fans don't own one tiny drop of these 2 people who are simply doing a job like any any other. Its probably incredibly demeaning to them when they are treated like they are dolls, isske sath woh, tum yeh karo, tum woh karo. I find them very polite, but they probably want to say to us that being in the media does not mean living according to the demands of some strangers who don't know the difference between reel and real.
Edited by napstermonster - 8 years ago
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