Why The Nefarious Nafratbaaaz Actually Have Potential

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Why The Nefarious Nafratbaaz Actually Have Potential


(Mind aware, this is a long post!)

Yesterday we saw the return of the infamous Svetlana, and the formation of what the writers of the show so adorably coined nafratbaaaz'.

Let me just say, the last two episodes were so confusing. I honestly felt like I was watching Ishqbaaaz from the future; what with Annika clumsily using her feminine wiles to de-stress her husband (whose reciprocation made absolutely no sense), and the random entry of the villainous trio, Svetlana, Tia and Romi. About aforementioned group, I've read a multitude of posts hating, mocking, and essentially not taking them seriously.

When I watched yesterday's episode, I completely agreed with every single one of those posts, but then I got thinking.

Let's look at these three women separately.

Svetlana

When she was in the original episodes, I remember Svetlana being quite a fan favourite. There were posts about how extremely wicked she was, and how much potential she had to become a full-blown villain.

I actually just read a post that mentioned that Svetlana could give all of the women in Oberoi Mansion a run for their money in hotness, beauty and style and I'm slightly confused. Let's not go to hotness', because that doesn't seem like something any self-respecting woman would want to be known solely for. As for style, I completely agree - real stylish Svetlana, sleep with a married man, twice your age. Oh, and physical style? It's kind of obvious who's classier between Svetlana and the Oberoi women, what with her overtly modest saris, compared to what they wear, and how the conduct themselves.

My point is, I never really saw it. All I saw was yet another over-used character template, a secretary who slept with her boss to climb the corporate/social ladder. Originality at its peak.

What did Svetlana even do?

Making sultry faces at the camera, and (unsuccessfully) throwing her weight around Jhanvi, does not count. When contrasted with Jhanvi, her flaws are evidently seen. While Jhanvi is the picture of class and aristocracy (apart from the random drunk part which never got really addressed after the first twenty episodes), Svetlana is the opposite - merely being portrayed as the woman who seduced a rich, married man to inevitably rise the ranks. Whether she was really in love with Tej wasn't exactly explored, but their relationship didn't appear to be a worthwhile bond apart from the sex. He didn't seem very emotionally invested in her, and apart from slinking around the Oberoi Mansion from time to time, and being at his constant beck and call, neither did she.

Anyhow, one of the most supposedly intelligent feats of Svetlana was the leak of the after-sex tape where Tej announces that he's going to divorce Jhanvi for Svetlana. Can we just point out that it was Roop that was the one who did that? So I ask again, what has Svetlana done?

Nothing.

Thus, I maintain that Svetlana was a disappointment in the shape of an antagonist.

Tia

To think of Tia Kapoor as a worthwhile vamp, the not-so-subtle chameleon that had absolutely no consistent personality, is almost laughable. We originally encounter Tia to be a sweet, albeit unaware and nave, reiki-obsessed woman that is all but emotionally neglected by her rich businessman fiance, Shivaay Singh Oberoi. I don't know about anyone else, but I genuinely liked Tia in the early episodes. I almost felt sorry for her. Think about it, she's getting married to a man who shows absolutely no interest in her, who indulges in more conversation with his goddamn wedding planner than he does with her. Tia may be stupid, but she isn't blind - she can't have not seen how attracted Shivaay was to Annika. Meanwhile, she has one future brother-in-law who maintains polite disdain for her, while the other downright mocks her constantly. She shares her to-be husband with his whole family, desperately wants time alone with him, and yet stays composed, and accepting of the situation. She's shown to be so understanding and honeyed at the beginning, I think it's impossible not to feel bad for her. In fact, I think I appreciated her character even more because I was glad that they weren't going the overused vamp route - and I always internally hoped that Shivaay would pick Annika and all of her flaws, over Tia, and all of her overarching perfection.

And then we got some bullshit thrown in, in the name of character development. Tia snuck some random man into the mansion one night, and then, Robin, her brother, spoke up and asked her why she was getting married to Shivaay. That's when we got the hint that Tia, too, was getting forced into this marriage, and even though she was turning negative, I saw the justification behind her behaviour and felt bad for her.

Two weeks later, Tia is seen hugging a man who is not her fiance during Karwa Chauth. Suddenly, she's getting incessant calls from said man, and then she's desperately sneaking out to meet him. You know the rest of the story.

And then, Tia suddenly became a complete vamp.

Her taunts and evil manipulations were honestly not very impactful. All Tia has really managed to generate is a ton of annoyance from the viewers over legitimate fear, let alone respect. Like Svetlana, all Tia really does is smirk evilly at the camera, and whine about Annika to Shivaay - who even through all of this, gives everyone on earth more respect than he gives Tia.

Even as I rack my brain for something Tia has really achieved in all of her vampish glory, I can't think of anything really. Anything that remotely works for her is usually owing to her mother's input, so really, Tia hasn't exactly been the greatest villain either.

Romi

Last, and in my opinion, definitely the least, stands Romi. Similar to Tia, her personality changed quite rapidly through her portrayal on the show. Her premise, although quite clichd, made sense to me. She, like Tia and Ridhimma, was one of the foils to each of the Oberoi brother's counterparts. While Tia was the perfect socialite in comparison to Annika's middle-class ways, and Ridhimma was a morally righteous social activist contrasting against Ishaana's underhanded con-woman path, Romi was the hot', popular girl which was a stark divergence to Saumya's chubby physicality and her intelligent personality. Essentially, these women were the epitomes of what the Oberoi brothers would theoretically seek in their partners and thus make an impact, when each of the brothers fell in love with the wrong' woman, when their ideal was in front of them.

It was an acceptable track, but I wish that was all that they left it at.

Romi's purpose changed constantly. She came in as the hot' new girl, who ironically ended up being childhood friends with Saumya. Speaking of Saumya, she seemed to adore Romi in the earlier episodes, until she randomly started yapping about Romi's secret to Rudra, who obviously didn't listen.

I think the CVs were trying to peak our interest with Romi's secret that Saumya was so voraciously harbouring, but it didn't really achieve much. I honestly thought that Romi would turn out to be gay, and as contrived as that may be, it would throw in the most lowkey nayi soch' while maintaining believability. However, Romi turned out to be a sociopath who believed that she was a goddess. Then, she proceeded to maintain that she only wanted to marry Rudra because he was her true match, and resorted to attempting to kidnap him repeatedly to get him to marry her.

This was by far the most absurd track on the show, and when Romi left after the RumYa marriage, I thought that we would reach some element of normalcy on the show.

Anyhow, Romi wasn't evil, she was just...strange.

My point being that these three antagonists were underwhelming at best. Svetlana, Tia and Romi didn't even make more than a dent in the Oberois' lives, singularly. However, I think that together, the nefarious nafratbaaz may actually have potential.

Before going into my reasons though, quick disclaimer. Please don't look for any logic. Gul Khan and her CVs wouldn't know logic if it jumped up and down in their laps. Logically, the trio being sisters when we haven't gotten a single hint in the 164 episodes before, is completely ridiculous. The fact that three grown women, would devote their lives to trying to destroy one family's life in the strangest of ways, also doesn't really make sense. That being said, it could make for some good drama.

So, as we found out today, Svetlana, Tia and Romi are all Kapoor sisters. I've read some posts questioning this, and with good measure, but remember all, we have to use absolutely no logic! It's completely irrational to think that Tej doesn't look into the past of the woman he considered leaving his wife for, Shivaay doesn't know anything much about his fiance's family, and even though they are supposedly close childhood friends, up to the point where she knows about Romi's mania, Saumya has no knowledge about her family.

There's only one way that I can really justify this new revelation.

So imagine this; in the aftermath of Mr. Kapoor's death, the Kapoor's are completely destroyed. Maybe the Oberoi's took over their company, maybe they were already in corporate debt that the women in the family had no experience handling. Either way, the Kapoor's are financially and socially inept. Thus, Mrs, Kapoor makes a business decision - she can't physically afford to take care of all three daughters. So, she separates them; leaves them with relatives, drops them at an orphanage, and promises to take them back when the company is back on its feet. Maybe she takes Tia with her and moves to London, trusting Svetlana to be able to take care of the youngest. Maybe, she leaves Tia behind too, and takes her back years later, when she knows that she can use her against the Oberoi family. Meanwhile, Svetlana and Romi grow up separately (different families take them in?)- this is where the adoption really makes sense, because that way, Romi could have easily grown up near Saumya in a completely different family. This is further proved by the fact that we know that Mr. Kapoor is dead, so the man that Romi presents as her father is not her own. On the other hand, Kapoor Ltd. Is flourishing again, so Mrs, Kapoor's plan can know successfully be inputted with Tia, and the most idiotic business man of the century, Shivaay Singh Oberoi. Eventually, a hefty merger is drawn up alongside Shivaay and Tia's marriage, both business and personal. By then, she has to keep the other two daughters a secret, because the Oberoi family have already met Svetlana and Romi in different contexts, and aren't fond of either of them.

It's quite far-fetched, but the only thing that I can really think of to justify this track.

So now, the Kapoor's are going to wage war against the Oberoi's.

I actually don't mind this whole track, to be very honest. Ishqbaaaz has absolutely had no villain's, thus, the drama has been really kept to misunderstandings, repercussions and redemption, which is all well and good, but can get disastrously boring.

The Oberoi's are portrayed to have everything in theory - money, social status, respect, a flourishing corporate industry. However, they lack a lot too. The Oberoi family all love each other, no doubt, the only issue is that even in all of this love, lies a lot of manipulation, compromise, prejudice and personal morals. These weaknesses make them extremely susceptible.

On the other hand, these three sisters, embittered by the injustices that this family has thrown at them, are hungry for revenge. From what we heard in the last episode, they've been planning this for years now. More than Romi, I'm excited to see what Svetlana and Tia actually do. These two have apparently been using Tej and Shivaay respectively, to bring the whole family down. I would love to see exactly how they try to break the family, and I think that it would make for a fantastic plot if they played with the family member's to essentially make them turn on each other, of their own accord.

Svetlana, Tia and Romi all possess qualities that could make them worthwhile villains. Svetlana works closely with Tej, up to the point where she organises security for the family, which gives her access to a wealth of corporate and personal details that would be highly coveted. If you think about it, for Tej to have such unwavering faith in her actual business capabilities (in the early episodes, he remains quite resolute about her aptitude for her job), she genuinely must be good at what she does. Thus, Svetlana is most probably a fantastic researcher as well.

Tia, on the other hand, can be quite manipulative when she wants to be. Involving the media was an intelligent idea, because it hit Shivaay exactly where she wanted it to, on his sore spot, his reputation. Which leads me to think that she can actually be intelligent, but even more so than that, she appears to be sweet, and nave. Everyone apart from Shivaay and Annika pretty much think that she's absolutely brainless, and some even feel sorry for her. She could easily use this to her advantage. More than anything, Tia is the direct link between the sisters and Oberoi Mansion. Only her constant frequenting in and out of the house would make sense, which means that she would be privy to all that happened inside the house, as well as being one of the ways in which the attacks could play out. Maybe not as much as her sisters, but Romi, too, could be of use to this endeavour. Everyone who knows her closely' is under the impression that she is a self-obsessed maniac who they've all but gotten rid of. She disappeared for quite a while after RumYa's marriage, so its quite possible that they've been lulled into a false sense of security in her absence. Even more than that, Romi seems to have either blackmailed or forced her family' and her henchmen of being completely devoted to her - making them do her bidding would also be helpful in their fight.

Basically, altogether, these women could come at the Oberoi family like a hurricane.

With their mother also pulling strings through them, the Kapoor's have the potential to be fantastic antagonists. Speaking of said mother, is it just me, or does she seem the hungriest for vengeance? Out of all the Kapoor women, Tia is starting to look like the weakest link, because all she wants to really do is destroy Annika, while the others are out to ruin them all. Mrs. Kapoor, on the other hand, seems borderline psychopathic to me. I can't get the image of her twisting Tia's arm behind her back to elicit a part of her plan. I think that she'll only serve to fuel the fire between the Kapoor sisters, and make sure that all three stay dedicated to their respective pursuits.

I think that this trio will definitely have more of an impact that Roop and Gayatri ever did. While these three harbour the same hatred because it stems from a shared blow, Roop and Gayatri seemed way too motivated in their own stance to try to work together aptly. Maybe at one point in time, Roop and Gayatri could have been equally as tyrannical, but the writers pretty much ruined their own characters.

Which brings me to my last point; this whole post has been about the potential that this trio possesses. I say this, because as we have already seen from upcoming segments and current happenings on the show, I'm almost completely sure that having any such hope will be completely fruitless. Dressing up and marching into a hospital will six-inch heels on, chanting around a fire, throwing Annika into a freezer - these don't seem evil, they just seem downright stupid. I wish that they were shown to be more intelligent, to be more manipulative - to actually show us the Svetlana that they promised in the vanvaas promo.

We desperately need some actually drama on the show, because if I see anymore of Annika and Shivaay indulging in their forced marriage like it was a completely planned, love marriage while Saumya marches around the Oberoi Mansion constantly on the phone while Pinky is slinking around unhappily cursing Annika and Jhanvi rushing behind her to console her, and Daadi chanting about takkar ki ishqbaazi in the background, I will tear my hair out.

Here's to the nefarious nafratbaaaz, and the drama that they will hopefully bring!

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Posted: 8 years ago
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Honestly, I really don't know what to say about this track, or as a matter of fact any of the tracks.
Logic Express has derailed in this show and I don't know what to really say about it..

Ishqbaaz is the name of the show, and their is no Ishq only - One is busy chanting Naam Khoon Khandaan, One is short of a love life, and one does not know what he should do - acknowledge his marriage with his best friend or just completely deny it...

What we are getting to see..Warbaazi...

Between Obros and Kapsis...and what jokers we have in the name of villains...

Tia who is more obsessed with Anika than Shivaay, Svetlana who wants revenge - which may or may not have legitimate reasons and Romi, who is a needs a psychiatric ward, not revenge... But, manna padega, they have more grey matter than the other 3 jokers...

And the 3 other jokers are - Shivaay , whose stocks should fall witnessing how thick skulled a businessman he is, Omkaara who is busy doing art and shayri, and Rudra who is busy fanning around his favorite bhabhi...and ya we have Tej, who is only concerned how Shivay's stocks are more than his...

In this entire paltan of clowns - the only hope we have is from Jhanvi, Anika and Soumya, cause when it comes to brains, it seems they have it more than their respective better halves.
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Sorry my network's giving me a headache. Double post!
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This is the best thought explaination for them being sisters. But it is not far fetched for us. Because most of us will get it. It is far fetched for the writers. Becoz the basic principle with which they start writing a track is 'audiences are dumb' which they are not.
If this was a well thought, well written plot, they would have dropped hints. Example for this is Snape being actually good in the Harry Potter series. If u come to the revelation in 7 th part it hits you hard. But when u go back to the previous books, u see that unknowingly he always helped Harry & never caused irreversible damage to him.
If we go back to the show we won't find links between the three Ksis bcoz there's none. This is something the writers must have created after smoking a joint or two.
Now coming to the making of a good villain part. I believe that any villain needs three things
1. Either he needs to be a psychopath or a motivated enough in his or her cause to be a sociopath.
2. Even if they lack intelligence, they surely need an element of surprise.
3. If it's a movie or series, ofcourse wonderful acting.
Now we have to give it that the first two parts comes from wonderful writing which IB lacks. The girls do have element of surprise. Their connection to each other & the reason for their revenge & ofcourse avenging their father's & for Tia addition of the love of her life is a good motivation. They believe in it.
But they lack the most essential of it all, Acting. A good actor can work with tacky writing( example is our own SC). Daksh made a good villain bcoz we never made fun of him even if we weren't scared of him, bcoz Karan is a good actor & he actually made his shallowly written character work.
So unless the IB writers actually start writing good stuff, I don't think we would start taking the Ksis seriously.And that's why the would always be what they were individually- funny!
And that's were you my friend are absolutely right. They have potential but I can bet my life on the fact that they won't live up to it.
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Loved your take and thoroughly enjoyed the analysis. Hoping that Gul and her CREATIVE bunch would have done a fraction of the dissection of the characters before presenting us with all the fluff. When I see these episodes, I marvel at the creatives who are able to keep their jobs. My boss would have hauled me out of the premises long back had I presented him with such outlandish solutions.
Again awesome post.

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Innika ,
Great post! I do agree that if the plot was anything similar to the way you have put it down, it will make for a great watch, but I have serious doubts regarding the execution of this as watching the 3 sisters chant terribly worded poems around bonfires and sneaking around OM in horrible looking saris, hiding behind fruit baskets and trying to turn Ani into a popsicle doesn't look promising to me!!
Shivaay and Tej who were earlier portrayed as shrewd, ruthless and dangerous men, grey to the point of almost being black in Tej's case have become soft brainless marshmellows who sit sipping soup while the sky is falling!! The writers should show them fighting back and being the men they were once portrayed. Instead we have Ani being superbahu , catfights and cringeworthy dialogues for boosting TRPs!!
I felt that IB had a certain class in the earlier episodes and now I feel like my IQ drops 10 points every time I try to watch !! So disappointing!!
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Honestly, I'm expecting so much from these three vamps. But with the upcoming scenes of hiding Annika in a freezer etc, I think GK and her team is still badly stuck in the QH phase. Saas-bahu-patni-sautan dialogues irritate me to no end. And don't even start me on SSO. He's not living upto his tum jaanti nahi main kya kar sakta hun! reputation.
I want to see a great battle between OBros and Kapoor Sisters. SOR vs STR. Not STR planning and plotting and winning and SOR worrying and crying and agreeing to their backmails!

Ps. Great post!

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Your analysis is on point ! I too find it difficult to be afraid of these 3 girls with too much kajal. First of all, what was the reason the father died?

It looked like he was burnt, probably inside an exploding/burning car. And people were saying, It's awful that this happened but evil deeds do have consequences... (or something to that extent)

If the Senior Oberois did something to Mr. Kapoor, don't you think they'd know and perhaps not let them come near their family , let alone marry into it?? I think Mr. Kapoor did something WRONG, and got caught, and as villains often do, blame the good guys when their plans backfire.

Your theory of the girls being raised separately in camouflage is very plausible, it may give the CVs ideas. But why unite now? What is the sudden urgency, when there is no apparent weakness exposed in the Oberoi's shield? Do they think that Tia being almost married to Shivaay is a good enough bet to expose themselves?

The Oberois , apart from Tej and Shivaay, seem like really nice people who quietly do their own stuff without disturbing others. Tej and Shakti , however seem to have done some really questionable things back in the day, probably during Dadu's time. I am not even surprised if they had a hand in giving him a heart attack. Remember how Tej mocked Shakti for hiding in his room after their father died, while he had to pick up the pieces and hold the fort?

I am not the least afraid of the overly dramatic KapSis 🤔, not after Daksh (that guy was really creepy), and maybe the slithering and manipulative Roop. I feel these 3 will just cause more inconveniences rather than actual damage.

Now, Mrs. Kapoor and her legitimacy drama, this however can cause irreparable damage. Good and bad. Good it the sense that SSO will dismantle his NKK snobbery for his brother, he won't bear to alienate his beloved brother no matter what.

I think the impact would be greater if Rudra was the one in question, rather than Om. I never saw Tej even consider Rudra as an heir to the empire. Makes more sense.

Bad, in the sense that, SSO will worry this secret will tip Om over to his drug problem again, and even make Om leave the family. I must say this arc leaves Om in a very interesting plot.


Things are up in the air again. I just wish Annika didn't fight Shivaay's battles.
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Originally posted by: libran90

Honestly, I really don't know what to say about this track, or as a matter of fact any of the tracks.

Logic Express has derailed in this show and I don't know what to really say about it..

Ishqbaaz is the name of the show, and their is no Ishq only - One is busy chanting Naam Khoon Khandaan, One is short of a love life, and one does not know what he should do - acknowledge his marriage with his best friend or just completely deny it...

What we are getting to see..Warbaazi...

Between Obros and Kapsis...and what jokers we have in the name of villains...

Tia who is more obsessed with Anika than Shivaay, Svetlana who wants revenge - which may or may not have legitimate reasons and Romi, who is a needs a psychiatric ward, not revenge... But, manna padega, they have more grey matter than the other 3 jokers...

And the 3 other jokers are - Shivaay , whose stocks should fall witnessing how thick skulled a businessman he is, Omkaara who is busy doing art and shayri, and Rudra who is busy fanning around his favorite bhabhi...and ya we have Tej, who is only concerned how Shivay's stocks are more than his...

In this entire paltan of clowns - the only hope we have is from Jhanvi, Anika and Soumya, cause when it comes to brains, it seems they have it more than their respective better halves.


I think more than anything, this post is me being hopeful.
In all entirety, when one uses their intelligence, Ishqbaaaz is pretty much going to absolute shit.
You know, I wouldn't even care if they weren't showing all three brothers' love lives together - as long as all of them were doing something. Which they're not.
Even Shivaay, who has the most screen space out of the three brothers right now, isn't doing anything. He's literally the rope between Annika and Tia, who are playing an intense game of tug and war, while interspersing some classic patni-sautan dialogues.
So pretty much, the Obros aren't doing anything.
I completely agree about the Oberoi men. I don't know how Shivaay is India's top businessman (these people are getting compared to the Mittal's and the Ambani's, for god's sake!), and don't get me started on Omkara. I loved his idealistic premise (i related to him a lot on a very personal level) BUT then I can't take him seriously anymore - what with his random shayaris that don't make any sense, and his love for sculpting that we haven't seen in the last hundred episodes. And as much as I love AniRu, doesn't Rudra have college? TejSha practically make no decisions, just stare grimly at the current happenings in the family, and go to their bedrooms and argue with their wives.

I wish we saw more of Jhanvi. She seems like such an intelligent woman, and definitely the most open-minded Senior Oberoi. Annika has always been my favourite female lead, so I wish she wasn't being wasted with her stupid patni vs. sautan dialogues. And Saumya too, she had so much potential too - does she not got to college anymore?
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Originally posted by: poemssyndrome

This is the best thought explaination for them being sisters. But it is not far fetched for us. Because most of us will get it. It is far fetched for the writers. Becoz the basic principle with which they start writing a track is 'audiences are dumb' which they are not.
If this was a well thought, well written plot, they would have dropped hints. Example for this is Snape being actually good in the Harry Potter series. If u come to the revelation in 7 th part it hits you hard. But when u go back to the previous books, u see that unknowingly he always helped Harry & never caused irreversible damage to him.
If we go back to the show we won't find links between the three Ksis bcoz there's none. This is something the writers must have created after smoking a joint or two.
Now coming to the making of a good villain part. I believe that any villain needs three things
1. Either he needs to be a psychopath or a motivated enough in his or her cause to be a sociopath.
2. Even if they lack intelligence, they surely need an element of surprise.
3. If it's a movie or series, ofcourse wonderful acting.
Now we have to give it that the first two parts comes from wonderful writing which IB lacks. The girls do have element of surprise. Their connection to each other & the reason for their revenge & ofcourse avenging their father's & for Tia addition of the love of her life is a good motivation. They believe in it.
But they lack the most essential of it all, Acting. A good actor can work with tacky writing( example is our own SC). Daksh made a good villain bcoz we never made fun of him even if we weren't scared of him, bcoz Karan is a good actor & he actually made his shallowly written character work.
So unless the IB writers actually start writing good stuff, I don't think we would start taking the Ksis seriously.And that's why the would always be what they were individually- funny!
And that's were you my friend are absolutely right. They have potential but I can bet my life on the fact that they won't live up to it.


That's completely okay, my internet is being terrible too!

Can you imagine how much better Ishqbaaaz could be if some of the writers on the forum were writing for the show? I've pretty much given up all hope in regards to the CVs, after the forced marriage which was a blasphemy in the name of a track.
I think that you're absolutely right about the evil trio being a very random addition. Otherwise, the writers would have to be downright stupid to leave so many blatant plotholes. No, I feel like they were like 'shit, we have no villain anymore' so they threw in these three to somehow compensate.
I thought Roop could have been a good villain, because she seemed sociopathic, rather than Svetlana, Tia and Romi, who all make bitchy faces at the camera in the hope that they come across intimidating, which they obviously don't.
I completely agree with you about the acting. Karan is a fantastic example - because he's such a talented actor, he compensated for his terrible writing. That's how I feel about Nakuul, Surbhi, Kunal, Leenesh and Neha - their acting makes up for the CVs' shortcomings. However, for us to be scared or posess at least some sort of reverence for the 'villains', their acting needs to be good. I've heard great things about Reyhna Malhotra's acting but I've seen her on Jamai Raja, and I don't know what the hype is all about. As Svetlana, she honestly underwhelms. Navina is quite an esteemed actress, but I don't know if they want her to play Tia like she is, because she seems overtly fake. As for Krissan,she seems ideal for playing the 'hot' girl but not much more. I feel like all three are average actors, but they definitely need good writing to take their performances up a notch, which the writers of the show absolutely can't do.

The CVs really need to get their act together, otherwise the Kapoor sister's will be nothing aside from a joke, let alone embracing what potential they could have.


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