I know chemistry and all is subjective but a good actor shines through even when he's given crap material...to a limit. Even seasoned actors like Rani Mukherjee, Vidya Balan etc can have shitty moments when they're given shitty material toh Kunal ki toh baat hi kya hai. He's still considerably new. And yet whenever he was given even passable material in dbo he shone like a gem. I guess people here are too used to k serial type of ott, hammed up acting to recognise subtlety. I find kunal's performance really nuanced and subtle. Not every expression has to be ott exaggerated. His eyes convey so much, be it hurt, sadness, anger, love, affection, they make you feel it all. I mean just look at the rikara rain sequence, both of them conveyed it all without a single word uttered between them. This is called good acting. But I don't know why this has to be a competition between nakuul and Kunal. Nakuul is supposed to be the senior actor here. Personally I do prefer kunal's style over nakuul. Sometimes I feel like he tries to copy srk or something. But maybe that's just me. I didn't really watch ib anyway.