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Thank you all so much for your replies, and for the very interesting and thought provoking discussions here ... loved reading them all. I think we all agree that Khushi's setting up her own business is definitely a track to be welcomed, but the way it was done was very poorly thought out (putting it mildly!)
@appy, Smita ... I am totally with you on your point that the cv's are wasting SI's awesome talent ... she is a fabulous actress who can do all emotions seamlessly and effortlessly, but they seem to be concentrating on the comedy - forgetting that good comedy is the most difficult genre to write ... and with this story comedy can't be presented in isolation, it has to be tied up with the emotions of the moment. The portrayal was fine, SI did her best with the material given - she was supposed to be irritating Arnav and she did that in spades ... but alongside that should have been her confusion, her mixed emotions to this man, her reactions to Shyam - a few monologues would be adequate to cover that, even if she has conveniently forgotten her confession, but we didn't get any of that, apart from the rabba ve's ... I did like the office one.
And ditto for BS - another fantastic actor - reading Sari's take, I get that he was supposed to be confused about his feelings and hers, ... but the way the scenes were scripted, the audience was the one left confused ... does he remember, or does he not ... though his character was definitely less butchered, except for the few scenes I listed.
@Phoenix - the SPA night has made me all charged up for the show again - the PH has a great team and a fantastic lead pair ... just hope they put their best creative juices into this show, instead of diverting them all over the place! I agree with you and Japonica - the actors held the script together this week, but the PH has to make sure the characters stay intact - because the characters make the show ... the actors make the characters. If the cv's tamper with the characters too much, the actors cannot salvage them! And the audience of IPKKND seems to be mature enough to know the difference!
@AnnieK - I agree with you that Khushi's antics were childlike - and after reading Sari's excellent post, I did re-think Khushi's antics. But I hope the cv's have also had the same thought process and are not putting in the comedy for the sake of it ... the disconnect was not because Khushi (and Arnav with her!) was acting childish, it was because of the jumping of tracks without enough explanation given. She's driven into a corner, she's had enough and she decides, okay, I promised I won't leave, but he can throw me out, can't he? - logical, and very Khushi-like, she won't sit in a corner and cry and put up with nonsense for the next six months! But the sudden jump to 'I have to return his money' and the way she went about it ... not well done, and not Khushi-like.
Anyway, hopefully the feedback will reach the right people ... with Arnav concentrating on Shyam, am hoping for some improvement this week.
@Dashing_Girl - agree with you completely - the characters have to be kept intact - the actors are fantastic, just give them the right raw material and they will take the show to dizzy heights - they already have with no backing from the channel!
@appy, Smita ... I am totally with you on your point that the cv's are wasting SI's awesome talent ... she is a fabulous actress who can do all emotions seamlessly and effortlessly, but they seem to be concentrating on the comedy - forgetting that good comedy is the most difficult genre to write ... and with this story comedy can't be presented in isolation, it has to be tied up with the emotions of the moment. The portrayal was fine, SI did her best with the material given - she was supposed to be irritating Arnav and she did that in spades ... but alongside that should have been her confusion, her mixed emotions to this man, her reactions to Shyam - a few monologues would be adequate to cover that, even if she has conveniently forgotten her confession, but we didn't get any of that, apart from the rabba ve's ... I did like the office one.
And ditto for BS - another fantastic actor - reading Sari's take, I get that he was supposed to be confused about his feelings and hers, ... but the way the scenes were scripted, the audience was the one left confused ... does he remember, or does he not ... though his character was definitely less butchered, except for the few scenes I listed.
@Phoenix - the SPA night has made me all charged up for the show again - the PH has a great team and a fantastic lead pair ... just hope they put their best creative juices into this show, instead of diverting them all over the place! I agree with you and Japonica - the actors held the script together this week, but the PH has to make sure the characters stay intact - because the characters make the show ... the actors make the characters. If the cv's tamper with the characters too much, the actors cannot salvage them! And the audience of IPKKND seems to be mature enough to know the difference!
@AnnieK - I agree with you that Khushi's antics were childlike - and after reading Sari's excellent post, I did re-think Khushi's antics. But I hope the cv's have also had the same thought process and are not putting in the comedy for the sake of it ... the disconnect was not because Khushi (and Arnav with her!) was acting childish, it was because of the jumping of tracks without enough explanation given. She's driven into a corner, she's had enough and she decides, okay, I promised I won't leave, but he can throw me out, can't he? - logical, and very Khushi-like, she won't sit in a corner and cry and put up with nonsense for the next six months! But the sudden jump to 'I have to return his money' and the way she went about it ... not well done, and not Khushi-like.
Anyway, hopefully the feedback will reach the right people ... with Arnav concentrating on Shyam, am hoping for some improvement this week.
@Dashing_Girl - agree with you completely - the characters have to be kept intact - the actors are fantastic, just give them the right raw material and they will take the show to dizzy heights - they already have with no backing from the channel!
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