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Posted: 8 years ago
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I think its high time we create an AT for the show heroine
Tanushree Mehta/Leena Jumani AT - The super model forever

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Posted: 8 years ago
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You need mods permission for that.
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Posted: 8 years ago
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😆 Her character started off small, but she's grown into this mega blister you can't get rid off.

I don't know if Leena acted as a negative character before. Many hate her as the third wheel. That means she's doing a terrific job as an actress in this show. For that, bravo to her!!
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Posted: 8 years ago
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First and foremost its script, direction and situations shown in a serial that makes any character shape up too disgustingly negative to get hated most by the audience. 😳


Last few days I have been noticing on SM lot of people showing utter disgust with most abusive words for Aliya's character in KKB. But they are also appreciating Shikha's tone, dialogue modulation, her expressions, the way she quickly changes emotions, her body language, the way she uses her eyes and her hands while speaking and some times even with silence how much she makes your blood boil...👍🏼 This is what is called terrific acting, doing good job playing negative character that gets abused the most by viewers but as an actress gets appreciated and recognized for her body of work. So Indian TV audience have learnt over years to appreciate negative performances away from the characters they hate. 😊


In the last 2.5 yrs since Leena joined as Tanu in KKB, slowly viewers hatred towards Tanu kept on increasing due to the way her character kept on falling low, but very rarely I have noticed people appreciating her acting abilities be it as a supporting character, as sidekick, as third wheel, as vamp, as main villain or main lead what ever names that can be given for the undue importance Tanu's role has got from writers, creatives, directors and producers over the years. Firstly Leena is miscast for role of India's top super model, being fair, modern and good looking doesn't give an actress an ability to get into models body language, class, styling and attitude. Then coming to her character variations, any other talented actress in her place could have received loads of appreciation for the kind of screen space she got, but she rarely did. 👎🏼 Pls this is a fact closely observed that I'm sharing, not meant to offend any one.



While watching many episodes, many scenes over the years, there are people like me who felt if there was any other TV actress instead of Leena in that scene how bombastic it could have turned into with delight for eyes to watch, especially in combination scenes with other excellent actors on this show. But rarely could have felt similar while watching Shikha enact Aliya's role. Now that's the difference and indicates a lot. 😳



Leena is unfortunately an average actress a rather weak link when compared to rest of the KKB core cast who are bundles of multi layered talent, some don't even get utilized most of the time in the show. Leena still has a long way to improve as an actress, despite getting so much elevated character build and screen space in a top notch TV show for many years, she still has a lot of room as an actress for improvement. Her eyes, her body language, her tone, dialogue modulation, the way she emotes in some crucial scenes still just goes off track looking amateurish. 😒
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Posted: 8 years ago
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I agree with you @LA2725(this is no offence to Leena). Leena as Tanu is good looking, fair, but not the exact super model type. I used to think that she is seen as a decorative piece by the writers and Nitin, the type of dresses they provide her and make her look more beautiful. But in the negative role, Shika as Aalya just does it perfectly and naturally. Leena's lack of acting skills was very much obvious in the last few episodes. When she was confronted by Abhi and thrown out, her acting was all out of context, she could not show deep emotion at all. The writers must give her and us a break and allow Aalay to take more screen space or for that matter any other new character. This is not a personal affront on Leena but stating what is obvious and that she is given more screen space than necessary. The fans do not like her since she always comes in between Abhigaya and not because she is making an impact as a good negative character.
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Posted: 8 years ago
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@LA2725...you are so right...leena as an actress has a very very long way to go.(this has nothing to do against leena).and for me as well she has not fit into this role of tanu at all...for all the reasons you mentioned and a few more...I saw her in two shows and she was a very weak link...she may be better for other roles but not this one...I have not enjoyed her portrayal at all...a lot of ppl say the reason why her character is hated is because she is doing a good job..but I beg to differ...we love to hate the villain...in this case it is a matter of hate to hate...shikla as alia does a remarkable job...her tone...her dialogue...her acting ...her body language...even though in these last couple of episodes we did not want her character to come back into mm...but yesterday when she was telling munni about kidnapping and so fort her character was fantastic...this is great acting...but unfortunately leena does not have the tone of voice the expression...and yes a lot of times when she is doing her dialogue it falls flat...I will always give an example when abhi was getting pragya married to suresh and she had to go and distract him whilst alia steal the envelope from his pocket...that was terribly executed...and this is just one of many...I don't enjoy her performance as tanu and a lot of my friends and family feel the same...we are supposed to love to hate the villain not hate to hate the villain and her character at this point in time...has no consequence in mm...abhi told her he does not want to see her face and come near him...so what exactly does her character have to do in the show.,.we can understand alia's character being in mm...but tanu's character for whatever reason is given the greatest amount of coverage ad leeway that is not at all important...
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Haha Sahithi...I thought you are serious for a sec there. I worry that the AT will be full of hate comments instead of appreciations (no offense to Miss Jumani). Tanu is a no no appreciation receiver...😆
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Of course script has everything to do with a character!!😊 No arguments there. That's why we have Pragya, Abhi, abhigya, etc. AT's on this forum. In fact we have separate threads for Abhi and Pragya's memorable lines!! We like these characters because writers have conceived and wrote them beautifully.

I respect your opinions, but I disagree about Leena's acting. Tanu is an irritating and aggravating canker in this show. But I do think she does a good job playing a high end, glamorous, narcissistic obsessed woman who'll go to any length to get what she wants. Her character is not praise worthy, but Leena playing that part is. I feel her screeching and screaming side is part of the character who throws tantrums and gets ugly if anyone says no to her. Classic case of narcissism.

Tanu as Aliya's friend is her softer side. And how she's with Nikhil - bossy and dependent on him. I think she does those part quite well too.

Tanu and Aliya are more of psychological villains. I preferred Madhurima Tuli as Tanu, but I feel Leena has come a long way. Her character (and Aliya) has a lot to do with Pragya getting our sympathy and support.
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Originally posted by: hutanbandar

Haha Sahithi...I thought you are serious for a sec there. I worry that the AT will be full of hate comments instead of appreciations (no offense to Miss Jumani). Tanu is a no no appreciation receiver...😆


Thanks for saying this..glad there are still few of us left who can spell sarcasm and not be overly offended by it 😊
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Originally posted by: Sahithi.A



Thanks for saying this..glad there are still few of us left who can spell sarcasm and not be overly offended by it😊



I get it 😛

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