Look Leena after a long time has put efforts to lose some weight she has started looking slim in few recent scenes.. have no offence to Leena she seems to be a nice girl, professional on sets, friendly and a pretty looking TV actress. 😊 Now one problem is Leena's hair style, makeup and costumes as Tanu right from Jul episodes have NOT been upto the mark hence she may appear to look dull on screen..though Leena and her stylists seem to be assuming otherwise..😆
Shikha performs so well as a classy villain Aliya, even if viewers hate Aliya's crimes and evil nature in KKB most often Shikha's acting gets noticed and praised,, Even without uttering a dialogue in a silent shot Shikha can dominate or threaten on screen.. In addition Aliya's role is that of male lead's sister, a Mehra and main villain of show who still has lot of stakes in story and in Abhi & Purab's lives. So its natural some times we viewers end up comparing Leena's acting with rest of able performers on the show. Leena did improve a bit over the years, but since remaining star cast of KKB is both naturally talented and skilled, she always falls short. Ruchi has recently joined the cast as Disha, but she is already proving she can emote, modulate her voice, change her body language and be expressive as Disha.
Its a miracle how Balaji team has still retained an average performer like Leena with so much forced screen space as Tanu, when she repeatedly falls short in emotions, expressions, gestures and voice modulation and visibly goes offsync in many combination scenes with other talented KKB cast... 😳 Atleast some one from crew could have seriously helped Leena with some acting workshops on how to play a negative role with class, if for them uplifting an irrelevant Tanu's character in KKB is so much important as per their script.. Or they could have replaced Leena with a better performer when Balaji had history of creating some wonderful female vamps/villains on TV shows over the years..
Sorry but most often Leena fails to emote correctly or modulate her voice properly in intense scenes or carry off a poise, body language, style and attitude of a supposed India's ex-super model or be expressive in portraying greed and psycho nature of a villain.. as it still looks like forced acting in many scenes..How long can any actor/actress cover up her average performance just by screeching on screen?? And I refuse to believe that KKB crew isn't aware of her lack of acting powers. Because they hardly give Leena any solo long duration intense or emotional scenes, most of her scenes as Tanu are mainly tagged with Aliya, Nikhil, Pragya or even Mithali characters so that those scenes don't fall flat..🤔
When classy TV villain roles are played by Indian actresses like Achint Kaur, Jennifer, Ridhi Dogra, Rakshanda Khan, Urvashi, Kamay Punjabi etc. it still becomes bearable for viewers to watch their performance on screen despite not liking negative characters that they play in their shows..atleast Leena can refer to their performances..