Originally posted by: Luna99
Okay. Here's my view on this whole Rocky naag saga.
See , it would've been very good if they would've decided to turn rocky into a naag early on the show, but they decided to introduce Rudra.
Then, when we demanded the Drashiv naag-naagin love story , they definitely gave that .
The 2nd part.
They made, rocky...a saanp(can't force myself to say naag).
Not just that.
Takshak Naagraj, who can apparently FLY.🤣
Now, making rocky a naag earlier in the show without introducing Rudra would've given him a purpose and make him popular.
But turning him into a snake turned out to be futile.
Mostly due to the following reasons:
1) It was very apparent that the cvs really didn't have any more ideas to run the show in the much apparent extension period , so they decided to make Rocky a naag suddenly because they thought a naag-naagin love story would be more interesting than a normal human-naagin love story they showed all the S1 and now in S2 till the pre-leap.
2) They thought that turning Rocky into a naag will give them their S1 trps back and also increase the popularity of Kvb, who had lost all the respect he garnered by playing viraj and aahil.
But in the process , KVB had to lose his all self respect .I bet when Miku and Nonu grow up, he won't be able to say them that he did this role🤣
3) Since the metamorphosis of Patthar into King Cobra was so sudden without any signs in the pre-leap days(some may argue that he did show signs),many people wondered W*F with this show.Plus many didn't really like this Rocky and post turning into a snake, people got turned off by the fact that the useless Rocky has turned into a snake instead of Rudra re-entering .
They couldn't tolerate the crap so switched off .
4) Even though Rocky turning into a naag has been very hilariously torturous from the moment it happened, I believe they could've gained back some audience if they could handle it properly, though it was very difficult to compare the post leap happenings with the pre-leap ones.
But still, since in India, people just watch anything that's "INTERESTING", this new track had a lot of potential.
But they ruined it with same kkb inspired misunderstanding .
Plus there are following reasons that doesn't concern Patthar:
1)The unnatural come back of Yamini.
I was once a great fan of Sudha Chandran.
Sorry, but post leap and with the weird revival of Yamini that makes no sense, I can't tolerate her anymore.
Even after they brought her back for S2, after getting her killed by Shivanya , I was kinda happy and entertained by her performance and considered her to be my top reason to watch the show along with adaa and kinshuk.
But post leap, her character has lost the charm which Yamu had even in S2 preleap and now just gives me headaches.
Plus her makeup. I don't like her anymore and want yamini to die.
2) Unnatural revival of Sesha. It's apparent that Sesha was once an interesting red herring that brought thrill to the show, and her progression to negativity as a result of jealousy was quite natural and thrilling in S1.
But what does the writers do to red herrings?
They kill them off!
Well , though I thoroughly enjoyed Adaa's performance in S2, I must say that I kinda found her presence unnecessary this season.
More than that, her obsession with Patthar without any reason.
I think they should've killed her off at the end of S1 itself, but due to trp reasons, she was brought back.
Well, I kinda understand her anger over Shivanya for Ritik, but I don't know why she's fighting with her niece over a silly piece of rock.(Now we know, he's the snake king)
But when she was turned into patthar , I heaved a relief that the game has ended coz I was finding increasingly that she's too a unnecessary headache.
Then EK brought her back in the most illogical way.
So illogical that even trp aunties couldn't digest properly.
Plus her entry wasted the entire potential of the already highest degree absurd Rocky naagraj track and did irreparable damage to the entire future prospects of the show.
That's why , adaa's booming re-entry lowered the trps instead.
2) Last season , we had some exciting villains like the Mathurs and Suri and not to mention, anky(Manish Khanna was back for an explosive cameo which was, in my opinion, 2nd best to rudra)
Well, Ramya mathur was kinda similar to tanya's mom , but at least the former didn't force me to beat my head against wall.
Tanya's papa is a comic villain , but half as interesting as anky.
Puts me to sleep.Yawn.
The less we say about Rocky's father , the better it is.
This guy isn't good looking. Ok don't have to.
He's a villain.
But he's so bad looking that you'll need an aspirin if you stare at his face for long . Especially if you've 32 inch LED tv like me and you're watching the show on colors hd.
And tanya.
She's boring, she's useless , she's ugly...She's every thing you'll find in a substandard roadside food stall in HongKong.
I mean, she's meant to be a villain, but couldn't they find a more pleasant looking girl.
Staring at her smashed pumpkin face for long makes me vomit.
And jadunath...He's a good actor but I don't like him.
Simple.
Now coming to Patthar himself.
Don't kill me off but here's the truth.
KVB and Kinshuk are equivalent in acting talent.
Both have shown immense growth, shades and characterization in each of the role they've done.
While KVB had a high point as Viraj Dobriyal, Kinshuk perfected the role of Rudra the Naag.
Both of the roles are immensely tough.While kvb had to play mental patient, kinshuk had a challenge of doing a role that had been mostly done by women.
Not that males haven't done it, but to various degrees of failure.
Kinshuk proved to the world that naags DO work.
Now, let's come to what character Miku-Nonu's dad has been given.
Rocky is a character very much inspired by Baywatch and rotten reality shows like Splitsvilla and to extent, Bigg Boss(which I admit, was fave show till S8)
He's a useless character kept there only to romance the heroine and make fangirls drool over him.
Kinda the fiction counterpart of Prince Narula and to some extent, Gautam Gulati.
But then , you can't compare Naagin with Bigg Boss , though they both come in seasons at around the same time.
So obviously, he tanked.
Instead of being amazed at his body, women got turned off -because of his personality of course.
I know , male leads of Hindi serials don't have any purpose other than being the husbands of the heroines and occasionally scream at them.
But, you need substance in your role other than being an eye candy to female viewers , which Rocky lacked at the 1st place.
Do you know why Ritik was SO popular?
He really didn't play much part apart from being a foil to shivanya's revenge until much late into the story , but he had at least some personality and his role as the Suryavanshi successor was predetermined beforehand , so we can say he had substance to back himself up as a character.
But Rocky is just for skin show.
And as far as I know, KVB is an artist who would do justice to substantial male lead roles , but unfortunately , he can't really pass off skin show as acting , unlike Vivek Dahiya or the aforementioned Prince.
He's not that type of person, and it's just apparent in his face that he's not comfortable with the skin show for the sake of it.
Now, there was a chance where the cvs could bring the best from kvb as they turned Patthar into King cobra.
But they wasted that opportunity by again deciding to emphasize skin show and giving him a loose dhoti.
Instead of being applauded , kvb has now become a laughing stock.
Feeling sad for miku-nonu and his wife.😭
And yes, it's a very good idea to launch finite weekend shows.
But due to trps, the channel gave the show too much extensions until the show begged Ekta to put an end to it.
But only to be back with a second season.
Since they had no idea to do it properly, so the cvs took the whole naagin 1 plot and hero and vamp from kavach and mixed it up.
But the channel pulled the show too much that now people can't wait to see the end of those show and the franchise too .
And the audience drop was expected.
They've watched the show for goddamn many weeks without any new or interesting happening.
Rocky's metamorphosis into snake was a lame, but somewhat interesting plot twist that could've improved the show but got wasted .
So who will waste their valuable time on this shit, though even those ipl matches are fixed.
But at least the fixing isn't that apparent like the sudden decision of turning rocky a naag. Plus this show happens at weekends , so nowadays even loyal viewers are forgetting about it.
Sigh.
RIP Naagin.
Your creator dug your grave and now arranging own pyre.
Jhanak
Shiv Shakti
