Glitzvision Vishkanya review: A good kind of new

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Posted: 9 years ago
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Vishkanya is unique, modern-day fairy tale romance. Premiered on Zee TV since last week it unravels the stroy of Aparajita; the vishkanya and Malay Mittal.


The love story begins to unravel when the family's ultra-wealthy Marwari neighbors, the Mittals, return to India after spending many years abroad. With his good looks and charm, their son Malay is the most eligible bachelorin Kolkata. He gets smitten by Aparajita as soon as he catches a glimpse of her.


Kalpana Ghose is a proud but a financially struggling woman who lives with her two daughters in Ghosh Baadi. Ghosh baadi is the eccentric place amidst all the high class bungalows and building in the old Kolkata. Looking really old it had all the stories of being haunted and nobody staying there but here she dwells with two of her daughter- Aparjita and Tapur.Aparajita has grown up in a bubble, isolated from the rest of the world under her mother's strict observations.


To all her queries, she was simply told that she was suffering from a disease and so this abandonment but but but Aparajita is, in fact, a Vishkanya. Oblivious to this she hopes to come outof the cage one day. But then everything is just planned by her mother. Even her freedom. she is just amere pawn in a larger game Kalpana is playing and that the poison she carries will be used, one day, as a weapon of revenge against the Mittals who are her neighbors.


Roshni Baneerjee as the revengeful and seductive Kalpana Ghosh charms the show with her marvelous screen presence. The protagonists keep a decent face and keep up a good pace with her but the lady just overpowers everything with her acting. The other characters are also good till now and the good acting of the show with the backdrop of old Kolkata is the key for the audience to connect with this fairytale drama. However the leads need to work on their dialogue delivery. They add a certain amount of innocence to their roles but then they really need to match up to the level of acting the supporting cast is doing.


So far the show looks good but then wereally need to wait and watch for what it is planning ahead for us. We do havehopes for it is refreshing and new but then Indian TV is not about keeping hopes high.All the best to the team and hearty congratulations.Keep reading Telly Tadka for more updates.

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Posted: 9 years ago
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TFS.
The protagonists keep a decent face and keep up a good pace with her but the lady just overpowers everything with her acting.

Lines in bold : So true. Kalpana is overpowering all other chars including the female lead in true sense. Kudos to the actress.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Having watched a few episodes, one thing that struck me is the botched attempt to give a Bong flavor to the serial by having everyone occasionally switch to Bengali, and only two of them - Dida and Tapur - getting it right!

For starters, this is a bad way to do it in a Hindi serial - particularly the way they do it. Liberal sprinklings of 'shorbonash', 'He Ma Durga', 'Mamoni' (which Bong calls her mom that? That's a term typically used by elders to call a daughter/neice/granddaughter...) and a few other Bong phrases hardly do it. Particularly weird is Appu saying 'Thik achey' (okay) to Maloy in response to a question about whether she wanted to be a professional or a housewife.

And I don't fault Aishwarya for this at all, since Roshni Banerjee too makes weird detours into Bengali before switching back to Hindi. It looks like Hindi is their mother-tongue, not Bengali. Only Dida - the granny - gets it right, and Tapur, who on one occasion switched completely to Bengali before reverting back to Hindi - did it right.

Rather than linguistic, they could have emphasized the ethnic Bong flavor of the serial by things like costumes. The type of blouse that Kalpana wears is not what married Bong women typically wear - w/ a string to tie it from behind. Also, like I mentioned in the other thread about Kalpana, for someone who is a widow, she's incredibly gaudily dressed - particularly that gold chain connecting her middle finger to her bracelet. This doesn't add up: if she is a traditional woman, then she'd be dressed just like Dida, in white or off-white, and if she's a modern woman, she'd be dressed more conveniently - typically in salwar-kameez, but still w/o those bangles. Oh, and in Kolkata, they typically don't wear slippers @ home, so in addition to Kalpana, the other 3 could be barefeet as well if they wanted to press the Bong feel about it w/o the awkward switching b/w Bengali & Hindi.

I do think it would be fascinating seeing the revelation of secrets as the show unfolds.
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