Nandini : Impulsive & Unstable

Coming straight to the topic, the character of Nandini needs to be revamped or either made strong enough to suit Chandra.

Many of us have been making the very same points in different words for the character Nandini. People who love this character presume that it is our 'supposed hate' speaking. But the truth remains that I see a promise and potential in the character which at the present seems to be just mislaid with the script doing a severe disservice. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Similarly you cannot be willing to wound and afraid to strike at the same while. The character can either be grey and vengeful or great and saintly, hit my left cheek and I will show you my right sort. The present version of Nandini just comes off as a bratty, blind, unthinking and at times stupid sort of person. Her revenge is also not full blown. Her schemes to kill Chandragupt look so utterly childish that I can only marvel how she thinks they are actually going to work.

Originally posted by: shailusri1983

Many of us have been making the very same points in different words for the character Nandini. People who love this character presume that it is our 'supposed hate' speaking. But the truth remains that I see a promise and potential in the character which at the present seems to be just mislaid with the script doing a severe disservice. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Similarly you cannot be willing to wound and afraid to strike at the same while. The character can either be grey and vengeful or great and saintly, hit my left cheek and I will show you my right sort. The present version of Nandini just comes off as a bratty, blind, unthinking and at times stupid sort of person. Her revenge is also not full blown. Her schemes to kill Chandragupt look so utterly childish that I can only marvel how she thinks they are actually going to work.

Well i think shes going to learn from chandra she is naive and childish foolish too shes in her cacoon sort of a confused character whose world was her pita maharaj and nothing else now she had another man in her life wholl show heradiffirent side shes not seeing that side if something happen to chadra what will happen as she never thought her father will lose magadh

^An extremely spoilt and pampered princess who never knew what dirty games are. I hope she learns soon. A one sided battle is not so interesting.

In addition to being naive and foolish she is coming across as extremely selfish. For her it is all about her happiness, her pain, her pita maharaj etc etc.

^That's so so right! Ugh. Iss masoom bechaari matlabi cranky stree ko serial killer kaise banayenge?!🤣

The other aspect in Nandini's character that tends to flabbergast a number of viewers is her selective grasp and selective amnesia of even the truth she sees. Take the kanyadan scene. Dhananand, her brother infiltrates into the palace with devious intentions. He is caught by Chanakya and forced to do the Kanyadan. Immediately after he does that, he raises some sharp object and is going to kill her own 'Suhaag' before he is caught and dragged back by the soldiers. Chandragupt is roused to a raging fury and about to retaliate by paying Dhananand in the same coin, and what does this stree do? She passes a mental judgement against Chandra thinking what sort of a despicable man he is who was going to kill his own wife's brother on his marriage day. The poor chap was not contemplating anything of that sort. It is her brother's murder attempt that provokes him to retaliate. She does not think for once what sort of a brother she has who was killing her own ' suhaag' on her marriage day. She perhaps thinks it justified and the perfectly normal way to behave.

^There is a whole list to it. I've an inkling on making a fun post on this 😆

The problem with Indian Television is that they don't know how to do a grey female character and we are struck with either *completely positive" sati savitri types or *completely negative...beyond redemption* vamps types.