KKB started like any other serial, tentatively watched by viewers, with trps low to start with, then gradually increasing as characters started being liked by viewers and then reaching a sudden crescendo of height at the advent of Abhigya marriage. To all non-Hindi speaking people, Shabir as Abhi and Sriti as Pragya were all new. As the magic of Shabir/Sriti's phenomenal acting as Abhi/Pragya started setting in, then there was no turning back ever. It was Tisha as Abhigya as they were started being called with utter love and craziness with the fandom increasing in southern states and other countries too.
Abhigya/KKBs growth came purely by the hard work of Tisha and their unique chemistry, their par excellence acting giving the viewers utmost satisfaction in watching each and every scene of theirs. Each track had its uniqueness since Tisha were so versatile in whatever role they were given. They are the most compatible pair to grace the screen with mutual respect/admiration between them and wonderful friendship and bonding offscreen which is reflected so much onscreen also. Their comfort zone is like no other pair.
The fans who loved Tisha unconditionally followed KKBs growth sincerely for the past five years with patience and love which is indeed worth noting since though the title was kkb, it became negative based with illogical recycling, drag and crime based with criminals always having the upper hand and it was Abhigya and the loyal fans who kept the show running to success till now.
The writers could not deliver a good story to Abhigya thus bringing in 7 yr leap which though was resented at first was accepted since it contained much intense performance by Abhigya with the inclusion of Kiara.
So far, so good. But then came the twins/DP/Abhigya old age and the most illogical 20 yr leap. It was not for this that the fans had been so patient for the past 5 years, it was always in anticipation to see young Abhigya's married life progressing. To forcefully thrust in a complete set of new casts, especially the daughters of Abhigya is a big mistake made by the production team.
To talk about the advent of DP, the twins played by Mugdha and Rhea are the worst set of actors to be selected for this role (am mentioning their relevance to kkb only). For one, the obvious fact is that Mugdha as Prachi is way too mature and looking older than Pragya and as girl friend to Ranbir and her acting is too stereotyped and repetitive and her emotional scenes exposes her acting potential very crudely. She can be highlighted only with over makeup and in fancy happy group scenes, she cannot be focused as a particular character when her acting becomes very much exposed especially in emotional scenes. And the other is Naina as Rhea, she is totally unfit to play character roles and can fit in only in modeling type of events or some fancy group events. She looks oversized, vulgar with the most screwed up facial expressions, always giving a constipated look.
It is indeed the mistake of Ekta and Zee tv and production team to have brought in this DP since they are well aware that KKB is all due to Abhigya/Tisha and bringing in new characters making Abhigya old and sidelining them will not be accepted by old fans and they will show their complete resentment which is justifiable.
If the so called new casts can have a fan faith promoting their characters which has not even been tried to its full potential but entered on the basis of an already laid out successful platform, one should accept with grace how intense will that be of old fans of last 5 years till now.
The DPs should have been assigned to a new serial and KKB should be given only to Abhigya by reincarnating them since it is with their background even now that the new DPs are being pushed in.
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