Hey guys!!
So, if you remember, I had suggested that we could all collectively curate a list of questions and send it to Kaveri. I'm thinking we can send it to both of them. I'll just group them and send the questions. I wrote a draft post. Let me know if anything sounds off or rude or if I can add anything more to this. And feel free to drop in any other questions you can think of.
P.S. I've edited out one or two questions that have already been asked in the live interviews.
Hi Kaveri & Ritvik,
Hope this message finds you in the best possible mental and physical health in these trying times. This message is brought to you by me but totally and completely sponsored by the KuKu fandom on India-Forums.
You both have very gracious and active in coming on to each and every live interview possible and even though, you both have now done several interviews in the past few weeks, the questions have been more or less, the same. The interviews gave us a whole lot of insight into your personal lives during lockdown and your bond with people behind the camera but we had a few questions of our own about what we get to see on-screen. These questions are for the whole cast, but mostly for you two.
The decision to send this message was taken after a lot of moral conflict because as actors, your job is to just act and not answer our queries but social media platforms make it feel like we do have some amount of access to you. Please know that all of us realise that your job is done with what we get on-screen (which we're all huge fans of) and so, there is absolutely no pressure to answer the following questions.
Questions:
1. How much do you relate to the characters you play on-screen?
2. What according to you are the biggest flaws of your respective characters, which only and only affect them and not the family?
3. Are you always convinced about the acts/decisions your characters make? If not, how do you manage to convincingly portray your character's actions on-screen?
4. Do you think that the audience learn, emulate &/or are influenced by their favorite characters? Do you feel responsible & do you feel pressure of that responsibility?
5. How do you prepare for the role? Do you like to share your inputs in the scenes, like improvising dialogues, suggesting & discussing with co-star, specially in couples scenes?
6. How do you deal with the criticism directed towards your onscreen character?
7. What is the hardest thing about working in the television industry?
8. Do the directors encourage improvisation, or are you asked to follow to script closely at all times? How much input do you, as performers, have in the scenes?
9. How do you separate work from home, especially when you're coming back from doing emotionally taxing scenes? Does it affect your head-space negatively afterwards?
10. In some of the interviews, you both had mentioned that you did not really know in the beginning that your characters were going to be as layered as they are now. What was it that made you realize that fact? Were you maybe given a briefing about it? Or was it a particular scene?
11. For Kunal: Do you think we will ever get to see Kunal, even if for just a scene, where his judgement and motivation for doing things is not fueled by his bhaiyopia or clouded by Maatri-chhaaya? (like we got to see during the Bachelor/Hen's party sequence).
Follow up: Do you think Kunal not being able to share his real feelings with the 2 people he considers family and being shut down when he does, suggest that they are essentially toxic relationships (for lack of a better term)?
12. For Kuhu: *Need suggestions here*
CID
