Actress Preeti looks fit, bubbly, prim & young onscreen here in KA, keeping aside what her real age may be or may not be. Below is my old post from few days back in other thread, re-posting here.
Proper makeup, style, costumes, hair, body language etc. can make even 20's age actor or actress look like some matured 40's or even elderly 60's/70's onscreen, its also about convincing styling, presentation, characterization & relevant usage. đThere are many such Indian films/web series/TV serials as examples that did this part quite convincingly, because as audience while watching we aren't reminded or bothered of what's real age of actor/actress?
As I lamented, entire Neerja & son's sub track in KA isn't emotionally connecting, as it was supposed to be.
Crew could have invested more efforts in brainstorming how writing, styling & execution can be made better convincing before shifting focus to Neerja rather than copying OG track of senior citizen donor, mostly as is in KA. And then would have gone for some appropriate casting for Neerja & her son's roles.
How about this as possible Neerja backstory for example? Neerja could have been shown as some rich widow who lost her husband & school going sons in some grave accident,
where as her own brother or BIL were harassing her to loot her wealth, as she has no heir left. But she has some unfulfilled dream of her family where she wants to spend her wealth in noble cause. Frustrated with relatives she left home, came down to Mumbai from another city, was working with some NGO while living in their quarters. As her relatives came hunting for her to NGO office, after being bone marrow donor to Aarav she was searching for a new guest house to live in Mumbai, where her relatives can't track her easily. In Katha's house she felt both secure & loved, felt like family.
Similarly there could be many other ways to showcase lonely sad status of Neerja in current KA version, in a steady manner which is missed opportunity now.
Seriously we viewers often have better, believable, logical stories and scripts than the soap writers normally come up with đ
India forums FF writers are one big example of that. I've read far better stories and executions of some tracks than the creative ever could imagine.
Soaps creatives often don't have creativity and especially if it's a remake they just blindly follow the original story. Tweaking it to the taste of the relevant audience doesn't come easy to them.
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