| Sometimes it takes time for a soap to whip up a lather. It would be foolhardy, not to mention premature, to write off Ekta Kapoor's latest pain-wave Kavyanjali on the basis of the first few episodes. Polished and fast-moving… it certainly is. But I'm yet to figure out which way the plot is heading… Is it a family drama inspired by Ekta's buddy Karan Johar's Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham? Looks like it. Because one of the episodes featured a family celebration straight out of K3G, along with veteran actress Achala Sachdev to remind us of the Johar in the crown. On another level Kavyanjali also seems to be a ghost story. The inaugural episode had the hero being given a yelping hand by an extra-friendly female ghoul who behaved like an out-take from Ram Gopal Varma's Bhoot. But the level on which I like Kavyanjali the best is the Amrita Singh level. She looks lovely and acts with a great deal of poise. Surely an eminently welcome addition to the jaded brigade of small-screen queens. But please! Amrita Singh doesn't look like anybody's 'Badi Mummy'. |
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