HT: Was looking for something different-Kratika

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I really admire how sensible Kratika seems; she did her saas-bahu K-soap bit at the beginning of her career, but I feel that Jhansi Ki Rani truly brought out the latent actor in her. Even though I haven't seen much of that show, I was amazed by Kratika's tenacity. Even in her stage performances as Laxmibai, she was completely in character...

I watched her in the last episode of JKR this weekend, and it honestly hurt watching her get wounded and seeing her die slowly...

I think that she's far more talented and expressive than most of the actresses in the film industry, actually, and that's because she puts herself into the shoes of her character and REALLY gets into the skin of the character she's portraying. Her speech and body language changes depending on the situation her character is in (in one of her TT interviews she was asked to say a line in 'Laxmibai andaaz', and immediately Kratika's face became stern even though she was saying "Pack up karo!" and started laughing afterwards!) That approach and dedication shows. These first two episodes of PV have been wonderful to watch because Kratika is already living and breathing as Aarti. Like Kratika said, it becomes effortless if an actor understands his/her character well. She's probably going to blow me away every day if her performance in these first two episodes already has me gushing endlessly! So much to love about her sensitivity to the story and its characters!

I adore this girl so much already! She's fantastic. I'm really looking forward to this show. This is probably the first time I've loved the intro episode for a show with a so-called "seedhi saadhi" heroine (even though Aarti is very much a mature yet cheerful girl) so much, dramatic conventions and all!