Exceptionally well written and analyzed. Welcome to the forum, you made my day with this post and I am really quite excited to see you here!
One caveat though-- I appreciate Sanaya's honesty when it comes to her own preferences on which character she felt was easier to play /understand. As an actor, she has always been professional, and I find her interviews to reflect her sense of responsibility for the characters she plays. She has never given short shift to any of her roles, at least as far as I've known--I never watched Chanchan or Miley Jab Hum Tum, because I'm not a Sanaya fan, per se.
But I do know she was well regarded in both shows, and did her job--which included interviews, behind the scenes, and being diplomatic. I understand, though, that for a person with her natural exuberance, it was Khushi that was her best role, probably because it was closest to her real nature, and she said that frankly. I liked that.
Remember, she played Chanchan, Khushi, Paro and Gunjan as well so she has a breadth of characters she has inhabited to choose from when it comes to who she identified with, and enjoyed playing the most. Her saying she liked the character of Khush Kumari Gupta does not affect her excellent acting of Parvati Ranawat--I think her fans would be able to differentiate between her personal favorite, and her current avatar.
In my opinion, liking her role as Khushi does not negate her performance overall as Parvati--where she literally never breaks into Khushi for me, where she has created an identity for Paro that is unique to Paro, and her expressions, even showing the same emotions Khushi did so well (such as mischief) is differently portrayed for this calm, shy character.
And as for her chemistry with Barun, and the need for it to be seen again--- I would say her sexual chemistry with Ashish is much much greater than any she's had with her previous shows. This is not due to Ashish, or Barun, their looks, or her comfort levels with them. The reason is, of course the very nature of their characters. Rudra is earthy, sexual and basically a living flame, and Paro trusts him to not hurt her, she is mesmerized by him, and actively enjoys his seduction. Their passion is the natural result of the "obsessed-with-each-other" characters they are playing. Paro/Rudra are more mature, and certainly the themes of the show are more serious and sensual, than IPKKND was. This translates to a more mature couple-- and more mature heat.
But while personally I think the Barun-Sanaya jodi was among the legendary couples in TV history (and I include international shows ) I personally prefer this current RR coupling. That is not because I am not a Barun fan--I am. But because, well--I prefer a committed, passionate, absolutely no-holds-barred love story with communication and trust versus angst and misunderstandings between lovers that a five minute conversation would have solved. Their trust issues made me a little crazy.
Having said that, if the TV Gods smiled and years from now Sanaya and Barun ended up onscreen again, I'd be the first popping the popcorn-- and that is not because I am a teenager still hung up on that couple. I think, actually that even if that happened, its perfectly possible these two amazing friends would NOT be able to capture the lightning in the bottle effect of IPKKND -- even if they tried. Shows have since tried and failed to capture IPK's overall magic. Tastes change, and people (even co-stars ) move on and do better with newer faces, and are less effective with their older ones. Case in point is Sara Khan and Angad Hasija who reunited after Bidaai in another serial, and just didn't deliver there. There is no guarantee that in a different show, Sanaya and Ashish will have this heat, either.
Thus for me, living in the here and now, I am enjoying the experience of being a part of created history that Rangrasiya represents for Indian TV. This woman has a strong, unusual character to play, this man has an honesty and an intelligence to his acting, and this particular story has wit, passion, politics and every character, even the evil ones, have sense and a strong point of view. I hope India has the right audience to sustain such creative work.
Edited by napstermonster - 11 years ago
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