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Posted: 6 years ago
#31
Mauli is the most human character in this show, you can't go wrong with her. No extra efforts have been taken to show her character, her screenspace is lower in comparison to other two characters. What went wrong with KuNan is glorification of EMA and inclusion of destiny, God and one scene of abuse by Rajdeep to compensate one step taken by Nandini in Kunal's direction. The thing is that even before the first episode aired people were on Mauli's side, none will accept cheating as God's wish or something which is not wrong.
The biggest mistake writer is making with Nandini is trying to whitewash her (Kunal praising Nandini in front of Mauli, Nandini fulfilling Mauli's promise etc.) after she slept with Mauli's husband. Maya was a grey character initially and with Maya there was Sanjh who was a completely white character, but people did love Maya more because she was never whitewashed. Imagine how would people who love Nandini feel if Rajdeep was whitewashed to show that even though he is hurting his wife but he loves her immensely. Even if tomorrow in kidnap scene they show Rajdeep confessing his love for Nandini, going through a complete overhauling then beating Nandini again, then God putting sindoor in Nandini's head showing Rajdeep is her destiny (Yikes), that seems so wrong and so twisted and did I say so wrong? That's what I feel when I watch these whitewashing efforts for Nandini, Nandini hurting Mauli then organizing her birthday then Kunal praising Nandini then they showing how Nandini's dua is saving Mauli and most of the energy or writing by CVs goes in this direction only, they just can't show Nandini as who she is, Maya was a completely black criminal but people connected with her and when she died in the end, many including me cried for her.

Coming to the point, audience connected with Mauli, we love her and I won't say her character isn't writer nicely but do remember during KuNan love phase, her only job was mentioning Nandini in front of Kunal and Kunal in front of Nandini or sending them with each other. The only time I think her character was written nicely is in the beginning before Nandini's entry in her life and during the revelation scene.


Coming to the EMA, now just think about it I never said that kunal is being whitewashed, Kunal has been thrown under the bus to take the full responsibility of EMA, Kunal fell for Nandini watching her dance in rain, I bet many of us thought Nandini would be the first one to fall in love with him but no it was Kunal and Nandini couldn't fall in love with Kunal like Kunal did, because that would put a little blame on her, so Nandini falling in love with Kunal was blamed on a Baba, then it was always Kunal who took steps in their relationship and as I said for Nandini's each step towards Kunal, there was a Rajdeep torture scene. In upcoming scenes Kunal has been butchered completely and the blame of EMA has been lifted completely from Nandini's shoulder to point out that people or Mauli are blaming Nandini because she is a woman, not because she is wrong, just because she is a woman.

Don't confuse this with audience reaction, I am talking about what is happening in the show and the more they show that Nandini is not at fault, the more people blame Nandini only.
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Posted: 6 years ago
#32

Originally posted by: Anahi

@pamk @mockingbird - guys i think making mauli mahan has started only after the plot and illogical affair didnt go well with people. look at the promos. writers never wanted to show a mahaan mauli. she never had a point of view of her own in initial episodes. it was more like a happy couple vs bad marriage, then it became nandini being a docile housewife/wife while mauli a successful doc who gives more importance to her work than her personal life and finally it was like bechari nandini and knight in shining armour kunal. and the rest is history.

what they had in mind was not executed well on the screen.. they veey much wanted to show mahan love story of kunal nandini. they thought breaking off a ideal perfect happy marriage because of an ema will be a hatke thing and that will make this show "different".. i dont understand this craze of presenting a show as a "different" show when they cannot justify that hatke thing.
this is what happened with writers. they wanted to glorify kunal nandini but audience started loving mauli and thus they kinda started backing her up with dialogues and logics.
and kunal nandini are so messed up that cvs can not let them take a stand for themselves. pata nhi kab story ko chamge krna pad jae..

and mauli is not one dimensional character. never followed writers previous work. but have seen many female characters on tv screens.
i never saw any woman confronting her husband and frnd like this..
mauli is vulnerable yet strong. she never cries in front of kunal. never played love card to get him back, she tried to keep her ego and anger aside for dida. i see various shades of an intelligent , tolerant lady in her.
she is a docile bahu, a caring wife but she is not a doormat.



Mauli is a great character. I totally love her and that is because she is so different from all the other female leads. She is the today's woman in all respect. She resonates with us because she is like us or we want to be like her. The reaction that she is giving is exactly the reaction any strong woman would give.

We meant one dimensional, in the sense that she is positive. There are no gray traces in her, there is no negativity in her. Even if she tried, she cannot hurt anybody. She will hurt herself before even thinking about doing it to someone else. After everything, if tomorrow Nandini is in the hospital going through difficult pregnancy, Mauli will go help her because that what she is. A total positive character.

Similarly Rajdeep is a one dimensional character, he is only negative. All his intentions are negative and his intentions are always to hurt. Even if he tried he cannot be positive or his thinking cannot be positive. Even when he told Mauli the truth, it was not out of goodness of his heart, but to gloat. A total negative character.

Nandini/Kunal are two dimensional because they are good people but at the same time selfish. Kunal helps children, he is good man, he knows what is right what is wrong, he does not go about intentionally hurting people, his first thought is always to help. But when it comes to Nandini, nothing matters to him except her. He is OK to hurt Mauli, his family, everybody else as long as he has her.

Nandini considers Mauli her best friend but between her happiness and Mauli's, she chose hers. She did not intentionally go about hurting Mauli, it happened. But now that its happened, she does not want to let it go and that's the grey in her. She still cares for Mauli, she know what is Mauli pain, she knows Mauli is hurting and she is ready to do everything for Mauli except let Kunal go. Even now she is not firm on her decision, she keep gravitating towards Kunal because there is that badness in her which tells her to only think about herself but then she pulls herself back because of that promise.

If it was Mauli or Rajdeep in her place, they would be firm in their decision. One would sacrifice and move away, the other would not let go. Mauli and Rajdeep are easy character. Give a situation and we know exactly how they will react but Kunal and Nandini are complex. The writer needs to balance the good and bad in these characters but she is not doing it. If she concentrates on Nandini, she lets Kunal go for a toss and vice versa.
Edited by pamk06 - 6 years ago
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Posted: 6 years ago
#33

Originally posted by: Anahi

@arshi - i have seen a little bit of BV.. just a little bit. dont have its memories but heard a lot about anadi..

see i dont know about anandi's situation so making a general comment. if mauli had rejected kunal without listening to him then i probably woudnt have rooted for her this much. this is the thing which i like about her. she gives importance to everyone. she listens to dida and maa .this is a very relatable thing. we as viewers know how mad is kunal for nandini. and their level of cheating is also not to us only but mauli didnt know that and thats why i wanted her to consider forgiveness for kunal and i am glad she did. it makes her more realistic.. i will support her if she rejects him or smashes his head once she gets to know that he has crossed all the boundaries way back.. but since she is oblivion of the reality she should have considered him and she did.. and this is what i was talking about.
rejecting a cheater will not make her great character in my eyes. she is great and relatable because she is forgiving also.


Anandi took about 500+ episodes to get over Jagiya. She rejected him much later when Jagiya had returned to her after an year or so. Jagiya mistreated her on so many accounts and she put up with him for some time with hope but when he crossed the threshold, she never looked back to him with hope and infact reprimanded him for his callous behvior after that. She didn't even give damn to his lover come wife. Imagine that she was blamed for miscarriage of Jagiya's wife's miscarriage in the same way as Mauli will be accused tomorrow by Kunal. Even she was asked to forgive him when he returned but she didn't.
Even after her marriage with Shiv, she couldn't consummate with shiv solely because her memories of Jagiya were so fresh. She literally cried and begged when Shiv once tried to be intimate with her only to know what she feels and then he gave her time to come along. And even she forgave him once she could move on. She forgave him so that Jagiya could move on from inherent guilt that was making him destroy himself in the process and when she herself found love in her new husband in every form.

Anandi too was very relatable. That's why I am saying, Kottary has her way with writing characters like Mauli. She makes audience root for them badly.
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Posted: 6 years ago
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Originally posted by: TheMockingBird

Anahi if they wanted to show mature affair between the kunal and Nandini they would hv taken time to develop bonding bw two characters i meant emotional bonding but writer was not intersted in that.They made them to fall 4 each other at jet speed for me writers failed there .They rushed the story as if writer was more interested in post revelation track becoz she is damn good writing that kind of tracks.Writer herself said somewhere that Mauli is her dream character.Her all previous female characters are similar like mauli and she hv done good job with all of them .I hv watched her shows so i had faith that she will write grey characters well in Silsila as she was good in writing jagiya and Dadisa characters in BV .But here she failed miserably


MB i am really not sure that writer was more interested in post revelation track and thats why rushed into an affair.
otherwise why would they have shown such promos.. they were just the opposite.. it was a kunal and nandini's story and mauli wasnt even the supposed lead for 90 percent of the people.
i think writers previous show leads were the victim of ema. here mauli if compared to nandini in initial episode was not the lead for90% people. so i am sure writers wouldnt have written the story keeping her point of view in focus. hardly few people knew aditi so sailing ema boat on her shoulder can never be a planning of cvs. it just happened by chance that audience gave her full support and this left writers in a dilemma. and hence we started witnessing a different kunal and an ehsaan faramosh nandini.even nandini wasnt like that before mauli took the lime light from both.. the inconsistency came bcz the base of ema was bogus.. if the base was strong like mauli had serious flaws then half of the audience would have been supporting kunal.
Edited by Anahi - 6 years ago
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Posted: 6 years ago
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Mauli character is most lovable.likeable .
Aditi very well executed it as Mauli
Love Mauli and her role ,.got addicted to this show..just because of Mauli

❤️ ❤️


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Posted: 6 years ago
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Originally posted by: arshi_asya


Anandi took about 500+ episodes to get over Jagiya. She rejected him much later when Jagiya had returned to her after an year or so. Jagiya mistreated her on so many accounts and she put up with him for some time with hope but when he crossed the threshold, she never looked back to him with hope and infact reprimanded him for his callous behvior after that. She didn't even give damn to his lover come wife. Imagine that she was blamed for miscarriage of Jagiya's wife's miscarriage in the same way as Mauli will be accused tomorrow by Kunal. Even she was asked to forgive him when he returned but she didn't.
Even after her marriage with Shiv, she couldn't consummate with shiv solely because her memories of Jagiya were so fresh. She literally cried and begged when Shiv once tried to be intimate with her only to know what she feels and then he gave her time to come along. And even she forgave him once she could move on. She forgave him so that Jagiya could move on from inherent guilt that was making him destroy himself in the process and when she herself found love in her new husband in every form.

Anandi too was very relatable. That's why I am saying, Kottary has her way with writing characters like Mauli. She makes audience root for them badly.


okay 500 plus episodes is too much.. 😆😆 didnt know that.. it makes me curious to see how mauli is going to deal with all these things in future. getting over kunal is tough for her as he was a perfect husband and nandini too was a good friend in mauli's eyes.. this situation is really messy..
i can not really compare mauli to anandi as i havent seen anandi but i am sure making mauli great was not their actual plan but somehow they ended up doing that only.. i hope they dont ruin her character
Edited by Anahi - 6 years ago
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Posted: 6 years ago
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Originally posted by: Anahi

@pamk @mockingbird - guys i think making mauli mahan has started only after the plot and illogical affair didnt go well with people. look at the promos. writers never wanted to show a mahaan mauli. she never had a point of view of her own in initial episodes. it was more like a happy couple vs bad marriage, then it became nandini being a docile housewife/wife while mauli a successful doc who gives more importance to her work than her personal life and finally it was like bechari nandini and knight in shining armour kunal. and the rest is history.

what they had in mind was not executed well on the screen.. they very much wanted to show mahan love story of kunal nandini. they thought breaking off an ideal perfect happy marriage because of an ema will be a hatke thing and that will make this show "different".. i dont understand this craze of presenting a show as a "different" show when they cannot justify that hatke thing.
this is what happened with writers. they wanted to glorify kunal nandini but audience started loving mauli and thus they kinda started backing her up with dialogues and logics.
and kunal nandini are so messed up that cvs can not let them take a stand for themselves. pata nhi kab story ko change krna pad jae..

and mauli is not one dimensional character. never followed writers previous work. but have seen many female characters on tv screens.
i never saw any woman confronting her husband and frnd like this..
mauli is vulnerable yet strong. she never cries in front of kunal. never played love card to get him back, she tried to keep her ego and anger aside for dida. i see various shades of an intelligent , tolerant lady in her.
she is a docile bahu, a caring wife but she is not a doormat.


Agree.
I too thought that initially, writers want to establish Kunal and Nandini love story, but they failed there and it looked like they changed few things, one of it is Mauli's confrontation part.
@Bold: Yes, writers want to present it a different story coz, to attract the audience during its launch, sort of marketing trick. Many including me, started watching with the curiosity of the concept EMA, friendship and a famous actress playing the role of other women. Problem is their execution failed.
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Posted: 6 years ago
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Let them show all the crap they want...ending has to be good.
If they do injustice at the end...then i have some colorful words for gajrakottary
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Posted: 6 years ago
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Originally posted by: Anahi


MB i am really not sure that writer was more interested in post revelation track and thats why rushed into an affair.
otherwise why would they have shown such promos.. they were just the opposite.. it was a kunal and nandini's story and mauli wasnt even the supposed lead for 90 percent of the people.
i think writers previous show leads were the victim of ema. here mauli if compared to nandini in initial episode was not the lead for90% people. so i am sure writers wouldnt have written the story keeping her point of view in focus. hardly few people knew aditi so sailing ema boat on her shoulder can never be a planning of cvs. it just happened by chance that audience gave her full support and this left writers in a dilemma. and hence we started witnessing a different kunal and an ehsaan faramosh nandini.even nandini wasnt like that before mauli took the lime light from both.. the inconsistency came bcz the base of ema was bogus.. if the base was strong like mauli had serious flaws then half of the audience would have been supporting kunal.

I hv opposite view I think writer somewhere said also mauli is her dream character and i don't agree with this thing that maulibwas not main lead from beginning i had argument with D fans also at that point too.Mauli is played by Aditi dev sharma who was lead for same production house show Ganga and Ganga was also written by Gajra 😆and she is good frnd of Gajra too.If they wanted show piece as mauli they would not hv taken such efficient actress or known face.They would hv gone 4 unknown face that would hv reduced their budget too.But no they went 4 actress who they know was capable of pulling off such roles.And if they wanted to justify affair they would hv shown flawed mauli and audience would hv accepted kunan easily but they never changed mauli's character.They never tried to make her negetive or touched her goodness in anyway because Gajra knew very well what she is good at and that's why i feel they rushed track to reach the story where she knew audience will be interested to watch the story of EMA victim.
Edited by TheMockingBird - 6 years ago
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Posted: 6 years ago
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@Anahi
Makers could have made Mauli flawed in so many ways if she didn't want to show her as great. But I can't rule out the fact that she made Mauli pitch perfect which makes me conclude that she wanted Mauli to be perceived this way only.
She showed Mauli as someone audience would relate to by all means even when she could have not done so.
She wanted to show how seemingly perfect marriages and spouses are betrayed in this world on the name of juzzbat by some selfish people who one trusts.
Her approach to affair may have left everyone baffled but I think she originally planned this story only.
The fact that she kept Maulibso consistent with her traits can't be ruled out even when she could have made her a heavily flawed character to somehow justify Kunal-Nandini.

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