Let's be honest about Mauli's character - Page 5

Originally posted by: arshi_asya

@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.

Exactly what I said they could hv shown flawed mauli they could easily justify kunan but that was not the case from beginning only

@pamk - i understand what u meant by one dimensional.. yes mauli and rajdeep are one dimensional. white and black whereas the other two are grey.. and i was trying to tell u guys that this half baked love story of kunal nandini is the reason they couldnt justify grey shades of theirs. it looked like an illogical scenario and made kunal a hypocrite and nandini a selfish vamp which these two were clearly not..

@anahi: Mauli was always suppose to be a lead. This story was about the three people and how EMA can change their lives. But the writers concentrated only on Mauli and kept her perfect throughout, so that audience could relate to her. It came to a point that the audience.,that were ready to give Kunal and Nandini a chance, also moved towards Mauli. The reason was the Kunal''s sudden fall in love and no reason why he fell out of love from Mauli etc. If they would have shown Kunal and Nandini growing closeness from strangers to friendship plus at the same time certain flaws in their marriage, audience would have related to them. But I guess, as all the others are saying, she might have rushed this part because she is more comfortable writing about an EMA victim and her journey and hence kept Mauli so consistent at the expense of the other characters.

Originally posted by: Anahi

@pamk - i understand what u meant by one dimensional.. yes mauli and rajdeep are one dimensional. white and black whereas the other two are grey.. and i was trying to tell u guys that this half baked love story of kunal nandini is the reason they couldnt justify grey shades of theirs. it looked like an illogical scenario and made kunal a hypocrite and nandini a selfish vamp which these two were clearly not..

if the base of ema were strong then writers could have justified their characters too and would have given good dialogues to them also.. but writers are now trapped , they cannot show kunal and nandini as destined lovers bcz people are rooting for mauli only.

in short i am just trying to say that mauli thing just happened to people it wasnt planned like this.. nor did kunal and nandini affair planned like this so that it would make them look like selfish and crazy teenagers. it just happened and now writers are stuck..

I like mauli

I think she is a very beautifully written character BT more than that the actress has been able to bring out the beauty in her character very beautifully. also she is very well directed as well.

good acting covers a lot for mauli's character. unfortunately this is not the same for the other 2 leads. bad writing, bad acting, bad scenes the crying and the annoying baby voice. I dnt know how ppl expect normal ppl to like nandini. and I really feel uncomfortable watching kunal be in lust love. he really looks creepy.

I think it is obvious to see that nandu is being whitewashed coz it is so obvious.

BT not so much mauli coz its done in a subtle way and truly again the acting by Aditya is so beautiful that fans naturally just want to attack the other 2.


also mauli looked bland in the initial promos

her character has surprised ppl and can anyone really blame them for liking her more.

I think that it is the first time that I have seen the supposed second lead steal the show like this

and brought such a change to a show.

however kunal is being screwed to show nandu as mahaan and mauli will eventually be treated the same way

Originally posted by: Rhimjhimsawan

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I keep seeing people use the word one dimensional for Mauli. Either some of you don't know what one dimensional means or I don't know.</font>

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">One dimensional characters lack emotional depth, they lack growth in the story and remains the same beginning to the end, they lack internal conflict, they don't have different layers to their personalities, they react to everything the same way. NONE of this is the case with Mauli. If you guys have a different definitionof one dimensional character please feel free to share it with me.</font>

Agreed but in this case we meant as positive. The result of her reactions, her conflict, her character is all positive. Give any situation, she is always going to choose the good path, the correct path. Even in this situation some people turn mean, selfish, revengeful but Mauli would give up in a dignified way. There are no grey layers to her, what you see is what you get, right is right for her and wrong is wrong. Even after Kunal leaves, she will take time to trust again but her basic nature of goodness, her character is not going to change. She is perfect positive character in every way like Rajdeep is a perfect negative character in every way.

See even when she was so broken, she was never mean to k and N. She was asking them genuine questions. She was only mean when she was drunk and only to those two because only they are the two people who she is close to. No one not even her mother knows Mauli fear and insecurities. Only these two know about them because she had only opened up to them and hence the betrayal is so huge for her. But even then Mauli has been so dignified, so positive in her interaction with them. That's what we meant as one dimensional I.e only a positive reaction for every situation.

A character with grey actions doesn't make them multi-layered and a character who is a good person doesn't automatically become one dimensional.

Some call Mauli perfect but she's not. Her forte is that she acts like a lot of humans would. Are we perfect? No! Do we react in the correct' way all the time in tough situations? No we don't and that's why Mauli is so real to the audience. Her being a good person is one thing, protagonists generally are meant to be anyway but it's her reactions in situations which make her more close to reality. Even if you don't agree with her, you can see WHY she's doing what she is. Kunal was always weakly written anyway, he's more one dimensional to me in terms of writing. Nandini, I think they tried to infuse different shades but they just didn't come out the way they should've been.

When a character works, the writer wants to make sure that it continues working. Mauli worked in a bigger way than expected, why would they ruin it? Kunal never lifted off, Nandini is wishy-washy.

Originally posted by: *Reemz*

A character with grey actions doesn't make them multi-layered and a character who is a good person doesn't automatically become one dimensional.

Some call Mauli perfect but she's not. Her forte is that she acts like a lot of humans would.

That's the big problem with this show, they only gave one character Mauli depth but other two got shorter end of the stick. She is way to perfect with no flaws. So I stopped watching and the story was getting one sided when it comes to character POV.