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Sonagachi was a novel story field for me, don't know if such a field has been explored before. Though I've seen promos before it aired & thought it must be interesting, I forgot all about it. Then again it was in the news for leap about to happen & I started watching on zee5. For a show based on sonagachi & its residents it was very decently made & was interesting to watch the kids & all the characters were well played. But then it started dragging & I started skipping episodes, only reading WUs' till the leap. I feel leap must have happened at least 1 month before. After leap watched all episodes and finally caught up with the current episodes last week.
Vrukshika Mehta is an excellent choice, I've seen her in IB in a brief role & even then wondered why such a beautiful girl with graceful dance moves was given such a small role. She is too good, naachthi badiya hai and love her voice modulation.
Avinash Mishra too was in IB for some time & he was quite wooden in his expressions and voice modulation compared to the very talented cast of IB. Here too he started off stiff but can see improvement in his acting & he has started growing on me gradually and hope he will keep improving.
As a couple they are very good, got sizzling chemistry.
All characters are well acted, I especially like Beauty & Hridoy. Kudos to the actors.
Story is quite fast paced. In any other serial, it would have taken Shan at least a year and innumerable misunderstandings to find out that Asmita is Puchki, another year for Asmita to know that Shan knows she is Puchki, 2 years for them to realise that they love each other and another 2 years and countless misunderstandings for them to confess their feelings while the whole time the story would have stagnated. So 6 years worth of story has been done with in 6 weeks after the leap. Bullet train compared to ITV goods train standards.
There are many illogic scenes and too many dream sequences but only a new comer to ITV will expect logic, everyone else knows that you have to freeze your logical mind while watching ITV or even Indian movies for that matter. So there is no point in talking/discussing/getting frustrated about it, just troll it, have a good laugh & leave it at that.
One thing I like about this show is the type of closeness the leads have is portrayed in accordance with the background they come from. Any average girl & boy of this age would be shy/coy, steal glances, talk through their eyes, a simple touch of fingers will kindle their feelings etc especially the girls. But these 2 are not from normal background, they have grown up in a place where the physical was not hidden from the kids and so they have no hesitation in touching each other, holding each other's faces or going for the kiss so early, it looks so natural. Don't know if I'm making sense.
Anyway, I'm liking what I see and hope the makers maintain the pace and give a good story, but sometimes I wonder, at this pace will this be a finite series? Once the Niveditha exposure happens how will they take it forward, I'm not good at speculating and so will enjoy till the going is good.
