I'm definitely not CONTRADICTING myself is saying that mouni is not charismatic and at the same time is charismatic.
You can be charismatic in one role and dull in one.
She's pretty enough to attract viewers .
But I don't think she's the only reason of watching naagin.
May be for male viewers, yes, but I haven't come across a single female viewer in person who is a mouni fan ONLY.
People mostly watch coz of the loud ott drama, yamini's nakhra and sesha's villainous behaviour.
I think mouni is definitely NOT the biggest reason of watching this show.
She plays the part of a serpent maiden well, but if you talk about playing a woman hell bent on taking revenge, then I don't think she's playing that role to T.
I think you should see ek hasina thi starring sanjeeda sheikh.
Now, I was really hopeful of this serial because mouni has played sati perfectly.
But then came the 1st glitch. They introduced a red herring called sesha. Since they had decided to make sesha the negative naagin, her character received the proper shades of grey that a revengeful woman.
But shivanya was always poised to be the pious bahu who would save the family from a snake. Quite similar to the a south indian serial running nowadays called nandini.
But then, the revelation of shivanya as the real revenge-wali naagin shocked the viewers and cemented her position as the main protagonist.
But I never found her motivated for revenge. It was basically sesha forcing shivanya to avenge her parents.
Now,probably the writers intended to write the character like that.But I personally never found her interested in taking revenge that much. She was MORE concerned about her growing love for ritik . She was simply avenging her parents and saving the naagmani coz it was the duty of all naagins. Or may I say, in any tv serial, naagins avenge their parents, so shivanya was also following the same path.
I don't know you've watched it or not, sayantani ghosh's performance in Naagin:waadon ki agnipariksha was a way lot better.She both had the aggression of a woman hell bent on taking revenge and the poise of a seductress.
My grandmom was a big fan of that serial.
Sayantani also portrayed the woman who was torn between her love and revenge quite nicely.
But both I and my grandmom could never relate with shivanya's revenge. Shivanya definitely had the reason, but she was lacking the motivation and aggression . Sesha was the one who was aggressive and motivated shivanya to take the revenge. I remember she was the one to make the plans.
Now , sesha had her own motif and her aggression was rather uncontrolled. Not to mention that adaa did not play the role of an woman who could make ritik fall in love with her coy charm very well.
But,even without reason , it was easier to relate with sesha.
But then came S2. The writers refused to believe that arjun played a MAJOR role in propelling the serial to great heights. Now , they had got rid of arjun. They should've got rid of mouni too. No , they kept her.
Now, shivangi was the Naagin who IS really determined to take revenge for her parents' death as she witnessed that in front of her eyes.She even suspected rocky and felt guilty only when rocky was given a clean chit.
Ok, shivanya too suspected ritik but she always thought ritik can't do this, ritik can't do that.
But shivangi was this aggressive and determined lady with somewhat grayer shades to her character, but not too much to alienate the trp aunties.
There comes the 2nd glitch.
Mouni can't really do aggressive roles very well.
I've seen her in dkdm and a few parts of junoon, she does romantic roles, pretty girl role, damsel-in-distress roles very well, but as a solo aggressive girl, no sorry. I feel a bit off. Even in naagin S1 as shivanya, I always felt that She lacked aggression, but otherwise, it was ok as she did the romance parts very well and her emotions about losing her parents and being divided with her love for ritik and avenging her parents was spot on . It was definitely relatable. But she definitely lacked the determination to take revenge.But mouni made up for it with her emotional capabilities.
But for shivangi, revenge takes more precedence than love or emotions.
Sorry, but I can't relate with shivangi anymore.
Maybe, if the role had been written a little bit nicely, mouni would've performed better.
But since that's theoretical , it would've better been to get another actress to play shivangi.
That's why I said naagin S2 has mouni overdose. Shivangi is the protagonist, so SHE will get screenspace.
But overall in the show, it looks like mouni roy is taking precedence over The characters. People watch the show mostly for the story and characters.
If it would've been rivanya reincarnation, then it would've made sense that mouni is retained.
But for playing a different character and that too which is not quite close to the actor's capabilities, they should take another actor.
That's why many viewers left naagin S2 midway. Now, since sudha maam and adaa are playing their old characters, they HAVE relatibility even after having their characters butchered beyond recognition.
Maybe, colors is playing extremely safe and retaining mouni roy the trps ,but since they already replaced ritik, they should've got another actress to play shivangi.I believe then the trps would've been higher.
Ek tha raja ek thi rani and tu suraj main saanjh piyaji got a completely new couple to run the story and it didn't affect the trps MUCH.
I wanna say that whatever fans mouni have, she has it coz she played shivanya well. Many of them aren't even following shivangi nowadays.
Now do we compare mouni with surbhi jyoti? No.
Both of them have their own charm. But that doesn't mean mouni will be able to play her own doppelgangers in one show.
Even qubool hai dragged after kvb left.
But, Naagin started dragging in latter parts of S1 itself.
Ps: zee tv Naagin was way better in terms of acting and story line.
This one has better romance and presentation. And EK's writers can't write thrillers nicely. Beginning was pretty nice, but they messed up later.
Edited by Luna99 - 7 years ago
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