Sanaya and others

Edited 4/08 - Sanaya is STILL in Sri Lanka?! That's a long holiday by her standards!



Post on Sanaya's IG 4/08/17 "Beach vibes"
Her captions are fun and witty ... am still laughing over the one of the elephants, and her expression change. Can't post here, the blog doesn't support IG videos :(

30/7/17 Not much news on Sanaya front :( She is now is Sri Lanka for a holiday, it seems ...





So the wait continues.

Mohit has started shooting for the afternoon SP show, Luv Ka Hai Intezaar ... sensible move, to take up this show. Visibility is all important on television. Hope the ratings improve enough to keep it, and him, on air for some time.

Still watching Naamkaran ... a bit sporadically, after my holiday and then back to work ... still holds my interest when I watch it ... so will persist for some time. The ML has improved a lot, and his character is very well drawn. Not surprised that the FL is falling for him. Speaking of the FL, it's refreshing to see an angry young woman bent on revenge on tv, and doing a good job. The last revenge drama, EHT, suffered because the FL was a very poor actress. This one is not brilliant, but she's getting there.

Lost touch with KRPK ... need to catch up.

Now for some major ROFL moments ...  in the great replacement show, which was supposed to be blockbuster, apparently led by Indian James Bond. So what if the first of the franchise was a simple love story between opposites, sensitively written, and brilliantly acted? Don't quibble about details ... the third of this franchise has now become Hindu social cum family drama cum intense love story cum revenge saga ... hang on, they scrapped the last two, they weren't getting TRPs ... so we go now to Marvel comics and the Adventures of PigeonpoopMan!
A maths professor who magnetises chappals so that FL will trip and fall and throw tea all over prospective suitor PeePee (not to be confused with PPMan, our hero) ... why the FL cannot simply take off her chappals when she finds them sticking to the ground, is unexplained ... she is not a Math whiz, only a Sanskrit scholar, you see.

Followed by PPman using a remote control previously unknown to all mankind ... this remote control can direct an entire pigeon flock to fly together ... and POOP together ... on specified targets ... leaving PPMan and his SSFL (Sanskrit scholar FL) not only untouched by the poop ... but also they get showered with flower petals instead.

Please do not ask any little details about how and why did PPMan and SSFL get spared ... PPMan's remote is very specific ...
Also do not question where the flower petals suddenly apparated from ...PPMan may have a separate hidden remote which can control flowers ... if he can control the crapping habits of pigeons, flowers are no big deal, no?

All this from written updates and various articles on online sites ... I haven't had the inclination or the time to actually watch even a few seconds of the great train wreck ... oops, sorry ... the great replacement show. 

Random Ramblings

Nothing much on TV these days now that Nach Baliye is also over and done with.

Am watching Kuch Rang Pyaar Ke off and on ... the FL is still so bad! But the nice thing is that Ishwari's character is back to what Supriya P does best - a sweet, loving, loveable mother and saas. What I presume is the last leg of the story - the coming back of the three daughters to the fold - has started. Actually there is one more, bigger story to be told ... how Mami, Radha Rani, and her son, manipulated and connived to first enter Ishwari Nivas, and then break up Dev and Sonakshi, for their own ends. Don't know if they will go there. The elder daughter, Neha seems to have disappeared ... pity, because her story was the most interesting - the neglect of one child, a girl, for the sake of her brother ... using her as glorified baby sitter for the younger girls, because the older brother's education could not be sacrificed. These things still happen so often in India, it would have been a good story to tell ... especially if they could have shown her completing her education, and then going on to do really well in some unrelated field. But oh well ... social issues are still badly neglected on tv.

Naamkaran has picked up after the leap ... what is interesting is that finally! we don't have angry young man and sweet simple girl ... we have angry young woman bent on revenge, and a nice guy trying to help her.  Also fun to watch because for once, the good guys seem to be keeping pace, or even a few steps ahead of the bad guys. Though a grandmother so bent on killing her own grand daughter because of religious issues, while she is perfectly okay with the grandson, seems very archaic in this day and age .. wish they had manufactured a better reason for the enmity. Also the grandmother is not a great actress, especially compared to the late Reema Lagoo. neither are the leads, but they are getting better, and are watchable.

IPK3 starts today ... with a haggard, unkempt looking Barun Sobti trying desperately to regain lost glory, and a tablecloth clad Shivani looking like a C grade heroine from the seventies. I might have given it a try if the ML and FL had looked more interesting ... and if Gul had not bashed Sanaya and her fans. Most unbecoming, immature conduct from a producer ... seems that Gul has taken to heart the fact that Sanaya had the temerity to turn her down! Let's see how the show does ... looking the way it does, it might find appeal among the TRP junta, who like stuff like Naagin, KKB and the like. I cannot wish it well.

And to brighten up today's post - Sanaya and Drashti out and about, socialising at a recent movie launch. Hope some rumors start floating soon - Sanaya seems more than ready to get back to work. She has hibernated for less than a week after NB ended!