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!

Sanaya in Nach Baliye - weeks 10, 11, 12

Was not able to update ... had an unusually hectic time at work and weekends got busy too. Will update at leisure with all the pics I can find.

Had some amazing acts from Sanaya and Mohit the last couple of weeks - a wonderful, totally unique Pasa Doble set in Indian political context, followed by a very inspiring act based on the love story of an acid attack victim.

The following week we had a rather creepy act - Sonakshi's challenge was that the couples have to be physically joined during the act. Sanaya and Mohit did an act portraying a black widow spider attacking her prey. Again choreography was brilliant, and Sanaya's expressions even more so.
After this act, they were announced to be finalists. Sanaya's relief and tears were evident.

The following day was the last act for the finale - Gajar ne kiya hai ishaara ... very retro peppy act, set among 7-8 mirrors, deceptively simple, but in actual fact very difficult choreography, since the camera had to remain out of sight of all the mirrors, and Sanaya and Mohit often danced with their backs to each other, hence coordination had to be impeccable. This is one of my favorite acts, along with the Pasa Doble and the Mumbai terror attacks.

Finale week was tense, as all Sanaya and Monaya fans went all out for voting, but of course Star Plus and madam DT were playing their own games. Expectedly, Sanaya and Mohit did not win ... unexpectedly, even Sanam and Abigail did not win. SP crowned its bahurani and her pati the un-deserving winners. How undeserving can be seen from the fact that almost no one congratulated the winners on social media except for members of their show team. Not even the ones who had made vote appeals for them. As for the number of memes floating around mocking the 'winners' ... hilarious!!!

So much for reality shows on Indian telly! I am so glad I was not invested in this show ... learned my lesson after JDJ. I'm happy Sanaya and Mohit took part ... gave them both good visibility and exposure, and kept them in the public eye, especially since Sanaya has since left her Sony show, due to long delays.

And now, I am glad Sanaya is done with reality shows ... there are no more she can do ... so hopefully she will get back to her real love - acting ... and soon! Can't wait to see her in a fiction show again ... it has been far too long!

So my next set of posts will hopefully be on rumors surrounding Sanaya's next show ... hope the rumors start soon!!! 

Sanaya in NB8 - week 9

Another beautiful act from Sanaya and Mohit ... been so busy that I couldn't post any pics, but will find them later and post them. An act with a  group - Banjara Girls - Remo's challenge ... and how well they took it up! Sanaya actually learned the basics of belly dancing in one week flat ... she performed beautifully, minus the belly!!! Mohit did a small solo ... and how far this guy has come through sheer hard work - clean crisp movements, great rhythm ... well done!!

Needless to say, Sanaya looked like a dream in white ... after this and her Holi act, white is definitely my favorite color for Sanaya.

Issuing a vote appeal to all my readers ... Star plus seems to be playing dirty with Sanaya ... or else this is all for drama ... but after two great acts this week, scoring the highest marks, they were in bottom two.  So all my readers in India,  a fervent appeal to you all ... if you love my blog and my writing, please go all out voting this weekend for Sanaya and Mohit - it's just one missed call from ALL your phones - that too, it's FREE!!!! Please borrow phones from all friends and family this weekend and vote for Mohit and Sanaya!!! Please do it for the girl we love and her loving hubby whom she loves so much, and who loves her even more! They are having a beautiful journey on Nach ... please help them reach a happy ending this time!!!

Sanaya in NB8 - week 8

Another great act with great concept ... looks like the judges are looking for out of the box acts from Sanaya and Mohit, and not just dance steps ... though from the glimpse we got, steps are also very much there this time.
Posting early because I can never find the pics later! Will update details about the act itself on the weekend.

Sanaya in NB 8 - week 7

Short and sweet act - after the last four very out of the box acts, this was too simple ... although it was sweet and feel good. Mohit danced ... choreography was simple ... probably because Sanaya was busy last week with her show promo and her SPA aerial act.

Politics at work ... Sanaya Mohit were slightly underscored - at 24 ... to get Shoaib Deepika out of bottom two, where they would have been eliminated when paired against Harsh Bharati. But Shoaib Deepika act was very good ... and very traumatic and emotional for Deepika to enact. They have been consistent but no wow factor so far ... this was it, at a time they needed it to avoid elimination.

Divyanka actually danced this time ... her act was good.

Sanam Abigail were good ... not deserving a 30 in my opinion ... but marks were definitely adjusted for the purpose.

Bharati and Harsh were as usual ... never very good, but they bring fun and lightness to the show... sorry to see them go. Sanaya was literally sobbing ... she didn't want to be up against them for the elimination. Bharati and Sanaya seem to have bonded really well ... and my respect for Bharti has gone up after NB ... the girl has gone through a lot and really struggled to reach where she is today. No wonder she gels with Sanaya ... both very sweet, simple, down to earth women with a very strong work ethos. 

Sanaya in NB8 - week 6

Short updates now ... work doesn't permit :(

Horror act ... fabulous!!! And a perfect 30 for Sanaya and Mohit! Will add pics when I find them. Really good act ... longer than usual ...a  good story, Mohit with girlfriend, jealous shrew, fights, gets killed accidentally and comes back to haunt him and his new girl friend. As usual Sanaya carried the responsibility of the act ... her acting as the sweet simple girlfriend in complete contrast to the 'possessed by ex-girlfriend' phase. The technical detailing was superb ... and earned them their perfect score.