~*Prince Wanted: single and good-looking*~ . Review on Hello Dollie

new and improved revu! sab kuch bhula de, magar RRC karna nahi!!!

hey my fellow MSians! I have re-written this revu, coz, basically, it was NOT up to my usual standards! well, I was a freshie on the site at that time - so young, so innocent ;)

So please take a lil time to read... comments gladly awaited :)

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Original Review:

Take a clumsy teenager who tries to survive each day at high school trying to stay invisible and causing the least amount of embarrassment. Then suddenly ha-di-da her grandmother (who was never heard of before) comes to her house and tells her that she is a princess. WOW! so much for not being noticed anymore!

Well that is the basic storyline for Hello Dollie....thinks it sounds horribly familiar? Thats because it is the Indian tv version of the popular series of books- the Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot. Ok, so its not a carbon copy...but Sid (guy in love with her) calls Dollie by her surname (just like Michael does to Mia in the books)!! Yeah it does have all the typical problems of growing up, falling for the school hottie (although he doesn't look anywhere as hot as Sid!), breaking and making up with friends and the rest of it.

But I'd read the books, they are really good! So although the story is a little unoriginal, I love the acting and the way they have fitted the context into modern Indian society. Its a great program, its great fun watching it!

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Characters…

Dollie

the sheep. I mean, she was the unpopular girl who so wanted to be popular, so she followed the crowd. So that does make her a sheep. No offence to the white fluffy four-legged animals ;) Apparently the actress wants to become a genetic engineer or something like that, and is only doing serials for the time being. She is a discovery of none other than Kkekta aunty (we all love her :) She looks pretty, but her high pitched squeals of “Niiiik!” and “Siiid!” made me reach our for aspirin. Luckily, Niiiiik is no longer in the scene. Unluckily, neither is Siiiid ! After her mother gets murdered by an enemy, she moves to “suryavaan” with her grandmother.

Nik aka Nikshay

the so-called popular and cool skool guy. What was so cool about him, I really don’t know. Was it his monobrow? Or was it his accent, which was thickly buttered in American? And Dollie the sheep was in love with him?! I’m sorry, but calling him popular is like saying Karan Johar has a girlfriend, or Amrita Arora is single. But he’s out of the scene after he sacrifices his love to keep Dollie a princess.

Trishala

Some words to sum up Trish trash’s charcter? : an idiotic chipkali who was stuck to Nikshay. The evil spiteful woman who did anything and everything to spoil Dollie’s relationship with Nik. Her voice is sooo annoying, and she looks like a stick insect. She wears an expression on her face which resembles that of someone’s whose sucking a lemon. The gal playing this role was seen as a model in lakme fashion house…

Lopa

Dollie’s best friend. She is bossy, talkative and always ready for an argument. But shes dil se achchi, and that’s the main thing :) I mean, how many people do you know that fight for the rights of stray dogs? Sid is her brother…

Sid

I loved him. And he didn’t love me back. But I still loved him. And he loved the sheep. He is the good-looking one! His character is that of a dream guys. But you’ve gotta feel sorry for the bechaara who suffers from heartbreak (yeh to hona hi tha). But sometimes I feel like screaming in his ear “leave that girl who doesn’t even care about you and come to someone like… ME who does!!!” But u no wot? It still hasn’t worked…

(the last sentence is repeated in my revu on Kaisa yeh pyaar hai). The song he sings for the sheep is so sweet. The lyrics go kuch is tarah…

Aate jaate voh rang deti, apne hi rang mein

She’s the sunshine all around me, she’s all that I need

Mamma aka Roma Suri

She’s Dollie’s mother. She’s an on-screen version of Kkekta, but with a child! She no longer exists sob sob, after she was brutally strangled to death by some one who actually came to murder Princess Dollie.

Dadima aka Maharaniji

Pretty self-explanitory who she is! Now the whole concept of the story has changed, she seems like the only good person in Dollie’s life

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Basically, I no longer like this show, because it is no longer full of the fun and frolics of teenage life. I think the show should be renamed to “Who can murder Princess Dollie?” Politics, evil people, politics, money, royalty ..and some more politics – that’s what the show is not. So I no longer recommend it

But I do recommend you commenting :) And if you really are a prince, then I'm always free ;)