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This show based on a New York Times bestseller and brought to the screen by a renowned production house follows the lives of Kabir and Aditya, born on the same day but into vastly different circumstances.
Like most adaptations, Kismat seems to be sticking rather closely to its inspiration for now.
Kane and Abel's William Kane, born in to a wealthy family of bankers is industrialist Madhav Merchant's son Aditya in Kismat.
Immigrant Abel Rosnovski, born in to abject poverty and who later embodied the quintessential rags to riches story in the original is Kismat's Kabir.
Yesterday's premiere episode and today's follow-up quickly dispensed with the introduction of the rest of the motley crew in this saga. Anybody who has read the original will know what I mean when I say Jeffrey Archer's stories were more plot based rather than character driven. True to that style, Kismat used signpost type characterization to establish the main players and focused more on moving the story along rapidly. Be it Aditya's refined yet snobbish grandmother, successful father and demure mother or Kabir's loving adopted mother and sister, the screenplay used extreme behaviors to ensure viewer clarity about the characters without having to devote valuable screenplay space for this purpose.
That said, the story has already deviated from the original by introducing a Kashmir freedom fighter type character who appears to be Kabir's birth father unlike the original in which the Baron was shown to be Abel's parent. Here, the Baron type character has been created in Arif Khan complete with a son to whom Kabir provides companionship.
From a screenplay standpoint, it remains to be seen how the writers here weave the historical happenings of that period in to the story. The original liberally utilized events such as the Titanic disaster and World War II in the narrative. Here, given the introduction of the Kashmir struggle, I anticipate the story will incorporate events such as the Indo - Pakistani war of 1965.
Overall: The story has begun well but I hope it avoids cliches such as the matching "kadas" seen in today's episode.
The team is also going to have find creative ways to spread the word and develop a loyal band of viewers. This story that will likely be short on eye-locks and magical duppatas has to compete for the attention of a vocal audience that can best be described with "short attention span and demanding". Thankfully the impulsive vagaries of the online junta used to making unreasonable demands of writers and creative teams will not hold sway here with the shooting well underway and story firmly established.
Edited by darlunia -
Like most adaptations, Kismat seems to be sticking rather closely to its inspiration for now.
Kane and Abel's William Kane, born in to a wealthy family of bankers is industrialist Madhav Merchant's son Aditya in Kismat.
Immigrant Abel Rosnovski, born in to abject poverty and who later embodied the quintessential rags to riches story in the original is Kismat's Kabir.
Yesterday's premiere episode and today's follow-up quickly dispensed with the introduction of the rest of the motley crew in this saga. Anybody who has read the original will know what I mean when I say Jeffrey Archer's stories were more plot based rather than character driven. True to that style, Kismat used signpost type characterization to establish the main players and focused more on moving the story along rapidly. Be it Aditya's refined yet snobbish grandmother, successful father and demure mother or Kabir's loving adopted mother and sister, the screenplay used extreme behaviors to ensure viewer clarity about the characters without having to devote valuable screenplay space for this purpose.
That said, the story has already deviated from the original by introducing a Kashmir freedom fighter type character who appears to be Kabir's birth father unlike the original in which the Baron was shown to be Abel's parent. Here, the Baron type character has been created in Arif Khan complete with a son to whom Kabir provides companionship.
From a screenplay standpoint, it remains to be seen how the writers here weave the historical happenings of that period in to the story. The original liberally utilized events such as the Titanic disaster and World War II in the narrative. Here, given the introduction of the Kashmir struggle, I anticipate the story will incorporate events such as the Indo - Pakistani war of 1965.
Overall: The story has begun well but I hope it avoids cliches such as the matching "kadas" seen in today's episode.
The team is also going to have find creative ways to spread the word and develop a loyal band of viewers. This story that will likely be short on eye-locks and magical duppatas has to compete for the attention of a vocal audience that can best be described with "short attention span and demanding". Thankfully the impulsive vagaries of the online junta used to making unreasonable demands of writers and creative teams will not hold sway here with the shooting well underway and story firmly established.
Edited by darlunia -
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