Nima Denzongpa the Colors show produced by Nissar Parvez and Alind Srivastava’s Peninsula Pictures touches the sensitive topic of racial discrimination. The tale is about Nima Denzongpa, a simple yet ambitious girl from the North-East, who leaves behind her aspirations and goals to win the love of her life. However, destiny shows her a different picture and pushes her to the edge of getting bogged down.
Channel Colors has always touched upon sensitive and thought-provoking issues like child marriage, discrimination of colour, religion, caste etc and many more. Balika Vadhu 2, the recent launch on Colors talks about the tale of child marriage, and the societal pressures that get tagged with it. Thoda Sa Baadal Thoda Sa Paani, the show produced by Optimystix moves to the present age and the generation of today, wherein deceit in love and relationship happens when a would-be-wife is kept away from the deep secret of her to-be-husband being in an affair with her sister-in-law.
Moving to Nima Denzongpa, this is yet another experiment coming from the channel is what we will say. Mostly, TV shows look for appealing and popular faces to play leads. Going by the recent trend, the actors with popularity on social media platforms get the most of the limelight and offers on TV. Going against all these norms is the show Nima Denzongpa, wherein the central protagonist is a newbie, Surabhi Das, a girl hand-picked from the North-East to play the titular role.
A tale that explicitly shows the manner in which aspiring candidates from the North-East are looked down upon, and are humiliated on the basis of their racial difference. There are no big faces in the show. But the actors hand-picked are good performers, capable of delivering.
The pace of the show has been extremely fast. In the one week and above of its launch, the story has covered huge ground. It started by making the viewers aware of the goals and aspirations of Nima and the manner in which she wanted to make her parents proud. However, priorities changed when she fell in love with Suresh (Akshay Kelkar), a kind-hearted soul working as a spot with a TV unit. Love soon changed paths for Nima. She decided to leave her parents and elope to get the love of her life.
But once in Mumbai, Nima faces obstacles after obstacles. An attempt to molest her by a known friend, made Suresh take the big decision of marrying her. However, at home, she is not accepted by her mother-in-law, for the different look she has. Troubles manifest when Nima is not able to give the house a grandson. Even after three deliveries, she is not able to have a boy. This turns her life upside down. Suresh is forced to marry again, by his mother. Tulika, the second wife of Suresh, does not like the presence of Nima in the house. She plots big time to send Nima and her kids away from the house.
The real journey of Nima as an independent woman will kickstart once she leaves her husband Suresh and gets into a life of her own with her three little daughters.
At times, the pace of the story has been too much to handle in the first week. Perhaps, the makers wanted to tell the initial journey of Nima really fast, and get to the main crux of the story in quick time. Also, the viewers watching this show will get to see more about the realistic troubles that such people who migrate for good from their homeland, trying to get a life of their own in the bigger cities, face. There are no great stars in the show, as told earlier. So people who expect to see faces might probably keep away from this show. Considering the concept of the show, there will be no dearth of drama. However, the telling here will be very different, as seen in the first week. All this can in a way go against the basic norm of the TV watching viewers. Certainly, as said earlier, it is an experiment made to tell a realistic tale of a girl from the North-East.
Surabhi Das is good as an actor. Akshay Kelkar and Surabhi make for a good pair. Their romance in the initial episodes, their innocence and cuteness were captured well. Akshay can do better in the emotional scenes though. Usha Dixit and Sharmila Rajaram Shinde pack a punch with their expressions and acting prowess.
The look and feel of this show are very different when compared to any other normal show. However, with good word of mouth, the show can do well. Also, the manner in which the journey ahead of Nima is tackled will be important to bring more audience into the show.
We will give 2.5 out of 5 stars for Nima Denzongpa.
