Dekha Ek Khwaab: the transformation of Manyataa
Just a couple of days ago we complained that the change from Moniya to Manyataa in Dekha Ek Khwaab was taking for ever, and we were getting a little fed up of the dreadfully long-drawn-out drama of a princess who had to learn to be a princess. Now, finally, it seems to be happening. With typical Hindi soap opera fits and starts, of course
Prince Udayveer has been helping the young
rescued-from-her-chawl girl to slowly morph into a
rajkumari. There are the classic Pygmalion-like glitches, obviously, with Moniya screeching in pain at her first experience of waxing her arms, her squeaks at having her (already neat) eyebrows plucked and her shock at wearing clothes that are not just skimpy but astonishingly ugly as well, in our opinion.
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