Gunjan - shining star; Uday - honorable mention

15th March

Gunjan all the way! And HATS OFF to Sanaya again!!!

Starting from the first scene - Gunjan begging Samrat not to leave her - how does Sanaya manage to keep a straight face throughout this scene, especially when Mohit isn't even trying to hide his grin?! But she still manages to look petrified, scared witless ...

Outside the outhouse - SIGH ... infinite dreamy emoticons ... The love they share ...
She tells him to stay outside, he looks at her - she doesn't know it's all a prank, she's scared to death, yet she's ready to face whatever danger is there alone, just so that HE isn't in danger. She - scared, timid, weak Gunjan ... the bravest of them all. And then they hug ... for her, it's 'I don't know what will happen, I don't even know if I'll see you again', and for him it's an awed 'how can you love me so much? Our love will win, it HAS to win'
And that's what he says too ... if anyone can do it, you can ... and I'm with you, very close, always.

Outhouse and Uday ... If Sanaya was the scene stealer, Uday comes in for very honorable mention. This actor is probably the most underutilised in MJHT. He was fantastic as the possessed Uday, never once lapsing into his usual Dodo comic act ... menacing and threatening. What could have been a total farce, because the audience KNEW this was not a real ghost, became a completely believable scene because of Uday's acting and ... need I mention it ... Sanaya's. Her terror, her face, her voice ... "Uday bhaiyya, main Gunjan" ... trying desperately to get her brother out from the clutches of the fictitious thakur, trying in spite of her own fear.
I've said it before and I'll say it countless times again ... the emotion that Sanaya gets into her voice is beyond amazing - it transforms ANY scene from the mundane, ordinary, unbelievable to the most realistic and believable scene possible. Here again, the terror in her voice, and in her eyes showed how completely convinced Gunjan was that Uday WAS possessed, that Samrat WAS in danger, and that she had to try to do something, whatever she could to stop Uday.

Scene outside - Samrat Uday fight - Samrat gets knocked out for real and bulldozer on the way ... again, a simple often-repeated fairly cliched scene, transformed completely by Sanaya's acting, the emotions in her eyes, her voice, the frantic terror, the frustrated helplessness as she yells and shrieks for Samrat to get up, GET UP somehow ...
And then she finds her feet and runs ... okay, I wish she had fumbled to her feet, rather than almost jumped, and that she had stumbled a bit more when she ran ... but honestly, that was the only fault I could find with a scene which was totally expected, which I had dreaded to be as farcical as Nupur's fight with the goons ... and which turned out to be a scene where i was literally holding my breath ...

And the way Gunjan falls on Samrat and rolls him out of the way ... infinite dreamy emoticons again ... can watch just that bit again and again ...
And Samrat comes to, and his eyes look for her and only her ... and then at her legs ... she's standing - she did it, they did it ... freeze on their expressions ... I'm in dreamland again ...

precap - smiling Gunjan, smitten Samrat ... this couple is going to kill me!!! back to lovers and soulmates ... bring on any crappy track, I can jhelo it if SG are in this dreamy mode :)))

Naveen's links

A hug so possessive
Gunjan recovers to save Sam