Season 2 Gunjan - stellar performance!

15th Sept

Gunjan's episode all the way! Loved it!
Starts with trio scene - Sam bandaging Mayank with Rohan's help after the big fight, Ash tells Gunji about the fight and Gunji rushes to Sam's cabin. The best thing about Season Two - after the new SG of course - is the bonding of the trio.
Gunjan still trying to remember - she keeps feeling this IS her Di. Mayank says he doesn't know if it is or not, but there's some problem, and he's gonna find out. Sam gets worried about Mayank's temper, he needs to do something about dhruv.
So all three are on detective mode.

First to go ... Gunjan. sees Nupur's name on the board, memories stir of Nupur writing her name while a boy looked on ... clicked his fingers threateningly ... Dhruv clicked his fingers in the cafe the same way ...

Next ... Samrat. Nups worried about Dhruv, she can't reach him. Samrat asks her - you ok? Nups makes some story to cover up. Then she begs Samrat to marry Gunjan quickly.
Antennae up. I can't push her.
Nups breaks - You have to! Because she won't.
He asks why are you so keen?
Nups - because she has no one but me, and if I go ...
Oops ...
But Sam doesn't ask any more questions.
part 1

She covers, but he's suspicious. Just reassures her and no more questions. S2 Sam, the man of few words ...
Asks where is Dhruv, and Nups makes her second blunder - he's gone with college friends.
But Dhruv never went to college.
Again Sam says nothing ... he has to leave for a meeting, he tells her. And goes.

Gunjan in classroom, sees the marks of the compass on the table and the handprint. More memories. And starting to connect the dots.
part 2

Nups calls mayank and tells him to stay away from her.
Gunji being followed? She goes to library. Yes, she was being followed - by Dhruv. She narrowly escapes a bookcase falling on her. Screams.
Good thing Samrat was out of the college, seeing that he goes even more ballistic than Mayank if anyone dares to even touch Gunjan. Dhruv would have been a goner if that bookcase had hurt Gunjan!

Nupur hears Gunjan and rushes to library where Dhruv is already expressing concern. More barely veiled threats, but now Gunjan is catching on quickly, now that she pieced together who Dhruv might be. And seeing Nupur's completely unveiled concern for her, she's more and more sure. As soon as Dhruv leaves, she pulls Nups to locker room.
Again, smart Gunji - no showdown in public where Dhruv or anyone else might walk in, makes sure to go somewhere quiet, reasonably private. Does Sanaya add these touches, or do they now come naturally to whoever writes the Gunjan scenes? These little nuances add so much to the characterization.

And then - the sisters showdown - Gunjan's show all the way. Again brilliantly done by Sanaya - there is simply no one to beat her in these tense emotional confrontations, whatever kind they might be. Speaks crisply, every word clear as a bell, not a single raised voice ... and her voice and expressions switching between accusation, hope, love, pleading ... as she tells Nupur the story of chintu and their childhood and asks her - you know the rest, don't you? You are nupur bhushan. You are my di, aren't you?
And she takes Nupur's hand to her head daring her to lie.
Nupur takes her hand off Gunjan's head and to her own - and lies - no, I'm not your Di.

Comments:
Nice, taut episode. Gripping, moving performances by all - the Sanu and the Gunur scenes were very good, and the S2 SG are well and truly back, even Nupur is a new and far better fit for S2 than the shrieking banshee of her first two weeks. But she needs to lessen her makeup - a lot.
The boy who played Chintu was good in his brief glimpses.
Last scene - the kasam khaoing bit was filmy but effective. But does this mean that Nupur is going to die again?

My feeling: Gunjan and Samrat are pretty much sure this is Nupur. AND - they're also sure there's no amnesia, as Gunjan was thinking up to a point. But there's no point telling Nupur we know this when she's so adamantly refusing to admit it despite all her bloopers. Gunjan would have been sure when Nupur refused to khao her kasam and swore on herself instead. Sam might investigate Dhruv, or lead to the truth another way - but put together with Gunjan's news, they would realize together. So SG are going to get together and do what they always do - talk it over. All leading up to final grand confrontation, of course. Mayank - don't know what he thinks. But he might lead to it independently or with SG.
Gunjan's turning point about it not being amnesia would have been when she spoke to Samrat about the forged documents, and then wondered why Nupur was refusing to recognize them. Samrat - no turning point as such, just his suspicions about Dhruv and Nupu'r relationship being not all it seems, growing stronger and stronger, mixed with concern for his friend, Mayank getting involved in what might or might not be his business.
And the reason Mayank is being the most obtuse might be the start of the next MN track - that his wife has spent the last three years with another man. Knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly is beside the point ... for any man, that's a hard pill to swallow.

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