22nd Sept
I thought this would follow straight after Shades of Khushi, but the cvs gave us an Arshilicious episode in between!
First scene ... in your face, Sneakster Shyamu ... Shashi is not convinced at all about Shyam. Bua tries to convince them again, she has done all the jaanch ... arey, woman, what jaanch have you done?! Just asked the guy himself about his family ... he could - and did - say anything at all, and you're blindly believing it.
Shashi reiterates again that Khushi is not their own child, so they have to be extra careful ... Bua says Shyam has looked after them all so much (like how exactly, buaji? What exactly has he actually done, apart from sweet talking you all? And getting Khushi her first job ... ok, that's one thing he did do.) And Bua reminds Shashi that Shyam saved Khushi from gundas in Lucknow ... and Shashi looks very thoughtful indeed!
I do like an intelligent man! Shashi ji, aapke aur mere khayalat kitne milte hain! Kab se I've been saying that Shyam saving Khushi from gundas was not a coincidence, it was a set up.
Mandir ... Khushi brings her parents, Arnav comes to call the pandit ... he senses her, but doesn't see her, she senses him, actually looks around, her eyes searching ... but doesn't see him. He leaves with the pandit, and stops seeing a child crying.
She's crying for her father, she doesn't have the money to release a pigeon and make a wish. Damn cute scene ... very cute kid! 'Where are your parents?' 'Papa is in hospital, mummy is crying' ... such a cute, innocent childlike answer ... all the facts, exact and to the point! He feels bad, gives her his hanky, she blows her nose and he makes the same face he made just a couple of days back ;-) ... takes back the hanky gingerly *rofl* She tells him she doesn't have enough money, he sees the broken pieces of the kulhad ...
Khushi runs to buy a pigeon and make her wish ... but someone has just bought all the pigeons ... immediately she curses the selfishness of the man, to buy all the wishes for himself ... and then she sees the child and the man ...
Beautiful scene ... Barun stayed completely in character, quiet, few words, yet his empathy for the child and his pain when she mentioned his parents both showing clearly ... and his last words to the child ... don't come out alone again ... well done! And Khushi sees it all ... sees a new, completely different side of the Rakshas ... has she been mistaken in reading him?
And she tells her sister the same ... I liked the sisters scene, Payal gently and fondly exasperated with her bakbak sister, can you please talk less and explain more?! That is, if you understand yourself what you're saying!
Khushi at RM ... thinks there's a major celebration puja happening ... she and Anjali finally get around to discovering the common Shyam in their lives ... only the name though ... but Anjali is too preoccupied to think much about that ... Khushi wonders aloud that even Arnav is joining the puja without being asked, earning another glare from him ... and then she realises what the puja is about and is horror-stricken at her thoughtless mistake. And tries to apologise ... but he's back to angry mode.
Slimeball Shyam tries desperately to get Khushi sent back home, but Anjali is pissed off ... forget her, when are you coming? And he makes another excuse ... she's upset ... and Shashi overhears ... Rani Sahiba? and work? what work? All Shyam is doing is sitting at home making tea.
Khushi comes to Arnav to apologise ... she's really remorseful and guilty about her mistake. But he tells her to leave. She tells him she can understand ... and he bursts out on her ... you can't understand! How it feels to light your parent's funeral pyres, to come back home and know they're never coming back, you can't understand so don't tell me you can ... because nobody can!
Oh yes, she can, Arnav ... because she's been through the same thing, she's in the same boat as you.
But he adds, very unfairly ... don't think you'll get a raise by showing me your sympathy ...
She doesn't protest at his unfairness, because she can see his pain ... a shared pain, if only he knew ...
So Khushi has started seeing a different side to Arnav, a side he keeps hidden from everyone except his sister. What made him lash out at her? What made him show her a glimpse of his pain, even cloaked as it was in anger? What makes her the only person other than Anjali, with whom he can share his feelings of what it felt like to perform his parents' last rites, feelings he never shares with anyone, refuses to even talk about?
Last scene ... Shashi has a heart attack ... so soon?! Now what?!
Links
Part 1
Part 2
I thought this would follow straight after Shades of Khushi, but the cvs gave us an Arshilicious episode in between!
First scene ... in your face, Sneakster Shyamu ... Shashi is not convinced at all about Shyam. Bua tries to convince them again, she has done all the jaanch ... arey, woman, what jaanch have you done?! Just asked the guy himself about his family ... he could - and did - say anything at all, and you're blindly believing it.
Shashi reiterates again that Khushi is not their own child, so they have to be extra careful ... Bua says Shyam has looked after them all so much (like how exactly, buaji? What exactly has he actually done, apart from sweet talking you all? And getting Khushi her first job ... ok, that's one thing he did do.) And Bua reminds Shashi that Shyam saved Khushi from gundas in Lucknow ... and Shashi looks very thoughtful indeed!
I do like an intelligent man! Shashi ji, aapke aur mere khayalat kitne milte hain! Kab se I've been saying that Shyam saving Khushi from gundas was not a coincidence, it was a set up.
Mandir ... Khushi brings her parents, Arnav comes to call the pandit ... he senses her, but doesn't see her, she senses him, actually looks around, her eyes searching ... but doesn't see him. He leaves with the pandit, and stops seeing a child crying.
She's crying for her father, she doesn't have the money to release a pigeon and make a wish. Damn cute scene ... very cute kid! 'Where are your parents?' 'Papa is in hospital, mummy is crying' ... such a cute, innocent childlike answer ... all the facts, exact and to the point! He feels bad, gives her his hanky, she blows her nose and he makes the same face he made just a couple of days back ;-) ... takes back the hanky gingerly *rofl* She tells him she doesn't have enough money, he sees the broken pieces of the kulhad ...
Khushi runs to buy a pigeon and make her wish ... but someone has just bought all the pigeons ... immediately she curses the selfishness of the man, to buy all the wishes for himself ... and then she sees the child and the man ...
Beautiful scene ... Barun stayed completely in character, quiet, few words, yet his empathy for the child and his pain when she mentioned his parents both showing clearly ... and his last words to the child ... don't come out alone again ... well done! And Khushi sees it all ... sees a new, completely different side of the Rakshas ... has she been mistaken in reading him?
And she tells her sister the same ... I liked the sisters scene, Payal gently and fondly exasperated with her bakbak sister, can you please talk less and explain more?! That is, if you understand yourself what you're saying!
Khushi at RM ... thinks there's a major celebration puja happening ... she and Anjali finally get around to discovering the common Shyam in their lives ... only the name though ... but Anjali is too preoccupied to think much about that ... Khushi wonders aloud that even Arnav is joining the puja without being asked, earning another glare from him ... and then she realises what the puja is about and is horror-stricken at her thoughtless mistake. And tries to apologise ... but he's back to angry mode.
Slimeball Shyam tries desperately to get Khushi sent back home, but Anjali is pissed off ... forget her, when are you coming? And he makes another excuse ... she's upset ... and Shashi overhears ... Rani Sahiba? and work? what work? All Shyam is doing is sitting at home making tea.
Khushi comes to Arnav to apologise ... she's really remorseful and guilty about her mistake. But he tells her to leave. She tells him she can understand ... and he bursts out on her ... you can't understand! How it feels to light your parent's funeral pyres, to come back home and know they're never coming back, you can't understand so don't tell me you can ... because nobody can!
Oh yes, she can, Arnav ... because she's been through the same thing, she's in the same boat as you.
But he adds, very unfairly ... don't think you'll get a raise by showing me your sympathy ...
She doesn't protest at his unfairness, because she can see his pain ... a shared pain, if only he knew ...
So Khushi has started seeing a different side to Arnav, a side he keeps hidden from everyone except his sister. What made him lash out at her? What made him show her a glimpse of his pain, even cloaked as it was in anger? What makes her the only person other than Anjali, with whom he can share his feelings of what it felt like to perform his parents' last rites, feelings he never shares with anyone, refuses to even talk about?
Last scene ... Shashi has a heart attack ... so soon?! Now what?!
Links
Part 1
Part 2
Hey Dia,
ReplyDeleteVery apt title...i liked both arnav scenes in this epi - the temple one, for the acting..it was sorta predictable cuz we knew it was meant to show his soft side but they didnt overdo it...as u said, it was very much in character..arnav cud relate to the li'l girl but he cudnt reach out completely..was nice to see the restraint in Barun's performance...so good job!
and second one b/w arshi - for the dialogues, though said in anger, it brought out his pain wonderfully, esp this one - "to come back home and know they're never coming back"...it was meaningful, and yet not overdramatic like such scenes normally are..kudos to the writers!!
Hey Shilpi!
ReplyDeleteYep, I think Arnav was great in both scenes, subtle, underplayed, they brought out his soft side without making him go overboard ... very well done and Barun'e performance was good!
And again, the Arshi scene was the same ... he did try to tell her to leave very politely considering his usual standards with her ... but his pain was lurking just below the surface and he finally found a release in her ... he could express his feelings to someone, which he doesn't even do to Anjali. And the dialogues again were very good ... again nothing too melodramatic, but really touching ... they really sounded as though they were torn from the depths of his heart!
I think for both the scenes, dialogues and direction were brilliant!