Thursday 27th February
Paro breaks down at the sight of the bangles ... Sanaya in emotional scenes reminds me every time why I became a fan of this actress in the first place. She makes you feel her pain like no one else does.
But I wish they would get a better match in voice for the songs.
Rudra banna hears the song and loses it ... comes storming up and tells her not to sing it again. And then goes down and breaks down, because it's what his mother used to sing to him.
Thakurain remembers her son, looks at his picture and breaks down ... hides the pic from the Thakur, but doesn't hide her tears and her upset. And I am again puzzled at the Thakurain's story ... she seems to love the Thakur, and her son both ... but does the Thakur even know she has a son?
Next morning, Danveer gives the Thakurain's kada to Paro ... Paro smiles at the butterfly ... and recognises the kada, but not where she has seen it earlier.
Rudra and Mohini's tashan continues ... with Paro their unwilling reluctant pawn. Rudra's possessiveness is coming more and more to the fore ... he seems uncomfortable and restless if Paro is out of his sight for too long. Of course, it's because there are so many people around, what if someone sees her face ... or so he must be telling himself.
Mohini is all set to show Paro's face to as many people as she possibly can, in the hope that someone recognises her. Rudra puts paid to all her plans ... including an almost public war of words with Paro under the dupatta. Paro doesn't give an inch, does she ... he has to fight her all the way!
Sanaya looked so utterly gorgeous under the pink dupatta .. this girl gets more and more beautiful every day! Including those beautiful eyes spitting fire at Rudra ...
But Mohini is not giving up so easily, the next is a jhaanki, parading Paro through the village ... what a weird custom!
But will she succeed this time?
Paro breaks down at the sight of the bangles ... Sanaya in emotional scenes reminds me every time why I became a fan of this actress in the first place. She makes you feel her pain like no one else does.
But I wish they would get a better match in voice for the songs.
Rudra banna hears the song and loses it ... comes storming up and tells her not to sing it again. And then goes down and breaks down, because it's what his mother used to sing to him.
Thakurain remembers her son, looks at his picture and breaks down ... hides the pic from the Thakur, but doesn't hide her tears and her upset. And I am again puzzled at the Thakurain's story ... she seems to love the Thakur, and her son both ... but does the Thakur even know she has a son?
Next morning, Danveer gives the Thakurain's kada to Paro ... Paro smiles at the butterfly ... and recognises the kada, but not where she has seen it earlier.
Rudra and Mohini's tashan continues ... with Paro their unwilling reluctant pawn. Rudra's possessiveness is coming more and more to the fore ... he seems uncomfortable and restless if Paro is out of his sight for too long. Of course, it's because there are so many people around, what if someone sees her face ... or so he must be telling himself.
Mohini is all set to show Paro's face to as many people as she possibly can, in the hope that someone recognises her. Rudra puts paid to all her plans ... including an almost public war of words with Paro under the dupatta. Paro doesn't give an inch, does she ... he has to fight her all the way!
Sanaya looked so utterly gorgeous under the pink dupatta .. this girl gets more and more beautiful every day! Including those beautiful eyes spitting fire at Rudra ...
But Mohini is not giving up so easily, the next is a jhaanki, parading Paro through the village ... what a weird custom!
But will she succeed this time?
An okay-ish episode ... I feel the scenes of Rudra breaking down are coming too often, they are losing their impact. On the other hand, Paro's tears are shown much less, and they are much more powerful ... the first scene with Paro's tears was deeply moving, and Sanaya is unsurpassed in her emotional scenes. I wish the makers had put in some flashbacks of her with the Thakurain as well, to complete the picture that Rudra's loss was Paro's gain. When they switched to Rudra's breakdown, I was disappointed, I wanted to see more of Paro's pain.
And they need a different voice for Paro! The girl who sang for Gunjan in MJHT was much better, her voice matched Sanaya's beautifully. The earthy voice does not match Sanaya's speaking tone.
The Thakurain's story gets more complex ... it seems she really did leave her husband for the love of another man, and nothing more noble than that ... she seems to genuinely love him, and he her .. yet she hides the fact that she went to meet her son, and hides his picture. Does the Thakur even know she has a son?
Rudra seems to be losing focus between his skirmish with his KCM and his need to keep Paro hidden ... the one cannot go along with the other. But then he needed the four days to break Paro's silence, which so far he hasn't succeeded in doing ... on the contrary, he only succeeded in putting her back up further and making her even more determined not to bend. With every day, her fear of him seems to be diminishing.
I have to say this again ... Sanaya under the pink dupatta, with the gorgeous lehnga and jewelry, was simply stunning! Her eye make up has been darkened for the wedding episodes, and her eyes look amazingly beautiful!!!
Dia,
ReplyDelete"I feel the scenes of Rudra breaking down are coming too often, they are losing their impact"
Well to be honest i am not actually surprised that there are too many of these scene....the premise of an army man holding a woman as captive for this witness theory is difficult to justify..so the writer is forced to do this scenes.....to give some sort of respectability to the character.....
When u hark back to IPK...ASR was also a diffi character...but there were no pretensions to propriety on his part so it was in a sense just plain easy to see that here was a flawed hero, if u will...in need of resurrection...In Rudra's case...it is the pretension of propriety that interferes with the character sketch...this is not to say that one can't make an error of judgement its just that when u see a protagonist in the mould of a hero..ur perspective is colored by that aspect...u want to see redeemable qualities in that person...,
By choosing to keep this story in the haveli....the premise has been stretched and one can see there is pressure on the narrative to stay focussed...
The dilsher-paro scene of the day before yesterday is a case in point. Apart from letting Mohini in on part of the plot...it had no other aim...else what was the point of Paro complaining almost in a comical way on how Rudra was lying about her famliy...to me it seemed the perfect opportunity for Dilsher to tell Paro that she was perhaps misinformed about her family...i can understand Paro and Rudra having problems in communicating with each other but why should Dilsher whom Paro trusts atleast enuf to give him an honest hearing...
That look of incredulity on Dilsher when Paro said that Rudra was lying was almost comical...
I am not even going into the Danveer and Thakurain scene which was another scene that was forced on this narrative....neither the actors nor the writers had even an iota of belief in that scene. Danveer's protestations on not wanting to know about her address was actually an unintentionally funny scene.....
Rekha,
DeleteI don't know about that ... the premise of an army man keeping a witness safe is not really unremarkable or unbelievable ... the WPP is based on reality. ASR's Nani and Anjali hiring Khushi to teach La how to be a good bahu is far more stretched. And the whole point of that was also to get Khushi to RM every day, logic be hanged. So no, I don't agree with that point. If one doesn't agree with that premise, then you can't watch the show ... one had to REALLY suspend all logic to believe that hushi could be hired to train La how to be a good bahu, when Maami and Anjali were both very much present in the house to do the needful, otherwise you couldn't have watched IPK. IPK was by no means perfect in terms of logic, one had to watch it with logic permanently suspended for the most part.
But other scenes I do agree ... the way Mohini learned of Paro's truth through the Dilsher Paro scene, the Danveer-thakurain scene ... those were poor in terms of writing and screenplay, and in the case of the latter, poorly acted.
Dia...ofc suspension of logic is a must for watching a show...but by that logic one must accept anything that is dished out in a soap...but that does not happen becos each one reacts differently to how much a situation is creatively acceptable to us.....
DeleteIn this case, WPP per se is not the issue..i see potential in this love tale for that very reason...for me it is charming to see how Paro will fall for a man she believes to be the murderer of her dreams.....To me like IPk was ASR's tale...this is pretty much Paro's tale...
As i said in an earlier post, since there is a need to make the two get together under one roof, some creative liberty is bound to be taken...its just that when that is done...some of that liberty sinks in and some of it falls by the wayside....
All i am saying is that the writing so far has shown too much eagerness on the part of rudra to keep Paro under his roof..The writing should have been managed to make it look more like a "under duress" situation for Rudra more than for Paro....It is understood that Paro is helpless...those couple of scenes before he brought Paro to the haveli needed better background...I would have found the breakdown scenes more realistic if i could accept that Rudra did not want Paro under his roof....that he fought hard to keep this complication away and yet is forced to yield to it only becos he has no other real choice...his breakdown is compounded by two things...his knowledge that his life work under threat and that a beautiful woman is the cause of his eventual ruin.
Forgetting all the illogical aspects that IPK dished out, to me the core of the story was the real dilemma of a man in love with a woman who he believed to be cheating with his sister's spouse...it was not what he could have done to disabuse himself of those notions.....it was not the lack of the shatir dimag that we all laughed about...it was the pain that he underwent while believing her to be the cause of all that misery and yet the abject surrender to the power of love that tells him that there is no right or wrong in what he felt for her....