Wednesday 2nd April
Update later ... long episode!
Paro baisa is ziddi in the extreme ... Rudra really, REALLY shouldn't have started the whole chain of marriage thoughts in her head. Ab bhugto!
*Quick update*
Good episode, flowed well, it was an hour long and had almost no filler scenes, well done by the team.
Finally Paro's thoughts were given space, as was her realisation that she belongs with Rudra ... all the signs she puts together, from the doll, to her rescue, to the forced marriage ... and off she goes to tell him that she's not going to marry Sumer, she's going to marry him.
Liked the scene where Rudra thinks she has decided to marry Sumer, and he almost loses it ... trying desperately to tell himself it doesn't matter to him. Ashish tends to go OTT in many solo scenes.
Maithili gets some brains!
The BSD award ceremony ... I was not looking forward to the public tamasha ... but it was very beautifully done. Sanaya SHONE in the scene ... a fabulous restrained performance ... Paro's joy and pure love shining in her eyes ... uncaring of the surroundings, of anything except the need to tell Rudra her feelings.
Ashish gave her good support ... he is always better in his scenes with Sanaya than alone.
The Paro-Rudra confrontation where she tries to persuade him they're made for each other, and he tries equally desperately to persuade her she's wrong, was good.
Update later ... long episode!
Paro baisa is ziddi in the extreme ... Rudra really, REALLY shouldn't have started the whole chain of marriage thoughts in her head. Ab bhugto!
*Quick update*
Good episode, flowed well, it was an hour long and had almost no filler scenes, well done by the team.
Finally Paro's thoughts were given space, as was her realisation that she belongs with Rudra ... all the signs she puts together, from the doll, to her rescue, to the forced marriage ... and off she goes to tell him that she's not going to marry Sumer, she's going to marry him.
Liked the scene where Rudra thinks she has decided to marry Sumer, and he almost loses it ... trying desperately to tell himself it doesn't matter to him. Ashish tends to go OTT in many solo scenes.
Maithili gets some brains!
The BSD award ceremony ... I was not looking forward to the public tamasha ... but it was very beautifully done. Sanaya SHONE in the scene ... a fabulous restrained performance ... Paro's joy and pure love shining in her eyes ... uncaring of the surroundings, of anything except the need to tell Rudra her feelings.
Ashish gave her good support ... he is always better in his scenes with Sanaya than alone.
The Paro-Rudra confrontation where she tries to persuade him they're made for each other, and he tries equally desperately to persuade her she's wrong, was good.
Also, now I get why the last two episodes were so rushed and jerky ... they were preparing for the ME ... a one hour long episode. It was a reasonably good episode ... much less jerky than the last two.
ReplyDeletei thought it was completely flaky.
ReplyDeletethis was sanaya's day.. she portrayed the village belle's shining eyed innocence really well. but towards the end, parvati looked really dumb.. there is only so much that bambi eyes can do.
for a script that should have been extended over one week, they pushed it together into one hour and lost the essence of so many important moments., it felt like one long paro-monologue.
KcM's ridiculous shajahan act was the topping.
i saw glimpses of brilliance in sum-air actor.
maithili looked like she was in her police officer avatar.. and two taaney at samrat's nonexistent spine and that went phuss. without even a peep from sunehri.
those men, aman and kakasa were the silent actors who gave every expression correctly.
ashish was not in the ballpark.. from the way he never wears that army hat on tv to the way he forgot for a moment that rudra and paro were not alone in the auditorium (on the top floor of some college building!!) only his eyes were acting, and that too only in certain scenes... maybe it is the fault of the director, but it was terrible to watch.
the only moment that touched me was the parud scene in the home about the sindoor being an accident.. they were both present in that scene.
and i want to give at least three months lockout to that bg music guy.. aargh! what was that???
yes, she became piya ki deewani.. all in the short space of two episodes, i might add. and now every time i hear that aa aa a wail, i will remember the sanaya marathon that "even her ankles wont forgive".
her makeup was beautiful today.
p.s. how did maithili get hold of paro's wedding clothes? she went to BSD after capturing thakur, they thankfully parceled her the clothes to her sasuraal?
someone who said part of what i mean :
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Jaya,
DeleteOpinion is divided on the forum, some people loved it, others hated it. I'm not trying to change your view ... all I can say is, tonight I finally GOT Paro like I had never got her before.
Paro is an orphan and a very simple girl with simple dreams. Her wish for her married life was simple ... a person she could call her own, a home where she BELONGED, and which belonged to her ... where she had the right to put a nail in the wall where she liked, her own kitchen, her own choice of curtains ... nowhere did she dream of love and a prince riding in on a white horse. Her dreams were not of love and handsome men ... her dream was to BELONG. And she is a devout Shiv bhakt ... she gives the reins of her life into His hands completely, and trusts him to do what is right for her. A girl who is content with a snake choosing her life partner, because that is His will. Her only tiny complaint then was that she wanted her husband to have Shivji's name.
So today she got the biggest sign that she belonged to Rudra ... that she is HIS, and he is hers ... their fates are linked by destiny and by Bholenath himself. Her biggest dream come true ... after all she had been through ... that was the only thought in her mind, her overriding thought.
Paro is NOT in love yet ... not the way a woman loves a man ... that is yet to come. This is only a feeling of belonging, of the rightness of Rudra being her protector, because it is ordained by Shivji Himself ... the sheer joy of a true bhakt. She reminded me of Meera more than Parvati ... the same sublime joy Meerabai felt when she was free to worship her Lord.
Not dumb ... a joy that transcends all worldly thoughts and constraints ... a pure joy, a pure love, like the love of Meera for her Shyam. Hence all the talk about shraddha, vishwaas, prem ... this is not an earthly love yet, it is deeper.
Sanaya portrayed that joy, that confidence beautifully ... I was actually looking at her through that scene for a trace of Sanaya, the person and found absolutely none. She was submerged in Paro completely.
Regardng Maithili and Sumer and how did Maithili find the clothes ... this was discussed on the MF too ... the cvs rushed through that entire explanation of how Paro reached the BSD office after leaving Tejawat. As usual ... they gloss over Paro so much, that makes the storytelling so lopsided!
DeleteThe unseen explanation, which is pretty logical ... she was picked up by a roaming BSD patrol, who were all out on the search after Tejawat ran away ... it was a BSD operation so they were on the lookout ... she was taken to the Ranawat haveli, which was empty as all were at the hospital ... she changed her clothes (the horror of last time spending two months in her wedding dress must have been fresh in her mind) .wondered briefly where everyone was, but had more important things to do .. she was then taken to the BSD office to record her testimony. She never bothered to put the clothes away properly.
Regrading Maithili and Samrat ... I don't think we've seen the last of that investigation, not by a long shot. The way Samrat hustled Maithili away from the room before she could mention the duplicate set of clothes looked very suspicious to me.
DeleteSunehri did not answer whether she had seen Paro's face or not ... she had to think. She never had to think about the clothes, she was sure she saw them. This confirmed to Maithili, and probably Samrat too, that Sunehri had NOT seen the face. Couple with the discovery of the duplicate dupatta, it's pretty evident to them that Paro has been framed for the fire.
It just needs one more brainwave from Maithili, to remember that she saw Mohini handing over the duplicate set of clothes to the maid, for that mystery to be solved. But will Samrat and Maithili accuse Mohini? I doubt it. He has to accuse his mother of trying to kill his Tauji ... a big deal for anyone to do.
This will come out slowly ... or maybe not so slowly, judging by the speed at which this PH resolves issues. But it WILL come out ... I have no doubt about that.
I liked the episode on the whole ... a lot of things fell into place.
DeleteParo made sense to me ...
Rudra finally had pangs of jealousy about Paro actually marrying Sumer and leaving. His entire attention during the award ceremony was on Paro, not on his coveted medal.
Maithili showed the clothes to Samrat ... fortunately not to Mohini.
The humour scenes between Mohini and Sumer were fillers, but decent ones ... they were not ridiculous, they all fitted into the storyline.