Not to worry, Lashykanna, I got it from Anjali's thread. And here is my take on it.
A very interesting find.
Rajat smoulders very handsomely. Most of the time he looks Greek, not Indian. The fight is more classical cut and thrust that the whirling dervish style of Jalal, and she loses every time. She is just OK.
He generally looks stern and narrow eyed, and the line of the cheek and the chin stays taut and grim.This is going to be his primary mood for quite a while to come.
The lines are simple and telling. He wants some major gain from a marriage,
prem or not, and asserts that
rajneeti considers (royal) marriages to be a
vyapaar. She says she will only marry the person she loves. So it is clearly a pre-marriage segment.
OK, so far so good. At this stage, she does not look murderous, so does that mean that her daddy dearest and the Nine Nandas are still amongst the living? Questions. questions!
The entry scene in tonight's precap is ultra stylised, and shot in such tight close ups that one cannot make out much. What was different was the use of lances, not swords.
Finally, Lashykanna, my felicitations on a superb though very compact dissertation on the art of swordsmanship as displayed by Rajat. Very nice!
Shyamala Periyamma
Originally posted by: lashy
@ Periyamma... link?
Lashy opens online manual to read about how to post video links on IF
Not at all... and I do agree with you (As I did even earlier that BB is far far better product than CN - be it the VFX, be it the screenplay/direction/dialogues... it was more original... more entertaining ... more logical... more grand scale.. everything...)
Hence, I have no doubt at all that the actors would have worked incredibly incredibly hard to create those sequences...
But... the way that RT wields the sword, just comes naturally to him... ever since he was a kid and without the kind of professional training that I suspect the BB actors would have been lucky to have...
The style with which he flicks his wrist, or moves his knees, jumps in the air and lands on his feet... or the speed with which he can complete one stroke-circle... he uses a heavy one, since it's obvious from his opponent's style that they're struggling to do the same...
All of this comes to him with an innate finesse/talent/grace... and THAT is what I was referring to when I'd said can't be replicated...
In fact, the problem with him being so good at it, is that all the other supporting actors onscreen (be it PRC/DV - except Vikrant Massey & JA - Except that Todarmal/Rahim dude) have ended up looking like dandiya players with the sword...
Otherwise, there is no point even comparing action sequences on CN to BB... the former doesn't even stand a chance! Budget-wise or creativity-wise!
Edited by sashashyam - 8 years ago