Friends, here is my next VM. This one is from Dev's perspective even though Radhika's feelings are also shown here. This is based on the song "Tum jo mil gaye ho" from the movie "Hanste zakm". This song really suits Dev as he found his destination when he got Radhika. The title of this poem is "
The Anchor".
I initially titled this VM "Journey Home"; the title waken from a poem by Rabindranath Tagore. The poem doesn't really apply to this situation as it talks about one's spiritual journey. But I liked the title as it talks about one finding their way back after a lot of struggles (journey). So the way this VM shaped up, it seemed to be more appropriate.
But somehow this title was not totally working for me. So I have renamed it "The Anchor". Anchor in a figurative sense implies support or pillar. Radhika was Dev's support and he was hers too. But as Misti always wrote in her thread, he was insecure and needy. So he considered Radhika his anchor even more.
In this VM, Dev is expressing his need freely to Radhika and also showing his appreciation to her for being in his life. So this is something that was not shown in the show properly, but here I have tried to show it where he is showing her how she completed him by coming in his life.
This song's lyrics really suit Dev's character. But I am not sure if the VM has come out properly. It took me much longer to make this VM. I think one of the problem is that there are only five months of episodes from which I can create a story.. I can use parts of scenes from rest of episodes but they cannot be used to create a story from scratch. Since I am trying my best not to repeat scenes for VM and usually try to choose a different part of the same scene, now it is becoming difficult as certain type of scenes are very limited.
This song was also difficult because it combines joyous music followed by pensive lyrics in few places. So it was hard to make a consistent story. I ended up using couple of scenes that I have used before. In any case, this starts from the time when Dev accepts his relationship with Radhika and decides to finally makes a break by choosing her over his obligations. So it starts with the part where he is tentative and reserved with her. Then by the time their journey is over from the morning to the night, they are quite comfortable with each other and laughing/talking together. Then the rest of the scenes are where he expresses his appreciation of her and explains her importance to him. The last scene is when she is his wife in front of the society and they are at peace with each other.
Hope you like this interpretation.
In the meanwhile, the two poems that are somewhat related to my two titles - Journey Home and The Anchor are given below. I do not entirely understand either one of the poems fully, but I can see them a little bit in context of Dev's feelings. The first one is by Rabindranath Tagore and the second one is by Walt Whitman - an American poet. Again my interpretation is in context of this story of Dev and Radhika and is not the one that poets meant. The underlined lines are the ones that to me represents Dev's feelings about Radhika.
The last two lines of "Journey Home" to me is Dev's seeking assurance of Radhika's presence and Radhika soothing him by giving him assurance.
Journey Home (By Rabindranath Tagore)
The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long.
I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my
voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet.
It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself,
and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own,
and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said 'Here art thou!'
The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand
streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'
Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love! (Walt Whitman)
Fast-anchor'd eternal O love! O woman I love!
O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
Then separate, as disembodied or another born,
Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation,
I ascend, I float in the regions of your love O man,
O sharer of my roving life.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNiiUNGYp1Y&feature=player_detailpage[/YOUTUBE]
Note: Please give honest feedback on what is not working for this VM. It helped me last time when Misti suggested some alternate interpretation because that time too the song did not work out the way I had thought it would.
Edited by why6 - 13 years ago
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