A tribute to Dev & Radhika-Video Index: pg2, post2 - Page 81

Originally posted by: misti73

Angie first congrats for becoming a Rocker. You finally did it.

Misti, thanks. Yeah after exactly three years of participating in CB forum (both CB1 and CB2), I finally managed to get a Rocker's title. I do wonder if burning track, one night stand track, Barkha track or Madhavi track were not shown, would I have got the title earlier? I did quit writing for few days in all these tracks. But in creatives defense, I have to say that I wouldn't have participated in some frustration threads if these tracks were not shown. So maybe their tracks did not make a difference to the timing of my getting this title.

Thanks for letting me know that you chose the scene because of the presence of rain. I felt that it might have been rain that made you chose that scene. The reason why that scene stood out and I did not feel it to be a part of the VM was because Radhika was not smiling. Also that scene reminded me of the fact that the lunatic was in the near by room.

You are welcome. I did feel that scene was out of sync and was hesitant to use it. Of course I concur with you about the lunatic. I had to watch this episode once again just to include this part even though I did fast forward lunatic's scenes. But still had to endure obnoxious Bholu for few minutes.

I liked the new version of your VM...Its much better than the earlier one. Thanks. Finally, did think of a scene where both were silent and had rain in the background. Well Bholu has other things on his mind and he had cooperative Phullu.

Originally posted by: Myra.nelly

Beautiful work angie..Congrats in becoming a Rockerz!!

Originally posted by: why6

I am back with another VM on Dev/Radhika of CB2. I had thought that I was done with VMs made on CB2 as had no more scenes to use. But I heard this song "Ae ri pawan dhunde kisse tera maan" from the movie "Bemisaal". It is a beautiful song composed by RD Burman and sung by Lata Mangeshkar. The lyrics suit Radhika of CB2 and I had initial scenes from CB1 that I have never used. The VM is little bit stilted as real player converter is not doing a great job converting these videos from youtube. But still, the scenes that I used are from episodes that were good episodes of CB2.

I was having a heard time thinking of a title for this song. I have called it "Life in a Love" that is based on Radhika's character as a whole. The poem is by Robert Browning and some of the lines especially suit Radhika. So I used a general title for this song rather the one that actually suits the song and scenes.

Here is the poem "Life in a Love" by Robert Browning. The loth word in thepoem means "the reluctant one" which applies to Dev in this context who was reluctant to accept Radhika's love as he felt too debt ridden to Dada. The underlined lines of the poem are applicable to Radhika who would feel down at Dev's behavior, but her optimistic nature and resolve would make her hope again.

Life in a Love (Robert Browning) Escape me? Never Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, Me the loving and you the loth, While the one eludes, must the other pursue. My life is a fault at last, I fear: It seems too much like a fate, indeed! Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed. But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, And baffled, get up to begin again, So the chase takes up one's life, that's all. While, look but once from your farthest bound, At me so deep in the dust and dark, No sooner the old hope drops to ground Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark, I shape me Ever Removed! Following is the VM "Life in a Love" [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=saWMBMV9Pnc[/YOUTUBE]

Originally posted by: misti73

Angie, aeree pawan is a beautiful song. One of the contestants in Saregamapa sang it last week.

Misti, I too watched that Saregamapa. That's why I got reminded of this song. Just listening to it, I felt that it fit Radhika of CB2 so perfectly. When I find a song that fit characters of Dev and Radhika so well, I don't have to do much work for VM except for few scenes here and there.

I watched bemisaal long time back but after listening to the song in the show I have been thinking about rewatching the movie again. Now you have again reminded me of this beautiful song.

Misti, that is one of my favorite movies of Amitabh and Rakhi. Amitabh's character was grey in this movie. Even though his purpose was always noble, the actions could be considered greyish in many scenes especially the way he saved his friend. The story was so complex. Though Rakhi's feelings for Amitabh's character were shown as ambiguous even though they called each other friends. So was never sure if Rakhi married Vinod Mehra's character because she thought that he loved her the most or she married him because she thought she was in love with him. There were those unresolved feelings of her character with regards to Amitabh's character.

Coming to your VM, you have managed the catch the essence of the song and have matched it perfectly to Radhika and her search for the memory that has become her essence.

Misti, thanks. This VM was quite easy to make because the song was made as if for Radhika's character. I included Bholu as a periphery because it was Radhika's song, but his presence was there. There was one instance where I did include him directly but then I deleted the scene. That was when Radhika left him at the river bank. Instead I used Radhika as walking alone but smiling happily thinking of him. So I removed his direct presence and just kept him in Radhika's thoughts.

I also like the way you used Browning's poem to bring in Bholu because him Radhika will always feels incomplete...

Thanks. I was thinking of a title for this VM and couldn't think of one. Then I found this poem by Browning. He had written for his wife Elizabeth when I believe she was rejecting him. Actually I am not sure of the background of this poem. In any case, it felt as it too fit Radhika's character because as you said without him Radhika felt incomplete. In the song too, she is seeking that completion and having confusion between feelings for this stranger (adult Bholu) and her memories of that childhood love.

My next VM is on the song "Yeh sama-sama hai pyar ka" from the movie "jab jab phool khile". When I heard this song, I thought lyrics suited Radhika of CB2 who was a carefree creature in her own world. But I did not have scenes for this song from CB2. So I decided to make it on Radhika of CB1.

After making it, I felt it suited Radhika of CB1 too during the time period when she got engaged to Dev after all the drama. That was the time her transformation started because of Dev who helped her recover from her abusive past. This track was well handled despite all the melodrama because they showed that gradual transformation of Radhika from a subdued person to a more free person.

So I have titled this VM as "The Genesis of a Butterfly" even though the title doesn't directly match the lyrics. But the sequence of the VM made me think of Radhika as somebody who became a butterfly as her relationship with Dev progressed. The word "Genesis" means "The coming into being of something or the origin". The title is taken from a poem by Victor Hugo.

Williams Wordsworth also has written a poem "To a Butterfly". I have quoted few lines from that poem to show Dev's perspective who is thinking of Radhika as this butterfly who may fly away and he wants to hold on to her. He is also that breeze in her life that brings her back to life figuratively.

Again both poems have different meanings, but here I am interpreting them in context of Radhika. Misti, this interpretation is based on how you used to see Radhika of CB1. So I have taken it from you because this is not how I saw Radhika initially as I hadn't liked her character too much during the middle of that show.

THE GENESIS OF BUTTERFLIES (By Victor Hugo)

The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers
The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers
That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings
In jasmine bloom, and privet, of white wings,
That go and come, and fly, and peep and hide,
With muffled music, murmured far and wide.
Ah, the Spring time, when we think of all the lays
That dreamy lovers send to dreamy mays,
Of the fond hearts within a billet bound,
Of all the soft silk paper that pens wound,
The messages of love that mortals write
Filled with intoxication of delight,
Written in April and before the May time
Shredded and flown, playthings for the wind's playtime,
We dream that all white butterflies above,
Who seek through clouds or waters souls to love,
And leave their lady mistress in despair,
To flit to flowers, as kinder and more fair,
Are but torn love-letters, that through the skies
Flutter, and float, and change to butterflies.

"To A Butterfly" (William Wordsworth)

I'VE watched you now a full half-hour;
Self-poised upon that yellow flower
And, little Butterfly! indeed
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless!--not frozen seas
More motionless! and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again!

STAY near me--do not take thy flight!
A little longer stay in sight!
Much converse do I find in thee,
Float near me; do not yet depart!
Dead times revive in thee:
Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!

Following is the VM "The Genesis of a Butterfly".

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FxqVx9-Bygc[/YOUTUBE]

Originally posted by: Myra.nelly

First things first, i've read victor hugo but didnt know he wrote poetry too, so thanks angie for sharing those beautiful lines..liked the association of a butterfly with radh, love her cute expresions waitin for dev. for his phone..its true after their engagement radh was free to fly and dream abt love..amazing vm :)