Finished seeing both the old episodes back to back and I felt like you did visrom. Wanted to watch Stolen Dynamite all over again!!! But realised I neede to write on my reruns. SO with an effort came to do this.🤔
Both the episodes you have chosen are from the golden era.
1) Case of the Terrified Actress: Asha era
2) The Case of Two Photographs: Sudhakar present.
I had not seen the first one. But had seen the second and had liked it instantly. So in the order you have given here it goes.
Kinnari (I think the same name is in The Rs.5oo Note case) is a star who has earned the name Tragedy Queen because of the tragic roles that she can successfully carry off. One fine day she starts receiving threatening calls and her torn photo and calls CID. The investigation starts and nothing happens which leads the CID to feel that it is a jolly good ride they have been on👎🏼
The slick way in which the entire story is handelled leaves nothing for the imagination and no flaw in the story. Abhijeet is very much the senior officer and does not allow either the viewers or the team in the serial forget that. 😍 He quickly grasps the fear - a thin line in the actress and basing on his gut instincts tenaciously holds on tha tthe actress may not be lying. Here we see both Asha and Daya feeling helpless slightly as they cannot oppose the senior in command. These two still treat Abhijeet with all due respect and not the firm friendship one sees later on.😊
The seniority that Abhijeet displays as if it's his birth right is credible when he enters the room after the murder has taken place and quickly understands all the different sides of the argument that Dr.Salunke and Daya/Asha are having. Without mincing words, he calms the atmosphere and supports the doctor and brings the attention of the investigation towards the wire of the sterio in the room! This seals Abhijeet's position with all in and outside the episode. This slick Inspector Abhijeet made me go ☺️
The altercation between the doctor and Daya higlights the human angle and brought my attention to a key factor that made us all admire Asha. She too disagrees with the doctor's theory. But, when the two men are having it out, she is all ears and in no way in her body language do we see that she is siding with either one of them. Instead she is alert and the moment Abhijeet walks in her entire body language shows deference to a senior officer and in action and words shows
that she is ready to investigate yet holds strong to the fact that none went out of the door as Daya and she were outside.👏 No wonder any woman who has come into CID has found it extremely tough to fill this erstwhile police officer's shoes. I have yet to see such commanding presence of an intelligent woman in a stressful situation be it in CID or in real life. Today I learnt a vital lesson in life. Asha never fails to live up to her image.
The slick investigation of sounds and people leads to a surprising ending. The single comment from Abhijeet, "usko maloom tha?..." brings out the human aspect of our people in uniform who tirelessly work in keeping us safe in life.
Unknowingly this has become a long post. I wanted to put all I felt and when I lifted my head this is the result. I thank all of you for the patience you have shown in reading through this.😊
Edited by mallikaBalu - 14 years ago
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