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Guys me Shruthi. Some of you know me in IF and if there was a soap I was eagerly waiting that was Dahleez. From the time I read the overview in net, to the time I saw the promo I knew I am not gonna leave this one. But since the soap is at 10:30 it is a bit late for me to watch at night and I try to catch it in hotstar next day morning while travelling to office. Yesterday it was not loaded. So today I am putting my analysis of both episodes together. I will try to put daily analysis as much as possible, but since SKR forum takes most of my time, I might miss somedays.
Before I proceed to analysis of the show let me put couple of points that I enjoyed or the ones that gave me a dejavu feeling. One was the way Adarsh sees Swadeenta and the entire sangeet episode. Again their multiple interactions. I don't know why strangely it reminded me of Tamil movie Alaipayuthey. It had that quality, that style of direction of Mani Ratnam. Not overt, but not so subtle. The crisp dialogues between them also was a reminder how Shakti taunts Karthik in Alaipayuthe. I wouldn't say it is a copy or anything. But the style of presentation was similar and it simply glued me to the screen.
Next was Swadeenta entering the court premises and putting on the black coat. it had a class of its own, her walk itself felt like she is going to give freedom, freedom from oppression by becoming the voice of the voiceless. The symbol of that voice was that black coat.
Now coming to analysis. What a name CVs have choosen for the lead pair. Swadeenta and Adarsh. Freedom and Principles.
And why both has to be together. Because if you have to use freedom responsibly you need principles or values. In other words freedom is not absolute, it is relative. Freedom of speech is not the freedom to take someone else's freedom. It is not the freedom to insult someone else caste, creed, mother tongue or religion. It is not the freedom to shout slogans against your motherland. It is something not everyone has. it is something which we have gained after a lot of blood shed from our brave hearts. It is written in blood and it has to be valued as such and used responsibly guided by principles.
Now principles. Unless you have freedom, principles is theory. Talking about values achieve nothing. Only walking the talk can bring change. So if you have to walk the talk, you need freedom, freedom from societal pressures, freedom from traditions and religious dogmas to do your work, where your actions are based on core human values of trust, integrity, empathy and compassion.
So in principles freedom finds its guidance and in freedom principles finds its expression and I expect their love story is also to be like that. Adarsh asks a question. You have come to give me freedom from what? and the answer is to give him freedom from pretense in front of society. To help fight the dogmas, traditions starting from first cleaning up his house which appears to have lot of pretense. His mother is very society conscious, irrespective of having right values. His brother and SIL is pretending to have a good married life for the sake of society. Second brother and wife are at other extreme openly adulating each other.
So how will Adarsh get this freedom. The day he sees Swadeenta with his eyes. If you see Adarsh is capturing Swadeenta through the lens of camera for the first time. Then again he captures her in his mobile camera.
And his attempt to see her with naked eyes is met with an attack of chilli powder. That's what trying to watch, catch or follow freedom means. It will burn you, can you withstand the burn. If you see Adarsh does withstand the burn, irrespective of chilli powder he manages to look at Swadeenta or freedom. It shows yes momentarily he might be down, but finally he will see her, see her through his naked eyes and admire her for what she really is.
Now for Swadeenta there is a question to her " Does she thinks all poor are right, all rich wrong". This is where principles matter. To bring you out of prejudice, because we have so many prejudices and only principles can help us not to take extreme views on anything. But to understand situation holistically and then take a stand.
Last but not least Adarsh says I want to make every dream into reality and Swadeenta says she shows the mirror to those who sees dreams. In a way unless she sees affirmative action from principles on his views he cannot get her. Because if doesn't take action, she will show him his principles are only theory no use.
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