My Take on Last Night's episode:
Technical Issues:Script: I give a 2/10 for the first part and for the repetitive dialogues. Overall I give a 3/10.
Background Score: I give a 2/10 for the decibel level and for flogging a dead horse twice too often. Go for more subtle tunes, and find a signature tune for Geet since Mahi is Maan's signature tune
Direction: I give a 6/10 for holding it together despite the bad scripting
Editing: I give a 5/10. It was fine!
Acting: The only redeemable feature of last night's episode who held it together is Gurmeet. He underplayed in that first part and that was really a fine subtle performance.
Other Story/Character Delineation/Script areas:Maan when he questions Geet on finding a girl and tells her that
she is the one who is perfect for him, meant it and was
questioning her audacity in searching a girl for him despite knowing or having an inkling of his feelings for her. The way I look at it,
he was angry with her for her lack of trust. Secondly, when he is trying to find out about her feelings, it is more to do with
his doubts if it is love she feels for him or if it is mere infatuation and I think here Maan is pretty much aware that she is young and impressionable. [and that is rational since he does not know her past history except that her family tried to negate her existence, which is grounds for care and affection, not grounds for love]
Last night's episode for me was redeemed ONLY BECAUSE OF MAAN and nothing else not even the jewelery scene despite its relevance.
Here you have to understand that Maan had already accepted in his heart that she is his and that is why he remembers that scene of the Dupatta on the Chopras day.
He is sure of the depth of his feelings but is not at all sure of the depth of her feelings though he feels that he is reading them right from her eyes but he also is not sure if that is an illusion.
So any attempt to get to the truth is well worth the effort he feels because he cares a hell lot for her even though he may not say it. He has already seen her and accepted her as his wife in the real sense or the soul mate!
Note: I know I am being very stingy today in my ratings and being very cutting in my analysis, but i am not ready to cut some slack this time around as I think it is not necessary to overlook what could have been well executed with more care. I don't think that the excuse of sick actors and sick directors should impact us in our analysis - ref
Postscript: i will also add this from my previous post on Page 6:
The Rose scene also proves that the guy is scared of rejection and being ridiculed when he thinks she will blast him for giving her the rose and imagines his whole office staff laughing at him! Ahem! Lingering shadows from the past? May be!
But seriously I think it is typical of such a successful man that he would want to confirm his suspicions before he proceeds full scale making a fool of himself in love. Who knows if this has something to do with history not repeating itself or if it is a case of such a supremely arrogant man not being able to take rejection and fearing it because at some complex level he feels he is not worthy of being loved and all his ego is to hide his insecurity.
The veil on the insecurity is the ego and the only thing that can puncture that ego is the truth. So he is searching for truth and is afraid if his mind will fail him in finding out the truth. He wants to trust in his instincts on the one hand while on the other he fears that he may be wrong.
It is this human conflict of the mind over matter that is interesting in Maan's character. I would do the same if I were in his footsteps.
He is trying to be as rationale and as logical in drawing his conclusions and finding proofs to sustain or reject them.
AddendumI have one more grouse and that is against Drashti! I like her comic timing, she is fantastic! I like her emotional display!
BUT I am not liking one aspect of her acting. I am not liking the fact that she is not showing the subtle play of emotions and is not able to display the subtle shades of emotions in her eyes and in her face.
Might be she is overtired, but she needs to get her act together and fast as she has immense competition in Gurmeet.
Guru is the epitome of subtle displays and he is revealing himself to be a performer who is excelling and raising the bar every day with every single emotion. He makes it worthwhile to watch.
Edited by bDgT - 15 years ago
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