Originally posted by: JZephyr
REEEMZ! Oh-em-gee! you did not remember that dialog - this is freaky uncanny - I thought of it when you posted the first CAP 😆 But I couldn't remember what movie it was from nor like the exact phrase... just the sahara nahin saath dene aaya hu bit..., and I was like, where did I hear that thing again!
Anyway - I think they're not literally sitting up with each other's weight on their sides, but the heads are bound to brush... and personally (trying to delve here into the minds of two people in a snap shot) I think Gulaal looks comatose indeed, as Anjali says... Kesar on the other hand looks like someone who's been in the statue position so long, that the bell even startles him for a bit... I think it's like showing how the scene started with Kesar all rushing to her, urging her, and pleading her... freaking out and whatnot - eventually sort of lapsing into this state where he's just resigned to sit beside her until she's had her time... and in the process of that stillness, the silence, the timelessness of the passing hours, he's probably zoned out into memories of the past... perhaps a part of him is just going over the last 24 hours... and you know how it is sometimes when you've just sat down introspecting and hours pass and you don't quite realize?! So the bell startles him? I don't think he 'dozed' off really... then again - Oh I'm thinking so much into just a still!
It's such a pristine capture of the two - even classic lovers like Soni Mahiwal (yes Nur the semblance is stark!) sort of fall short, because this is not a pose of ... you know, exactly lovers in pain... because Gulaal still doesn't qualify a lover here! That's what! GK are just another class... reminds me of Kesar's unanswered question till date koi mujhe ye batayega ke Gulaal aur mera rishta hai kya?! ... sigh!