Missed on a great night of the trio discussion I can see from the last 3-4 pages!
I'll comment here and not copy paste and repeat myself on Reemz and Ganga's threads - because the discussion pretty much remains the same!
Thanks for the CAPS Nur! I added a couple below myself cause I wanted to point them out and say stuff 😊
I sort of fall in between teams Anjali vs Nur and Reemz, I think 😆 I agree about the depressing finale feel that the episode bore - like this glaring reminder of how few days are left. In a way I thought of how thoughtfully the CVs had used the DV grace period as a means to evoke this sense of loss in us - on dual ends! This was the first time, since the day of the Panchayat when Kesar actually showed that raw pain in how little time they had together before it all got over. That day, he's said ab jab teen mahine baad saba khatam hone hi wala hai, to kya humj ye teen mahine dost bankar nahi reh sakte? ... and today he said - bas ek mahina? usse bhi kam... bas ita hi waqt bacha hai?! ... and then asks Gulaal again, to make the most of time... I thought the parallel was almost repetitive, and yet its reiteration at this point was such an impact of emphasis! Because last time, he had wanted a new beginning to bury the hatchet - and Gulaal had relented with half a heart of only relief and not his match of need of it! Today, he wants to mark a beginning to 'their end'... and she consents with her heart feeling every strain of his loss, equally, perhaps even more - given she still can't define it and find that peace like him, much less say it out loud... her watery smile to comply was so perfectly done by Mansi... she fills in the space of so many words with just that - because she doesn't know the words yet, and consequently, can't really say them. She would tell him she feels the loss in this countdown as bad as him, but how? Why? If she said she'd miss 'her friend' well - they could always meet up. So can she say she will miss his constant presence? Can she say she will miss living with him, bothering him, fussing and being bothered about and fussed back - can she say she will miss this first semblance of living life with a partner in a decade?! A happiness and bliss which was very short lived when she first got it, and then voluntarily shut all chances for herself to get ever again? Can she say she never imagined, but its beginning to look more and more everyday, like she could get used to living like this with him, for him, for them - for the rest of her life?! In what capacity would she say it? Unfortunately, he is no longer the child who needs his matron... He's a man, and yes he needs his wife, can she say she wants to be that, forever?!
Because she really hasn't sorted those thoughts even as they brim right to her surface waiting to boil over - she can't really organize and say them ... so she just smiles her yes. Because one thing she can probably distinguish in her jumble is, that making happy memories with Kesar would make her just as happy as him - she pushes away the why, and gives in - very unlike the hesitance of last time!
There was so much beauty in the depiction of that entire scene - like you Reemz, once I watched that scene, I sort of forgot about the JA wish being dashed 😆 I remembered it at other places (more on that later) but just in this scene, I was this spell bound GK fan, feeling the strain of their every word and gesture, so real - because it's not just a pit point in the plot, but also the realization of how the end is really coming - a happy end, is an end no less.
Anyway - I really, really liked the transition in Kesar's expression, when Gulaal expressed her fear - that slight tug of a smile, it wasn't even a sad smile... it was just... so enamored and touched at her concern... not that he's not always known how much she cares. But its been so long - since she last got so verbal about how much damn she gives to his presence... He's just gotten used to understanding it in her silence, and being content with that. Being content with seemingly only half her affections, as opposed to his, being content with being the giver, being content with being the one to say she matters, and not hearing it back... the last time she told him she didn't care about the world, but him - he had shown surprise too... but the talk had been on another account, and Gulaal had been alot more the collected person just talking sense rather than emotion. Today she is all about nerves and jitters for him... Reemz, btw, we did get a very momentary glimpse of the DCH scene feel don't you think? When she rushed to check on him in the night, at getting that note ... and the way she woke up clutching the note... and finally, in the way she fret at finding his sleeping spot empty! She did have that moment of what if... and it freaked her out enough to rush to grab his hand, be so utterly at a loss of words that she just had to shove the note at him and of course, the shaken claim of main darti hu! We really really got a GK semblance of DCH there - I thought! Like Nur had predicted, it fits them so much more characteristically, that I did forget about JA 😆
Anyway - like I said, really liked the transition of that peep-toe like smile 😆 from Kesar, so here's the couple caps:
And again - I loved loved loved how this bit played out at the start of the Yeh Jeevan Hai song :
Only a day ago, he was seeking her permission, and giving her logic to share a plate... Give it to these actors, to play a silent scene with music overall, with so much to their body language, that you can 'hear the dialogs' without them being spoken... the entire bit of eating by the fire (a traditional version of candle light dining?! 😆 ☺️ ) and the way Gulaal looks at the fire and says something and Kesar looks like he's telling her he'll fix it after food, and then his never missed complimenting of the food of course! Such a natural play of just another day in the house of a couple who are so meant to be...!
Now for what I didn't like? I wont make this long because I got flustered enough watching my first run of the episode... The song was well chosen - IMO - and I would even let Kulli by! But why did we get Raman and Sudha ... the entire 'teary make up' play on RS was SO NOT NEEDED. For a show that has maintained such standard in tackling a very hard to depict love story like GK, some extremely complex characters like Dushyant - I really wish they'd just sort of ended the Raman track on him being an outcast. People like him don't change. And really, 'even the change' shown in him, his 'remorse' of it was so 13 year old... Just one ill fated attack his father suffers and one pep talk from his mother changes the man he is? Really now! Yes, I'm a sucker for happy ends, but I wished they'd left this angle realistic and just let him be. No one was going to mourn over an RS love story lost, really 🤢 For such a poignantly played out episode, I can't believe how far the Raman Sudha exaggeration annoyed me, I should have just let it be - but then it even ate into the song space, and I was miffed cause it came after such a beautiful beautiful scene, and a wonderful start to the play of that song. Like I said, I seriously didn't care about Kulli. As much as I want them to not eat into GK - I'm not troubled by the way their story is going... RS just went all the way to be my killjoy for such a profound episode. Annoys me all the more to think Dushyant's end is still a dangling something - with no assured knowing that it will be firmly closed... and Raman gets this!!! Ah unfair world!
Anyway - I'm calling myself off that case. GK were bloody brilliant and the move in their track was very very well done. Like you guys, I'm super glad the 15 day leap has happened and we will still have well over a week to get along Gulaal's realization, and not a hurried KJo style happy ending! And of course the Precap - breaks my heart, and yet, the way they bring out the shades in these characters... Kesar's words just remind you all over again, of why he of all people has managed to move that iceberg in Gullu's heart!
More on precap after the episode itself today. My expectations are very high.
On a conclusive note, I want to quote these words from the show Malaal - which IMO really applies to Gulaal's soon to appear future self (don't go literally for mention of calls and messages, but the essence of Zenia's words (from Malaal) would sort of really apply to Gulaal now...
Zindagi mein baaz dafa yeh pata nahi chalta... ki hum kisi cheez ko paa kar khush the ya fir kho kar? Jaise mujhe yeh pata nahi chala ke jo main chahti thi, jab woh mere saath hua toh phir bhi mujhe saari duniya khaali kyun lag rahi hai? Yeh jo khala mere andar agayi hai...uski waja kya hai?
Kya chaubis ghante aane waale uske messages ka ek dum ghayab ho jaana; ya mere messages ka jawab na dena; ya calls ke uss silsile ka khatam ho jaana...jo mujhe yaad dilata tha ke kisi ki zindagi mere wujood ke beghair incomplete hai.
Jo bhi hai, main usse miss kar rahi hoon! Aur uski fuzool aur ahemkana baaton ko...uske saath bemaksad footpath pe chalne ko...aur unn tamaam pamper karne waali cheezon ko...jo usse pehle kisi ne mere liye nahi kein thien
Edited by JZephyr - 14 years ago
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