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*Reemz*

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Posted: 14 years ago

#81

Minks, my sister has the two seasons on DVD. I had seen the first season a few months ago but then I couldn't distract myself from Gulaal to give it full attention so decided to watch season 2 after Gulaal ended :(

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surithy

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Posted: 14 years ago

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Hi guys! Finally watched, re-watched and re-watched the maha-episode! Loved it!

The discussion was fabulous as usual but there was something missing, wonder if it was due to end of our favourite show? Guess we all are proud Gulaal maniacs!

Everyone has said all and well leaving me nothing much to say.

With all that you all said I loved the way they ended the show with Garba and not the wedding as we all wished. When the name of the show was Gulaal then it ended with Gulaal. I loved the way they showed Gulaal who once just existed in that haveli in a corner, who went beyond her limit to keep the happiness and unity of the family yet herself burning in fire, who was the centre of that house yet for herself invisible and detached was in the end mesmerized in her own self. At the end everybody stopped dancing but she was still dancing, she was purely herself, purely happy, fully living and her Kesar was beating the dhol as long as she was dancing. (Wish Jezz could write this for me.) Made me think of the scene when the singer came to the haveli to make MB happy.

Missed Dushyanth on the maha episode.

Fabulous acting by MP, NB, SS and all the others. MP was fabulous in her teary eyes, her smile and like Ganga said Neil was mind blowing, the breathing like reemz said, the eyes, and every single thing in him speaks when he is in screen.

Like you all say no other show connects any more, miss the show, my escape system from every day's hectic life.

Ps: where do guys watch the old episodes? I didn't watch Gulaal from the beginning so I would love to join in.

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AreYaar

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Posted: 14 years ago

#83

Jzee/Reemz: I JUST got my internet back this afternoon so hopefully I can be more active now.

Jzee: Will surely do the caps/avis/sigs whole routine as soon as I'm able to...have to gather my thoughts overall about the epi again as well and will then post them I think :-)

Thanks for the link to the NM interview! Will check that out shortly as well :-)

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without-fathom

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Posted: 14 years ago

#84

Originally posted by: surithy
Hi guys! Finally watched, re-watched and re-watched the maha-episode! Loved it!

The discussion was fabulous as usual but there was something missing, wonder if it was due to end of our favourite show? Guess we all are proud Gulaal maniacs!

Everyone has said all and well leaving me nothing much to say.

With all that you all said I loved the way they ended the show with Garba and not the wedding as we all wished. When the name of the show was Gulaal then it ended with Gulaal. I loved the way they showed Gulaal who once just existed in that haveli in a corner, who went beyond her limit to keep the happiness and unity of the family yet herself burning in fire, who was the centre of that house yet for herself invisible and detached was in the end mesmerized in her own self. At the end everybody stopped dancing but she was still dancing, she was purely herself, purely happy, fully living and her Kesar was beating the dhol as long as she was dancing. (Wish Jezz could write this for me.) Made me think of the scene when the singer came to the haveli to make MB happy.

Missed Dushyanth on the maha episode.

Fabulous acting by MP, NB, SS and all the others. MP was fabulous in her teary eyes, her smile and like Ganga said Neil was mind blowing, the breathing like reemz said, the eyes, and every single thing in him speaks when he is in screen.

Like you all say no other show connects any more, miss the show, my escape system from every day's hectic life.

Ps: where do guys watch the old episodes? I didn't watch Gulaal from the beginning so I would love to join in.

Surithy - just browse through the first few pages of the forum, and look for Srushti's posts. She is doing the links for daily episodes, as well as CAPS and her 'commentaries' (which are ever the fun to read!) and Geeshu is doing the gifs of prominent scenes for each episode one at a time on the same thread...

The most recent one for Episode 3 is here - https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/gulaal/1772639/gulaal-waltzes-in-gulaal-epi-3-caps-and-comments

Hope that helps - will look forward to your reviews on the episodes as and when =)

@ Minks - Dude! We are all in the same boat with our withdrawal symptoms, and Srush has come like a life saver with this idea... I realized how wonderful it was going back to the start and I'm just trying to pass on the buck, because its so worth the effort! The more on this happy revival journey, the better! 😳

@Nur - Me got the avis on me already, as you can see 😆 never the one for patience! Hallelujah to your internet back, I can only imagine what the week was like :| Will look forward to your entire drill eagerly! And I know you're going to gush about the NM interview as much as ALL of us here! I've been a regular with watching the last 5 minutes as a daily dose ☺️

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AreYaar

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Posted: 14 years ago

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Originally posted by: JZephyr

@Nur - Me got the avis on me already, as you can see 😆 never the one for patience! Hallelujah to your internet back, I can only imagine what the week was like :| Will look forward to your entire drill eagerly! And I know you're going to gush about the NM interview as much as ALL of us here! I've been a regular with watching the last 5 minutes as a daily dose ☺️

No you can't, trust me😆...I'm not even a phone pro like you that I could watch everything and make longgg posts thru my phone😆...so first no electricity for 6 days and then ofcourse no internet for a bit even after that...finally I feel like I got my life back today😆

Just watched the NM interview..."jokes apart" (haha), my fav. bits were the serious ones...when they spoke of what Gulaal has been as a show, the directors, the technicians involved and NB mentioning how the role of Kesar has forever changed him...indeed it's been a very very special role in the history of Indian TV...it will remain a class apart...and the guy has made me his fan with how superbly he's played this role...and you can see how much this role really meant to him...the kind of creative satisfaction that they've both gotten as actors from this show is testament to what a fab show it's been and I was glad to watch that.

I don't mind having reached the end of this journey now cuz they've ended on a lovely note and truly given us something to cherish overall...hats off to the entire mega talented team of Gulaal👏

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without-fathom

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Posted: 14 years ago

#86

Quick comment back in my quick log on to IF spell -

Absolutely. I said in my first comment after watching the vid, that I loved what Neil said about Kesar being more human than human alive - we've all said this in one way or the other at one time or the other - and it was impossible to miss how many times they both reiterated kitna seekhne ko mila hai... When Neil talked about having been on the show just 5 months, I was thinking of how much more he had lived a character he was portraying, than I dunno, 99% actors never really do?! When Mansi was talking about the routine of going over the lines, it suddenly struck me, how this show unlike others actually had to adhere to a very formal and rigid structure of written dialog. You know how most shows are these days - we hear actors saying all the time that they just walk in front of the camera and play the part adding nuances and dialogs to the original writing - but I realized how incredibly hard it must have been for the actors of this show to A) actually stick to the written dialog nearly by wrote B) add the extreme range of emotions to all lines in the most natural way, like it has come spontaneously, just like that! When i think about a scene like Dushyant showdown, of the GK confrontation at pondside, or even Gulaal's breakdown after Dushy is packed off - and many more such scenes, and I try to imagine who 'remembering your lines' is like while pulling of such a powerhouse of emotions ... look not a second melodramatic but portray a character like it was a real life deal - the greatest breakdown moments in this show have had some excellent writing - so its not been an improv thing obviously - I mean these are not even characters who talk like the actors do in daily life! The language is so much more uni-lingual! Makes me really really wonder what its taken to bring out the characters with so much credulity! Kudos to the actors indeed - they have walked in the shoes of Gulaal and Kesar (and all others) and lived the life of their characters for their respective time on the show - naturally, the learning has been as tremendous as they claim, and more! Mansi's pushing to the limit statement has appeared time and again, and unlike the countless other times we hear actors talk about tough scenes and blah - this one is impossible to not believe!

Oh I wonder when (and if) we will get such a genius piece again!

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AreYaar

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Posted: 14 years ago

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Yes, the way Neil repeated many times how much he's learnt during his stint as Kesar shows how much this show has meant to him...it truly seems to have been a transformative experience in his acting career.

What also struck me while watching the interview is how well matched both these actors were for their respective roles...especially their sheer emoting ability through their eyes...which I'm even more in awe of post the last confession scene...in many cases, we'll see one actor being better than the other...one stronger actor balancing a noticeably weaker actor...but we've been lucky with this show that NM have complemented each other so well in their roles...and a large part of that is their sincerity towards their roles I feel...they both gave their everything to Kesar and Gulaal in many ways it seems...and that is what made the characters so memorable too.

This struck me over the course of rewatching the past epis in sequence a while back and even now...theirs is a chemistry that somehow was just there since day one...and now when we reach the end and we see brief tiny moments of G and K displaying their affection for each other like in that side hug...it seems ever more natural...their spontaneous body language really compliments each other well...tuning I guess is the word...aisi tuning that literally at EVERY step in the GK relationship, every tiny bit of evolution feels SO natural...we were only shown some glimpses of both of them being happy in love but the chemistry was still so powerful...I guess it really does come down to the eyes again...they both know how to use their eyes very well...intensely, playfully, flirtingly...and they do it very well in tune with each other.

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VJ-LNMDJ

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Posted: 14 years ago

#88

Originally posted by: nureat01
I missed all the excited discussions *sigh* what can I say. It literally took a weather calamity for me to have to miss all this. Now I'm too late to really add anything.

And what's this I'm reading about a Neil manasi interview? guess I need to go dig up that link from somewhere.

Welcome back ! Great to see you again -hope all is well now at your end..

the finale was not complete without your caps ...but you can still add , we are all at it again - as Jzee said , watching the old episodes from day one has been nicer than imagined -Shrishti"s lovely posts- chotu Kesar in first shot of the show -later Kesar the first one to utter "Neerja" on seeing it written in sand by Vasant - seeing Vasant with new eyes and understanding why he would have had such an impact on Gulaal as to be needed in the closing scene dream inspite of all that Kesar had done by then... and above all , the sheer beauty of the show ! all aspects - the cinematography - and the layers that were set in from day one - you can see they planned the entire framework from day one and were unfolding it bit by bit..
My God , what a show and what luck to have seen it ...

AND how wonderful to be seeing it again with this forum ...

VJ

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without-fathom

@without-fathom

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Posted: 14 years ago

#89

^^ VJ - very well said about watching the old episodes now!

I have always wonder, and shall continue to I suppose, what it would have been like watching this show in the order it was aired.

Nur - They have been indeed shared an equal impact in screen space, and it has been the peak of this show's beauty. As I said to Reemz, and as you and I discussed, the 1 episode that Mansi's act felt a little wavering (Thursday of finale week) Kesar and Neil both being their respective brilliant selves still couldn't make up - cliche as it is to say, it takes two to tango - and Mansi and Neil have really lived up to the complexity and onus of their respective characters. When Neil was talking about how it seemed huge to have to enact a character so complex, but he's come to learn the process of layers in a character evolution - I was asking myself how many shows even bothered to 'create' the layers, forget projecting them on screen with such talent and success! I think every person on this show's team has been singularly devoted to his/her task, and the right people chosen in the division of labor has gone a long way to ensure so much finesse.

I think about shows with far more TRPs and fan base and what not grandeur which have actor switches for all the A,B, ... Z reasons one can name, and more, and how Gulaal despite all the 'rumored' negativity of TRPs, getting a step child treatment from the channel itself - has not witnessed such a crisis - the cast and crew of this show have had a vision, and they have stuck to it, and seen it through, coming out of it with, as Neil said, so much positivity! This show has been a theatrical delight onscreen!

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AreYaar

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Posted: 14 years ago

#90

Thanks, VJ :-) It's good to be back even if a whole week late😆...Yes all is fine at my end now thankfully :-)

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And finally I can post the caps...phew...lol...I should mention in advance that this was a large number of caps so it's going to take a while to get through posting all of them...

Batch 1:

I loved how Manasi portrayed Gulaal's struggle at every point to manage to express her feelings implicitly...vintage K and G stubbornness was there throughout this scene once again...lol

"Jaana zaroori hai?"

Sulky Galool...I thought she looked adorable here...lol

"Mat jaa"

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