Originally posted by: JZephyr
Argh! Star Player is MEAN! So after I was right into the episode having watched 3 out of 4 uploaded segments, it refuses - LIKE REFUSES - to upload the part for me 😡
I know ...It has been playing games with me too...
I'm going to try again in the evening to watch that bit - I know its whimsical when i can just watch on the links you've shared Srush, but if I can help it, I'm going to watch it HD - because the editing and cinematography is sheer brilliance and deserves to be watched like that!
Nah I understand...even I want to see tht way...and see there is a big difference between them...The caps posted above...half are from normal videos and half from HD...you can make out the difference...but still the other link...the first one...is far better quality..you can try when you hit a wall😆
Anyway - about the rest:
Loved the scene with Baba. Like its my favorite scene in the episode (so far? cause I didn't get to watch Galool waltz in yet... ) Galool waltzing in is sheer flirting, I tell you...both of them are dancing on 'Khullam Khulla pyaar karenge!' I posted a few pics on that 😆 But I really like how that scene plays out. Usually, all these baba like scenes make me both wary, and weary. They are OTT, to say the least, and just impossible to believe in, if comprehended in the first place.True true...Baba and the place and the atmosphere...just felt so right...and Baba looked the best person to talk abot Deewangi and Chahat, fate and optimism!! It rang so true when he said that...I would say that and people would throw Tallis at me😆 I love how the script in this show balances the act between realism and fate. OH YESS YESS!!! and that is how they balanced it..fantastic.. There's so much credibility to the extent of Vasant's optimism in his dream atm, that it convinces a viewer, just as Baba said, about the probability of a miracle coming true for him... His enthusiasm and never give up spirit just inevitably rubs off - and I love the way you said on your other post Srush, that Gulaal believed in his crazy dream because she was the dream... but really, its also the way he is! The singularity of his belief - its one-dimension-ness so to say - is what Kesar possesses too, except they are different in their wiring. They were as different as chalk and cheese...Vasant was born to be the martyr and Kesar was born a fighter😆...Looking at Vasant, though, you feel like he is a fighter, fighting the fates ..but then he is like the Joan of Arc...can fight for the world...but can do nothing to save herself...I dont know why I am talking this nonsense...But Vasant was a wider concept1! And Kesar..as you had put in yesterday's thread...a kind of concentrated magnifying glass effect😆...Anyway - like I said, I love the way this Vasant and Baba scene plays out, because the dialog writing is so decent, everything that the Baba says has that crazed touch or aura of a soothsayer, yet, the statements have no 'fortune telling' in them. He's only translating into 'words' what he can see in Vasant's person. And it ends up sounding like a prediction for the long run. My favorite favorite favorite lines from this scene - sar par kafana baandh liya to duri se kya darna... fateh ki itchcha kar! - Not something you wont hear in a countless other ways in all those shelves of self help books... but there is so much conviction when he says it to Vasant - its like watching one crazy believer meet another! @ Red...It is actually the translation of a Gujarati poem...but you are right..nothing new but still sounds so profound...and a man who had just had a near death experience needed this to rev himself up and get going!!
Again - the entire set up of that mela was so well done! Whoever is responsible for the sets of this show has shown excellence, without exception throughout the run of the show. This is entirely out of context, and maybe just my own bizarre sense of linking, but when Vasant walked inside that fair, and we saw the sights through his eyes, to me it was a deja vu sense of the movie Kabuliwala (minus the colors of course, cause I've seen the black and white olddd version!)Oh I had actually missed that part..dont know in beteen different players I seem to have missed the segment😕 He was this stranger in a celebration in another land, who had a fateful unknown reason to belong there anyway! And the way fate plays its cards - Yogesh (Nirja's brother) has called for a dholi, which Vasant shall be. PooBaa (Nirja's mother) already knows the first things about her soon to be SIL 😆 badi haveli blah blah... Vasant was like setting up his matrimonial details there 😆 haha That is what I said..he was trying to impress her...But I like the soothing effect his voice has...even Pooba the hyper MIL as Anju says, calmed down before him...and I liked the politeness and patience that oozes from Vasant..eventhough he was jumping to follow that girl, he calmly answers Pooba and smilingly tries to satisfy her demands.. And PooBaa only had to call him to chai now, for the alliance to be formalized 😆 it was a cute scene! I also like how fate again interferes, when Vasant starts chasing the wrong girl, and the other guy comes and pulls him back on track. Not that Vasant knows what's happening in the big picture - but its such a subtle way of portraying how even when we think we're taking all decisions, doing our own thing, making our own plans and schemes - really, what we're doing is only fate's bidding! If you haven't guessed - I love love love this entire deal of 'looking into signs'. All the more, because we can see it in retrospect now! True very true! It somehow shakes up the dying optimist in us and makes us believe in the good things again...makes the picture clearer!!
The opening scene was well done by all actors. It made me wish all over again, that the show had managed to retain this old PB for the end run. When she was so needed!
--- Two actors they changed and both turned out to be such sulky and horrid replacements...Wonder if that is why they changed😕
And hopefully Star Player will eventually behave and I'll be back to gush about chance encounters! 😆 Fingers crossed and do jhappat to SP😡...I was just saying the other day that every SO and SP serial is being retelecasted on Star Utsav ...some serials are being retelecasted inspite of them being on air on SP or SO...and Gulaal What to say!!!🤢