A Decade... and Still Counting! - Page 4

Originally posted by: JZephyr

Piu - the coin toss, the tuntuna, the ludo, the jhadu, the chulha(?), the indirect imli, how can I forget champa 😆... the instances of being unique in this show have been innumerable! They've really raken their minds to come up with situations and chances to create the 'magic' without being cliche. GK are unique in every implicit sense of the word.

Jzee yes those were unique and something special..Only if we could forget the random..elaichi toffee scene..Rest was sheer brilliance.Normally Girl meets boy for the first time with cliche trip and Fall ,or duppatta flying or silly eyelocks..But I mean Look at this.Brilliant is the word👏

Originally posted by: JZephyr

But the point is, to Kesar - she is not a new face. And she's not a grand physical difference. Still the emotion in his eyes is reflective of her own - while she blatantly goes into her appraisal of him - an exception to her now new self which has learned to hold back and be drawn within - he instead is the case of bursting and stuffing the surge of emotions!

To me, the second her eyes start brimming in this fond and prideful approval of his first impression, his own wall momentarily falls because it just has to mean the world to him - what his Gulaal thinks of him. And as happens in some later to come scenes too, Kesar in this rebellious phase is still transiently very much moved by the slightest show of pride Gulaal holds in him. In a strange way, its the one thing he has always been deprived of - the one thing that only Gulaal and Vasant have shown in him - a sense of pride. And while from Vasant it has been more like an idol or a mentor in his elder brother - getting this attest from Gulaal each time, is like his motivation to become better... even when all he wants to do is hurt her, cut her open, he can't help but give the greatest damn of all, to what she thinks! @bold: LOVE how you put this, Jzee!👏👏👏...you've described it so beautifully! It's one of the many fascinating paradoxes about Kesar in this phase when he first returns...He has so much anger, so much hurt, so many questions inside him...all of which technically make him want to lash out at her, hurt HER, cut her open as you said...and yet it will ALWAYS matter to him what Gulaal thinks, what Gulaal wants...two words sum it up..."aur tu"...even if he thinks he says them tauntingly or sarcastically as we will see in the scene tomorrow, but the actual undercurrent is always one of yearning...what does SHE think? That thought is what his world revolves around.

Of course, the Duggu FB has to come in and interfere - as it will continue to for quite the while for now - but its interesting again to notice, how when Gulaal pulls off her tune apni Gulaal se muh pher liya... he is fighting to bring the cold face back. There's almost a momentary counter accusation in his eyes, and he does spell his counter accusation for her - although technically, that is not his grudge against her, really. And yet it is! Haha! LOL well caught! Yes I noticed that too...yes there's a brief note of counter accusation in his eyes...the cold mask slips...and the genius is ofcourse that he can't really tell her WHY he feels so...Gulaal is busy listing out her grievances and he himself can't tell the complaints HE has...but it shows in his eyes and slips out a bit with the 'kyun? tere kehne pe hi toh mujhe MB ne boarding bheja tha na"...the irony ofcourse is that this is the misconception that Gulaal has had all these years and he just fuels it again by saying this when the real reason is something else...this is just a small grievance in the larger scheme of things...again I'll say I saw a parallel to the last scene when they both go through this motion again...Gulaal sulkily telling him ki woh humesha apni manmaani karta hai and Kesar replying ki woh bhi toh kabhi seedha jawaab nahin deti😆...Aww I miss them!


He's such a cute and funny guy (okay I know inapt adjectives for his angry mode but really!) his base of base trouble is feeling betrayed by Gulaal, and not being convinced about it even in a damn decade. But his secondary trouble - and yes that bothers him although it doesn't get precedence - is being distanced from her... a decision he has taken for the two them, even as a child, but a distance that hurts him no less - in fighting it, in living it! Exactly...he doesn't give much credence to this portion of his hurt because he feels that this was brought on by the first reason naa...the betrayal...but actually that distance hurts him despite the fact that he was the one to stretch it out for so many years...paradoxes again *sigh*

The coin toss is every bit 'charged' as Reemz calls it. Kitna nautanki hai ye banda - Gullu and he have both seen the coin fall flat in his hand, and then he shows her the crisply balanced adha adha stance of it 😆 You know the one thing I've always liked about Kesar's coin tosses is how he always bids the 'right' decision on seedha side of the coin. Without fail. How does it go, that cliche saying about a coin toss - when in dilemma toss a coin, not to see which side falls face up, but to realize which side you wish it will be, when the coin is still in air?! - Its like Kesar always knows what he wants the coin to tell him - and what he wants is always bid on the seedha side! Almost as 'fair' as the SHolay sikka, if you ask me 😆 LOL totally! I'm reminded of the famous Sholay sikka too which is more useful in just giving in to your REAL demand rather than making a "decision" for you...Kesar always bends the coin to his will...and I think the only time he really used it to realize which side he wishes it to be was when he tossed it to know what his feelings for Gulaal are.

Finally that tid bit from Nur's current avi - I'm so OHMIGOSH over it, there's no saying. Yes Nur, interestingly, its my favorite bit from the scene - although its really closely nearly tied with when he turns around first time to her whispered Kesar (which btw is not the last time we hear his name sound like that coming from her!) the last look is pretty classic - its a warning, a promise... and almost an assurance too, everything in one. A warning of more to come, an assurance of I'm back and real ... and an promise of I'm here to stay ... the promise and assurance are adha adha in intention. Very grey at that - the positivity and negativity of his character at its classic clash - but what a moment it is Well summed up, Jzee! Exactly! It's a grey look...with just SO much in it! definitely a hint of a warning...some dangerous undertones I also thought...a promise of just something that I can't even describe properly...!

Originally posted by: Maz.

Loved the bit where shes telling him to never try this joke again...there is a slight sternness in her voice..and he just let's it be for the moment...it's like a cold war situation...