Srushee - late latif is here doing rounds of spamming the forum 😆
And finally we've found something that Vasant is not as good at, as Kesar - getting angry 😆 Like you said Srush, Vasantji needs urgent lessons in gussa karing and pathar fekking from Kesuda - perhaps it is, as you say, the angst of a decade in Kesar which a live fire ... but really, let's not forget the pre-decade times. Like tearing up sheets and giving the MotaBha a piece of his mind saari duniya ke saamne 😆 Or like greeting dear good girl aka paani wali bai, aka nirjadi, aka Galool first time ever, by throwing a stone at her 😆 The ten years may have given his temper tantrums a more masculine touch - but really, Kesar's anger was always in need of some management ! Ali was fantastic, and Neil lived up to the legend of gussa! Vasant I suppose doesn't really have a heart that can truly burn like Kesar's... or for that matter Gulaal's.
Again - like you pointed out, kudos to the CVs to bring out subtly but distinctly, realities like the dying cattle, the anguish of a poor family at this fatal loss - and the final touche in MB presenting the dead animal to the Police guy - that was a classic cut! I can never tell the kinds of cattle apart, but was this a cow that died? In that case, MB was not just bluntly insulting the cop for the obvious reason, but actually sort of making a dual hit in a religious sense too, right?! Cows are religious to deep Hindus after all. What could be an offering of fresh classic meat in the west, was going to be open sacrilege in Talsagra. Yes, kudos to the CVs indeed. They really bring out the reality of nuances to this entire desert land, orthodox people and village setting.
Well - as long as we ignore GV holding hands and openly flirting 😆
Kesu was adorable. Like, I just don't have new words every day to say it better for chotu K/Ali. The initial bit of him standing in the sidelines and crying in a desperate sort of way reminded me of so many future scenes of grown up Kesar with that EXACT expression - really, Neil picked up after Ali in such a seamless manner of flowing into the role, he could pass off for a real life grown up version of that kid - it puts me in awe every now and again! Something about that crying cap under the tree of chota Kesu, is quite quite like Kesar after the Panchayat meet in his bedroom, asking Gulaal to be friends... the similarity of expression is striking to me!
And again - the way he cajoles the cow to eat the dry fodder... the way he expresses his fear in a frustrated tone, of losing their animals like the other people - no, he's not wailing about the fatal blow to their loss of 'nutrients' if the cattle dies. He's truly worried about the animals, he may not come across as the benevolent Vasant does in his love of these mute lives, but his attachment to them is just as much, if in a queer fashion! While Vasant can understand their unspoken words, Kesar shows his love for them by naming them after real people in his life - his ways to show 'lowe' have always been hatke 😆 even for animals 😆 A cutely touching scene. And his final call for Vasant Bha - oh that was such a wonderful touch to the scene! Kesar has always been a character to arrange his life to revolve around singular focal points. It was Vasant Bha at this stage - and things would just be about him, this way or that. For this chota Kesar, every string of his life here was a start and end at Vasant. Later it became Gulaal - and then never changed. His focus, as I said in an earlier post, is quite like a magnifying glass!
Finally to GV scenes. Dude, when Gulaal laughed at Vasant second time, after he'd been so anguished in admonishing her - I was actually shocked! The decade later version of Gulaal would probably not even recognize this decade ago version of herself! The way she was concerned 'inside' for Vasant but managed to be so casual about it before her friends, and then her almost callous laughing at Vasant himself - wow! This girl loved herself a little too much, how did she ever reach a point when she wasn't even last on her own priority list? Life really changes people! Anyway, the final shot, when the payal actually rings was beautiful! Rahil and Mansi - excellent expressions in that scene 👏
And quick last mention to Dushyant - he wasn't just evil, but also a coward at one point?! 😲 Oh the grey shades of his character! Sushant Singh is a class by himself!