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Okay, I'm going to do this for convenience, post links to previous post in each new thread, in case anyone misses it, and post this new thread link on the old post too, from now on.
Link to yesterday's thread: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/gulaal/1776437/a-decade-and-still-counting
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Today's GK scene(s):
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUJsqsWVJFU[/YOUTUBE]
ps: If you guys think we should deal with one scene exclusively at a time, and not club same episodes, or days - like I did here, please say so? We'll go with whatever the majority say. I just found it convenient to club and upload the scenes in general, so.
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Which brings me to the reason behind the title. Tangerines are sweet and sour. As are, in my opinion, these initial interactions between the two. The sweet hasn't become angelic yet, and the sour not bitter. Its growing. What remains consistent is Reemz famously tagged 'charge' between the two.
We get the classic first time ever aur tu moment between GK - as Gulaal rattles off with everything and everyone minus herself - and Kesar, being Kesar, only wants to hear exactly what she isn't saying. Doesn't he always? Btw, not to miss, it always makes me shake my head and grin when Kesar tells her - kisi ki cheezon ko aise nahin chedte ... - I almost want to be Gulaal for a second and go all raised eyed at his 'kisi ki' ... and I hate to be a bully to our lovely boy, but his 'intimidating' insinuation there, as he attempts it, is too smothered by his fluster and almost amusing to me. Not just me - to Gulaal too - as is evident from the way she goes all 'cute' and says aage se dhyaan rakhungi! I'm like, alright, there goes your first effort to be taken seriously down the drain. Not all of it - its pretty obvious she's taken aback just for a second, but she's still letting it pass as one of those 'I'm grown up and independent and the boss' moments from Kesar. After all, he's always had a thing for being in that mode where he thinks he's exerting authority! Somewhere, I think Gulaal just gives him benefit of doubt in that second, and passes of the chance to feel hurt for just feeling fond about this elemental Kesar trait. She's missed him too much - and its obvious from how she jumps right back into her chattering of how terribly he has been missed.
I love Kesar's expression here. The way he's just looking at her, with that slant eyed expression which is almost unmoved by all her talk of how painful his absence was, because he's only keen on waiting for her to mention the void in her own life - there's a calculative observation in him, and an impossible to snub expectation. And so when she goes on even with names like Talli, he just has to throw it at her - aur tu? - its not entirely sarcastic. Its not hurt. its just somewhere in the middle, an ineffable mix of moods, in telling her he knows she missed him, and asking her to tell him so - even when just minutes ago, outside in the hall, she made candid public claims of the same - it doesn't matter how many times and places she says it, Kesar will still want to hear it from her next time again, be told that she missed him, be told that his absence in her life was as stark and haunting as he knows hers was in his. And Gulaal - who was happy tears and overwhelmed reactions out there in front of the entire family, is caught for a second by his blunt question. She plays it cute and sulky again, oh typical Galool 😆 - and its so heartening to see the slow transformation of Kesar's hard features into that fond hint of a smile, especially as she discretely but not quite wipes away that tear - but then she turns right back around. And ruffles his hair - a gesture that is intimate, yet patronizing at once, and hence draws the immediate wary shift in Kesar's reaction - and then she says the magic word, Vasant. The kind of magic which goes wrong, where spells backfire... sigh! I think the choice of words in her dialog at this point - teri jimmedaari jo saup kar gaya tha mujhe - is very interesting in how many ways they can trigger Kesar's temper. Not only has she brought up the sour topic obliviously, touched the sensitive chord, but also in a way hinted that Kesar is 'her responsibility'... the literal sense of the words dangerously bordering even as far as obligation. Kesar has always had a problem being treated as a kid. He has dismissed pampering part of being the baby as being the 'all important' one... but any hints, ever, of him being a 'child' have always brought a counter little boy reaction from him, which wants to assert it is grown up like everyone else. And now that he genuinely is an adult, it only worsens the case. Apart from the major wrong Gulaal commits in bringing up Vasant, I'm certain her patronizing message is neither lost on Kesar, nor goes down well with him. Even if its his secondary issue in this scene. If he ever realized she missed 'the child' around her, and not 'her Kesar' in the decade, it could ,make him duly mad. Inside his head is a world of his own, where he is just Kesar, and she is just Gulaal. No strings attached.
So anyway - tangerine moods sort of fit this scene really well - there's a whole range of emotions. Neil carries on well from the first GK scene, doesn't let the tempo or temperament fall - and although I absolutely agree with what Nur said about Neil taking his 3-4 weeks to comfortably settle into the shoes of Kesar, I think he does pull off some remarkable range of emotions within minutes of scenes with Mansi. She is the superior artist at this point - but amazingly, she still doesn't really over power Neil. Excellent stuff from these two.
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I'm going to leave the Puja scene for Reemz - whether she wants to do it today or tomorrow, because I have a hunch she will like doing that scene very much. ☺️
And Nur will do the Caps of course.
Jump right into the discussion!
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JZee
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