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B) Take a bow DOP! Even in such a character face centric scene, he works with such nuance and excellence. The way the camera starts rollings from Gulaal's entranced smile reminiscing the imli scene, moves on to the picture of GV wedding behind that very aptly positioned heart shaped decor piece, to a reflection of her in the mirror - a happy enchanted reflection of a woman oblivious of what her heart is feeling. I love the way the camera comes to stand at a still of GV a couple married and so in love beneath that heart - like it were a blessed mistletoe - even as the woman unbeknownst to herself has traveled a few days back into time to a recent cherished memory of the re-advent of love in her life! Interestingly - she wears a dress in the colors red and yellow - our accepted version of Gulaal and Kesar - and the contrast in that frame of her past, present and advancing future co-existing in a harmony reflected by her treasured smile, is so well projected! The frame doesn't move away from GV frame when Gulaal's mind is occupied solely by Kesar - because Kesar has never been shown a 'replacement' to Vasant in Gulaal's life. Vasant has been shown a means for GK to come together! And I absolutely love the use of mirror, of how Gulaal has to but lift her eyes once and look at that reflection of herself to discover a girl so in love! Its like if she glanced up now, she would either not recognize that person looking back from the mirror - or be at least partly appalled at its existence!exactly Kesar is not a replacement.He has a special place in her heart which nobody can take not even Vasant.Good that she did not look up otherwise she would have thought arre yeh kaun hai?aur agar main hoon tho main kyun muskura rahi hoon.yeh PAAP hai😆😆C) At MB's calling of her name from the door, she quickly makes to pack the imlis away again - symbolic of the way she locks away her heart and its wishes from the sight or any and everyone -but they fall and scatter all over the floor - such a subtle but evident sign of how she cannot truly lock away the love that's going to blossom after the anguished gore is past! The way the imlis scatter is almost a foreboding of how Kesar's love for her will not be something that can be 'contained' and locked away! That it will spread in its impact far and wide, despite her urgent and hasty efforts to keep it under wraps!nicely put👏D) G-MB conversation, what a fantastic elder-younger duo these two make 👏 There's so much that has gone between them in their life to bring them to this point, where he, disapproving of the biggest decision of her life, the DV, has accepted it without judging her for it; where she the ex-widow of one son, in name wife and once in duty guardian of her other son, proposes that she has an alliance prospect for her husband in name, his now only son alive! The ease with which Gulaal can open her 'longtime plan' to MB is all on account of the strength of their mutual understanding and trust beyond that critical disagreement over the DV itself. Its interesting how she is later accused by PB of never having told 'the mother of the groom' about prospects of matchmaking for her son; that she never had a conscious intention to 'hide' her plan is obvious from her talking to MB about this now. But that she subconsciously finds the greatest understanding for herself in MB - is obvious from how easily she shares her intention. PB may have well been the softer and easier target to claim - might have given in sooner to her 'son's scope for better happiness' than MB, who is far more stuck on the vital stats - aur tera dhyaan kaun rakhega? It reminds me of what JK had stated the other day in a far more taunting manner of course, but stating only fact, of what does she deem will be her position after letting Kesar go! Gulaal has no answer. She tells MB the same garbled crap that DB and PB dished out to JK's taunt the other day - of how Gulaal would always be part of this house, the prime part. But MB's eyes have the wisdom of his age and experience, and he knows, and shows through them - that she's talking either in naivete, or in preferential ignorance of facts. That no matter what else, if and once she lets Kesar go, nothing will in fact ever be the same for her!but the sad part no one took an initiative to better Gulaal's life until Kesar and even after that no one was considering her future as to what she will do after the DV.sit at her parent's place for the rest of her life with her useless bother and her rang badalti SIL.If Vasant's family really felt that she has sacrificed a lot they should have done something sooner rather than wait 10 yrs for Kesar to come back which leads me to believe that they had assumed over time that GK would be pati patni for life,they had accepted the realtionship even MB to a certain extent,he just did not want to force the relationship on her.but after Kesar's rude behaviour they began to have second thoughts.. With her first step of success in separating Kesar from herself, Gulaal (although she doesn't ask herself why) only feels sad and lonely.the apprehension of Kesar's loss in Gulaal, although far more explicit and with far more conviction that she increasingly fails to deny, the fact that the fear itself has always been is obvious from this scene. And not the fear of losing 'the kid Kesar' and his affection, but the fear of losing her support system, her kavachh, her sapna - all in one go! Its interesting how later in between she begins to show far more signs of turning blind to this knowledge that she's handing over Kesar for good, how she chooses to revel in my dream of KT comes true rather than see that something inside is going to become null and void hence! But just here and now - Gulaal is far more acutely conscious of what she will lose. As always, she only manages to bury this personal emotion far below - transiently - when the moment demands of her, not long from now.
because by then she has classified these feelings and emotions under the category of PAAP 😆 which really became her fav word.oh Galool😆
