Originally posted by: mili9
Good evening girls!!!
Let me just say this, the range of expressions displayed by Pankaj and Nishant today is more than the whole 400 + episodes they had acted in🤢 So, ultimately, I don't care why they did a cat walk. I am not being mean, just saying how I felt about them for the whole show.
Coming to the episode, it belongs to Aryan and Imlie for sure. The ASR swag is unmistakable. Loved Imlie's pehchaan now to include her husband too. Because, there is nothing shameful to accept our identity to include people who impact us so much, kisi ki patni hona and proudly accept karna is not a bad thing. But, I like the care taken about the order in which she elucidated her identity👍🏼 Kyun ki hum kisi ke child, sibling, aur whatever else bhi hain before we are spouses👍🏼I am so glad that the pseudo-feminism didn't raise its ugly head here. Thanks writers for this.
But, my beef with writers still stands about making Imlie the invincible😲. To make Imlie important, she doesn't need to be taking off planes, smashing off rib cages of goons, pushing buttons on nuclear war heads💔 She is important as is, she dug deeper for the truth, she did HER JOB well, she is intent on making the lives of her loved ones better, she is empathetic, she is courageous and she won't back off. All of these qualities are enough to make any person, man or woman be important to their loved ones and make her BEAUTIFUL. Each of us have our own talents and will be good in our craft. So, for example, if a life saving surgeon cannot fight a goon, she/he doesn't become any less exceptional. A brave soldier who knows nothing about teaching an elementary grade child doesn't become any less amazing. What I am getting at is, that the writers push all these things on to superwoman Imlie and turn me against her🤢 ASR is the boxer, we were told, so can we let him do the major part of the action sequences? . Again, please don't judge me as an anti-feminist, I just hate these misplaced empowerment clichés👎🏼Just look at us in real life, spouses in a marriage are 50-50 partners, this is not a novel concept. But, we don't do things 50-50 in a literal sense- like if my husband is combing our child's hair, he better do both the braids. If I am taking out clothes for dry cleaning, I better do all of it. If I don't want to take the car to a mechanic, that doesn't make me a feeble female. If he doesn't know how to make perfectly puffed up pooris, that doesn't make him a chauvinistic male. Sorry, my friend, I got carried away,🤔 as I had a good 20 min discussion today at the institution about gender equality and not gender advantage😒 I need to shut down my brain about this.🥱
The Rathore household is precious. They show in action that all children, boys and girls have an equal stake in the household. I agree with you, my friend, Arpita is as important, as brave and as much a grounding influence in protecting and nourishing the family from the inside as ASR is in protecting the family from outside👍🏼 This is what I mean by 50-50 or 33-33-33 partnership in their roles in that family. They don't do the exact same things but complement one another.🤗 They all need to be bubblewrapped.
Oh my ! The actor ASR👍🏼 Intensity is his forte👏 He can emote with his eyes, so well. That last scene is haunting where he has a dazed expression in his eyes as he is looking at Imlie struggling, unable to move, frozen and petrified👏 The nuances he emotes is a class unto itself❤️ There is a deep honesty in his enacting the scenes👏
Just for the sake of it, can I throw a zinger😈. I know the old Adi guy is praised as some world class actor. I never felt that way with that guy, lacked an honesty for me with his acting. There always seemed to be an arrogance in the acting for me. This is what he made me feel. I may be totally wrong or that is how the Adi guy was supposed to come across as🤢 The body language and his the way he said his lines, cutting into other people's lines just didn't appeal to me one bit. I don't claim to be an expert at judging for Dada Saheb Phalke award, but this is what I felt as an audience😔
OK, now I am going to run and hide😃