Originally posted by: jamba111
Amen with a cherry on top, Sush! IT'S BACK. ๐ฅณ ๐ฅณ
THIS is the show that so many of us fell in love with, and we stuck it out through OTT comedy, mindless MU's, conversations with Laxmi the goat, and crazy character assassination attempts.
I'll admit I was apprehensive at the thought of ASR doing a Ranjha - the lovesick village boy, a complete one-eighty to the suave man-of-the-world that is ASR. BS delivered a restrained, yet believable performance. Ditto SI, the hesitation with which they started out, and then sort of flowed into their characters was beautifully done. They got thrown in at the deep end, and it showed. A polished, perfect enactment would have been out of place here.
Today's five cents...happy Arhiday! ๐ฅณ ๐ฅณ
1. The Gabbar-Thakur clip was mercifully short. Got to hand it to the CV's - you take one of the most iconic moments of Hindi cinema and spoof it - you had better be prepared for the inevitable brickbats that will follow.๐ Same goes for the Salim-Anarkali bit, build-up to the main act.
2. KKGSR starts off to audience heckling. This is usually annoying, but I loved that guy's line - "make up your mind - Ranjha, Majnu or Nani!" No offense to these guys - but if Heer/Laila had had that choice - they'd pick Nani in a heartbeat...talk about a master manipulator!! ๐ค
3. Speaking of Nani - she's busy laying a guilt trip on her reluctant grandson - proving yet again that he got all his ASR genes from her. She's got her moves down pat - charm, disarm, attack. Both of them know how to locate their opponent's jugular and zero in for the kill. But she's got a few decades of experience to boot, and before you can say "what-the", ASR is striding out onto the stage to enact a "stupid" love story! ๐
4. "Farak padta hai" cleverly worked into ASR's monologue - he is no longer Ranjha, and the audience doesn't exist anymore. Minor gripe - there were too many cutaway shots of audience reactions, kinda dilutes the intensity of the moment. ๐คข They did the same thing during that dance last week, though that was compounded by positioning the camera behind all those lanterns and assorted paraphernelia dangling from the ceiling. ๐ก CV's - did you lose the editor/cameraman you had for Teri Meri?
Honorable mention on audience reaction shots - Jayshree T was the only one who NAILED her expression. Go on Nani - show the young 'uns how its done! ๐ ๐
The lights come on to a standing O...but KKGSR could care less - she's focused on what he almost said. Nice touch by the director and a precap of what will follow - she'll continue to hound him for an answer.
5. Precap. W*F? But I'm going to restrain myself here and not do what I accuse the CV's of - namely, have an OTT reaction to a twelve second clip. This might be another head fake like last Friday, or the catalyst to another knock-down, drag-out fight that will have them actually completing a conversation for a change. ๐
Though I gotta say, the one thing I've always liked is that their disagreements were kept private. CV's - be very careful...take the dirty laundry out, and you just have a bunch of people holding their noses at the smell. Let's see how they salvage this tomorrow.
PS: What happened to the PayMam act...is that scheduled for tomorrow? Wouldn't that be anticlimactic - like going to a Little League game after watching the (Yankees/Red Sox/Giants/insert favorite team) mop up the World Series? ๐
BS - for the love of Mike, shave already!