Originally posted by: indi52
faiqa,
just read your pearls take. very beautiful and insightful as always. and i absolutely agree that the scene where he gives her the pearl string and tears come to her eyes because she knows how much their story was about a string snapped and scattering pearls and what he was trying to say with his gift, that is when their love story reaches a sense of completing, a circle closes... almost like the first phase of their trip... now new beginnings.
it was a significant moment.
however, i wish they had handled it more tenderly. it's one scene where sanaya so needed to look like khushi, the girl he had met by chance on a night that would change all. instead they loaded her with heavy make up and personally, it affected my enjoyment of the scene.
that first scene of pearls scattering is beautiful and loaded with moment. passion. beauty. so many feelings it sets up.
later when he finds the pearls in his pocket, again a certain beauty, especially his absorption... again something lovely there.
then in her nightmare, the pearls... evocative.
later in her dream, that string of pearls... in the way she accepted and he put it on... a feeling of story.
in many flashbacks the memory of the scattering pearls...
pearls were clearly meant to be a device to symbolise and connect many things. with his name being arnav, the ocean, and hers being khushi, happiness, it almost naturally fitted into their story. you would enter the space of pearls, divers, heart, abyss, buried, released and of course always, purity.
therew ere many dreams about those pearls and thoughts of how it would make the story more intriguing, dense.
but along the way at a point somewhere i felt the subtlety of this whole thing getting lost. the visual strength of scattering pearls, somehow did not get repeated in that gifts scene. the feel of the scene lacked depth for me. as did khushi's reaction. everything was pat. just there... like wanting to complete a rhyme, but not quite getting there.
i liked many things about the scene, but always from a distance. my heart and gut did not get to it. only when he hugged her and smiled ever so slightly, yes, i did flip a bit then, but not otherwise.
i wish they had thought through and felt the pearl thing a bit more. it was a beautiful device and had great potential.
i am a fairly instinctive viewer. something appeals. or not. that pearl thing... ah much more could have been done with it and far more subtly.
uff the look on khushi's face when the string broke, her eyes... and the pearls dropping, filling frame, in slow motion, leaping, dancing, twinkling... a night breaking shattering and entering the consciousness of a girl and a boy and the viewer.
i wonder where the pearls are dropping are dancing right now, maybe on the surface of a pool in raindrop form as a man and a woman lie lazily on the deckchair, letting the drops scatter over them.
look familiar?
A gift from Me and from you know who!
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
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