I sort of got lazy on posting on the last 2 threads - so decided to do today's before I got lazy again 😆
I'm kinda half minds over the episode, overall - or for this track to be precise. To a huge extent I found very little credibility to be emotionally swayed into the 'unreason-ability' of the matter ... although there were some standouts for the good too.
I'm thumbs up on Ashutosh having not called Nidhi himself yet - the interesting subtlety that he is holding back without explicitly wondering why! Add to that the way he brushed off, or did not linger on the intern's suggestion to call Nidhi himself - definitely well done there. And no, not because this is an ego tussle he must win, because the fact that he's holding back on calling her when her need seems 'so professionally dire' is both very personal and professional at once. It is a consequence of more personal than professional - but technically, it is just as well professional, following his statement to Mallika that the problem was now the hospital's matter, and theirs alone - Nidhi no longer a part of it.
What I also liked, very much - might in fact be the best thing about the episode for me - was Nidhi's reasoning to why she should not cave in to this momentary emotional blackmail - yes, it wasn't implied like that by Ranga, but categorically, that's the tactic used. She has opted out of the profession, made up her mind, and she isn't and cannot be, in that case, a real solution to their problem. Brownie points for her analysis of Shehanshah not being a gullible kid, but one who would understand the trick being used, and not be fooled!
And now my long list of rants over the episode.
The conference meeting - for the most - dislike. Now I'm no medical authority here, but honestly, if a child/children refuse food or medication, is there no system for back up? They may refuse food, but they will cave in to sleep sooner or later? Sooner in fact, from the exhaustion of it - and if nutrition is the prime concern, the hospital can always resort to temporary drips or glucose, inject them with sedatives if need be, when they're exhausted and droopy - point being, these are kids. They couldn't really sustain a long term anshann dharna, get real! They're just provoked at this point and pumped up for a stubborn act, and it should take only days to go - at the max. All minus Shehanshah anyway. So honestly, the whole problem seems overplayed to me. And again, Mallika, and the nurses made absolute sense. I understand Ashutosh's personal bias for the kids, or not being forceful or imposing - but hello, wasn't he the one telling Nidhi the other day, that a doctor treats a patient as per the medical need, and not as per the whims of the patient - when she said the kid refused to take his meds? A STARK contradiction to his own logic - and one that had very little emotional credibility too, if you ask me.
Moving on to the Ashutosh-Shehanshah convo ... honestly, I was duly impressed by Ashu's sensibility in calling the child to his cabin alone. Just like Nidhi's analysis of this boy, Ashu understands one can talk sense with this boy, beyond his age, and expect him to grasp it. The little dialog over hunger was also well done. But there could have been so much more conviction to Ashutosh's case here. When Shehanshah tells him hunger may not be 'bachon ka khel' but that he knows his way with it - Ashutosh should have shot back and told him, that other kids may not! All those so many others he, Shehanshah had used in his ploy were not him, and he could well be putting them into grave danger like this! The boy has a strange sensitivity, and even though I doubt he'd relent for his own self, he'd probably drop the whole mass rebellion. And that would resolve a part of the problem - unlike the futility which comes out of this incomplete dialog, one well done in bits, but left half baked.
For the Ranga-Nidhi scene - while I really really liked Nidhi's side of the script, Ranag's script in part was just random to me. Like you pointed out in some comment Nur, his statement of how he doesn't want to be taken seriously, was good. And defining of the undertones of his character. But the whole 'I saw you as an intern and just knew you were different' - was SO blah. Not because I can't beleiev he could see a difference in her - but because he just put that statement out without his premise. I had much preferred when the head matron had told her, she had not believed Nidhi would be the one to quit. From Ranga here - this statement was again, half baked. I wish he'd said something in support of his claim. Unlike with Ashutosh, and we haven't seen any exceptional Ranga Nidhi scenes to set out figurative sense of WHY Ranga thought she was a unique potential.
Anyway - I'm not saying I'm absolutely disappointed or anything - but I'm definitely finding all those loopholes with lack of conviction in the writing... scenes with so much potential that start of well, but end leaving me with mixed reactions. Not to mention, the way this children ward issue is seemingly embarking on drag phase - I can imagine why a 56 episode series is being reproduced in 250.
On a side note - Vishal was very impressive today. Like very. In his funny scenes, in his solemn bits. Not taking back my earlier statement, I'm not all in for his entire dialog with Nidhi, but to his credit as an actor, he was damn good. And bang on in the scene with Anji. Not to mention the way he sensed Ashutosh's inclination to call on Nidhi - his character showed some good nuances today.
Overall - I hope this children ward scenario will end in credibility. And I direly hope all the more so, that Nidhi's eventual reason to return would be done with much care. With the right blend of her logic and emotional incline coming to play.
I'd rate the episode a 6/10.
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