Well folks, I was so blinded by the joy of seeing AshNi happy and in love and it all coming out in the open signaling an end to all the angst and tears, that I truly didn't notice much till the second viewing!!
I want to bat on the dissing side (Tanu, Yanku and all the others who felt there was something lacking in Ashu's reaction and the whole separate frame issue).. maybe I could be a tail-ender?? 😆.. My take
1. RoMaan doing the all-important confession and AshNi ka haan-mein-haan milana, agreeing that woh baat karne ke liye poori zindagi padi hai... This diluted the confession scene too much for my liking...
2. Ashu's reaction was contrived, forced, stilted, but I'm giving MB the benefit of doubt here for two reasons... one, they were not in the same frame in most of the scenes so they couldn't "feed off" each other or their reactions. (Dunno whose fault that is, so don't want to point fingers right now or speculate, but I will say that if the two leads were on holiday or not available together, why didn't the CVs wait till they were??? We wouldn't mind going through couple more failed attempts by RoMaan and the track stretching till New Years till our leads could appear together! Instead they chose to rush and bungle what is the most important scene of this love story and made it look like a childish game of "I Confess" )
Two, going with his characterization of the shy, awkward, older guy with a zero track-record in handling relationships and also keeping with his coyness as shown earlier (remember the wedding scene where Nidhi tells him to take off his shirt?? 😳😆), maybe, maybe, I'll concede that his bashfulness could be justified in the script...
But that said, as a viewer, logical thought and rational thinking in my mind rebels against this.. again because..
This is the all-important LOVE confession for God's sake and not a silly half-baked apology 😡(like he did in the cafe in Mumbai where he was more assured, I thought) ; its the culmination of all the angst and pain that they were going through all these days. And we've seen Ashu being bold and open too (remember the traffic jam dialogue.?)
Knowing that, both Ashu and Nidhi's reactions should have been more emotional, more sentimental.. instead of the anti-climax it was. There should have been more tears, more accusations, more passion.. and here they needn't have even touched, they could have shown this even with them being in separate frames. I found it odd that Nidhi did not want to ask him why he treated her so badly if he loved her...(I imagined her going at him, beating her fists against his chest *sigh*)!!!😍
The whole separate frame thing offended my sensibilities as an audience, I felt tricked, cheated. 😕 We couldn't even see the customary "nainon ki bhasha" forget about hand holding or hugging.
My OS on the post-dargah scene seems better in comparison!!😆..
I guess I'll have to stick to writing my FF and reading Yanku's and living in my imaginary AshNi world that has all the passion and love that's lacking so painfully in the actual show.. 👎🏼
