Thank you for the update!
Some of my favourite parts from the episode:
-The way Dutta so robotically walks up the stairs into his room, closes the door, and suddenly a reel of Kala's words begins playing in his head climaxing to such a degree that the statements start overlapping one another...excellent job they did in this tiny moment at showing the bottled turmoil wreaking in Dutta's mind...and the way he brings up his hand to his forehead and just stands there for a moment to steady himself...ah, the smallest of nuances that MR brings in make you feel for this character no matter what. And I loved that Nakku saw him standing there like that, in that vulnerable state...she saw that he is affected despite the front he tries to put up.
-The purity of Nakusha as a woman...so subtly but poignantly shown through the dialogues...it was amazing how disturbed and shocked she was just by the thought that she could have gone to 'another man' than her Saab...it's as if she hasn't ever even imagined that there can be other men for her in the way that he is to her.
-The fantaaaaaaaaaatic way in which Dutta's eyes suddenly shift when Nakku says 'Haiwanon ki basti mein rehni waali ek ghareeb ladki,"...and you know suddenly that his attention has been caught! Something striking enough has been said to jolt him out of his act of indifference. She says, 'Izzat lootne wale hazaron the..." and MR's reaction to this was THE most genius bit in this episode for me, because instantly, it's almost like you can see the wheels beginning to turn in Dutta's head, he's finally being made to think, to see a whole new perspective that he didn't even know existed...and man, did they capture this well or what!?
-Ok, I lied 😆...the most genius was MR's expression and delivery when Dutta finally tells Nakku that he didn't doubt her character...that struggle within Dutta, you cannot understand the dynamics of it unless you watch it and even then, it's indescribable. His pained and haunted look when Nakku is 'uksa-oing' him with reminders of his kind gestures towards her...this guy manages to catch you off-guard on the most unexpected of days and scenes and then gives a performance that is submerged into the character, that makes you sit up and be awed all over again.
Ah, and what Nakku has unintentionally ended up doing is very smart...by staying at PN but moving out of his room and refusing to come to him, she has made sure that Dutta will always be 'aware' of her presence in the house, which will press down on him, eventually becoming a longing to reach out to her...he will struggle with himself over that longing while never being able to anything about it. The day he breaks out of that struggle and his heart wins over his head, she will 'attain' him with his own will and conviction.
Edited by make-believe - 14 years ago