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You guessed right. This is the operation room for today's episode, so if you have a problem with analysis on LTL episodes, this post is not for you and I suggest that you do not read any further - or you most likely will be so annoyed that you'll throw chappals at me.
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Daring to critisize LTL episodes is like dissecting a frog. Few are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Yet, I've always liked challenges and starting thought-provoking threads, so really. I'm gonna just go ahead and dissect this episode, using the pre-January standard of LTL as my old measuring tool. Heh. To be honest, pre-January, I never felt the need to dissect any LTL episode. To me, the episodes were perfect - even with their silly bloopers once in a while. But then the people behind January-February episodes decided to be careless and, well, not LTL-ish in their ways, and that has given me every reason to operate on their execution of each episode.
SO. Let's start, shall we?
Pros in today's episode:
1) The scenes between Mahadev and Dutta. Mujhe Jagtap dada ki yaad agayi. Truly, I loved their chemistry. Mahadev reminded me of a kind of big brother to Dutta, giving him a kind of masculine support, strength. No pityful stares and "look out, watch your step, careful" comments, but he just took Dutta's arm and led him to his seat. Their moment was awesome. There was this sense of understanding - man to man. Loved that. Want them to explore it some more. Honestly, I think that Mahadev can give Dutta something that Naku can't. Just like Jagtap did (he opened Dutta's eyes).
2) Mishal, Mishal, Mishal. Even with the limited camera focus on him, he stole the show. My eyes were glued to him, watching for his changing expression in every scene (although, my eyes did begin to water at one point, because I had to zoom in on his face to catch his expression in, like, every scene 😆 Normally yeh camera ka job hota hai 😆)
3) The store room scene with AS and co. Wow. I've missed them a lot. I simply loved the whole scene with them, that they stayed together in that room - not because they had to (since all the guards, except two apparently, have abandoned PN), but because they felt safe in there, sticking together in one place, holding the family together. No one is alone. I loved the atmosphere. It was tragic, yet full of hope. They're hanging on beautifully. But I want to see Baji take more control.
4) I don't know about you guys, but I am loving the brainwashing that Kala's trying with Seema. In fact, I'm pretty sure that Seema isn't going to fall for it, but she might pretend. If she's smart. That's having really high hopes for someone like her, isn't it? 😆
5) For three and a half second, the camera zoomed in on Dutta's face before shifting to PN 😲😆 I was so overjoyed that I went: "OH LOOK. DUTTA." 😆
6) CRAPOLA BAR. How could I forget! One more thing I loved was Madhu in the store room scene. When AS fed her, she took her hand and kissed it and the gesture and her expression was just WOW. Made me mentally complain about why they didn't explore her character and relationship with other characters some more 😕 She has something that comes across as natural and earnest.
Cons, cons, cons, peeps:
1) Call me paranoid. Call me mentally imbalanced. Call my speculations "conspiracy theories", but I'll still stick to them like Chipkali Seema. I wager that for the people working on LTL, it has become a race against time. They're filming fast, with one camera only (which is why we don't get the spontaneous/subtle expressions of characters' reactions to each other). In fact, either they've cut down on their budget - LOL - or they're simply just wanting the episodes done and over with. I mean, the last time I saw LTL shot this cheap was... never 😆 There's only, like, two camera angles all the time, no focus, no time to stretch a scene with conversation and expressions, just a lot of jumping around from shot to shot 😆 I've reached the point where it makes me laugh, not cry anymore 😳
2) Can't say this enough. Dutta, little man, is back in the background 😕 Hopefully, he'll get a fair conclusion to his character, because I'm sensing it's near 🤢 (One thing I noticed about earlier episodes of LTL is that the former directors simply LOVED Mishal's acting. They always shot him from all kinds of angles, capturing every one of his subtle moves and expressions).
3) Mishal looks sad. Whether it's because he's supposed to be all sad, or whether it's a mix of his own situation and thus has been transferred to his character - I do not know. But even in the past when Dutta was depressed, there was a liveliness to the atmosphere surrounding his character, dynamics, power. Now, it's all just... blurh. Sad. Like people not caring to shoot properly and put actual life into directing the episodes and such has just sucked the power out of each episode. All that's keeping it together is the characters (read: DUTTA 😆).
Oh well. All good things come to an end, I guess. Done dissecting *ducks as the chappals come flying* 😳
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