Epi Discussion Thread | 7th Mar-11th Mar || LU Pg 106 - Page 98

Originally posted by: -Srushti-

Hey Fatty ( hope can call you that😳) Wow!! glad to know there are some classical music lovers on the forum...That is what I thought when was hearing the bg of 'Ma dha pa ga sa' during the halwa wala scene....
The way she was niharofying Dutta while holding the plate of gajar ka halwa made me feel that she is still in so much awe of him...during the past few months she has seen him at his worst (specially the DP track)...but right now she is seeing the metal inside him which makes him Dutta....the man who can command attention blind or not....can rise from the ashes like a phoenix...and that man is actually praising her sugar less gajar ka halwa...
Truly she has come so far...Bappa's lucky girl as you say😃

Originally posted by: nureat01

@ bold ..I think she will always be in awe of him in a sense, Srushti.....because before everything she ADMIRES him so much as a man.....with all his faults and everything....there is a tremendous amount of RESPECT that she has for him....and yet she is just as protective, sometimes mothering, sometimes firm, sometimes stubborn, sometimes child-like when it comes to him too.....she has all these almost paradoxical traits within her and her various ways of dealing with him.....her love for Dutta is very multi-faceted, yet unconditional.....it starts with that awe that was there since day one....and it's grown in depth the more she's known him......one of the very reasons why she probably can never let go of calling him "saab" too....again it starts with that respect/awe and then it grows into all those other emotions she feels for him.....she looks at him like he's the core of her existence.

Originally posted by: make-believe

Wordddddd! So, so true! There were bits in that scene where she is sitting on the ground in front of him, looking up...he keeps her heart in the most beautiful manner that a man can, by appreciating what she has made for him, even lying about it...and she looks at him with her heart in her eyes...that thankfulness like you said...almost like she can't believe it herself...

Originally posted by: neets_ltl

Totally agree with you guys - WORD. I was going through the scenes where Dutta refused to accept Naku, post FR. The way he was saying in the bedroom when Naku is recovering from being shot, about how she shouldn't think it's because of love that he is helping her, that he doesn't forget the 'ehsaan' for saving his life....his whole arrogant demeanour and refusal to look in her eye is such a contrast to the present! Now he himself is so freely able to touch her and initiate playful interactions....in the scene where Naku trips clumsily, he was finding it difficult to touch her back...just a tranformation from Dutta's side too. Truly, Naku has gone through a journey...and not once has she said 'uff' through it all...not once has she given up on him, her love. I admire her for committing to Dutta all through the troubled times. And now we're seeing Dutta, a man who truly loves his woman...comfort and love just oozes...and yesterday's scene was just the best out of the whole week...it was just something else 😍

Originally posted by: make-believe

Hmm, isn't it so funny how one can think back to those times so long ago or those burning memories during such a scene and it only magnifies and adds tenfold to the warmth and love of their evolution...the journey makes the destination even more beautiful and valuable. Funnily enough, it even evokes a sense of gratitude in the viewer on Nakku and Dutta's parts...that they've FOUND each other, their soulmates, after life's difficulties and ups and downs 😊

And in Dutta's tremendous evolution as a man, lover, even son and brother...we almost feel like Nakku has always been the same, that she's remained the same Nakku...but she has GROWN so much in life too...and so beautifully. Babi would be proud of her 😊

That is one prime thing LTL has shown us...character development...whether it be Dutta, Nakku or even Kala...from the sister who just wanted to be the centre of her brother's life and keep milking his riches for herself...to the woman thirsting her brother's blood and capturing her own mother and sisters....Kala has come a long way....
Tasha journey has been the one very interesting...It was funny though, that Nakku who was supposed to be the one talking had her life wrapped in blanket of secrets...whereas Dutta who was supposed to be shy and reclusive had opened his life book before her...he had no secrets with her..
When two people like them meet there is this obvious chemstry which changes all the equations and we have just witnessed that....the jhalli phulli Nakku who would laugh at her own joke 'Kalimitti' to the Nakku who is obviously plagued by the thought of a flower which could cure her husband's eyes is not reachable....she has gone through a lot....

I loved loved the way she just kept staring at him and he had to remind her to give him the plate...it looked like that for her at that moment the world had come to stand still for her....and her raison d'etre was right before her eyes...she needed nothing else to survive on...

Wordddddd! So, so true! There were bits in that scene where she is sitting on the ground in front of him, looking up...he keeps her heart in the most beautiful manner that a man can, by appreciating what she has made for him, even lying about it...and she looks at him with her heart in her eyes...that thankfulness like you said...almost like she can't believe it herself...

Originally posted by: -Srushti-

I think this pretty much sums up the whole thing😊
The paradoxical traits within her and the way she deals with him in various ways...the way she was always tongue tied with him, but also was the one to tell him his draw backs....one who could give him lectures on how much it takes to make karanji, and take him forcefully to select an MS for his wife....but would be just too afraid to step out with him in the crowd waiting to meet Dutta....When Dutta asked her once that whether she could see his drawbacks...she did not say no..she did not see any drawbacks...she said that when you emotions take over you, you tend to fall apart....yet she gets conscious when he says that he has never fed her na??? and she says no😆 LOL and that is what makes her paradoxes so adorable....she does see his drawbacks, but she doesn't make excuses for him....she is his STRENGTH when he most needs her....she's had this unconscious radar inside her since the very beginning when it comes to him....she always senses what he needs....even when he himself may not know it.....lol.....especially in times when his faith or his inner strength may be flagging, that's when Nakku's strongest traits come to the fore and she takes charge....for HIS sake.....she strengthens him from within....only she has had the power to do that for him always....LOL and yes other times, she is just a normal girl hopelessly in love with this larger than life man😆....and he flusters her by complimenting her in the simplest of ways😆


The way she is oblivious to everything except Dutta is one of her endearing qualities...she is so engrossed in him that she knows anything else...in fact she did not even mind Kala torturing her until she revealed that it is Dutta she wants to harm...it was then Nakku raised her head😃
you are spot on ...she looks at him like he is the core of her existence, the pivot on which her whole world revolves😊...WORD.....I LOVE that about her.....she truly is oblivious to everything except Dutta....everything begins and ends with Dutta for her....and not in an obsessive manner.....but in the sweetest, more endearing, PUREST of ways.....it's that innocent, child-like core of hers that makes it so.....she loves him stubbornly, passionately, innocently and almost worshipingly.

Originally posted by: make-believe

Exactly what I meant...so well pointed out, Neets! I think that is one of the most painful things one person can do to another...not look them in the eye because of hurt or anger which drives home the pain even more...and Dutta did that to Nakku for a long, long time. He ignored her presence when she stood in front of him with her heart bared...like that scene where he comes back home from the helicopter crash and walks by her...there is so much awareness between them, so much physical tension, yet he doesn't even give her the respect or bliss of acknowledging that she has been crying and so worried for him...that scene the morning when Ganpat and Babi leave PN...he refuses to look at her, or to look at Baaji, or anyone else either...he stares at thin air while saying the most cutting things...that silent treatment...for so long, was such a huge part of their relationship. And where they've managed to come from it now is amazing...how Dutta has gradually changed from that stiff rock into someone molten, but then again there are the ironies like Anu said, that now he cannot even look her in the eye though he wants to with all his heart and soul...amazing how times and life change.

Originally posted by: neets_ltl

Loved your little view on Naku.... I watched that mindblowing episode (hug at Anna's den). What a character Anna was! Quality dialogues and acting from him in that episode! The uncanny personality added with a comic touch was just sooo good. And what struck me is Naku's monologue about how she thinks her beauty has been her curse...something like that...and almost in a kiddish way she bursts into tears....that was just something else...and how Anna put kajal on her to see what Dutta 'sees' in her in that form , but she replied 'yehi to fark ha tumhara aur Saab ka beech ma, woh insaan ka dil ko dikhta ha.' She has been in awe of Dutta for looking beyond her ugly apperance as well...and she still possesses that child like trait...

Originally posted by: make-believe

IMO, it will be the most beautiful thing...I want Dutta to make Nakku feel like her beauty is a GIFT...something which she can come to terms with and even be content with rather than always hanging on to the bad memories...she is a determined and willful girl, but even she needs liberation from the shadows of the likes of Morey and Anna to bury her demons...and isn't Dutta, a man so strong and honorable, the perfect foil to change her prejudices and ease her fears forever? It's like Bappa brought them together so that they could SOLVE each other...