Hi there. I can post this earlier today since there were fewer scenes of Gaurav today..
The first scene continued from where it had left off... the scene spian loved 😛... where he said 'inhe sau khoon maaf'... today got to see the whole scene and it was interesting... there is tension between Abhimanyu and Rajeev.... friends... and yet arent friends always the ones who know all the chinks in your armour... they are capable of inflicting maximum hurt cause they can say the unpalatable things that you actually dont want to face, the things about yourself that you dont want to listen... so Abhimanyu told Rajeev what he did not really want to hear, that favours are not given in obvious ways but may still be given nevertheless...
incidentally, the line 'ek myaan mein do talwarein nahi rah sakti'... was that a reference to the show as well... to the fact that rajeev is leaving, if he is leaving...
anyway, next gaurav scene... this time with Naina... completely by the way, black and red is my fav combination and it was good to see Gaurav in it...
But who writes these dialogues???.... usko dhoond ke peeto... taang tod ke haath mein de do.... samajh ke kya rakha hai... you know one of the reasons why the Abhimanyu Rajeev scenes work is because he is not given aisinine dialogues there, he sounds normal in his reactions/conversations with Rajeev... par with Naina usse joh holistic living ki philosophy jhaadne ko de dete hai, usse any sane person will sound irritating... what was all that?... 'find your own rhythm, find your own groove' is something that can be said much much better... the lines they gave him were ridiculous... its almost as if he's saying that her troubles do not matter... the only thing that i thought was well written was when she says 'jo ek awaaz mujhe sunni hai woh mujhe suna sakte hai?' and he says 'nahi'... he knew she was talking about Naveen's voice... and i liked the gravity with which Gaurav said 'nahi'... but then he just took off on this trip... Abhimanyu is more sensitive to sitautions than this... he could have had lesser lines, just one or two asking her to find herself...
However, Gaurav still managed to make these bad lines look slightly credible thanks to the very natural way in which he said them... but i wonder for how long he can make absolutely foolish things look credible...
And then the dance... i thought it was ok, bordering on good... was i the only one who felt that this scene could have been shot much better than it actually was?... Gaurav is a good dancer, he has a sense of rhythm.... but the steps he was doing did not really go well with the music they were playing... the lighting was bad, he looked better when he was sitting down... on the whole it was ok, not bad... but i just thought they could have done so much more with this sequence... i mean, a guy in black and red and that too dancing... it could have been sexier. Also, there were no scenes of the two of them looking at each other, no shots of their face or eyes... that jarred too.
Priyanka usually looks good in that uniform... but the lighting/camera (dont know which one) was bad... she was supposed to look ill at ease, i guess and that showed... but she also looked unattractive, which she usually doesnt.
Finally, the miraculous moment... yeh Abhimanyu aur Naina ki kitni photographic memory hai na... they both remember the symbols of the code and are solving it without even needing to look at it... yeh hamare sipahi toh Mensa level ke hai, their IQs are probably made for each other!... naturally, all three people solve it at the same time (pyaar aur dosti mein dimaag bhi ek hi speed pe chalta hai)... ok, sarcastic self, take a break... again, i liked the way Gaurav did it... ek toh i like the fact that he is thinking 😉.... but what i like about scenes with no dialogues are the other things he does... for instance, here he was fiddling with the drum sticks... then the illumination, the comprehension, then the smile, a slow smile and not an immediate one... then the muttered 'Believe in miracles' and finally the look upward... where Naveen symbolically resides now...
So thats it for today... hope there are more scenes of Gaurav tomo.