Originally posted by: NaVy1985
hey shvetal, great analysis ..... can't say i agree to all the points but that's my pov and does not hinder me from appreciating yours😛 ..... especially since it is so well written👏 ..... just wanted to point out something in case you didn't know ..... i'm not sure how much you've seen of season one but w.r.t.: I'm so happy that other people write long winded posts too 😆 😆... seriously though, thanks for the compliment and alternative points of view are always, always welcome!
i completely agree .... i hate these stereotypes too ...... but the point was that this has been yudi's fight since the beginning of the show ..... this is precisely what makes him contemplate suicide (his "manhood" is always joked about and questioned by huda and at times aalekh) ..... so although it is a stereotype .... it is a really important one especially for lrl since we have characters like yudi who are not sure about how to express their "masculinity" and we have characters like maj nair who insist that only men should be soldiers as women aren't "man enough" ..... so i guess i have to say that i thought today's voiceover was alright ....... Well sweetie i am not asking for or expecting a stereotype free serial.... but if Aalekh and Huda make fun of Yudi, the voice over need not do the same.... i feel that the stereotype must be questioned somewhere, at some level... for example, Nair feels that women should not be soldiers... at the same time the serial shows his point of view as wrong.... whereas with Yudi this questioning of the stereotype is not happening, or at least was not happening yesterday.... if the show had shown that the cadets question his 'masculinity' but that they are wrong in doing so, that the omniscient voice over is not supporting this stereotype, i would have liked it.
also about both captains being childish ....... i'm not sure i fully agree ...... (but this is just my pov and no one needs to agree with me .... just want to put it out there)
as far as captain chauhan goes ..... i think that his yelling at the orderly was a little childish ..... but i'll accept it as i think that he's genuinely confused ..... i mean he was all for getting to know the cadets and being their buddy when he first came to the academy ...... when he got their he realized that they weren't ready to be his friends cause he felt that they didn't think he was the "army-man" captain rajveer was (sorry for the stereotype again😆) ..... so he did what any other "army-man" would be able to do ..... complete drills, shoot apples, etc, ....... that still didn't get him what he wanted ...... so he went back to trying to be their friend ..... only this time he used his newly gained power to basically bribe them into liking him ..... chauhan can say whatever he wants about it just being him trying to help the cadets be the best etc ..... but really to me the whole thing looked like a scene out of full house when danny (the father) decides that lifting curfews, and raising allowances (or serving better dinners😆) will make him more popular...... okay so this seems to work but then he gets a warning from his trusted royal guard that he can continue bribing them all he wants but he should be careful to not try to bring rajveer down .... okay fine - i live by that: don't rise abouve by pushing anyone else down ............... okay so up to here capt chauhan is good he knows what to do .......... but then capt rajveer goes and does something without telling him ............... he takes out his frustration (honestly i'd be a little frustrated too ..... he just worked so hard to get this authority and no one seems to be respecting him for it) and ends up having maj nair push all the wrong buttons on him thus forcing him in a moment of insecurity to agree to a punishment that puts rajveer down even though he has no intention of doing that .......... and then the confusion ensues ......... he knows that he didn't want to put him down ...... but knows that the cadets are thinking that he does want to bring rajveer down ....... From day one, i have been analysing Abhimanyu as a character... the various layers that constitute him... and having established all of that, i dont want to repeat what i have already written over and over again.... Abhimanyu, the way i see it, is at conflict with himself and so at conflict with the rest of the world.... and caught in circumstances beyond his control. Its not an easy character to portray.... for more details, please refer to various previous analyses 😆 😆
now cut to rajveer ....... yes he held a secret meeting without permission ......... but honestly throughout all of lrl we've seen so many people doing things without permission (e.g., why can neelu prance around the academy?) why is this one being blown out of proportion ...... why? ..... because the principal is maj nair and he's been looking forward to this moment for a veeeeeeeeeery long time😆 ......... alright so chauhan yells at him for this but raj can't understand why this is being done in front of the cadets considering that chauhan knows that it probably had something to do with the red box and naveen😕 ..... and i'm a little confused about this too ...... i mean honestly chauhan should have had bells and whistles going off in his head about exactly what the meeting could have been about ..... so his insistance for rajveer to give him an explanation in front of everyone is confusing ......... raj is confused at why his friend is behaving this way .......
Capt Rajveer's character is layered too... here is someone who understands his friend well but does not realise that Abhi did not deliberately insult him in front of the cadets... that is his confusion. Both are still good friends.... it shows in the way Abhimanyu said 'All the best' and in the way Capt Rajveer said 'kyun har waqt meri gun ke saamne mera hi dost hota hai?'
Now as to why i called them childish: well any two men, who will use their students to fight each other, are childish according to me. See if the team behind the show thinks that the show needs to show conflict between Abhimanyu and Capt Rajveer, then they should have come up with something better.... this current story line is an insult to the characters of Abhimanyu and Capt Rajveer.... they could have shown that Nair uses the red box to plant suspicion in the minds of both these people.... that Abhimanyu and Capt Rajveer each think the other is the one who implicated Naveen.... or they could have shown that they have a difference of opinion about the army, about army rules and regulations.... but here what have they shown 'why didnt you tell me what was happening in the meeting?'.... 'why did you ask me in front of everyone?'..... and for this, there will be rebellion in KMA?.... there will be demonstrations and fights?... thats why i called the whole situation childish.
okay so where is all this confusion leading? ........... basically it boils down to one of the two being confused about how to save himself and the other being confused about how to save the other ............ now i'm not saying that rajveer has to save chauhan ....... but really in my humble and quite probably incorrect pov, chauhan is unsure of what route he should be following ...... his own or the path that is the "so-called path of a soldier and a vice-principal" ......... and rajveer is unsure of how to save him not because he feels that chauhan cannot save himself but rather because he knows that there is someone set-out to ensure that chauhan is unable to save himself because if chauhan was to save himself he'd be able to see that rajveer is in grave danger .......... rajveer knows that someone from inside the academy was able to use love to make one of his friends blind enough to fall into a trap and is afraid that this time the person will use hatred to do it trap his other friend .........
See as far as saving goes.... i think their friendship is still strong enough for each of them to save the other if any mishap rises....
but my pov aside ....... i really think that both rajeev and gaurav are doing a great job and that the story is finally setting itself into motion and hopefully well have an interesting story involving this clash and the resolution of this clash coming up
As i said earlier, I feel that this conflict/clash could have been far, far more interesting. As i wrote in another post yesterday, now i only see it for the acting.
okay i'm running out of steam now so i think i'll end my pov here ....
disclaimer:
- the author does not intend to offend, hurt, or instigate anyone ........ nor does she intend to bore anyone with this very long and mainly incoherrent point of view (but she fears she may have😆) I think i should put in a similar disclaimer everyday!