My dear Arshi,
You have nailed it in your last sentence.
It was all about Gautam's Rudra, who has now completely internalised his grief and the trauma of such a terrible loss. This was carried over into the utter blankness of his eyes in the precap, as he regards Maya's mama, the Sinister Swami.
I also agree that Maimuyi's death scene was not well enough done. It somehow lacked, except in one part, of which more below, the emotional heft of Udiya Baba's passing. Perhaps this was because there was too much of incoherent talk from her side, and I could not make out even 20% of it. The silences that spoke in their earlier scenes were drowned out, and Maya's endless
Mai, mai!! began to grate on the nerves.
But the heartbreaking quality of the relationship between Maimuyi and her
bachuwa, whether with the teenage Rudra or this one, came thru with full force in the bit where she asks him to call her Mai. I am not the crying kind, but my eyes were wet as Rudra complied and hugged her with frantic, desperate love.
Later, in Gautam's still, wordless, frozen agony as he goes about the funeral rites, the emotional
vazan of the narrative was regained. The point where he wipes his wet hands in her pallu was the high water mark, so poignant, and that too without a single word spoken.
Whatever his merits as a convincing actor, the scene of Pandey and the dying Maimuyi was disgusting. And as with the scene of his blinding by Swami Balivesh, it had NO place in a 8 pm telecast of a serial meant as family entertainment. The way he was shown twisting the
trishul in her wound made me want to stick the
trishul into the director. Ugh..
This apart, the whole chase and murder scene was totally incredible, and stretched the boundaries of artistic licence, of
natakiya rupantar, to breaking point. There was no police, no autopsy of the murdered person's body, no FIR, nothing. It cannot happen even in a remote village in India today, not to speak of a city like Varanasi awash with mobile-wielding citizen journalists, that a bunch of thugs chases an old woman and kills her in broad daylight in the centre of the city without anyone bothering about it, least of all the police. It is ludicrous. 😡
And then Rudra cremates the body with no one even bothering to inform the police!
Whatever the script-related compulsions, above all of getting Rudra to Prayag and the Mahakumbh, I am feel very strongly that it was a bad mistake to have thus abruptly knocked Maimuyi out of the narrative. With her passing, the emotional core of
Mahakumbh has also been knocked out, and the fallout of this ill-considered decision will become apparent all too soon.
The Maya conundrum stayed intact, given that the previous day's precap was repeated last night.
I am still half of the mind that she is an unknowing accomplice of her Mama, but let us see,
Shyamala
Originally posted by: Arshics
the actor who is playing Khoya Paye Pande - I guess he's doing a very good job, because he was downright hateful
The way he was gloating over Maimuis body, was disgusting
The actual death scene - it was ok, the dialogues were a little hard to catch, and I felt it was a bit stretched.
But the scene after - the detached mechanical way in which Rudra did all the rites, coupled with the memories and flash backs - that was touching and poignant!
More like the Rudra we knew! He internalizes his pain, keeps up a stoic demeanour, but feels a lot of sadness and pain within!
The scene where he held on to her pallu, not willing to let go of it - the sad for,on look, but outward composure, the almost calm way in which he went about piling up the wood, this was the Rudra we had been first introduced to!
Today was one of the episodes, where time comes to a standstill, an old track is tied and packed and stowed away, and an interlude is taken before the story takes a turn!
It was Gautam rodes episode through and through, he has finally got into the skin of Rudra and realsied that Rudra is not about loud fury all the time, mostly he's just about silent pain!
Edited by sashashyam - 10 years ago
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