@ Kool: your new mini-skirt rocks ! 😊
Enjoyed your description of the chaotic day.
Some of its frustrations seem to have leaked into your PR stuff : "second hand" and "used up"? Words not like you at all... ? It's rare to see you trip up. Though I will accept an explanation to the effect that you were using them to describe chawl opinion.
@ Nikita: I felt exactly as you did when they showed Manav singing; he really seemed to be deep in his own sad thoughts.
@ Those who've been debating the question of where he learnt the song:
i) Most serials, though they supposedly resemble reality more than films do, also require that we abandon logic and the demand for realism. We can balk at the idea of him composing it, although we don't balk when Hindi film heroes do it, I might point out; there we accept it as one more generic convention. But if we do hesitate to imagine practical Manav as a lyricist-composer, why can't we just assume that the song is just another film song, one from a film we haven't seen but he has?
ii) As Nikita points out, Manav's lost in some other world and isn't really a part of the merriment around him; that he should sing a song that's different from the others' efforts is therefore surely fitting?
iii) On the romantic level - were we to quite forget ourselves and descend to that !- it strikes me as particularly appropriate that this is the song of choice. Because it's not a song that either hero or heroine has actually heard or ever sung alone or to the other; it's meant to represent an unheard melody and unheard lyrics, things they have both felt and continue to feel, and which only the two of them experience or understand. Time and again we are reminded that they are uniquely made for each other, that their sense of responsibility towards the people they love places them above and apart from the norm. It's therefore in the rightness of things that "their" song - every couple has its own special song, after all - is one that others cannot hear, or have not heard before, and can only hear from them.
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