Kool di, great Commentary but wasn't that impressed by yesterday's episode except for the entire setup of satish's conflict of thoughts.
The journalist angle didn't impress me much coz the reporter came with his own set of preconceived notions. It was biased journalism from the first take itself. Journalism isn't based on opinions and this guy surely had too many. Agreed that reporters are supposed to ask hard questions but if your questions are already showing leanings then the answers too will be defensive and given with resistance. News is about fitting in all the information and angles together and let the reader decide and not serve it with one's own purpose. Here it was an crassly attempted socialistic one. And just because others do not have the basic common sense to do two plus two four...i wouldn't credit the journo to have extra...he just stated the plain obvious.
Ajit and his set of bad background actors seem to be doing a comedy circus morcha. The labourers need to first empathise at a personal level with manav's position to go ahead and protest with conviction. Mob sense prevails only when each member of it senses the unfairness at a personal level. The CVs should have shown Ajit mobilising the workers for the injustice which could have been meted on any one of them. Nobody in sane sense will protest on silly grounds of manav's loyalty to the company. Dharmu is apparently running a factory where the only loyal worker is in the jail.
I found the entire Dharmu-Archu scene hilarious…Dharmu seemed an angry class teacher complaining to the school princi Archu about a misbehaved class. I just hate the way archana is being shown as a working woman. She has been immensely dumbed down…and she looked dumbly arrogant when dharmu was giving his poignant filled sermon. Why can't she be made smart enough to think of a solution that can be beneficial for both parties.
Satish…muah to CVs for handling the character so well. You don't necessarily have to make the right decision always…it is the emotional conflict that brings out a decision that matters more. If tomorrow Satish takes a turnover on his decision he will be highly convincing and authentic. It is this kind of conflict I wanted for manav…if the Cvs had the rattled their brains the same way for manav then manav's character wouldn't have seemed the wreck that he is now. He too should have been shown in the conflict of zimmedari and love…instead CVs chose to play the stuck record of zimmedari. Manav's character's foundation was the strongest in the show but every layer after that narrowed the top. Now the character's base is strong but everything above it is ready to topple down. I give human conflicts and introspection a lot of importance...even more than the final outcome. The final decision is a result of compromises and weakness but the process of decision making is based on the entire value structure of that individual and weighing of all the strengths. I am not defending satish but it is not easy to do the right thing always. Wish they had shown a little conflict of thoughts for dharmu too…would have appreciated him a lot more today.
Personally I found the manav and the gundas scene a badly directed and cinemographed one. The first shot itself was appalling…the camera zoomed into manav…zoom ins potray a sense of dramatization and urgency. The zoom sabotaged the serenity that manav's expression and ambience had brought. If they had done the shot after and not before the throwing in of mushtaq it would have made sense but not otherwise. Anyway the entire scene was played out only to portray manav's holiness…even the camera angle implied it. The camera was placed at the level of the mushtaq looking above at Manav as if he is a supreme being. But I do hope that mushtaq's role is important in not only bringing Prakash into open but also becomes of important value in manav's resurrection. I want Mushtaq to give the hard lessons of life to manav coz he is definitely living in illusionary heaven of his.
This working period of the CVs in bringing ArMan together is seeming senseless and boring to me. Manav has been in jail for a week and the story hasn't moved forward even an inch. And yes lastly they maybe the most doomed couple…but when you have the feeling of love in you then you feel warm even in the cold. Ok I am biased and hopeless here…I can be extremely analytical about archana and manav individually but together I can never be. Because above all darkness there stands a beautiful feeling of love that they share and I want them to feel it together. Me a diehard romantic and ArMan fan through and through…I tolerate this crappy show everyday with the hope ArMan will be together one day. 😊
