PR Today: A Trishanku episode - Page 7

Originally posted by: sashashyam

PS: The best scene in this PR episode was, for me, not one of Arjun-Purvi , but the shot of Manav as he listens to Teju's (silent) account of Ovi's wrist slitting. His face shows frozen despair in every line. One can almost feel his helpless anguish; it leaps at you off the TV screen.

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Originally posted by: sashashyam

Dear Ash,

Thanks a lot, my dear; today, I need all the moral support I can get !😉

What follows is for you and all the other certified romantics in the forum ( I was one too, but with advancing age, one gets a bit more clear-eyed, which is a great pity, but what can one do!). Before I say anything else, please rest assured that I fully approve of your seeing whatever you want to see in today's PR in general, and in the Arjun-Purvi scenes in particular. I may not be a romantic any longer, but I am not a killjoy!!

Now, after all the carefully camouflaged brickbatting I received for my take on the Arjun-Purvi dance😉 - and having only bee and Laurie for support - I went back just now and looked at it again. Here is an accurate rundown of the whole.

It was exactly 1:34 minutes from start to finish, no solo shots of Arjun, almost all combo shots of both, and far from smiling all the time, Arjun smiles only once, for about 20 seconds. A very nice smile, but one has to be accurate.

He holds her close from the back once. That is when she looks as if she is arthritic and is having trouble turning around (I do not mind tomatoes, but please make sure they are fresh ones, , so that I can use them for a salad 😉).

Yes, there is the forehead kiss at the very end . Frankly, it was not a patch on the airport scene, but I will make some concessions to your sentiments and pronounce it very good.

And yes, Purvi does close her eyes then in what one presumes is silent ecstasy. Or perhaps, being a practical girl, she is trying to remember where precisely her bindi was, and whether Arjun's expression of TLC could have dislodged it.😉This apart, she is shot then in far too tight a close up, and two incipient pimples on her right cheek, one large and one medium-sized, are in unfortunate prominence😭

That is it, and I regret to have to say that my take on the dance remains exactly what it was. It must be the Generation Gap. My profound apologies!!

One thing, one should not drag in the staple of 'middle class values', whatever they are, to explain away Purvi's approach to the dance today. First of all, the 'middle class' so beloved of our TV serials (where it is treated as some sort of avoidable and possibly contagious disease), is not a monolithic bloc in any country. There is the upper middle class, the middle middle class, and then the lower middle class. I would place the Karanjkars in the second category. Now, one sees any number of 'middle middle class' girls in front of any college, and these days, not one of them, going by my experience, behaves like Purvi even in staid Pune. I shall not even go into the way in which they ride pillion behind a boyfriend or, equally likely, cart a boyfriend along behind them on a scooty. So much for the present behaviour code among 'middle middle class' girls even in relatively conservative Maharashtra.

Now let us take our sanskaari Purvi. She is now his fiancee and is going to become his wife in 2 weeks or less. Yet, when Arjun asks her whether she would like to dance, she says 'no' instantly, as if he was suggesting something improper. Then, she looks to the right, and then to the left, just as she did when he took her hand at the pao bhaji place when he was still a mechanic. It was ok then, for they had no accepted relationship. Why repeat that now?

During the dance, he handles her like Dresden porcelain, and she displays about as much animation as one of those figurines. She does not smile once, and I presume you will all say that it is because she is so overcome with maidenly modesty at this undue proximity to a handsome young man, no matter if he is her affianced husband-to-be. All I can say is, BOSH!!!

Contrast this with the readiness with which Purvi draped her boss' arm around her shoulder and lugged him off to find an auto, when he had a mildly sprained ankle. They were right at the hospital entrance, and any ward boy could have been asked to help out. Now that is one thing that I, even in my sassy youth (Laurie, I am truly flattered!) would never have done. It would give anyone ideas!Any more than I would have sat working all night in my boss' hotel bedroom, instead of telling him the facts of middle middle class mores and making him get some more staff in. Or let him put eye drops in my eye either.

Inconsistency, thou art the middle name of all the PR CVs!

Shyamala

PS: The best scene in this PR episode was, for me, not one of Arjun-Purvi , but the shot of Manav as he listens to Teju's (silent) account of Ovi's wrist slitting. His face shows frozen despair in every line. One can almost feel his helpless anguish; it leaps at you off the TV screen.

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Originally posted by: purethought

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Now, after all the carefully camouflaged brickbatting I received for my take on the Arjun-Purvi dance😉 - and having only bee and Laurie for support - I went back just now and looked at it again. Here is an accurate rundown of the whole.

It was exactly 1:34 minutes from start to finish, no solo shots of Arjun, almost all combo shots of both, and far from smiling all the time, Arjun smiles only once, for about 20 seconds. A very nice smile, but one has to be accurate.

He holds her close from the back once. That is when she looks as if she is arthritic and is having trouble turning around (I do not mind tomatoes, but please make sure they are fresh ones, , so that I can use them for a salad 😉).

Yes, there is the forehead kiss at the very end . Frankly, it was not a patch on the airport scene, but I will make some concessions to your sentiments and pronounce it very good.

And yes, Purvi does close her eyes then in what one presumes is silent ecstasy. Or perhaps, being a practical girl, she is trying to remember where precisely her bindi was, and whether Arjun's expression of TLC could have dislodged it.😉This apart, she is shot then in far too tight a close up, and two incipient pimples on her right cheek, one large and one medium-sized, are in unfortunate prominence😭

That is it, and I regret to have to say that my take on the dance remains exactly what it was. It must be the Generation Gap. My profound apologies!!

One thing, one should not drag in the staple of 'middle class values', whatever they are, to explain away Purvi's approach to the dance today. First of all, the 'middle class' so beloved of our TV serials (where it is treated as some sort of avoidable and possibly contagious disease), is not a monolithic bloc in any country. There is the upper middle class, the middle middle class, and then the lower middle class. I would place the Karanjkars in the second category. Now, one sees any number of 'middle middle class' girls in front of any college, and these days, not one of them, going by my experience, behaves like Purvi even in staid Pune. I shall not even go into the way in which they ride pillion behind a boyfriend or, equally likely, cart a boyfriend along behind them on a scooty. So much for the present behaviour code among 'middle middle class' girls even in relatively conservative Maharashtra.

Now let us take our sanskaari Purvi. She is now his fiancee and is going to become his wife in 2 weeks or less. Yet, when Arjun asks her whether she would like to dance, she says 'no' instantly, as if he was suggesting something improper. Then, she looks to the right, and then to the left, just as she did when he took her hand at the pao bhaji place when he was still a mechanic. It was ok then, for they had no accepted relationship. Why repeat that now?

During the dance, he handles her like Dresden porcelain, and she displays about as much animation as one of those figurines. She does not smile once, and I presume you will all say that it is because she is so overcome with maidenly modesty at this undue proximity to a handsome young man, no matter if he is her affianced husband-to-be. All I can say is, BOSH!!!

Contrast this with the readiness with which Purvi draped her boss' arm around her shoulder and lugged him off to find an auto, when he had a mildly sprained ankle. They were right at the hospital entrance, and any ward boy could have been asked to help out. Now that is one thing that I, even in my sassy youth (Laurie, I am truly flattered!) would never have done. It would give anyone ideas!Any more than I would have sat working all night in my boss' hotel bedroom, instead of telling him the facts of middle middle class mores and making him get some more staff in. Or let him put eye drops in my eye either.

Inconsistency, thou art the middle name of all the PR CVs!

Shyamala

PS: The best scene in this PR episode was, for me, not one of Arjun-Purvi , but the shot of Manav as he listens to Teju's (silent) account of Ovi's wrist slitting. His face shows frozen despair in every line. One can almost feel his helpless anguish; it leaps at you off the TV screen.

Originally posted by: Ashlaika

Miss Shyamala - excellent post. I agree with almost everything EXCEPT and u guessed it - Arjun-Purvi dance!!! :D. Before I get into the details, just want to say - u did it again - exceptional post. Unlike PR - u have a consistency and you can dish out great work everyday (no matter the script (show) u get).

@ Bee - as I was reading through the thread and saw ur post... I kept saying, Bee better tell us her opinion or Ill die from curiosity. If she doesn't she better believe I would PM her! :D. Thank you for allowing me to sleep and not wonder.

@Jyothi, Janhvi... I too thought the dance was good, I would take that scene anyday in any episode - even if they are showing the court scenes and just throw them in there! 😆. But... I thought Arjun looked quite comfortable and ready to romance his lady... and in Purvi's defence... she has only declared her love recently and openly, she still has that mentality where she is not suppose to be all up under a man... YES - I think PDA is needed with them... but I can understand her initial reaction to not want to dance a slow dance in public. BUT... I think she nicely redeemed herself as Arjun kisses her on the forehead, she kinds closes her eyes and slowly reopens with a blush (may have to rewatch this scene to ensure I get the facts right - what a harship 😉).

There were sooo many other things I wanted to say as I read tru the posts... but I started to laugh so much, they got lost.

Laurie - I too like RDs face and not ashamed to say it !!! Vilasini also likes his dance moves... Jyothi likes his hands, for she is now obsessed with his tattoo/scar... so among all of us... no part of RD is left unnoticed or for anyone else 😆.

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Edited by sashashyam - 13 years ago

Originally posted by: jdronamraju

Trish is still busy ROFL, I think, Shyamala !!!

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Don't worry, Jyothi, she will recover.

I am more worried about Isaac. How is it in your area now?

Shyamala

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Don't worry, Jyothi, she will recover.

I am more worried about Isaac. How is it in your area now?

Shyamala