Balidan mein bal hai - 25th December 2014 - Page 2

Originally posted by: twila

Hey Arshi ... and all other friends here ... 🤗

Have not been participating in the discussions here as have not been regular with the Show ...

The timing is proving to be slightly problematic for me ...

Have tried to catch up in bits and pieces, but it does not catch the flow .

But from whatever i have seen ... must commend young Siddarth Nigam ... 👏

What a MAGNIFICENT Job he has done ! ⭐️⭐️

He has managed to get the Brooding Silence... Intensity...Guilt...Anger ...everything so Brilliantly ! 👏

As for Robin Das as Udiiyaa Baba and Seema Biswas... What can we say about them ...

They are Simply OUTSTANDING !! 👏👏

Both have been so effortlessly NATURAL and Powerful !! ⭐️⭐️

It is a real pleasure to see such Stellar Actors on TV . 😊

Now really want to be regular as it is time for Gautam's entry ...

Hoping to be here more often ... 🤗

Originally posted by: hotdogg

Hi Arshi...


So I was right that either Udiya Baba or Maimui has to go down to take this to the next logical level...

I like the Udiya Baba actor's acting, but felt the audio recording needs to be better...not easy to pick out his diction or what he's saying lying in the burns unit and then having to guess a little from the next scenes...maybe I saw this online is the reason...

Liked the Ram Leela scene in the earlier epi...was keeping fingers crossed and hoping we do not get the tacky CGIs when it started and was not let dowm...fortunately the scene was pretty well shot...

To tell you the truth, just don't like the entire Poland track...If you look at it the story in India would have progressed independent of it ...on the contrary it jars the entire India track narrative...its just wasteful and only goes round and round...

I agree, the Poland track is probably only to give it an international flavour, but why Poland? I had raised this question earlier also, I still think it maybe because this period saw the fall of communism and resurgence of the Roman Catholic church in the Soviet Bloc.

But that connect is just not happening

1) Father Shiva is apparently now a skilled ancient martial arts expert who can take on 8 - 10 people singel-handed...then how did this guy then manage to get kidnapped by two bozos who only had to put a hood over his face?

2) What was he doing all these 12 long years in such a passive prisoner profile? If he belongs to some Shiv something sect (did not catch the name) and is apparently pretty important as the guardian of the special boy Rudra...what were the other sect members doing all these 12 years? No one tried to find him or the boy?

The sect he belongs to Brahma Nishtha ( the integrity of the Brahman, I presume it translates to ) is supposedly defunct now, acc to one dialogue. He probably was the sole survivor and a threat to swami because of his knowledge of the secret. Of course baki sab is logic ki vaat.

3) Dont just get the track with the boy Cuba and his abused mother at all? Also, will a woman who is continuing in a abusive relationship with a violent partner and is scared shitless for the safety of her son...will she ever get the gumption to shelter a male stranger in her own home??

Cubas mom doesn't make any sense to me too, having lived in USSR, around this time, her compulsions to stay in an abusive relationship are just not there. It was a communist state, govt provided for everything, family fabric was not very strong, divorce rate was very high, why would she live with a man who was a threat to her is just not making sense from what I have seen of that society.

4) At some point, the show makers are trying to mirror the relationship between Rudra and his foster father in Father Shiva and Cuba...but its not coming out well at all...

5) The apparently dreaded 'secret' society has no fear of being outed when its members land helicopters in the middle of a town road, with the head lackey carrying a sniper rifle / machine gun and pointing it any anyone...and then letting the only witnesses to this 'secret' society (mother and cuba) off...

Reminded me of the scene from Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron...Duryodhana telling the Pandavs..."Pandav bhaiyon ab aap log ghar jaayiye..hum bhojan ke baad Draupadi bhabhi ko aapke paas bhijwaa

denge

So true, and she clubs her husband in the middle of the road, and there's no reaction from anyone. Again not realistic of that place.

6) Danish Wadhwa is such a fantastic actor and they make him wear that silly wig and ask him to do action rather than emote / act is just criminal and wasteful.

Till he had that beard, it was ok, now he reminds me too much of niranjan agnihotri. He needs to be given a different look and tone! Not working for me.

While we wait for GRs entry next week, if the intention was to create some back stories for the plot going forward, it seems to be not so effective...teen Rudra would have aged another 5 - 10 years to become GR...so did Shaolin Master Father Shiva again go back to passive prisoner?

- Udiya baba's back story will seemingly die with him and may not have anything in the future...however it helped to round off his motives and completed his character. And was used to make Rudra self-aware and given him a reason for his brooding aggressive character as GR.

- Poland...no idea whats being attempted in this track...hope something comes out of it..

Originally posted by: -Obsessed-

Awesome post Arshi. This show is a bit complicated for simple-minded people like me 😆. Its hard to comprehend the inner meanings n parallels in the show. But should say, the story as well as the execution is fascinating and intriguing. Even my younger siblings follow the show, when they usually never watch the shows I do.