So happy to see your post, Gan. Loved the collage. You have captured the myriad expressions of the ready-to-flee-the-scene Raman and the super-irritated Ishita so well đ
I hadn't watched the episodes since last Thursday, had just been keeping a tab on the WU. But after reading about the track I was so eager to catch up on this week's episodes that I sat up till late last night and brought myself up-to-date.
The episodes since Monday have been so well executed. Every viewer can connect to the happenings, to the characters Adi, Ishita and Raman. Like you mentioned, each one is right in their own place. I myself got feelings of deja vu' while listening to their conversations.
I have a 10 year old son who has recently started showing signs of changes in his attitude, behavior, likes and dislikes. He who never cared about his looks now suddenly creates a fuss about his hair-cut or dress coordination. He who used to be eager and happy to see me drop by at his school before, is now so not looking forward to my visits as much. He has this awkward and guarded expression on his face when I start talking in front of his friends, and I can just imagine him thinking "Oh God! Please don't make my mom say something stupid in front of my friends"..LOL! đ And that is just what Adi felt, am sure, when Ishita started firing his friends along with him.
Now, I can completely understand where Ishita is coming from. Its just a maternal instinct, to be super protective about your child, where the mom fears that if the problem is not nipped in the bud, it will soon get out of hand. Moms tend to get hyper and over dramatic..if my real Puttar had watched the scenes, he would have said "Oh she is making faces and giving lectures just like you!" đ
Raman's behavior, the way he acts all super cool in front of his son and defends his laid back attitude by pointing out Ishita for her over-reactive nature, trying to escape the situation and avoid facing the heat and getting lectured at, is oh so familiar to me as well! I can just close my eyes and imagine my real life Puttar reacting the same way. But I'm sure when the time comes, he will lose the "cool dad" cap and step up to the plate. I was happy to see that Adi wanted to confess in front of IshRa about his phone call to Vinni's mom, its just unfortunate that things came out the way they did.
Parenting a pre-teen is not a cake walk, this was just one incident..there are going to be a lot more to come. I am really looking forward to seeing how Raman and Ishita react and deal with the situations and how they come about striking a balance in their parenting techniques. Hopefully, it doesn't have to be after something major occurs with Adi.
I just love watching Bala and Vandu on screen, their portrayal is so real that I sometimes forget that they are not a real-life couple..they complement each other so well in the little screen space that they get..its endearing.
I am enjoying this Mihika-Abhi love-is-in-the-air phase. Just hope they take it slow and steady and not show it as an overnight done deal like Mihir-Rinki.
Krishy, great work listing out all the potential tracks that can be shown without taking a time leap. Its appalling and annoying to think that the so-called Creatives can't figure this out for themselves...hard to believe that they don't recognize their own show's true potential!
As for the spoilers about the leap which is over shadowing the current track, I had mentioned this in the LU thread yesterday too, that I have decided not to fuss over what's not happened yet, and what's not in our control or power. What has to happen will happen. This is a fictional TV show, and at the end of the day, we watch it to feel entertained. Lately, most of the days we end up here feeling frustrated and upset about what we saw on the show..so when the episodes and its contents are actually so crisp and good the way we have always wished for them to be, reminding us of our old YHM, its best to just sit back and enjoy it while it lasts. We will cross the bridge when we come to it.đ
