The Big Picture...

Originally posted by: DocD

Hiya Guys!!!

Just dropped in to say I'm missing the forum!😭

🤗

What to do?

Have been having a manic time at work!

Myriad thoughts racing through my mind since yesterday...several interesting facets...some beautiful nuances about human relationships...my favourite playing ground!😃

Can't help but take my reviewer status seriously!😆

Or better still, critic!😛

But on a serious note, have to say

Some really insightful character sketches of 2 beautifully flawed characters

Shravan

AND

Sumo

Wish to have some time on hand to be able to to do adequate justice to my thoughts on the current track...for whatever my thoughts are worth😉😆

Hence, would like to take some time to get back on my musings...

Until then, would just like to leave behind some food for thought...

1. What really is the worth of an orphan child's dreams? What really?

2. "To err is human", even for the most evolved. What does it take then to flip the 'lens', especially if it is a lens loaded with 'baggage'?

3. Unconditional relationships are a rarity in today's day and age. What does it take to realize them, and more importantly hold on to?

This is one of the many reasons i guess we all are watching the show. This show has a propensity to leave us tantalisingly dangling at some unseen, yet not understood vision... whether it be an orphan child's dream to rectify the image of her mother in the eyes of the living, or showing us the mirror not of some perfect ideal society or relationships. And more importantly, asking us to question what do we understand by love. Can it be defined at all? Is it mere give and take?

I think i like the show because it raises multiple perspectives without trying to rationalize them or trying to solve. It is a show of possibilities and potentialities.😃

Hoping to stimulate some good thought-provoking discussions, what with the intellect that our forum is blessed with...

On the aside, since I have begun to don the reviewer's hat rather seriously😆, would like to just comment on the histrionic potential (strictly my take) on our talented duo:

- NAMIK PAUL is EXCEPTIONAL at nuanced emoting...a case in point: his understated 'confrontations' with Khosla are simply BRILLIANT...right from his body language...to the smirks...to those volleys of rebuttals...just reeks of CLASS! But the guy HAS to work on his dialogue delivery cos he seems to do a yo yo quite repeatedly! If he can modulate his voice superbly with just the right touch of softness (read: the concluding ShraMan scene yesterday), he can also come across as plain sermonizing when he spells out facts and figures!(read: Shravan;s reaction to his Dad in the first scene yesterday or some moments during his talk with Mami today). Why do I mention this? 'Cos the guy has this absolutely RARE gift of talking through his EYES...he uses EXPRESSIONS like no other!! 👏👏👏 For somebody who can speak through his silences, this has got to be child's play!😊

Yup, Namik's eyes, his expressions are brilliant, superlative 👏But, I would even like the director to tone down his smirk because that can often mar the productivity of the whole scene. I guess he needs to improve his diction and his eyes convey more than the words he is speaking. This leads to contradiction leading to the problems that you mentioned. Though the Mami scene I liked, I guess this was one of the many reasons I didnt enjoy the father-son scene. It turned out for me more as a ball catching exercise.

But Shravan is superlative in his silent stares and deep expression. Only thing I would prefer, is to reduce his smirk, because at times they do interfere with the gravity of the situation. His voice modulation I like, but diction needs to be improved. And can I state here I love his swagger. He is BOSS🤗

- NIKITA DUTTA is an absolute NATURAL! 👏👏👏 She is BRILLIANT at subtlety, and ACES the difficult art of voice modulation! She has a very good RANGE as well, so what then is her improvement area? She could possibly work a little on getting more consistent with the 'emotional pitch' of her dialogue delivery as well. Case in point - Its the same Nikita who does 'history book' emotional scenes like the ones in Sumo's old house or the "I am sorry" voice modulation moment last week AND it is the same Nikita who did a completely flat "Meri mari hui Ma, Mrs. Priya Tiwari..." scene yesterday! The scene yesterday was extremely powerful...Namik's plethora of expressions as they changed from an inexplicable sense of calm to unsettled were EXTRAORDINARY, Nikita's 'emotional pitch' could have been a notch higher...

Dyotona, that is why I didnt like Sumo in the last scene. Nikita can improve in restrained and subtle performance (barring ofc, traversing the memory lane and saying sorry to Shravan, she was magical) This is again why the park scene which was beautiful for many reasons had its own faults. Nikita's voice modulation was so low-key, it just reduced her pain. In spontaneous, happy scenes, naughty ones.. or as being Sumo.. she is superlative👏. Suman kind of scenes are not her cup of of tea, I guess . 😆The director needs to be careful when he gives these roles to her. She is a good actress... but everyone does have certain problems.

To reiterate, this is entirely my take, not that it's worthy anything😃

I loved your take, as usual.

Can't wait to be back to share my reflections of what I feel about the current track

To summarise, I for one, definitely feel ENRICHED

In my understanding

Of human relationships

Their FRAGILITY, included!

THANK YOU...

Team EDKV

Shravan

Sumo

Namik

Nikita

❤️

Cheers!

DocD