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So this weekend was overall not as bad as I feared. I was actually able to enjoy the episodes ... mostly
Ok still not happy with the return on Mehak but she is serving a purpose now. I prefer her as an amoral assassin (anyone note how she killed the guard at the ashram, one quick click to break his neck & job done). How many people has she killed in the course of this show? Swami, the policeman, her legal husband, assassin, random guard...?
Despite the Mrs Burman remark & treating her as a partner, I find Dev's comments to her definitely ambiguous eg "nothing less than a dream for me that you're back" when she asked about their future in the car. Someone correct me if I have missed something, but he is definitely not making any promises to her or commenting on their future.
On the other hand he has been very tender & considerate of Meera. throughout the Saturday episode. Was it my imagination or did he avoid mentioning the police raid in front of Mehak?
I get the impression he is playing her along to get to the purpose. The CVs have portrayed Dev as a highly moral ethical person who says killing is wrong again & again. I cannot believe he will betray his principles for a murdering adulteress no matter how much he had loved her. he knows she is very dangerous.
She keeps trying to convince him ("I will not leave you again") but it seems strangely as if he is playing with a dangerous animal and taking it away from the people he cares about and using her to break the Swami Agnesh's power.
In the voice over at the beginning of Saturday's episode the Mehak narrator is back, saying "us ne meri baat pe vishwas kar liya (he believed what I told him). That phrase hints at deception again.
I think we may have been underestimating the writers here. This is not last minute re-writes, it takes too long to organize actors & sets for the Adopttiva father and the ashram drama. It was pre-planned. Where the CVs have gone wrong is in the fairly abrupt shift between the first few episodes and dragging the Vaani/Mehak sympathy episodes for so long, the loverboy persona - which clashes with our feel for the character of Dev -the nauseating Jalti Jawani scenes which should have been toned down. If they had laid more hints of Dev's awareness of her fakeness it would have been less jarring. But then less suspense...
Meera's comment: Tum ne iss Dev ko kahan chhupa ke rakha thha? is another clue for me. There seems to be layers of meaning in that. Notice how he tucks up his father with Meera not Mehak. On a side note, how charming Sumona looked in the scene where they're all on the sofa. Such a lovely smile!
I am still going to enjoy the rest of the journey, and if I am disappointed I will not take it to heart. I will appreciate the good moments the writers and actors of Dev especially Ashish, Sumona, Amit, Zohra Appa Avi, Abdul and last but not least sweet Madhu. even Pooja is good in her way, decorative certainly. Its a shame we could not appreciate her more as we saw a bit too much of her.
The writers have been unusually subtle and low key and put in so many fine touches that sometimes we cannot see them especially when you have the overwhelming glamourama of Vaani Mehak and the baroque laal ishq business. There was a loss of balance there.
I'll leave you with my mother's thoughts on Mehak: She's decieving him & leading him into trouble.
Ok still not happy with the return on Mehak but she is serving a purpose now. I prefer her as an amoral assassin (anyone note how she killed the guard at the ashram, one quick click to break his neck & job done). How many people has she killed in the course of this show? Swami, the policeman, her legal husband, assassin, random guard...?
Despite the Mrs Burman remark & treating her as a partner, I find Dev's comments to her definitely ambiguous eg "nothing less than a dream for me that you're back" when she asked about their future in the car. Someone correct me if I have missed something, but he is definitely not making any promises to her or commenting on their future.
On the other hand he has been very tender & considerate of Meera. throughout the Saturday episode. Was it my imagination or did he avoid mentioning the police raid in front of Mehak?
I get the impression he is playing her along to get to the purpose. The CVs have portrayed Dev as a highly moral ethical person who says killing is wrong again & again. I cannot believe he will betray his principles for a murdering adulteress no matter how much he had loved her. he knows she is very dangerous.
She keeps trying to convince him ("I will not leave you again") but it seems strangely as if he is playing with a dangerous animal and taking it away from the people he cares about and using her to break the Swami Agnesh's power.
In the voice over at the beginning of Saturday's episode the Mehak narrator is back, saying "us ne meri baat pe vishwas kar liya (he believed what I told him). That phrase hints at deception again.
I think we may have been underestimating the writers here. This is not last minute re-writes, it takes too long to organize actors & sets for the Adopttiva father and the ashram drama. It was pre-planned. Where the CVs have gone wrong is in the fairly abrupt shift between the first few episodes and dragging the Vaani/Mehak sympathy episodes for so long, the loverboy persona - which clashes with our feel for the character of Dev -the nauseating Jalti Jawani scenes which should have been toned down. If they had laid more hints of Dev's awareness of her fakeness it would have been less jarring. But then less suspense...
Meera's comment: Tum ne iss Dev ko kahan chhupa ke rakha thha? is another clue for me. There seems to be layers of meaning in that. Notice how he tucks up his father with Meera not Mehak. On a side note, how charming Sumona looked in the scene where they're all on the sofa. Such a lovely smile!
I am still going to enjoy the rest of the journey, and if I am disappointed I will not take it to heart. I will appreciate the good moments the writers and actors of Dev especially Ashish, Sumona, Amit, Zohra Appa Avi, Abdul and last but not least sweet Madhu. even Pooja is good in her way, decorative certainly. Its a shame we could not appreciate her more as we saw a bit too much of her.
The writers have been unusually subtle and low key and put in so many fine touches that sometimes we cannot see them especially when you have the overwhelming glamourama of Vaani Mehak and the baroque laal ishq business. There was a loss of balance there.
I'll leave you with my mother's thoughts on Mehak: She's decieving him & leading him into trouble.
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