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disclosure: am not on any team - nandini, mouli or kunal. just here for the train wreck factor.
notes: been wanting to post this for a while but then the forum is so serious as we have been discussing the characters. so this post is those who love such details. please don't bring the story or how you feel about the characters (negative or positive) as this is only about clothes, style and other mundane details! 😊
so I started watching silsila rather randomly. finished watching bepannah and basically didn't switch the tv off and the only reason I continued to watch silsila was the sets! 😆 hahahaha... I had no idea what was happening (and didn't care either) but I really liked mouli's house. kekeke.. the lines were clean, very modern and so colourful! it felt very much in tune with her personality as well as her sense of style. and her kurtas and accessories were so perfect for a working woman kind of style.. and even kunal was so well dressed. nandini's blouses were interesting and what I found entertaining was the different colours of the blouses with the sarees. these were not combinations I would have thought of and so kept it in my mental library for reference later! 😆 hahhahah...
and I also liked how nandini's house seemed a reflection of her -- the style was quite ethinic, more close together? but really colourful and well put.
the weird details that made me laugh -- so during the alter ego scene, was really amused that she seemed to sitting in a balcony with trees and grass. I was really confused because I thought that she lived on some top floor and not on ground floor. (I tend to watch half asleep and so I wasn't sure).. and then I thought, maybe it is a rooftop garden types? kekekek...
during mouli's brother-in-law wedding, so mouli's pink skirt was so pretty! and even nandini's skirt was fantastic but then they were actually wearing similar dupatas! pretty much the same flower print but different colours. 😆 kekekek., immediately thought -- did they shop together? and to top it off, they were wearing the same exact jewelry. I was like "what??".. but then the mom shows up and she is also wearing same jewelry. hahahaha... and to top it off, her saree also had those huge flowers print -- so it made me think the stylist just raided the same section of the fabric shop. kekekek...
and in all the scenes that they show kunal and nandini or kunal and mouli put their feet forward, immediately think "ooh kunal has nice feet! pedicure?..would guys do pedicure before a scene like that?" 😆
the other detail that keeps sticking out is how mumbai doesn't seem as crowded. in other serials, mumbai comes across as super crowded and they are always stuck in traffic. not sure where this serial is being filmed but there is hardly any traffic and there's actually greenery outside the window on the drives. I keep thinking "there's trees? green field type places??" are they filming outside mumbai? suburbs?" even the bus stop/confession scene -- have never seen a bus stop that had such less crowd! hahahaha.. guess it was a set?
actually find kunal a pretty sharp dresser and am really glad that he seems to cut his hair! hahahha... was wondering if it is a colours channel thing because the guy in roop (end up catching the last few minutes as I wait for bepannah) is in major need of a haircut! ugh. every time I see him, I am like "please get that man to a hair salon!" 😆
however, am sort of perplexed by the use of pink in all the pivotal scenes in this drama. so the confession scene at bus stop -- he was wearing pink suit while she was wearing blue saree with pink blouse. actually found her combo very interesting and useful for future reference. hahahha.. and then in other passion scene, again, he is wearing pink kurta (which was matching with mouli's skirt) and nandini ends up wearing baby pink saree...
so here's a question -- at least this hasn't stuck out to me as such in other serials (probably because the guys are super boring in terms of style! hahahha...) but here there seems to be a fair amount of colour co-ordination with all the three characters. is it deliberate? usually in movies and songs, it is quite common and it creates a sense of colour unison and is visually pleasing. so is it simply a cinematography kind of angle? do stylists in serials get a memo that they need to colour coordinate for important scenes? anyone have any ideas?
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