I've seen very little itv but from that little, I've garnered that such scenes are usually dragged and too long. With the truck coming. Still coming. And coming. And then maybe in an episode or two it reaches the protagonist at which point every viewer knows how it will conclude. Backed up by ridiculous background music, the scenes are never alarming or scary.
Yesterday the truck scene was scary. The way it seemed to come out of nowhere. The way it all happened so fast, the way it was so realistic...my heart jumped at that point and all i was thinking was "wait the segments show that aditya is fine, he's not gonna get hurt is he??" And that is how these scenes should be shot. Sudden and quick so that the viewers are actually shocked. Not an hour long scene with the camera showing the truck, the protagonist, the truck driver, the other protagonist by which point the viewers are like "just get it over with already"
And then there was waseem. I got the chills in his scene. The way it was shot was so good. When the man he is talking to reminds him that his daughter will get hurt, waseem is cool as a cucumber and then when he says "jaanta hoon. Pichli dafa bhi sambhal liya tha iss dafa bhi sambhal loon ha" I felt a tingling down my spine. That cold, dead look when he says that. There was no moment where he smiled in a evil way or gave a lot of expressions. He was in that moment a cold man dead to all emotions. Reminded me of an assasin. That was some excellent acting on his part. And then and roshnaq calls him, there was no "looking around with an obviously guilty face and abruptly ending the call and trying to act as normal"
And of course Jennifer Winget was perfect. Her panic was so palpable. In a few seconds she perfectly acted out the part of someone who just had everything given to them, only for it to be almost taken away in the next moment. It was very well done.
Zoya is a character who does not say much unlike aditya. Aditya is very verbal but zoya says a few words that deliver the same impact. Yesterday was such an example. Aditya proposes and does so beautifully. And then zoya says just one line "hum kabhi alag nahee houn gai kyuunkai aesa honay sai humari jaan chali jaye gii" (something like that) it was one sentence yet it was enough.