*cough* Statutory Warning: I am going to be "ee KAA HAI?" for my thoughts on today's bomb blast waala episode because I am Prophessor Nutan (urf Newton) ke phan.
Chalo, we shall start my musings with:
So the Bomb blast episode starring our phavorite Sita Maiyya ka vardaan and Rajnikanth ka true heir:
Sidenote: What a Jodi though.
I remember one thing, simplicity makes things effective.
To make an IPKKND reference, I love when Khushi fell of the cliff and Arnav was desperate, knowing that he couldn’t fight goons and hold her from falling at the same time - it made the pain more effective than any heroic catch of his.
I loved when Aryan gently wiped the mud off her hands and she gazed at him with her big eyes. Or when she held on to his hand, asking him to not leave while she recovered.
And I’m strangely surprised how unaffected I was by this bomb episode. Have I suddenly lost feelz? Bhere are my pheelj?
Anyways, the reason I am surprised by my own lack of feelz is because on paper this seems like an excellent episode.
Summary: Aryan and Imlie discover a bomb at the base of the trophy their both holding, they both argue for the other person to leave it and run for it, of course neither does, so they both rush out of the building holding it - Aryan realizes imlie won’t leave it so he builds a plan in his head on how he’s going to throw it in the air and save them both. And thus just the way he thought things happen and they’re both saved.
And I couldn’t be more unaffected by two people being safe simply because:
- it’s being constantly hammered how imlie/Aryan end up in life threatening circumstances and how one or the other saves a person 🤷♀️ so now I’m effectively numb and overexposed to them being in life threatening situations
- the amount of monologues Aryan has in his mind. How he mentally monologues that imlie wont leave the trophy so he needs to do some doctor strange thing of seeing how he can leave the trophy.
20 seconds timer, par monologue 2 minute ka....
I swear we all loved watching kabir Khan mentally monologue at the end of chak de because literally we were depending on his thoughts and it was one of the few times he monologued in the film. If Aryan literally spells out everything he thinks - when do I have the time to analyze and absorb the impact of what he has done?
- the death of physics. I know I know if I want to see scientifically accurate things then perhaps I really shouldn’t be watching an Indian television show. And to be honest I don’t care about physics at all. But if you’re showing me that in three seconds you choreograph a spin,
turn the woman around,
slide your hands down her hand,
the bomb being like:
then ek saath throw the bomb in the air at an angle where it feels like the bomb would go up in the sky and fall right in your face.
Side note: I legit felt the bomb is their child and they’re doing kanyadaan.
And then the bomb blasts mid air, with shrapnels and fire all over for ‘aesthetics’ and not one person said that maybe, just maybe Aryan and Imlie should run in the opposite direction after throwing the bomb cause Aryan shielding imlie from shrapnels by just turning his back to the blast will absolutely lead to his death?
Side note: Kaunsi quality ka jacket hai re baba? If Tony Stark wore this then he would've never become Iron-Man.
We literally seeing fire left, right falling across them but not on them. Does Aryan have anti gravity back? Look at the magnitude of the bomb! Does fire not touch them? Was this a fake bomb commissioned by Dev/Advay from IPK3 who knows how to create fire that actually injured no one?
- The jarring music. If only they followed that with a soft moment for the characters to realize they’ve just cheated death but no… we have Jubin blasting into our ears and I feel bad for Fahmaan and Sumbul at this point cause they’re giving such beautiful expressions,
But peeche rhythm waala song chal raha with super on the nose lyrics - reminded me of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata hai. I was ready for the instrumental of Jaaniya - not tabla.
- In precap we have her facing a gun. At this point I don’t even care. Aryan is Rajnikanth ka aulaad and Imlie is Wonder Woman desi version. I’m sure the goons will be in the background while they stylishly survive the bullet. I swear these people are the ones who swayed to the bidaai song in Hum Aapke Hai Kaun cause feelz first, logic second.
Also so much telling, not at all showing. All these episodes are written for a mahaanta contest. Either “none can be a better husband than aryan” or “imlie does what no one else does”
I swear they’ll defeat Akshara and Abhimanyu from YRKKH in mahaanta contest. What drew me to this couple was when Imlie made sure Aryan ate something or when Aryan delivered his one liners to the Chaturvedis. Or when he gently patted her head when he found her sleeping in the hospital room.
Also - I remember this previous reaction to a bomb more powerful than yeh semi Bosco-Caesar dance move they had shown today.
Remember this?
The fright in his eyes, the horror in here, the blood on her clothes, a grip hard enough to break her ribs but protect her at all costs… and above all - a believable physical action. I would grab onto someone the way Aryan does or resist a grip the way Imlie does.
Considering their saviour complexes though (which I now determine as a kink), Aryan and imlie couldn’t be turned on more than this bomb scene cause they were literally saving each other’s butt every other second. Matlab Savior Kink on max mode. Maybe one day their suhaagraat issi main hoga.
"Can save me from a trainwreck? Heck yea" *removes clothes and applies bandage to suhaagraat hai ghoongat utha raha hoon main*
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