Originally posted by: kar08
I don't think there were any scenes that required them to have chemistry, really. I just felt their performances were outstanding, especially Sajal.
Very true. If you watch Gul-e-Rana thinking it to be a romance story, you will find it off. If you watch it without any such filters, you will see them as these riveting characters. Adeel cannot be redeemed, his self-indulgence has made him weak-willed while Gul-e-Rana's firmness, the core of steel as you put it, is such that she will never love someone as weak as him.
I don't know if you have read Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott, but there the FL, Rose is expected to marry one of her cousins and of the cousins, Charlie, who is the handsomest, is the one everyone thinks she will marry. But he is weak-willed, self-indulgent, an alcoholic, a flirt, a gambler and a rake. But he thinks she will fall for him because he is the bonnie one of the tribe. Adeel and Gul-e-Rana's relationship is like that. Adeel thinks it is natural that she will fall for him not realising that she is judging him based on a very different set of standards where his good looks and wealth mean little. Charlie dies and Rose marries someone very different in character. Gul-e-Rana too deserves someone much much better than Adeel and he knows it by the end of the show.
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