Originally posted by: ajacob31
(my original post):
this is why we need live wire type emotional drama. for some reason, the makers are obsessed with keeping scenes muted and that only highlights more the lack of flow. I would rather take high live wire drama because I would at least not fall asleep.
so here is what I think the makers were trying to do:
1. katha thinks she is over the one night stand because she compartmentalized it and also made peace with viaan
2. because she thinks she is over it, she thinks she is okay to take part in committee and agrees.
3. however, during the process, she starts to be reminded of what happened and starts to experience a volley of deep emotions. she is experiencing contrasting emotions that is leaving her more and more confused. she looks at viaan and she does not know what she is supposed to feel. she is scared and overwhelmed
this is what we should have been shown - then her being biased would have made more sense from an emotional perspective. instead, it is always muted and she just stares into space and we are just supposed to deduce how she feels and feel for her position. 🙄🙄🙄
(ajacob31)
It’s not coming across this way at all… If she’s so righteous, shouldn’t she be stepping down from the committee. It comes out as if she herself thinks she’s right for the role and make a neutral decision even if she’s having so many negative thoughts about Viaan.
yup, it is not coming across that way at all which is why we are having a disconnect. katha should be having internal conflict and other than her initially talking to neeraji, we don't see anything of her thoughts. so rather than showing how she is all over the place, it looks like she is being self-righteous.
this is high live wire type situation. we should be on the edge of our seat worrying about what will happen to viaan just like ehsaan is. however, I feel detached. actually I thought a few times whether to put off watching the episodes and this has been my mood every day this week.
viaan is in the fight for his life in some ways. this isn't some small matter. his honour and integrity is questioned and there will be ripple effects for life in all aspects of his personal and professional life. so this isn't the type to have subtle and muted scenes. it needs to be emotional and we need to feel the urgency. without EK type techniques, a simple way to do that is to have that kind of melodramatic music which adds those feelings.
am not having enough music knowledge to explain myself well but world over, we can recognize happy music, easy listening, sad music and high voltage type music and we don't need to know the lyrics or the culture or the context of the scene. we can tell just by the notes, the spaces between the music notes (speed) and how the instruments are played. the music they have chosen feels easy listening music -- reminds me of walk in the hills after the rains -- type mood. it is not emotionally dramatic. there are no ups and downs and no speeding up and slowing down -- it needs to convey an internal battle. when we have that kind of background music, we immediately feel the drama.
you can have softer more easy type listening music but you still need those ups and downs to convey drama. then that creates a more melo feel. that is missing. if we had that, then we would know how difficult this is for katha without even hearing her thoughts. we can't have subtle muted scenes with music that sounds like quiet time mood. subtle muted romance works when it is set in the middle of the storm -- that makes it more dramatic.
am thinking of BGMs like these that add drama....
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