Hey, beautiful analysis, I felt the same, kudos to the actors for their nuanced acting👏
When meerab said kuch din ki sukoon it was hollow, because she was disappointed when murtasim didn't tell her his return date. IMO he deliberately didnt tell because he wanted to test the waters.
Agree the writing has gone down afterwards, probably due to the drag owing to the makers' desire to cash in on the popularity of TB.
Originally posted by: hypnotoad
Here was my comment, which I had posted in response to Gundam's post before.
In the script, Merub's motivation was one-note: Merub hates doing hisaab kitaab and she jumps on the excuse to escape more work MB wants to give her by going with MK to the gaon. Any other actor would have just acted it out as if there is only one character motivation - same as in the text.
But Yumna's expressions suggest that maybe Merub has another unspoken motivation for going to the gaon. When MK says his good bye, her expressions indicate that she is affected and it is dawning on her that she does not want him to be away from her for so many days. So she jumps up to say that I will go to the gaon too.
And that is what had us hooked to MeMu in those early episodes. The spoken vs unspoken. What MeMu say vs what they feel. Merub verbally tells him in an earlier scene in that episode she is glad he is going away but her expressions in this scene show us her (unspoken) feelings and they say otherwise.
It is how viewers like us charted their relationship progress. That fine, Merub is dheet so she won't admit her growing bond with MK but her expressions suggest that aag udhar bhi lag rahi hai.
I believe none of this arc, layering, nuance and depth was in the script EVER. That is why later episodes made us feel baffled and annoyed why Merub is being so inconsistent since our interpretation of Merub was based as much on what we saw MeMu DO not just SAY in earlier episodes. But, great acting can only take you so far if the script is so lacking and hollow. At least, they had a great run until E23 which is more than I can say for many PTV dramas.
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