Originally posted by: naadanmasakalli
Yayy glad you enjoyednit..i did too as I told you in the other chat that human spirit was just beautiful to see and one cannot help but get emotional and feel the compassion and empathy. They really did a great job on keeping the focus on the emotional part the unity the fears the loss the tribute đź‘Ź it overall really was a well-made show that one can really not care about say the low production values esp given the situations they were dealing with in real ab iss Era mainb5hey managed itna bhi is a victory to create all that setup for a night it did feel like a horrifying never ending night and that too is a win to make us feel the dread time being slower the misery drawn out which it has been over decades and still not over for the survivors.
I have seen the parts of this chat on Twitter and really enjoyed listening to them and their takes..baabil ka admiration amd appreciation for Kay Kay was so aww esp given the kind of work Irfan and Kay Kay have done they had a similar path as actors itnwasbbeautiful the way baabil said he didn't even felt his daddy is nomore shooting with Kay Kay.. how he was so giving also was enjoying them tease juhi idk if in this or another one ke aapne kab shoot Kia mystery toh woh hai
Though I do feel baabil needs to bring some restrain and get some.composurw he gets really hyper at times I feel when speaking so passionately ajeeb lagta hai when he actually does have a tehraav as an actor on screen
Oh I deffo liked it yaar.....the treatment of the series was very natural and close to real-life....they didn't show any grand hero-giri from anyone.....like you could totally believe them as everyday people who stepped up in a moment of crisis and you can see the choices they all struggled with as the night unfolded. The way they built up the dread of the gas leak....as you realize just how close to the factory so many of them live and once the gas leaks, the way they all literally start dropping like flies....it's horrifying to watch.
In the post Covid era, all this hits even harder cuz now we live in a world of such instant communication that we get a real time sense of what that must be like when people are dying in mass batches over something you feel helpless in front of.....and to think that was a time when there wasn't even much communication or news. I asked my parents about it too and they said the same thing that Juhi and all were saying that no one even heard much about this when it happened in real time and no one had any idea the death toll was actually this high.....the news was suppressed for various reasons and no one really had an idea about the magnitude of this tragedy.....it literally happened in the CENTER of the country....lol Madhya Pradesh is smack in the center of India and most of India didn't even know what happened there....amazing.
The director meticulously addressed so many different parts from the corporate negligence/coverup to the negligence at the factory as well.....the bechara local journalist trying to find proof but still being thwarted in the end cuz of a loophole....
I loved what the cast said about wanting to do this to put a spotlight on an often overlooked group in India - the Railway employees who literally connect almost every part of India in this expansive rail network.....how they all stepped up that day when they could have chosen to only think of themselves.....how they chose to run TOWARDS the problem to solve it rather than running away to save themselves.....heroes without trying to be heroic about it......it showed in all the little things that ended up making such a huge difference.....the employee who managed to use the detonators at the last minute to get the Gorakhpur express to slow down otherwise it would have crashed into the engine at the platform....Babil managing to switch the tracks at the last minute or the two trains would have crashed into each other....everyone was just literally trying to do whatever they could manage in the moment without thinking of their own lives.
Even the moral conflicts were shown so well with Divendu's character and his struggle about whether to get on the train and leave for himself but then seeing KK's character literally fighting till his last breath to save everyone also making Divendu do the same......man that scene when they think they've loaded everyone on to the train and are about to leave but the bus of pilgrims arrives who are then trying to rush onto the train - you get goosebumps literally over the sense of despair those guys must be feeling about how to save everyone, how to get them on the train when there's barely any space left.....all this is happening while people are still just dropping like flies on inhaling the gas also.....phewww it's so overwhelming to watch, can't even imagine how people lived through it.
And I was amazed to learn that they actually got like 1000-2000 extras to make the crowds look realistic....it isn't CGI....that was actually all extras jostling each other around in the crowds on the station. YRF did spend on the production....just that they didn't go for building a grand set and tried to keep it more grounded and close to the actual visuals as they showed in the ending credits also.
Edited by AreYaar - 2 years ago
and what a cute story of the band.. basically on loop
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