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note: wtf stands for weekend thoughts feature. i can't help it if you thought otherwise. 😊
i guess this weekend the only glaring thought is that prem could be no more. what is interesting here is how it has happened. and i wrote this in the bt,lt of 1 oct: the character of prem has been the victim of a totally random act!
1. think 'bout it: usually, there is a villain or a reason that the character is in danger. a brother in the business who hates him. (or since this is balaji telefilms, it's the mother! i used to be so mad at kavyanjali 'cause it had the perfect villain mother! 😆) here, prem has no real enemies -- ratpal (mr. rishab rampal to those who are new here) hates the junejas or lalit juneja more than prem. dirtchachi (mrs. daljeet maan to those who are new here) has not shown any tendency to murder. she just wants to have heer and meher out of her life.
so prem's death/removal had to come from some reason outside of the story as we know it.
2. i thought the sanjana track was being started to achieve this. but that didn't go anywhere. (did anyone else think that those flashbacks were a just screen test to see how good hc and that girl playing sanjana looked together? personally, i didn't think they were too great -- but then, i really think i can't see beyond the beauty of prem-heer anyway... so only an idiot would pick me as the judge of this question! 😆)
instead, the story used the randomness of a terrorist attack to "remove prem". personally, i thought it was more beautiful to use this situation instead of the (more boring) old girlfriend-haunting-prem track. prem could not possibly have had any old girlfriends -- 'cause prem-heer are one, of course. have been and will be forever after. and with prem in the middle of a bomb attack, we get the senselessness of a terrorist act in full technicolour, with all the horror and the meaning right in our faces.
3. d'you know what i thought was the most striking part of 2 oct? when they had ended 1 oct, prem was at the peak of who we know him to be: the perfect son who knows what his mother would love for a sari, the perfect brother who hasn't forgotten his sisters in the same purchase, the perfect lover who tries and tries to get through to his heer. and when he can't, he doesn't waste time but apologises to her in a voice-call. is fully honest and opens upto her about his fears. re-iterating that he loves her in every way possible.
when they started 2 oct, prem was ... a victim of a terrorist attack. the prem they had coming back to consciousness, the one that came back to his feet, the one in shock and in pain and in fear. he was no longer the prem that we knew as prem-heer. he was just .. prem. yet another person whose ... "astitva" had been violated by a senseless act of hatred and destruction. i was not thinking of prem the lover when i saw prem the shattered. he was just another person hurt. needing help. it was only afterwards, when he is aware of himself, and knows that he has really lost his chance at life, that he comes back to being prem juneja - a shattered and desperate version of the one that we saw on 9/11, beautiful, strong, wanting his heer badly enough to capture her in a room with low light and kiss her. 😭 the contrast was so stark that i couldn't even think they were the same people... 😭
as i thought about it later, i was really struck at all these things. and i thought it was totally brilliant. kudos to the team for that first segment. 👏
4. of course, the question is: now that they've started this - a death, coming from a totally random cause - what are they planning to achieve with it? confession time: deep down inside, i have a sneaking sympathy with the story writers. i have always wondered how they are going to keep prem perfect. it's easy when you are at the start of the love story - in the wooing, in the seducing, in the winning, in some of the keeping. but when you have to show forever after in a story of prem-heer-are-one where there always has to be prem-heer in it? how will prem (and his heer) remain perfect? and i was cringing thinking about it, thinking that at some point or the other they're gonna make prem do something that moves away from perfection. i was actually glad when they said heer is going to die, and they showed prem killing himself too -- we'd all have been thinking 'bout how perfect prem and his heer and their love was even today.
instead, that silly laluchacha had been dreaming it all. and we are today facing the possibility of a heer without prem. not perfect. 😡 who may not even be able to kill herself because she has the responsibility of keeping prem's family alive and working. that now falls on her. 'cause prem-heer are one. remember what she said: "if you were made for me, i was made for you. whatever role you had to play in sanjana's death, i had a part in it too. whatever burden you have, i have too." so only once she is certain that prem's family are okay, can she do what she might want to do. because prem's been taken away by a random act, she doesn't even have the reason to take revenge or something to keep going. it really is going to be all about fulfilling prem's obligations.
5. the only thing that i don't think fits between "prem killing himself when he finds heer dead" and "heer staying alive for the sake of prem's family" is that: prem was willing to forsake his family and their happiness when he found that heer was dead. but heer will not do the same? so heer's actually a more perfect person than prem?
6. a cool story line might be one where heer stays alive just now, works quietly and patiently, solving all the little juneja problems, gets everyone on track with their lives, looks around to make sure that it's moving on nicely and then decides it's time to quit. 'cause prem and heer are one. prem cannot be without his heer -- he said so on the phone. then, how can he enter heaven without her? he will wait for her before they can do it together. she will have to join him before he can. unless...
7. they do decide to make this a ghost story or a reincarnation story -- which hasn't been done in a daily soap before? i don't mean the plastic surgery kind. i mean the ... uh ... real kind 😆 where there are spirits and gods who grant wishes to get husbands back, kind of thing. gee, maybe this show will have some crossover from the mahabharat team! 😆
8. which brings me to my last thought: there was a movie called "the last temptation of christ" many years ago. totally freaky movie. why? because the whole movie was about someone (who is about to be killed) in the moment of his death imagining what would happen if he could be granted his wish to live. the whole movie was just that. so we get to see what he would do with his life, how he would get married, have kids. but then as he is living life, we get to see that it is not so idyllic as it sounds, and that he has to deal with problems. which are really horrible. and then! we are brought back to the moment of his death! where he has the chance to get his wish granted. and he chooses not to live but to die instead!
of course, with prem, we would be shown him imagining what would happen if he died. and all the mess that would follow. and then we come back to the moment of prem's death - and he is so horrified by all that's happening that he fights to live!
cool, na? it's never gonna happen, na? 😆 ya, i think so too. the balaji telefilms team will never do something like this! so i guess we go back to waiting and watching? 😆
i guess this weekend the only glaring thought is that prem could be no more. what is interesting here is how it has happened. and i wrote this in the bt,lt of 1 oct: the character of prem has been the victim of a totally random act!
1. think 'bout it: usually, there is a villain or a reason that the character is in danger. a brother in the business who hates him. (or since this is balaji telefilms, it's the mother! i used to be so mad at kavyanjali 'cause it had the perfect villain mother! 😆) here, prem has no real enemies -- ratpal (mr. rishab rampal to those who are new here) hates the junejas or lalit juneja more than prem. dirtchachi (mrs. daljeet maan to those who are new here) has not shown any tendency to murder. she just wants to have heer and meher out of her life.
so prem's death/removal had to come from some reason outside of the story as we know it.
2. i thought the sanjana track was being started to achieve this. but that didn't go anywhere. (did anyone else think that those flashbacks were a just screen test to see how good hc and that girl playing sanjana looked together? personally, i didn't think they were too great -- but then, i really think i can't see beyond the beauty of prem-heer anyway... so only an idiot would pick me as the judge of this question! 😆)
instead, the story used the randomness of a terrorist attack to "remove prem". personally, i thought it was more beautiful to use this situation instead of the (more boring) old girlfriend-haunting-prem track. prem could not possibly have had any old girlfriends -- 'cause prem-heer are one, of course. have been and will be forever after. and with prem in the middle of a bomb attack, we get the senselessness of a terrorist act in full technicolour, with all the horror and the meaning right in our faces.
3. d'you know what i thought was the most striking part of 2 oct? when they had ended 1 oct, prem was at the peak of who we know him to be: the perfect son who knows what his mother would love for a sari, the perfect brother who hasn't forgotten his sisters in the same purchase, the perfect lover who tries and tries to get through to his heer. and when he can't, he doesn't waste time but apologises to her in a voice-call. is fully honest and opens upto her about his fears. re-iterating that he loves her in every way possible.
when they started 2 oct, prem was ... a victim of a terrorist attack. the prem they had coming back to consciousness, the one that came back to his feet, the one in shock and in pain and in fear. he was no longer the prem that we knew as prem-heer. he was just .. prem. yet another person whose ... "astitva" had been violated by a senseless act of hatred and destruction. i was not thinking of prem the lover when i saw prem the shattered. he was just another person hurt. needing help. it was only afterwards, when he is aware of himself, and knows that he has really lost his chance at life, that he comes back to being prem juneja - a shattered and desperate version of the one that we saw on 9/11, beautiful, strong, wanting his heer badly enough to capture her in a room with low light and kiss her. 😭 the contrast was so stark that i couldn't even think they were the same people... 😭
as i thought about it later, i was really struck at all these things. and i thought it was totally brilliant. kudos to the team for that first segment. 👏
4. of course, the question is: now that they've started this - a death, coming from a totally random cause - what are they planning to achieve with it? confession time: deep down inside, i have a sneaking sympathy with the story writers. i have always wondered how they are going to keep prem perfect. it's easy when you are at the start of the love story - in the wooing, in the seducing, in the winning, in some of the keeping. but when you have to show forever after in a story of prem-heer-are-one where there always has to be prem-heer in it? how will prem (and his heer) remain perfect? and i was cringing thinking about it, thinking that at some point or the other they're gonna make prem do something that moves away from perfection. i was actually glad when they said heer is going to die, and they showed prem killing himself too -- we'd all have been thinking 'bout how perfect prem and his heer and their love was even today.
instead, that silly laluchacha had been dreaming it all. and we are today facing the possibility of a heer without prem. not perfect. 😡 who may not even be able to kill herself because she has the responsibility of keeping prem's family alive and working. that now falls on her. 'cause prem-heer are one. remember what she said: "if you were made for me, i was made for you. whatever role you had to play in sanjana's death, i had a part in it too. whatever burden you have, i have too." so only once she is certain that prem's family are okay, can she do what she might want to do. because prem's been taken away by a random act, she doesn't even have the reason to take revenge or something to keep going. it really is going to be all about fulfilling prem's obligations.
5. the only thing that i don't think fits between "prem killing himself when he finds heer dead" and "heer staying alive for the sake of prem's family" is that: prem was willing to forsake his family and their happiness when he found that heer was dead. but heer will not do the same? so heer's actually a more perfect person than prem?
6. a cool story line might be one where heer stays alive just now, works quietly and patiently, solving all the little juneja problems, gets everyone on track with their lives, looks around to make sure that it's moving on nicely and then decides it's time to quit. 'cause prem and heer are one. prem cannot be without his heer -- he said so on the phone. then, how can he enter heaven without her? he will wait for her before they can do it together. she will have to join him before he can. unless...
7. they do decide to make this a ghost story or a reincarnation story -- which hasn't been done in a daily soap before? i don't mean the plastic surgery kind. i mean the ... uh ... real kind 😆 where there are spirits and gods who grant wishes to get husbands back, kind of thing. gee, maybe this show will have some crossover from the mahabharat team! 😆
8. which brings me to my last thought: there was a movie called "the last temptation of christ" many years ago. totally freaky movie. why? because the whole movie was about someone (who is about to be killed) in the moment of his death imagining what would happen if he could be granted his wish to live. the whole movie was just that. so we get to see what he would do with his life, how he would get married, have kids. but then as he is living life, we get to see that it is not so idyllic as it sounds, and that he has to deal with problems. which are really horrible. and then! we are brought back to the moment of his death! where he has the chance to get his wish granted. and he chooses not to live but to die instead!
of course, with prem, we would be shown him imagining what would happen if he died. and all the mess that would follow. and then we come back to the moment of prem's death - and he is so horrified by all that's happening that he fights to live!
cool, na? it's never gonna happen, na? 😆 ya, i think so too. the balaji telefilms team will never do something like this! so i guess we go back to waiting and watching? 😆
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