Reemz...trust you to come up with just the topic I wanted to see up here today...🤗
Like you, it took me a while to gather my wits after that scene. This has got to be one of the most beautiful sequences ever conceptualised and captured on DMG. And one of the most heart-wrenching too. I'm not the kind to shed tears too easily, but today was a whole other level when it came to the amount of emotion packed into those few entirely silent moments. The boards, I'm sure by the time my reply goes up alot of people will have expressed their responses to the whole idea. And I'm no different. Moved me to tears, it did. One of those times I was nudging myself inwardly that it's a show for heaven's sake...but I suppose that hardly matters, eh? Because that's the power of that scene. That's the power of silence. The power of unspoken but deeply felt love, in its purest, most heartfelt form...
All the boards were beautiful, but one highlight for me was the time when Armaan unveiled the 'Promise me that you will keep smiling' placard. The way he raised his eyes to meet hers with a smile on his face...like he was prompting that smile on hers too, in keeping with the promise. And then the way he raised his hand to mime a smile on her lips, to draw it out of her even through her tears...I'm running out of words here, somebody help...!!
If I have any regrets at all, or a little extra tug on the heart-strings, shall we say...is when they denied themselves that final hug. Both of them denied it, she stepped back, and he stalled midway. He saw her and understood why she stepped back, in the same moment. And that "ja rahe ho..." Kill me already...I still keep getting that sense of Riddhima denying one reality for another. She's married, that's real enough. But this other thing is real too. This other thing invisibly wrapped around two figures listening to the silence, soaking in it. Sigh...wonder where this is headed, really. But right now, the moment is what matters, and I'd rather bask in its sublimity, future storyline be damned...
I'm in love with AR all over again. I'm in love with Love!
Sorry for the rant Reemz, and Cheers! 😊
Edited by nandinidev - 15 years ago