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*(Written in the first flush of that stupendous episode. I was too spent to post it last night, but here it is, still making sense to me, after a night and a second viewing!)
I am sitting here in front of my laptop. My hands are shaking. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to think.
First I am thinking of the CVs - these people who can take you- the viewer- up a swirling upward vortex of emotion and just let you free-fall till all the air from your lungs and stomach has left you and you are left with a mass of churning feelings and nerves - shall I think of these people as cruel or genius?
Then, I think of Arhaan... or is that Krishna? Is there a difference left? When a actor can just give himself like that - body, heart, soul to a character, then does the character begin to own him? Do the boundary lines begin to blur? Because I cannot tell you distinctly who has my heart today - Arhaan or Krishna. The beauty of the portrait or the mastery of the artist - what actually affects us? It is when we can't decide we know we have encountered a rare kind of magic.
Then I think of Pratigya, wonderful, strong, spontaneous, loving Pratigya. A woman who can hear anguish when she hears the click of the gun being cocked. A woman who has been through hell and abuse, violation and violence, but is still capable of feeling empathy over fear. Finds love in the lowest of moments and thinks nothing of accepting it, acknowledging it, and expressing it. Who is this woman - fool or perfect?
Then the Thakurs - let me shudder first. These are human beings. I say this aloud so that I may believe it. They say that such people exist. In fact that they are abysmally common. That evil is the reality in some lives, in many lands?
But how do you deal with evil? How do you deal with this reality?
Do you tell yourself that it is all around you, very common, hence normal, and try your damnedest to survive, skirt around it, ignore it, submit to it, or become it?
Or do you decide that enough is enough? That things ought not to be this way, that there is a righter way, that it is the will to have it different that is the first step on the path? That the courage to fail is your only weapon? That sometimes your only option is to fight?
I have a feeling that this show, with its heart, gut and mind firmly aligned, with its genius creatives, its consummate actors, and its extraordinary narrative will lead us to some answers.
The most thunderous applause from my still-shaking hands! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I am sitting here in front of my laptop. My hands are shaking. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to think.
First I am thinking of the CVs - these people who can take you- the viewer- up a swirling upward vortex of emotion and just let you free-fall till all the air from your lungs and stomach has left you and you are left with a mass of churning feelings and nerves - shall I think of these people as cruel or genius?
Then, I think of Arhaan... or is that Krishna? Is there a difference left? When a actor can just give himself like that - body, heart, soul to a character, then does the character begin to own him? Do the boundary lines begin to blur? Because I cannot tell you distinctly who has my heart today - Arhaan or Krishna. The beauty of the portrait or the mastery of the artist - what actually affects us? It is when we can't decide we know we have encountered a rare kind of magic.
Then I think of Pratigya, wonderful, strong, spontaneous, loving Pratigya. A woman who can hear anguish when she hears the click of the gun being cocked. A woman who has been through hell and abuse, violation and violence, but is still capable of feeling empathy over fear. Finds love in the lowest of moments and thinks nothing of accepting it, acknowledging it, and expressing it. Who is this woman - fool or perfect?
Then the Thakurs - let me shudder first. These are human beings. I say this aloud so that I may believe it. They say that such people exist. In fact that they are abysmally common. That evil is the reality in some lives, in many lands?
But how do you deal with evil? How do you deal with this reality?
Do you tell yourself that it is all around you, very common, hence normal, and try your damnedest to survive, skirt around it, ignore it, submit to it, or become it?
Or do you decide that enough is enough? That things ought not to be this way, that there is a righter way, that it is the will to have it different that is the first step on the path? That the courage to fail is your only weapon? That sometimes your only option is to fight?
I have a feeling that this show, with its heart, gut and mind firmly aligned, with its genius creatives, its consummate actors, and its extraordinary narrative will lead us to some answers.
The most thunderous applause from my still-shaking hands! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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