Commentator's note: I am writing my analysis impromptu...so bear with me for not constructing it into any parlance.
Breaking the Boundaries When two people want to be together, there are so many things that come in between. Society, family, past, ego, their own intelligence. But the only thing that can overpower all these elements is the deepest abiding faith that someone is yours and that you are theirs. No words can explain that feeling. Distance might separate. Destiny might draw lines. Dragons might tear it apart. Delusion might divide. BUT the deepest of faith that resides in one's heart burns the candle of hope. The hope that even if the whole universe combines together as one weapon, as one enemy, as one negative force, nothing can separate you from the one who you are united to as one being, one entity, one power.
The Tao Maan and Geet are Yin/Yang kismet pairs--one cannot be without the other. When talking in terms of energy and matter, energy can't exist without matter, and matter can't exist unless it has energy to keep its structure. There are no rigid borders between Yin and Yang and they rely on each other to be true. Imagine if there is no earth, then the word sky becomes meaningless.
Yin is earth, female, dark, passive, and absorbing; it is present in even numbers and in valleys and streams and is represented by the tiger, the color orange, and a broken line. Yang is heaven, male, light, active, and penetrating; it is present in odd numbers and mountains and is represented by the dragon, the color azure, and an unbroken line. Together they express the interdependence of opposites.
Spiritual Oneness Water flows only down not up. Rain drops fall only down, never up. Springs sprout forth only up. That is the balance. When one pulls back the other reels in. Someone has to act for someone to react. Someone has to oppose for someone to break and enter. This then is the duality in the cosmos that every relationship whether it is human or non-human depends on.
Surrendering Oneself One has to surrender oneself to the union. As long as we are seeped in individuality, bodily though there might be two dual entities, we are still at war with our internal exchange with our core. As long as the core and the shell are not united and become one, the integral union of the being does not float externally.
For Maan and Geet, both have to surrender to their inner spirit that is calling for their union as that will complete them.
Analysis of the Episode on a Daily Rote Script: Excellent tightly bound script for yesterday's episode. And I am gonna give kudos to the script writer for opening up another facet in the characterization, that is of Nainatara's character.
Even an evil person has a heart. Even a person prone to evil can lose their trust and be betrayed. Even a evil person can be hurt and injured. Even one prone to evil deeds can be innocent at times.
This proves the adage that one is not born evil but only becomes evil or becomes a victim of evil or becomes Satan's chosen one. There are no Number 8 children with Omen written on them.
Here what the reality is and what Naintara believes may be are different. But look at it from her view. Being a married woman, she finds her husband is kicked out of his house, had become a juwaari, lost money, she spends her money on him then she tries to find a means to an end to get her husband out of problems and debt.
The method she chose to secure him and settle him out of debt is WRONG, but not the effort behind it or the idea behind it that for his peace of mind, she decides to play a part in duping another woman. Who does she do it FOR? For the man she purportedly married no matter for whatever reason.
But did the man live up to her or stay true to her? Nope!
In that lies the irony of Naintara's situation.
The Script writer excellently grabbed Naintara's pain at that final straw where her complete trust and faith in the relationship is broken when she realized that Dev spoke of her to Dadima. That was the final straw in the ever growing evidence against Dev that he never cared for her.
Here are the list of evidence in her support:
1) The guy was in debt. Fine!
2) She proposed a plan of his second marriage! Fine! Did he have to agree? Is he a bloody yo-yo doll who says "YES MAAM" "THANK YOU MAAM"? NO!
And why did it come to such a state where she had to find a solution to his problem? And that too such a drastic solution? Did he lose his marbles? Is he senile?
Any man in his shoes, would have chosen to solve it on his own by working at the docks, sweeping the floors, washing cars or selling groceries. BUT NO! Dev wanted an easy way out. And she provided it with her convoluted thinking and logic. DId he have to ACCEPT IT? Did she FORCE him into it? NO! He accepted it with the least resistance!
3) Conning Geet and romancing her/sleeping with her thereby betraying both Geet and Naintara
What did Dev do? Romance Geet knowing that she was young, vulnerable and innocent. He deliberately set out to romance her despite knowing he was going to deceive her. He could not keep his pe**er down. He abused that relationship. And he thought he got a sanction from Naintara because she allowed the marriage to Geet in the first place as a license to violate the sanctity of his marriage to NT as well as violate a young, chaste, innocent girl. What sort of a cad does that!
4) He abandons Geet at the airport.
Knowing that he had not used protection, the idiot should have thought of the resultant from his actions of abusing Geet, but no! NT comes to know of Geet's pregnancy. She feels betrayed, the only thing she thinks of as a fire-fighting mechanism is to ask Geet to abort the child and send the same message to her family. She wanted to contain the damage from further spreading because of Dev's actions.
5) Dev does not want to be responsible for his actions. He just wants to take whatever he can that is good and be like a free bird floating in the blue skies. Only junkies and drug addicts have that license. But they too pay for it with their loss of sanity and touch with reality. Not once did we see Dev trying to understand the sin he has committed - and that sin is in NOT BEING MAN ENOUGH to stand UP FOR ANY CONVICTIONS, cause he has no convictions, he has no value system, he has no principles.
Even devils have their priorities right! But NO, Dev has no priorities except to be a YES MAN to whoever be it NT, or Dadima or Maan. He does not have any burning ambition or any passion. He just passes through life like a zombie doing others bidding and if they hold him responsible for something, he neatly turns the tables on them by holding them accountable.
6) He could have kept his own counsel, but did he? Never, not for one instance. He became a "YES MAN" for NT and then he goes and cribs to grandma that NT does not appreciate him. WTH? You know that is the problem with all YES MAN, after a while they hate themselves for saying "YES" and hate their inability in saying "NO" and start blaming the person or the events that made them say "YES" Such men don't feel responsible for their actions, it is always like some devil is driving them with it's handle.
I applaud the Script Writer for handling the subtle nuances of Naintara's character yesterday and for showing her fallibility. Good job!
Editing: Could have been crisper in the rose scene as well as the closing scene.
Music: Orchestration was swell.
Acting: Fantastic performance from Gurmeet, Drashti, Karishma, Abhinav.
Direction: I liked how he showed Pari's part about "she being left out" and hence the feinted swoon :-) That was creative and here Neha really showed her sadness that she is not getting to Maan at all as he is caught up in Geet and Pari could sense that underlying currents among Maan and Geet.
I liked the part of NT's blowup though Abhinav's direction could have been a little bit more smoother. But no complaints about the Directors or Assistant Directors today and I only applaud their efforts.
Camera work: Not really paid attention to it yesterday. So no grounds to comment.
Art Direction: The roses did not look fresh enough and some of them looked like they were out of the frost for too long and hence their heads were almost drooping.
Overall An episode that juxtaposed powerful emotions with some light endearing moments and some fun. I would give it a 9/10 just for the delineation on the character sketch of NT that caught my attention.
Final Summation
The Tao of Love [Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPmjlptPx_Y]
Yin &Yang [Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwz8lDYgw4]
Yin & Yang - Dimension [Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2T4nyoCPAQ]
Edited by bDgT - 14 years ago
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