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So I wasn't planning on opening a new thread, given how late I am - but there doesn't seem to have been any discussion ground posted after yesterday's thread.
So here goes...!
DISCLAIMER: AnYa cannot be missed in an episode based post, but except for the few who know me by now, I want you to be warned this post will not be AnYa centered. I love my rockstar (read: Mohan) far too much for that! š
So I got quite a few people telling me yesterday how they wondered where my post on Mohan was - since he'd grown some notches in the span of a single episode! I have to admit that for me the Tuesday episode still stands in better light, but I'm not going to put down yesterday to dust.
Yesterday, IMO, was a day of rising for others. Here's my take on who rose for who.
Mohan - The man who speaks next to nothing, as often as possible, was seen speaking up. First to ask the Center Shock Baba if Anant's friends could be allowed to see him because they were so concerned. The classic CSB big eyes he was shot back with reminded me (an avid Harry Potter fan) of how the Basillisk can kill with its eyes Really, I could almost read CSB's head: Warning Alert, here goes the bigger and better son out of hand to! The highlight remains - Mohan, who once told Anant how he never had the guts to ask or question for his own self and life, asked Baba for Anant's sake (or even Navya's I like to think, after their phone call). It was a sure elevation in his character !
Then there was the other, more blunt instance, when he tells of Rama. Yes we have all seen his silent ways of letting his wife's constant nonsense chatter just bounce of him, or inwardly make him wonder over and over why he was stuck like he was and how it was going to be forever - but yesterday was new. Perhaps the actual scene of Rama's incivility with the guests as Mohan calls them - but means pretty much Navya, lol - or perhaps her celebration of rudeness bravado with shitster jr. Shagun, or perhaps a combination of both lit the torch on revolt in Mohan, which had never even seemed to exist. I for one - with all my die for deal over Mohan's quiet angry look when the shitsters catch sight of him, and their own expressions of alarm at that - did think the scene didn't go all the way to hit a home run for me because it was left... I dunno, unresolvedly incomplete in some sense ending in the annoying Rama wails... But it was something for a start, and something big. And giving CVs a benefit of doubt I'll say, maybe they didn't want Mohan's elevation to this new found dare-spirit to look out of nowhere unrealistic and hence played down on the scenes to keep balance.
Conclusion: Mohan rose for Anant (like he had once promised him he would) and for Navya.
Nimisha - When the meek sister was asked by meek girlfriend if she wouldn't get into trouble, Nimisha's answer gladdened me very much - to kya hua. thodi daant pad jayegi bas! Not the part where she goes on about how much Anant has done for her, but just that bit. It shows evolution in her person too, on several fronts. Here is the girl who did not rise on occasion when her own shocker wedding was being fixed - good enough it turned out to be a good guy, but fact is, she did not resist. And now she does. She knows the potential of danger in being discovered will not be passed off in mild daant but she does it, she rises for her brother. Again, there is a second side to it. We have seen her recent discord with bua-dadi, her apology at that point purely coming from being tuned like that, and her own mother's insult in the process, but no regret. Nimisha slowly but surely is becoming a rebel fastest of them all. She has begun to transform into a sort of immune member of the looney house who is going out of the mega-impact shadow of what can happen when you revolt! And am I glad! š In particular I loved the quick coupled expressions between Nimisha and Mohan when the friends were walked out of the house disappointed. Perhaps part of their disappointment got Nimi rising to the occasion; but part of it certainly stemmed from her little dialog with Tayiji aka Anant's mom over her helplessness in not knowing how to make Anant better. The helplessness of her elder, sort of rose within her like a desperado and whoaaa - there she goes!
Conclusion: Nimisha rose for Anant. I like to think she rose for Navya, but I think its still more Anant centered. At max, Anant's mom - just a bit.
Ritz - There was a quick opportunity window, or so Ritz saw it when no one else was looking, in Nimisha's expression, and for her friend, Ritz jumped the gun, telling Nimi that it was okay they couldn't see Anant, if only Navya had been allowed. She didn't press the matter, wisely, she left it like a muse, which did its needed job. Thumbs up to her quick thinking, and mother hen attitude towards her friend when she needs it so much; and even more for knowing exactly the person to approach and catching her chance! She's not the one who would not rise for herself - unlike the oppressed inmates of looney house - but still, she Ritz rose for her friend, when Navya herself had seemingly given up.
Conclusion: Ritz rose for Navya - perhaps just a little for Anant, but even that is more like AnYa.
Appy - She wasn't as smart and tactful as Ritz, but all her loud defense - š It's a sight of Appy in character, and I'm not really a fan of her blunt loud ways, but that's how she is. And in her own way, she showed everyone she was standing up for her friend tall as a bamboo!
Conclusion - Appy didn't really rise to an occasion, but she stood up steady and undaunted for Navya.
Navya - The classic damsel in distress not looking for a knight to rescue her, but going into the gory rut herself. To be honest, I was disappointed with Soumya's insipid and perpetual acting, yet again, but in terms of script and scene sequence itself, her character did rise. Like we've discussed few other places, Navya manages to be gutsy, when is least expected, and never for herself, but for Anant. (I think my_view was the first one to say this on one of the other threads). While she fought the losing battle her longest in resisting Anant, or her own feelings, the moment her guy was in genuine trouble, the moment an urgency declared itself on her she rose to the moment, outgrowing her guts by far and wide, and doing things absolutely uncharacteristic to her - from calling Mohan bhaiya, to actually reaching Anant's house (even if with her protecting squad) to finally taking on the great risk and becoming party with Nimi... to, what we expect to see today, a showdown with Bua Dadi! Yes, Navya goes many extra miles, when it is not for herself, but for Anant - as does he. Let's watch the drama unfold!
Conclusion: Navya rose for Anant.
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And phew, I'm done. I didn't think I was going to sit at this so much, but anyway! Rant away now š
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