Okie doke, me here, and starting off without digressing babbles.
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Scene 1:
So i know the worst way to start and any post analysis is with Talli - but I just have to ask a crucial doubt I have about this 'Barbie' *bang on Reemz 😆 * - does she have identity crisis? Or like split personality issue? Or just basic trouble distinguishing the sound of her name - Talli - from other names (read: Gulaal). Servant comes rushing and announces Gulaal ji aapne jo saaman mangwaya tha wo agaya - Talli jumps half a foot in the air and lands on Kesar's arm to drag him out to the courtyard 😕 Daiba says during puja Gulaal haath aage bada - and madam ka haath moves forward of its own accord 😳 Direly in need of getting her basics right - that's what!
Anyway - HIGH point of the scene has to be Kesar's ye meri patni hai - title of the post and scene for the reason! While he pulls on that curt look while saying the exact words, there is a momentary preceding second, when Pandit asks Talli if she is the wife, where Kesar looks, no not offended exactly, but definitely has a flickering of the what are you saying expression in his eyes. Its pretty interesting to me, how even through the worst of his phase with Gulaal - in fact, in essence, even in his decade of keeping distance, and of course from the time of being that kid tied in a DV, Kesar has always stood confident on the claim - ye meri patni hai! Arre this is a guy who accused his dear darling Vasant Bha of 'stealing' his girl - even asked Raman Bha if Vasant and him couldn't do lagan with the same girl?! 😆 Child marriage ka to koi locha hi ni hai bande ko 🤣 But seriously, even if he doesn't show it in tone or expression - I like to believe there is almost a tinge of indignant and dare I say possessive (in an unusual sense of the word) FYI manner about the way he corrects the pandit. MEGA like to that nuance! Mega like also, to the CVs bringing out the distinction and growth between this puja scene and the Rohan puja only morning before - between then and now technically things have only, if changed, for the worse - Kesar has taken his 24 hours to gauge her and get more nasty. Gulaal has taken a huge step back into the vintage shell and is being wary and vigilant like a soldier at war, striving to not overstep all this brand new boundaries that seem to have cropped between Kesar and her - and of course, both have cried countless tears in the night in between - of pain, loneliness, and agony at estrangement!
But in the puja scene itself - the bond actually shows signs of step forward. Kesar's correction of 'claiming' his wife - while in the prayer day before, he had chosen to be the silent spectator. On Gulaal's end too - unlike the Rohan's puja where she asked for Talli to be allowed as well - she just quietly moves in to take her place - with Talli too taking her place - behind these two, and blobbed out of the scene in my imaginary version of the scene And of course, Kesar does not 'shrug' away from her touch this time. No, he's not warming up; and she in fact might have only become more wary than yesterday - but this isn't the first time doing it now, and even if its stiff, and perhaps the rift itself wider, but even if its only by an iota, they are more comfortable than the day before about being a 'couple' in this ritual, a strange strange couple at that - say like a hubby and wife, who have their own unresolved issues, but put it aside, because they know it cannot be used as pretext or excuse to disrupt the more important things, like couple puja - they play their part - and in essence there and then, they are in the same strange way, somehow accepting of the entire husband and wife idea. Not just for pretense - there is a different kind of acceptance in it. This is like a couple who have differences to sort out, but that (as per an unspoken agreement between the two) is what they alone of have to fix, and is their business alone. So even in this 'at odds' point of their relationship - they are really being a couple in a sense - to my perception.
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Scene 2:
This scene is poignant and charged -and Reemz really says it all here. Gulaal being the poise strength for everyone, until she gets that moment of solitude with Kesar alone - and really, TO BE MARKED - her first moment to be able to shower her emotions/affections/concern on him (ignoring the very first seconds of the first glimpse of each other, which doesn't count because they were too overwhelmed to be consciously so aware of how freely they are expressing their emotions, as she is now!) Here, she lets go of the wary hold back he has forced her to upkeep - and just simply feels the pain inside of her, in his injury. And to me also, this is not an image of Gulaal the elder shedding tears over the pain of Kesar the ward - no! In fact, that it is not like that becomes evident from the way it stands in difference from the PB-Kesar bit the precedes it (the reason why I included it in the clip hence) and I like how that distinction stands out! When PB is caressing Kesar, and when Gulaal holds onto his hands and her tears fall to it - and even Kesar's reactions to both the touches - the difference is so obvious! Gulaal is the wife. PB is the mother. And sorry Talli, but you just seem like a silly younger sister 😆 Even best friends have a different air about them - Talli doesn't project that image, she did it far more when she was a kid - I think she's so confused within her own head, about her relationship with this guy, that she ends up portraying not a single nuance right - dramatic sigh!
Kesar waking up to Gulaal's tears and the Duggu FB - his momentary vulnerability at the sight of Gulaal's tears, and her heart wrenching concern, and then the flickering of the conflict between his Gulaal vision that he can see, and the betraying Gulaal version of his FB - and he turns away from her. 😔 Ditto you Reemz - about how sad it feels when she exits the scene feeling like the third. But kudos to Neil to bring out even that second of reaction, plainly with the play of his eye expressions - when Talli asks him how the food is, and just before answering, he gives her a look to 'give them privacy'... the why are you still here look - very hurting, and intentionally - but how well done by Neil 👏 Not to forget the flickering of emotion in his eye, when Talli says how worried they all got, haina Gulaal? Okay, 1 point to Talli again, to always, inevitably bring Gulaal to the fore. She's loyal to the core - I just can't take that away from her.
Btw - I included that last KT bit to the clip as well - cause I wanted to point out, how uninterested Kesar is in Talli bak bak, even though while Gulaal was in the room he was focusing so much attention on her. This is not the cliche case of hero trying to invoke envy in his lady love - nor is it technically working like that - but he's making such a point of showing Gulaal down, proving to her that she's last on his list - he doesn't even care about his reactions and responses to Talli when its just them! 😆 As I said the other day, he's using Talli - albeit unintentionally - to bait Gulaal. Simple as that.
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phew - okie, me done too for today, and might crash shortly after getting to ogle over Nur's caps if she's done them by now...
Jump right in everyone!
Edited by JZephyr - 13 years ago
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