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Nur the title 😲 I was thinking of the exact same for the vid when it was taking me ages to come up with something in 'hindi' - wow! 😆
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actually the second posted clip is chronologically first =)
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Scene 1
The tone in which this scene begins - with Kesar being all cute mother's boy, is insinuating on a few fronts. He's just gotten out of that cast-in-a-spell chatt moment with Gulaal, thereafter getting a brief but bull's eye reality doze from her. The sight of him even in the distance from the window of the room where the camera has closed up far more on PB - is the sight of a ruffled Kesar, hastening his way through a corridors, the restless air about his body language. And then his own gaze finds his mother - if a second ago he had no idea where he was going, preoccupied by the scene before - now he firmly walks right in, pulls on the little boy act and the grown up responsible son as well - all at once. Sulking why PB didn't call him to do the oil massage (even as sulking is Gullu's trademark 😆 ) and reminding her that her son is back. To me, there were underlying, albeit very subtle nuances , of how Kesar, perturbed beyond solace by his encounter with Gulaal manages to find this unquestioning, unconditional solace in his mother. He's offering to help her, but really, this is such a good distraction to take a break from the disturbing effect of the 'collision' and calm himself down so he can think straight again! A second time that he manages to find this comfort in his mother - after the other time when he physically shoved Gulaal and gave her some very cutting comments, before walking into the kitchen weighed down by the entire thing, until PB's affection eased the heaviness. Now too, PB's motherly love shines through her eyes at Kesar's 'son acts' and Kesar readily, willingly, unknown to him even hungrily, basks in that warmth pushing the other problem aside. Not long enough. PB - such a difference from her character in the final moth or so - a mother in all sense despite feeling so touched by her son's gesture, doesn't forget to question him about his latest escapade. And Kesar, with but a momentary time out on the tense situation stiffens immediately, at the mention of her name, Gulaal. To PB's obvious question, he grunts away a zaruri nahin samjha, and PB's partly incredulous and partly further reproaching reaction is but deserved. Kesar tries to gruffly argue his point and settle the debate once and for all again, with itne durr nahin rehte uske gharwale - but PB has not been blinded by the smoke of a decade that hinders Kesar's vision, logic, or arguments. So she shoots right back, the difference of a village and a city - pointing out not just the latest mistake, but indirectly also hinting to Kesar to not forget the ways of his real roots, merely because he's been away for a decade! Adds Gulaal's sacrifice for the house, which, as a reminder of Gulaal's goodness always does, has Kesar's eyes showing touch of remorse and doubt and inner fight - and to that (a partly indignant Kesar who believes he knows more than PB does and a partly grumpy Kesar at his futility to find even temporary break from 'Gulaal' - the good and bad and confusing in between of her) says the most un-Kesar thing he can - to kya sabke ehsaano ka bdala main chukaunga? There could be so many ways to interpret this, but to anyone who doesn't know better, you could almost translate it to figuratively imply his DV with Gulaal is the family's trade off for her sacrifice! Because its the 'husband' duty he has fallen short of, and deemed unnecessary, even an obligation in repayment to her 'ehsaan'. PB, rightly offended, gives him a sharp Kesar! here - only to be interrupted by JK. The irony of JK envying PB's luck for a son like Kesar and a DIL like Gulaal - when the son is just being reprimanded for failing responsibility and the DIL, officially, doesn't deem herself 'DIL' - with regard to Kesar anyway! JK the evil but ever obliging matchmaker, manages to say everything icky that has Kesar finding more cause to be uneasy - after that shocking intimacy moments ago, the whole she's your wife and you're her husband being shoved down his throat is obviously not helping, especially when he needs to re-gather his focus of hating Gulaal - and then to top the awkward situation that JK is such an expert at creating, in walks the dutiful patni aka bahu aka lady who spells trouble 😆 And Kesar, with the way he almost starts at her entry, is definitely not prepared for more of this hubby wifey talk in her presence, no more after that charged chatt scene. The way they eyes clash, and avert in tandem - is indication of how not prepared Gulaal herself is. But for the chai in her hands, you can imagine her tugging at her pallu 😆 and Kesar, well, this is really his first meet her eye moment again, after that caught in a trance moment on the chatt. He's fidgety, uneasy, not in a state to deal with this closing in on him from all ends awkward situation. So he does, what he's been doing best these last few days. Excuses himself (formerly because the alter presence so demands) to walk away. Not before he comes face to face up close with her, the two have another charged eye-talk, Kesar looking ever so disturbed, almost like he expects for a second to find a comforting answer in her eyes; but there's so much conflict in his mind, so much confusion in Gulaal's own eyes from her incomprehension of his unpredictability - he pushes past her partly in haste to escape, and partly in covering up for all his lost 'cold act' upper hand - leaving her to at least momentarily look after him with a 'tries-to-be-discrete-in-vain' WTH expression!
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Scene 2
I love this scene. A rare one, minus Kesar, full on Talli - but Mansi is magic here. The melancholy in her is inescapable. Speaking only for myself - and this may be surprising to some people - this is the only poignant Mansi/Gulaal scene that actually makes me misty eyed. The real sad stuff, is just intense to me, gripping, the kind I stare at like I've dissolve into the screen - but this one... is just different. The entire oblivion of Gulaal to what she has done to herself is disturbing to me far more, even, than the time, when say Kesar is being ridiculous to her, or even when she becomes a fallen angel. What anyone else does to her - anyone including Kesar, is one thing. What she has done to herself, in such a slow and unknowing but steady manner over the decade, is another. When she tells Talli kuch thik se yaad bhi nahi hai in response to naming some favorite - its worse that she's telling the truth. So far and deep inside has she buried the real Gulaal, that she no longer remains consciously aware of that existence. And interestingly, all the things that she lists as having liked sum up to one simple sentence - what I like most about life, is living it. And that's exactly what she has ceased to do in a decade - she has quit living life. She's only leading her days now. One after the other, like a wall clock that ticks away second after second, living time like an eternity, but in a way of a mechanical duty - not realizing the eminence of those seconds ticking away. As she recounts one thing after the other that she once liked so much (notice the past tense she employs) there is an unreal shine in her eyes, like she's having vivid visions of that time, and like a part of her brain has transported her back to that glorious lively past, but a part of her is just in this brief timeless spell of a sort - so she's not narrating in an animated manner, but in a dreamy fashion - like she'd sleep talk through her happy dream! Until, she wakes up. Just before she says ab to mujhe ye ghar he pasand hai - she takes those couple seconds to compose herself, almost like she was possessed by a spirit that she needs to shake off, get back the current day Gulaal into her body - and speak in accordance. The shine disappears. The smile widens in such a heart wrenching manner, you want to wipe it off, because its such a mockery of reality! To Gulaal, she has just snapped out of a 'dream' and descended back to reality. But to a viewer, she has just snapped out of her real person, to wear the mask of a substitute Gulaal and regain her dutiful limbo again. Mildly she chides Talli to have distracted her with redundant chatting, excuses herself to sleep - but a tiny part of her heart knows what was briefly awakened inside her, another tiny part knows she's running away from this awakening lest it begins to gain blood and overpower her resolve, and the most part of her, is just back to abiding by her robotic head and its mundane instructions. Mansi goes beyond herself in this scene. 👏 If I was going to rate her solo performance on this show - this might be my favorite scene. And can I dare to say, I'm ever so glad Kesar never gets to eavesdrop on this chat just here. A part of me is craving he would see her talking like this, and jolt out of his ridiculous grudge, but a part of me knows and appreciates, and roots for the reality of how things are, how not every time one laments a loss - even with a smile on the face - is an angel sitting ready with a wand to fix it!
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Edited by JZephyr - 13 years ago
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