I agree that difference in clothes, music interest and food is more a reflection of taste rather than age. Also agree with Tanu that one of the ways to portray age gap is to portray the difference in maturity levels. What actually conveyed this difference in maturity levels very effectively to me pre-confession is A's apprehension that N's family may not accept their relationship and that N may have to go against her family. At A's age one does tend to anticipate issues. Post confession, in recent episodes, couple of things worked for me.
1. A's cancelling of concert when he realised that N does not have any interest in classical music. He quietly cancelled the concert plan and took her home whereas today when A said that he does not have any interest in going to disc, she pestered him to come along. He accepted her interest rather non-interest in violin but she did not accept his non-interest in disc. I think creatives were trying to show a contrast in their maturity levels but diluted the whole point by sequencing Maika scene immediately after A & N's scene where she presented N's liking for disc as a reflection of her age. Malika is always shown to portray difference in tastes as a direct consequence of difference in age. Or may be that is deliberate and we just need to keep patience. Perhaps the creatives want to bring home the point that Malika is discounting A's level of maturity big time which is the reason why her violin concert plan failed as A deftly handled the situation and cancelled the concert plan. If showing difference in maturity levels is indeed the idea then tomorrow A will go to disc for N's sake. However, what will make me really happy is if he goes to disc, finds people of his age group and, realises that music is purely a matter of taste and not age as Malika is harping.
2. Anji suggesting N that she should dress up maturely and A going all dreamy looking at N in a sari.
Some other ways, in my view, could be:
1. A anticipating issues from family and society like in pre-confession stage. I can understand that anyone might want to enjoy this heady and beautiful post-confession phase regardless of age but perhaps A could be shown discussing with Armaan how to broach this subject with N's family. Any sensible person would have used Baba's hospitalisation to rebuild his relationship with his future FIL.
2. Reminding N about internship.
3. Going by my own experience, people of A's age group (I am one of them) start becoming particular about daily routines and food habits. Perhaps one of A's reaction to N's proposal to go to disc could have been that he does not like late nights during week days.
4. At N's age, one may want a repeated, verbal and also some physical expression of love. I read one of the suggestions in another post like N insisting on A giving her a rose everyday.
5. Now that a dinner at Malika's place has been planned, I hope they use it to present that N's age group is more willing / open to experiment with food. Though it is ridiculous to show a guy who has done his post-graduation in London not comfortable with something as basic as pasta, I hope here N takes the lead and tries what A likes because the real issue here according to me is not food but the willingness to experiment.
Apologies for a long post.
Edited by Mimoha - 13 years ago
