Mahesh
I don't have problems with kidnapping track, or even Sumer if they had made him play a straight copper whose business is to help Indira. I have always been saying that no man is an island and we all need help. So Sumer as a cop, Radhe as a friend have to help Indira. It is to be expected.
What I object to is total destruction of the characters of Rishi, Indira, and the brand of Hitler. I have opened threads on these and I can give you links to those, if you desire. Don't want to retread covered ground and bore people again.
Tracks come and go, actors, actresses come and go, but brand identification is hard to build and recover from, once lost. "Hitler", "MMji...KDji" were two central elements of what defined HD. Using Hitler tag to define a crude, arrogant, passivelu corrupt copper is not a way to enhance brand loyalty. Neither is having the same man take Rishi's place, wear his clothes, especially them being his SR clothes. You have a different sentiment given you championing NK for a long time, is understood.š
I will push back on your depression angle bit. (section of comment pasted from my response to you on another thread)
Yes we do behave differently when we are in depressed.
But the kind of deep depression you are talking about where we loose all enthusiasm, sense of self, brains etc ocurrs when adrenaline has been exhausted. We have exhausted hope that the situation can be salvaged.
You know the seven stages of grief. Indira is in her first stage where adneranline should be pumping in her day in day out, trying to find Rishi alive.
What I find very hard to digest is that she blackmailed this cop into solving this case. He relents, under duress. OK...so he is in your house trying to find the culprit. What would you do? You would do what you can to help him find Rishi ASAP. all your thoughts would be consumed by it, not by nuances of teaching, or "desh ka bhavishiya" lectures. Pretense of teaching can be maintained at any level, not necessarily at a good teacher level.
This line of thinking is right along the lines where Indira spent mental wherewithal to chase the cop, wait patiently for him to complete his bribe taking, click is pictures, print flyers, distribute them...all the while her husband was buried in some sand dump somewhere.
It is these glaring incongruencies between what one normally does in the heat or immediate aftermath of tragic event versus what Indira is shown to be doing.
I would be the first one to accept this kind of behavior had Rishi died. Because there is no recourse. One has to accept. Thus one gets depressed and mind starts chasing phantoms, placing empahsis on wrong things.
But what is galling here is that Rishi has not died yet. In situations like these, months pass, years pass, yet we see people still chasing their lost loved ones with the same ferocity as the first day they got lost. But Indira has had only a couple of days/weeks. Anyone in her position would be running on adrenaline, being swamped with only one thought - how to get him back alive. And in that end, being tunnel visioned.
We do that for important things in our own lives, like when our loved one becomes sick or is in an accident. We want doctors and everybody else to forget all patients, their families etc and only concentrate on us.Heck, we even do it for our work projects. We get less patient with employees personal lives when urgent deliverable are needed. Here we are talking of someone who at this very moment may be being tortured or again killed. How can Indira even be thinking about lecturing a cop, who is going to help her find her husband, even be thinking of importance of teaching
Most importantly, there is a saying in Punjabi that when loosely translated says "Matlab ke liye gadhe ko bhe baap manaya jata hai / For one's needs one accepts doneky as one's father". Why is Indira wasting her time and emotions, un-necessarily antagonizing this cop? A cop, mind you, who is not investigating this crime because of his own sense of duty. He is here because she blackmailed his boss. So why? oh why?
Edited by jjkg - 13 years ago
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