Nice topic Preeti... glad you touched this topic..needs good discussion.
I was left extremely disappointed with that scene in particular. I thought it was the highlight of the week where Rishi gets to know the truth about Indu's brain tumor... but acting wise, i was mightly disappointed the way that scene was done and I don't know what prompted the director to okay that scene at the first place.
Let me talk how i wanted that scene to be... It reminded of that scene of Rati in the kidnapp track where when Sumer takes her to the room where Inder phone conversation is trapped and makes her hear to the real identify of her father who was behind Rishi kidnayp, then you get to see the acting of Rati where she very well shows the pain, agony, anxiety, and a state of shock at the news and immediately trembles before latching on the sidewalls and her pain is visible on the eyes and conveys everything you want to see that character feel through her eyes.
I was expecting something similar at least half as good where Rishi would be shellshocked to hear those words from her mouth and his heart completely broken into piece to hear those dreaded words, which can't be worse than this, but the expressions were blank and no pain in eyes nor any tears. I couldn't connect myself to that scene... it was as though he got to hear some friend being declared with brain tumour with bit of shock and sympathy on it.
It is up to director to make an actor act well even if he is pretty limited and I wish the director had been good enough to make this scene pretty impactful and give the audience the kind of connect with some good acting. I was really disppointed with this scene it had great potential for acting gone waste.
Anupamaa
