Jungle Bytes - Page 8

Originally posted by: hotdogg

Ivy-

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Very very sharp Ji...

The Epi was the pits...so ike Crime Master GoGo of Andaz Apna Apna ..."Ayaa Hoon Kuch To Loot Ke Jaoonga!"

Was being sarcastically wicked and politically correct at the same time to avoid censure ...

...And no comments on who would be thinking like Crime Master GoGO ...Real ya Reel waale characters?

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Originally posted by: -Ivy-

Thank you for Jungle Bytes, Arshi ji 🤗

Between yours and Hgg bhai's post, I feel decidedly blessed that I'm not watching SC whole of this week. Friday was the 'zenith'... A shadow of former glory that is all they can aspire to. Now, they will either stretch this like a rubber band, or judging by the crammed epi's... Be preparing for the call of the executioners axe. Frankly, the latter is hands down more preferable.

Btw, just a heads-up... If credits are being shuffled and the key crew (Director, D.O.P, Production Designer) is being replaced with regularity, then this would indicate that the production is treading water and they have no plans for a long-term run. That is why they are bringing freelancers with specific cut-off dates. That is why the look, feel, mood, genre of the show is swinging so ludicrously from one extreme spectrum to the other.

Edit: Is Arshad Khan still directing, friends?

Originally posted by: hotdogg

Awkward epi...

Wasted half an hour actually seeing the epi...😭

As people have mentioned...the chase sequence timelines were all screwed up, as well as, the chase itself..

The current CV team seems to have a huge filmi hangover...starting from typical pooja scenes, kalika scene, filmi songs...then this fetish intensifying through the coal walking coupled with a filmy song in a dargah (lift from Rockstar!!), suhaag raat room, haveli nilaami...and still further intensifying through Om Shanti Om direct lift, followed by dishum dishum, filmi chase and the absolutely required taking bullet out with a knife thingie...

Add to this the absolutely shoddy direction in the last epi...
- Let's start with Saras...Oohhh...he's shot...but where?..in the frikking upper arm!!!...it's not as if he's dying or going to die anytime soon...unless the arm becomes gangerenous but which will take 5 - 6 days to develop...yet he's shown stumbling and falling all over the place becoming unconscious and all that melodrama...Its the upper arm!!

- You could say maybe because he's bleeding...again its the upper arm!!!...and even then the blood flowing out is barely a trickle!

- Then the absolute pits was when Saras, Kumud & Pramad were in the face-off...I could see the extra villager cast actually peeping out behind some bushes when this face-off was going on!!...

- Oh God!...then all the dialogue-baazi...Pramad ...when you always shoot first and talk later...

- There is a 3 - 4 minute dialogue-baazi between him and Kumud...why?...

- Also if you see the scene, you will notice that Kumud leisurely takes the sickle and walks in front of Pramad...then gives some filmy dialogue...then again leisurely moves forward and points the sickle at Pramad's throat...Where is the urgency?...If at all you wanted to go the filmi dialogue route,,,please make Kumud plant the sickle at Pramad's throat and then go filmi...Why do you want to break it up in 2 parts?

- Pramad wants to kill them both...yet both he & kumud engage in an almost debate ...

- Most funny scene when I was ROFL...in the ensuing 'friendly' debate between Pramad & Kumud, Pramad's hand with the gun is now by his side...And then the village women come and point their respective sickles at Pramad's throat (again a John Woo trademark scene copied!)...one of them says "Gun neeche karo" or some such...Pramad must be going "W*F? Neeche Hi to Hain"...

- Then why does the camera have to repeatedly pan poor GR's face every 5 seconds just to emphasise that he is in some life-threatening pain?...From a bullet wound to his upper arm!!...After 5 - 6 times, even poor GR lost his expressions...by the time the epi ended his expressions looked less pain from wound and more from a possible bowel movement problem...repeated ad nauseum!...This is a first...first time GR lost his grip on expressions...

- Lastly the whole taking bullet out with knife thing...harkens back to the shoddy movies of the 80's... all that's remaining now is Gautam feeling cold and Kumud providing him some warmth through body heat!

What a bombed out landscape this epi was...all thanks to a lazy CV team..

...which just proves my perceptions regarding the last Fri epi ...the CVs had nothing to do with the last Fri epi...

...nothing has changed in the shoddiness quotient...The last Fri epi was just a stastical fluke governed by the Bell Curve of the law of averages...a stastical outlier which has to turn up once in a while in the middle of a series of average / below average epis which get churned out...

I so wished to be wrong on the above and so decided to see yesterday's wreck of an epi...

But then we propose and the lazy CVs dispose!

Originally posted by: pasumarthisa

Wo pyaar hi tho thaa. Was Kumud crying for Saras in that kutiya anything else but love? But the dominant emotion was pain and sharing pain. And if there was anything explicit, it wouldnt be right. Atleast the moment was not right. She was ready to share a new life with Pramad yesterday. And now showing feelings to Saras? I think things have to come together for those to be expressed.

Then, she made a huge step today by letting go of that mangalsutra. For that day, it was a huge step again considering that a few hours back she was ready to share her life with Pramad.