Originally posted by: AreYaar
SO MUCH WORD on the bits in bold👏👏...especially for Sanjay...I haven't seen another character like him...I love what you said about the differences b/w Mohan and Sanjay too...from the other thread...I'm going to copy/paste it here to reply
The cynical Mohan and the LOGICAL Sanjay...two different approaches...and Sonal does complete justice to these two characters...however unlike NBT, this time she does justice to the female character too😆..(for now atleast)...Shruti is sketched out so much better than Megha...defying all the widow stereotypes in yet another way...and then Gautami's FINE acting...her experience ofcourse trumps Aakanksha's abilities no matter how good Aks was too.
I have to say though that there is just something about this best friends storyline that has really impressed me...this HISTORY b/w two characters as they evolve into love...this is not explored properly on Indian TV at all...maybe in some teenybopper shows very cheesily at best...but b/w two MATURE individuals who've known each other for half their lives and THEN the change happens...how do you deal with it...how do you cope with it...each time I think the show is done for...usually the confession moment is that moment in every show😆...storyline nosedives after that...but this is the only show I can think of which has displayed some of its BEST work POST confession...such FINESSE in displaying the shades of the human psyche...no mahaanta, no sacrifices...such HONESTY in the emotions...like you said, each dialogue is like right on mark...candid, earnest, touching...and Manav-Gautami EMOTE so well.
Sanjay is that kind of character that makes me want to swoon over his sense of chivalry that seems to be from some bygone era...at the same time this BEST FRIENDS history b/w them adds another dimension b/w them and the way he handles it...the way he brings that tenderness into it as he realizes...and finally the way he EXPRESSES it...be it a candid outburst the first time or the THEHRAAV since...such FABULOUS emoting from Manav yaar...bit by bit, the depth of that emotion hits you every time.
My fav. bit from the last scene is this portion where Shruti is just LOOKING at him as he talks about how they are both the same but the change has happened...like if I could hug that MOMENT by reaching into the screen, I would😆
And then the way she closes her eyes as he tells her he's going to love her forever
I don't know how Gautami-Manav ACE it all SO well...I'm in awe of them these days...wish we could see some BTSs of their scenes
On a different note, I love the way they say each other's NAMES also...he says it with the emphasis on the U...Shruuti😆...and she says his name in like a chime..."Sanjayy"😆
Was just one of those days, I guess, like a leaf out of old times 😆 (My doing a round up of and spamming on all your posts and in the dabba too, that is 😆)
Also, geee!!! YOU GET THAT FEELING too!!! The one to just GET in there and HUG the moment when he talks about how the change has happened... like a biggg dramatic SIGH. The WRITING, ACTING, and the TANGIBLE STRENGTH of that moment is so... beautiful, and melancholic, and REAL, all at once. It's what makes this scene ONE of a kind. Something so spectacular happened in that one bit, with its very simple and straightforward words... it's the kind of thing you NEVER see on Indian TV, and honestly see only on the BETTER if not best parts of any TV, any part of the world. 👏 👏 👏
At the VAST improvement of female characterization - yes, I called it vast, because even if it isn't quantitavely that much (how do you measure quantity in this case?) it makes THAT much difference to have BOTH characters in a protagonist couple being credible, over having a lopsided believable quotiesnt - I AGREE. I think the one reason she's done much better with Shruti is because Shruti, yet, seems like someone Sonal could relate better with. I mean, sure, there is idealism to her. But there is a stark impulse in her too, something that is VERY real even to the idealistic people in the real world. Ak's character was, at times, an extreme of tolerance, slash goodness, slash idealism, slash the unreasonable way she dealt with Mohan out of her idealism for the rest of the world and its ideals. You know? Shruti has an idealism, that is yet, better balanced with worldly truths and standards. Her moments of being difficult are exclusive to Sanjay, like Megha was to Mohan, but these two HAVE the kind of history AND characterization which SUPPORTS her behaviour for being as such. Shruti is more real, the kind of 'good' person with 'real' flaws that you imagine to exist in the real world, who's tolerance doesn't become incredible every little while. And of course... the difference between Ak and Gautami playing its own part. Ak was great, no mistaking, but Gautami is a benchmark. 👏 👏 👏
Finally, the part in red. WORD, Nurey, like WORD, WORD, WORD. I think the GREATEST allure of this 'love story' is what you summed up in those sentences so beautifully. You see all those teeny booper best friends fall in love stories, and they literally turn you OFF the concept of best friends falling in love. THIS, here, is a reminder of how DAMN ideal that predicament can be, with mature, real people. People, who go back such a long way, have a history that makes for a bond so thick, that love can evolve, with the right set of parameters and universe' conspiracies, into something so natural, and timeless... and so beautiful. It's a bond like an old wine... with all the time in the world in have matured into what emerges as this feeling of love...
CID
