Back. Off to watch now.
Reserved? I guess 😆
*edit*
So maybe not watching the Friday episode has left a gap for me, because everything about the episode was going just fine, but I'm not too sure about the half-in-half-out confession from Shruti. I'm not sure if its the doing of the physical setting being a phone call, or something about the execution of the scene, it didn't come out as... spontaneously, perhaps? Was it intended as a sentence, almost slipped? I'm leaving reservation to tomorrow's episode, I guess. Plus, I should watch Friday - especially since you emphasize Shruti's shift after that conversation with her mother, Nur.
Otherwise. Sanjay instinctively calling Shruti. Shruti spending the remainder of the night with her dilemma. And especially the phone conversation the next morning - very well written, that. I love how Shruti's typical element makes a comeback in the face of crisis. She's her own kind of composed in the frame of solution finding. Not agitated, as she has been with the love confession 😆 I like how she can go back to that role of the best friend, because it's SO typical and credible between people who share bonds like that. And I absolutely loved par tum badal gaye ho... haina? It's not altogether a rhetoric, agreed, but there's a greater tone of... acceptance to it, which is not exactly resigned, and finally past the blatant denial or dispute to it. And there's a maturity about her saying that to him, after his plain up front stating of the fact on Thursday, instead of, I dunno, going in circles or simply standing to ignore that conversation, even as she slips back into her 'friend' mode 😆 It's a statement of her step forward. Of her acceptance of the REALITY of Sanjay's sentiments, of her NOT brushing them away - and of her, in her own way, making truce with them, even if it rests on the premise of a 'situation'. And for me, this was a better representation of the shift in her, even expressed, in a manner of expressing, than the half left sentence in the end (again, I need to watch Friday). And I liked how Sanjay said 'thanks' - almost tentatively 😆 Like he's putting it forth to see, what she does with it 😆 As if he's putting to test the extent of the acceptance that comes through her earlier words 😆 No seriously, I think the best part of this conversation was the underlying awareness between the two of what this truce is heading for, eventually. One in the process of overcoming denial, blah, blah. The other, in the process of gauging her progress overcoming the denial 😆
Also. Sonal can never not take some implicit digs 😆 😆 Sab picturon jaisa nahin hota, asal mein kanoon utna bi bewakoof nahin hai, rishtedaaron ki gawahi nahin chalti had me laughing, because it took me back to ALL the times of initial NBT days, when I'd rave, and rave about the 'CYNIC' 😆 😆
Of course, like you said Nurey, it's not just us who find NBT in Sanjay Shruti over and over - Sonal can't exactly let it go 😆 On which note, the picturization of that part was beautiful in its melancholy. Gautami is... enviable, in her grace. And again, the shift in her comes through by the lack of fight in her upset mode, at this point, as opposed to the episodes last week. I have to say, as hauntingly beautiful as Darmiyaan is, for a tune to play, that is the other thing about today I'm in half minds about. Like the lyrics fit, in a way, and I get it. But I don't find it doing justice quite entirely for Sanjay Shruti because what they have is not exactly, or at least not entirely, without or beyond a name. It could be just me. I find it more fitting for a couple like MM. But I can't exactly suggest a better option -perhaps they could have used one of their own show tunes... Oh well. No major issue - just... *shrugs*
Looking forward to tomorrow, for sure.
Edited by without-fathom - 11 years ago