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Every time Microsoft upgrades my MS Office software, I bang my head against the computer screen and also abuse them a lot. Because, they not only add features to it, they try to experiment with the look. With the last version, the menus and how they were placed changed. Took me a whole week to get my head wrapped around the change.
Something similar is happening to me these days with the QH world.
For a very long time, there was a face we identified as Asad. We have heard a voice that was Asad to us. We had felt the emotions and motions of Asad via that face and voice. And now, post the break, everything has suddenly changed.
Asad's hair has gone from long and unkempt to just unkempt but trimmed. The stubble is back, but trimmed in a different style. The clothing has been upgraded to colors (Purple jacket for Asad, really?😲) that I was not used to seeing before. These to me are minor changes.
The biggest different the upgrade brought was the voice and the face. The essence and purpose of Asad remains, like my word example, but a lot has changed with how it appears to me. So I did a little experiment today. I watched the Asad scene 3 times.
1. First I just heard the voice. To see if I feel that the anger that was being pitched in the voice justified what I was expecting. I was surprised since i started with low expectations after the Zoyaaa from last week.
2. Second I watched in mute. I wanted to just focus on the emotions and portrayal of the anger on the face and on the person. I think that went well, yes, some nuances of Asad V1.0 were missing, but were they so big that I should write off Asad V2.0 and move on to another word editor? The answer is no.
3. Third I saw the scene on the whole and I was truly happy with the outcome.
The word "BAS", the shaking, the anger in the eyes, the protruding nerves, everything looked very good and a big round of applause to RV and the team for putting in so much effort in trying to get him up to speed on the character so fast.👏
As this point, I think Asad V2.0 has potential to succeed, but I think we need some very important scenes before we can give final judgement.
1. Scene with Dilshaad - emotional prowess
2. Scene with Zoya - romance
3. Frustrated scene with Zoya, the original magic of the Jodi.
So far for me, Asad V2.0 is To Be.👍🏼. Final verdict after I get to see the above scenes.
Rivs
PS: Gite - you asked for a post today. Here you go.
PPS: I get carried away sometimes hence the long essay on V2.0😆
Kumkum Bhagya
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