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Tragedy strikes everyone - sooner or later - it differs in magnitude , but never in the impact that it has. Pain. Suffering. Angst.Tears.Bleeding - its all the same. What differentiates the aftermath of tragedy is how we deal with it - and how we deal with what has befallen us charts our future course and what we are going to be.
Based on this, today. NF raises the curtains on the thorn-in-the-neck love story of Rudra and Paro. Two people who were on the wrong lane of destiny's moods and suffered. That too in a very tender age - when the impressions and marks are forever and shape the person you are going to be.
Paro - innocent, transparent, guileless, fragile and as beautiful and delicate as the butterfly she loves. She lives in a dollhouse and that dollhouse is shattered when her parents die a brutal death. She wails, cries, collapses - but the elixir of life inside her doesn't allow her to wallow in the darkness of what she has lost. Paro learns to smile again , builds a doll house again and traverses the desert in parrot greens and vivid magentas. The demons of the tragedy have been locked away because Paro chooses life , love and laughter over the depression and desolation. Hence, we see a laughing , colourful butterfly bringing a desert alive.
Rudra - " Khoobsurat auratein kisi ki nahin hotee. Na apne baap ki, na apne pati ki aur na apni aulaad ki."... You wonder if Rudra's father had even the slightest inkling of what he is doing to his son's impressionable, mental state. A boy who is unable to deal with the emotional and physical rejection by his mother , a boy who is falling into a pit of emotional closure , a boy who is making anger a tool for disguising his inner feelings of abandonment receives eternal damage from this WTBEEP teaching from his father. This boy is going to grow up not only with the backstab of being abandoned by his mother who happened to be beautiful, he is also going to punish and devastate another beautiful woman who happens to be the love of his life. Rudra's humiliated emotions, his abandonment and his psychological impressions were not given a solution , they were not healed - they were turned from a small spoon of poison to a serpent of venom. So, here is Rudra - dry, burning , hateful, fiery and putting the heat of the desert to shame.
Paro and Rudra cross each-other twice. In childhood, Paro smiles at Rudra and gives him a doll as a hand of friendship. Rudra doesn't respond. In adulthood, Paro waves at Rudra and asks for help. Rudra responds - with fuel, fire , territorial anger. Reason? Because someone dared to ask him for help? Because he likes being a sadist and scaring people? Or because...Paro is beautiful... a beautiful woman?...
Well, we shall find out tomorrow.
All in all, its a good start , but the screenplay and narrative were a little jumbled. And that SFX butterfly looked more fake than my eyelashes.
Special mention to the boy who plays little Rudra - WHAT A DISCOVERY! He is a kid but such an intense face. He is gonna grow up to be such an intense looker, man!
Sanaya and Aashish rock Paro-Rudra. They totally do. I am impressed.
P.S- I hope the makers will be very careful with the portrayal of the armed forces.
Mannat Har Khushi Paane Ki
