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The Last Rangrasiya Today's Take- Happy Ending
My heart is heavy as I sit down to pen this ... the last episode take on Rangrasiya .. a show that started with great promise nine months ago, continued to enthrall with its tale of love between a rough, tough BSD officer, a man battling his own demons as much as his enemies on the border ...and a delicate desert rose with a spine of steel ... And then unfortunately scattered in direction and focus, in pursuit of those elusive TRPs, which are themselves a measure only of supreme mediocrity. I will always feel sad that we never got to see the story we were promised ...
But I am very happy that we got to see what we did ... which included an opening set of sequences close to a movie experience, beautiful authentic locations, 3-4 months of a slowly unfolding gripping story line ... an immensely talented ensemble cast, all of whom did complete justice to their roles ...
And last but not least, this show gave us an incredibly talented lead pair with crackling chemistry, and enormous dedication and capacity for sheer hard work. Sanaya and Ashish have scorched the screen as PaRud for the last seven months. And they actually managed to achieve the feat again in the last two months in a hastily conceived and shoddily executed second love story ... which is no mean feat and says a lot for their amazing talent. Standing ovation to this amazing pair ...
I have followed Sanaya through four shows now, and was always aware of her amazing talent ... so her performance did not come as a surprise ... even so, it was impressive how beautifully she played a barely educated, simple village girl with no ambitions and very small dreams ... a persona completely opposite to Sanaya in real life. The things she shares with Paro are actually the more important ones, which formed the core strength of Paro's character - her sunny nature, her optimism, her ability to look on the bright side.
And I marvelled again at her talent as she transformed overnight into Myrah, a sketchily written unplanned character, and grew her into a real person, adding layers and depth to her, till she was someone I could feel, understand, empathise with.
I am glad to have discovered in this show, a wonderful actor in Ashish ... he was a fantastic costar, equally matched with Sanaya not only in talent, but even more importantly in his hard work, dedication and professionalism ... all these things put together, went into making their pairing one of the most sizzling jodis seen on the television screen in a long while. He had an author backed role, a complex role, a very layered role ... and he did it perfect justice. He portrayed the many shades of Rudra ... his angst, his anger, his vulnerability, his passion, his fire ... and brought Rudra to roaring life.
Of the ensemble cast, special mention to two more surprises ... Udit Shukla and Geetanjali Mishra ... one a loveable rogue, whom you could not hate, even when he was at his worst ... the other, a beautiful character, who evolved even more beautifully through the show, from a timid browbeaten housewife to a woman of substance.
Also want to take this opportunity to thank this forum and all the members ... this show has been an amazing ride, with the wealth of writers, poets, deep thinkers ... the deep analyses in the heydey of the show made this forum the most interesting place to visit when all the writers were at their peak ... napstermonster, SJ and her PPP, tvbug and her beautiful episode descriptions, MKM's incisive posts, Jyoti's wonderful analysis, the Sushpective posts, Joseph's pictorial descriptions, with the most hilarious running commentary ... and later deepsel's and SPraba's daily posts. There are lots more, and I will come back to add the names later ... am feeling too emotional right now.
Finally, a big thanks to all who read, liked and commented on the daily Takes ... and made this thread a haven for discussing the episodes and the story, and a place to read some great takes on the show. And a huge thanks to my comrades in arms ... Tennessean, our sunshine, who always had good things to say about every episode ... Hope, whose views (and rants 😛 ) often coincided with mine ... and Shwetha with her wonderful collages ... which made it quite superfluous for me to write very much! 😆
The last selfie of the Ranawats ... the clearest picture we've got. Thanks to Vaish from twitter
Let's remember the crazy Ranawat family like this ... united at last. Thanks to Paro/Myrah.
Episode take below
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