Nice brisk episode *Ishra's Reaction Collages pg 5** - Page 12

Originally posted by: -Gan-

Thank you re! That was the best writeup about the episode yesterday and I didnt want it to be buried here...so I requested.😃

Originally posted by: -Gan-

Yesss!!!! 😃

OMG this is beautiful!!! I LOVE the coloring here goes with the mood of the scene perfectly and it brings out the rawness of the emotions of the scene perfectly!! Brilliant...perfectly goes with your write up.👏

Originally posted by: -Anku-

Brilliant post and collages Gan as always.. and yesterday the episode was worthy of every praise possible.

After a very very long time have I seen an episode that felt like the old YHM. Where everyone was in character, when the story was logical, well thought and etched with minute details and precision. I've watched every moment of the episode with awe a few times now and this one is going to be my favourite one for a long time to come.

The one moment I take away the most from the episode was that look Ruhi had on her face. When at this innocent age she saw a mother, a biological mother give up on saving her own child. She saw that side of inhumanity NO person deserves to go through, let alone a child of 7. She had accepted Shagun does not love her, she had accepted that she was only a thing to use and she swears by that fact. Which is why on being removed from her personal space, she was jittery, cranky and wanted to go back. But she did think that Shagun at least loved Adi. But she was taken by surprise knowing that Shagun didn't even love him. Ruhanika Dhawan gave a performance most adult actors cannot give. 👏👏 Standing ovation for that scene that is going to be etched in my mind forever.

Raman's doubts on Shagun, his tact, intelligence and alertness today was another added bonus. We know he's all that and more, but was surpressed by the weak writing for some time now. But to see him put it all together, call his children and talk to each one, assuring them that he'll be there was amazing. He talked to both in a way either would understand. Making Adi the responsible one, and Ruhi the one who has to promise to help him as much as she can by not fretting.

His despair when he reaches the rubble, the devastated area and his life is sucked out of him knowing his kids were there, his wife is there. And his world shatters. But he held himself because he had to give all he has in him to put it all back together like it was and not let it crumble apart like the world around him had.

Karan Patel acted the part out very well. He was in a conflict of emotions. He wanted to break down and cry out of fear but kept strengthening himself to put the broken pieces of his life together by finding his family.

Coming to the main point of the episode - The two mothers and their children. Nature versus Nurture. Once again in probably the final lap of this track. The children who have been toyed and used by their biological mother for her own selfish purpose were used once again, without them knowing anything about it. They were in deep fatal trouble this time and the mother who should have had the heart to save them did not have the courage to get over her own self to even bother about them. The mother who was God gifted to them once, the one who gave them a new life, a love they didn't know existed was the one who put her life at stake to save them. I saw the laying of building blocks of a deep relation between Adi and Ishita today in the face of a tragedy.. The show has been brilliant in showing the difference between Shagun and Ishita as a wife and mother and they did that once again with sheer brilliance by keeping 'mamta' as we call it, at center stage.

Divyanka Tripathi's performance was beyond brilliance. She enacted Ishita's fear of losing her children, the strength to fight death for them and just of being a 'mother' so well that there was no line that could put apart Divyanka and Ishita for me, they were one. She was that good.

Have to give a special moment to both the kids. Gautam and Ruhanika. Ru is an exceptional actor and that's known to all of us. But Gautam has come a long way too. He acted his part out with perfection. Adi's plight, confusion, feeling of being cheated moved me. And Gautam did his job well. Both the kids were at the crux of this plot and them two stay in my mind most after the episode.

Lastly and most importantly. I have to give three cheers to the entire team back screen who put in so much effort to make this episode worth all the doubts we had on it. They justified everything they showed, put in so much technique and logic and lastly love the fact that they did not just use the natural calamity for drama but did justice to it. The effects, the editing, everything was right yesterday..

P.S - Just hoping that the little changes we see, and the old charm from time to time stays back and doesn't leave us again.

Originally posted by: EkPaheli

Au contraire Gan, you underestimate the reach and popularity of your daily thread and to be on page one of it is quite a prize, one which assures the person who managed to snag the spot wont go unread 😃

Originally posted by: EkPaheli

Thanks Gan ☺️ coming from you its a compliment though its been ages since I used PS so I was apprehensive about this one...the coloring - frankly I dont know how but as I started to make it I knew it had to be Black & Red 😳

Originally posted by: sunitas123

Think about it U, sorry dunno your name. Ishu is there coz of what Shagun has done. Shagun dumped a six month old baby and went to live with a man who was her husband's boss ( more handsome, rich, successful) since her husband cud not give her all that she wanted - there she ceased to be a mother to Ruhi. YHM started with the love story of Ishita and Ruhi - they were so attracted to each other from the time they met. Ruhi who was missing a mom, saw a mom in her. Where is the glorification here? Most forum members just love Raman and generally hate Ishita or even DT just like that! Or maybe they r jealous Raman loves Ishita and not them! Their rant about glorification is more wrt to Raman and not Shagun so much. However, if Shagun was grey already and they want to show her frustration in losing all plans and a character growth, she has to be more negative in my opinion. One cant stagnate. She left Raman, but now since Raman is more successful, she wanted him back and is blaming Ishita for all her troubles. The biggest problem with Shagun was she always believed Raman loved only her which he did even six months after she dumped him and he was a bitter man. So when he started loving Ishita, Shagun did not like it one bit, though she was herself living in with Ashok.

Hope I made sense, in a hurry...

Originally posted by: -Gan-

<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">I feel the original premise of the show has always been Nature vs Nurture...Shagun has always been narcissistic, selfish woman who left her husband(who literally worshiped the ground she walked on) and her 6 month old daughter for prospect of better life and estranged her first born from his loving family just to teach them a lesson...remember this ALL happened prior to Ishita's entry in Raman's life ...so that was the THE original sketch of Shagun:a materialistic woman who wanted to climb the social ladder.

Ishita has been shown as always being the one who put others interest before hers..the original sketch is like that.

The only part where I feel the CVs went overboard after the addition of 7:30 slot was turning Shagun into a dark character...her initial sketch showed she atleast cared for Adi in her own way...she manipulated him...but still cared for him...but the whole track of her re-entry into Bhalla house showed her as an extreme example of an uncaring mother who didn't care of her son's emotional vulnerability...rather used it to her own benefit in the most selfish way . That's a slight stretch even for Shagun's sketch.

But shagun has always been shown to represent that kind of woman who has a sense of entitlement to everything..and if things didnt go her way..she would play victim very well...to garner sympathy for her own benefit

I think it was scene leading to Teri Galiyan where Raman said something to shagun which sort of defines her role in the story too...he said in order to see the brightness of light, you have to compare it with the darkness...so similarly without Shagun's presence (as a woman who had the biological privilege of being a mother but didnt care to step into the responsibility of being a mother) the brilliance of Ishita's self less nurturing nature wouldn't get highlighted. So Shagun is important to the story as any antagonist is to any good story.

Yes CVs tried to push Ishita's goodness to some tellyland superbahu level of late but that doesn't take away the fact that Shagun is a bad mother. Period..with or without Ishita's glorification.

hope I could answer your question. I tried 😆
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