Chalo at least today I'm not a loner with 'mixed feelings' 😆
And my mixed are sort of inclined towards decline - if that makes sense I'm going to totally ignore the non existent security and what not 'creative liberties' of this show - cause honestly, utna to given hi maan liya ab maine!
But echoing you - the latter two scenes, in the OT, and the AN convo - 👎🏼
I personally wish either that Mallika had not been so reasonable, or that Ashutosh had exercised greater objectivity. The way the OT scene played out - Nidhi was being Nidhi (no qualms on that), Mallika was being very reasonable and professional and I frankly did not detect anything personal in her telling Nidhi how the rules stood. But then in came Ashutosh - and although we have to get a fair share of build up scenes where he backs up Nidhi over Mallika - this one for me went anti his character as such. I wish it had played out more like, him appreciating her bringing in the patient - genuinely and humbly in a personal than professional manner, like he felt the gratitude himself - and then nudged her to leave the OT but go on and stay for Shehanshah, maybe even in his own cabin - anything, basically to show his softening, gratitude and appreciation of her gesture, more than Mallika's more or less professional appreciation - but not the way it was done, where his stance stood in high contradiction with the kind of character he is! I mean creative liberty bhi kitni stretch karoge yaar - hospital has liability for this patient, and if anything happens to him in this OT - how exactly is Nidhi's presence and responsibility accounted for? That's only one of the technical problems with the scenario - which, to me, a character like Ashutosh could not dismiss as summarily as he did. Definitely a no-no scene build up for me.
And of course, like you said Nur, followed up that AN convo, which if anything, only worsened the case. I'm not even going to talk about how I think the conversation should have gone, because all I could think was - seriously? Nidhi is now preaching gyaan of life and love to Ashutosh - have they made it even half way to the kind of 'comfort' where they can even strike a conversation like that? The only line I liked in this scene was Nidhi telling Ashutosh how she regretted being responsible for this situation on his hands. A credible confession coming from someone like her. But how I wish Ashutosh had (even now, if not before) appreciated her prompt gesture coming to rescue, in a way beyond professional, but only just warming up and not full on plunging to (OMG OTT) remarks like, what spell have you cast on these kids 🤢
Okay - I said I wasn't going to go into how the conversation should have gone. Overall, 4/10 for the episode. For the bleak saving interludes in between mostly potential scenes gone oh so wrong. The kid enacting Shehanshah is definitely worth his money. I might have to make a bizarre statement like saying Mallika came closest to being the character of the day for me - but I'll hold it back. KK and MB are doing just fine with their acting - but who will save them from such scripting of scenes? 🤔
Edited by JZephyr - 12 years ago
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