Originally posted by: honeypriya
Di you have put it up very beautifully...I do disagree in few points, but agree on most of it
Di it was touching on the first watch - but it was more heartbreaking on the second watch , as thats when I was connecting with the base of the characters I had in my mind...as then I knew what he meant when he said "I failed"...on first watch - I could not at all take - ASR putting his head down to say "I tried but I failed"...and then I went back to the development of the charcter sketch from the drawing board perespective - and thought will a man like ASR ever say that - did Howard Roark ever say he failed...and then I found they do...for them it was not being in the hospital lounge, not even the "vighna harta" was overlooking his confession...
But that he was admitting it to the woman who has the "healing powers"...and where at a point these men concede...that where every other place silence has always been their "answer or admittance" of any conversation of this weightage - to the woman who is their soul mate...there is somewhere a giving in - that to them they have to word these failings and fears...for normal people they can share there fears with many...for these men, it isnt the same...when she comes and sits next to him, he is finally at calm with himself to talk it out - before that he was restlessly pacing - not even the presence of God could he breathe and the images flashing in his mind were all disconnect...mbut when he sat down he had threaded his words and images...and finally he says to her...and highlight was that in the total conscience that to whom he is saying,that's why in last 5 mins,the dialogues have a stress each time he says Khushi...Roark had confessed only to Dominique the night she got married to Peter.
All said that yesterday the direction should have leveraged more...and agree the first couple of mins were chaos...but yes,there could have been more from Sanaya...but the scene where she holds Anjali when she breaks down and and the hug at the end...for me those two scenes were so beautifully done by her and impact full...I didn't get disconnect from her character at all..
As Gandhari said and I was myself thinking last two days,Sanaya does the hugs so damn beautifully...the element of Khushi lights up in those moments...she contrasts the character of ASR wonderfully...
Agreed to ur personal take...at moments like these we bow down to God...but at the moment like that yesterday ASR decided to visit himself, with Khushi and took the journey...that said it all...
priya,
beautifully put and i absolutely agree with you. i loved the writing yesterday. he can only say such words to one person in this whole wide world. the woman who has crossed her own barriers and all of his to enter his heart and make it feel again. make him feel himself again.
which is why i had no discord at all with what he said. to her he can admit, that he, who took such a major decision at the tender age of 14, who showed himmat, who tried all he could, he failed to achieve what he had set out to.
fabulous writing. "i am a failure" made me want to break down and cry. words to the effect of: when i'd see di happy, i would feel happiness. how terrifically sensitive the crafting by the writer of a boy shattered. at how many facets of the character the writer looks and finds the consequences of that evening. asr doesn't even feel happiness. that is also experienced looking at, via, his dearest most beloved sibling. how broken is the boy by that betrayal of that night. the stunning loss of it, a shock that makes everything shut down.
till khushi comes.
it was perhaps the direction or the performance or maybe even the pacing of those intense scenes that somehow got in the way of my getting connected.
i especially liked sanaya in three places:
1. when she cuts into anjali's desperate prattle that all is well and puts a hand on her cheek to say, no your rajkumari will not come.
2. when she just baldly states she's staying back.
3. when she clutches his sleeve, and turns him around to hug him, and then just holds him there giving him everything, loving him, letting it flow into him. he feels the giving, he begins to calm, how much of sadness is there in him. she is the only one who can help him resolve and let go.
yes, as gandhari has pointed out, there is a beautiful quality to sanaya's hugs. or rather to khushi's hugs. and the contrast is palpable and gorgeous.
sanaya has a difficult task ahead in terms of range of emotions to be explored as we enter a very sombre period. hope she can nuance it with her usual deep understanding.
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