OVERDUE ANALYSIS: Thread 2 Link, p150 - Page 35

@ Samana:

@Samana. Thanks for the WU and the episode video.

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 I am in a complete loss as to what motivated Dev to do all these things, Geet's family would have still got her married even without Dev being extra sweet to Geet. The family doesn't even take Geet's opinion on this, so it puzzles me why Dev did all this to make Geet fall for him...

@ nirvanica and Samana, about DD looking darker in these episodes, I remember Hrishikesh Gandhi during one of his interviews had said how he had used different sets of lighting for the different set ups; how the office set ups were more glossier because Maan and Geet were falling in love at that time and how the HP days the lightings were grimmer given the drama situation unfolding at that time.

@ All. loved all the takes.

MAAANN!!!

Ok so he so wasn't supposed to be the highlight of the episode but he WAS! This episode was the entry of TWO pivotal characters, Maan and...the Taveez. And my stomach started doing a happy dance at each entry because I know what is coming!

So this episode it was revealed that they are indeed cheaters who are out for Geet's money and the lady who was about to tell the truth was silenced by NT! It is actually ambiguous as to whether Dev is in on the plot at this point so I guess Dev-Geet shippers would have still hoped or assumed that Dev was good and the women of his family were cheaters. I like how they are building the story up really slowly so that we, along with Geet are encouraged to trust Dev more and more and sort of rely on him to be Geet's saviour both in his own family and from hers.

Dev certainly has his flirt on doesn't he? And a song sequence to boot! I don't know if I am biased, I probably am, but I have always thought that the lyrics of that song were really OTT so for me it suited Dev completely as his whole manner of courtship is really corny. I love the way they use such tired cliches for the Dev-Geet romance, such as the rearview mirror, which is interesting when you see how fresh and original the Maaneet romance was. Or maybe their chemistry just made all the cliches look original? Ierno.

Geet and Rajji were very sweet, buying something for their mothers and just generally having a good time. I guess these are the simple pleasures that Geet enjoys despite her oppressive life, that makes for such an important aspect of her character. In this trait, I see a lot of her father in her after the episodes we have watched. Her situation might not be ideal, given that she has to leave her family and go in a few days, and that too to Canada, but that doesn't stop her from enjoying the moments she does have in the present.

Dev is clearly smitten with Geet, otherwise why would he be so concerned as to whether she was angry with him or not?

For me the episode was once again a foreshadowing of what is to come in the story. Geet leaves her family to meet Dev because he calls her and she trusts him to be there (ie her marriage) but then before she comes, he leaves, rendering her very much alone. Both he and her family assume the other has taken responsibility for her and completely abandon her in a deserted mela, to fend for herself for the first time in her very sheltered life. I cried for Geet and really felt her deep fear when she was left all alone, at the mercy of the goons and found it very interesting and ironic that she threatens them with Brij's wrath. If shows the deep interdependence of the patriarchal system they all live under. Yes, Darjee and Brij are oppressive misogynists but they also protect their women from any contact with the real world. It's a very different system from what we are used to but one that works for them and that they believe in very strongly. Anyway, so both of them assume the other has responsibility for her and leave her all alone and incidentally, in a very sticky situation and who should she meet but... MAAN! And of course she is immediately connected to him by the taveez.

I guess we know from the very outset that he is no ordinary knight in shining armour as barely acknowledges the desperate girl clinging to his shirt.

Oh man all the angle badal badalna before we saw Maan's face was almost as torturous as when we kept wanting a camera angle kiss at the end.

Thanks Samana for posting the episode. Of course it is Maanday in more ways than one😃. So posting my thoughts.

@ Samana Oh my!!our first paras are almost a ditto. It is funny because I wrote it yesterday  .Did you do it earlier too? I like the way you have analysed Geet's actions in the mela.I guess I was too impatient to see Maan to have paid so much of attention to the goings on during the mela. And I liked the symbolism you saw in Dev abandoning her when she trusted him.