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My dear Amrutha,
A BIG thank you for having spared me the need to do a review of this episode myself. Your excellent and very comprehensive 3 part write up👏 is more than adequate for this incoherent episode, as full of holes as Swiss cheese.
Just a few supplementary points.
The gunman is a policeman, possibly from a paramilitary force, not an Army soldier. In the army, the spirit of solidarity and camaraderie is still very strong, and senior officers pay far more attention to knowing what is right or wrong with the jawans. The subedar in every platoon knows his men inside out and keeps his seniors posted if any trouble is cooking. So if he had been a jawan they would have sent him on leave unless there was a war on, and his pay would never have been docked for that.
The paramilitary forces and police are not quite the same in looking after the lower ranks, but even so, I cannot imagine that a man whose wife is dying would have been forced to come on duty. It is what is called natakiya rupantar, to heighten the tragic impact.
Plus, as for his cribbing about serving in the heat and the cold, take a look at the Border Security Force on the Rajasthan-Pakistan border, where the life is just as hard for the officers as for the men, or at Siachen.
And his wife is suffering from a mortal disease, of which she would have died even if she had been an officer's wife. Or if he had been a farmer or an auto-mechanic working in a city. So all that ranting about no one having shown him any reham was just so much hot air.
Plus he is a LOUSY actor, and now we will have to endure him for another episode!
Your barb about his gun, which looked like a LMG to begin with, is very well taken. SGs at airports do NOT carry such heavy weaponry. Then it seems to be a magic contraption that fires endlessly without running out of ammo! Lastly,where did he get that second gun, a revolver,from?
And the other chap from the rescue team, the sole casualty so far, who fires at the gunman without permission, and then, as the gunman swivels round, sits there without moving, a perfect target, like a sitting duck! Ludicrous. Only matched by the idiotic young man who suddenly started running and naturally got himself shot. And that Kaul blames Akash for that piece of folly! Not that Akash was not stupid on his own, but this one was not his fault.
Why was the Army brought in at all? That too is a mistake, for such incidents are handled first by the local police, and then by an anti-terrorist or a special forces unit. NOT by the Army. All in all, I expected much better stuff from the writer of Kahani.
Akash behaved like a headless chicken, and Ananya like a Sunday school teacher. She deserved to have been shot at least thrice for her bhashans! Plus, the actress cannot go beyond her by now patented knitted eyebrows and/ or frozen face look, even in such a crisis. I begin to despair of her; she seems to be drafting a book on non-acting!
If at least 6 of the passengers, led by Ananya, had jumped on the gunman when his back was turned, they could easily have overpowered him. After all he is not a hard core, highly trained terrorist with hair trigger responses, like the ones in 9/11 in New York or 26/11 in Mumbai, merely a policeman who has gone berserk.
Ananya is obviously not trained in any martial arts, so she lets him lug her around like a sack of atta though she is bigger than he is.
Lastly, Ananya's handling of Akash in the morning was bizarre. He is not her boyfriend, after all, and I would have expected her to make a couple of polite enquiries about his sozzled "best friend" and leave it at that. Instead, she behaves like a roothi huyi premika, and the strange thing is that Akash too behaves like the errant aashiq of the aforesaid premika. Why does he need to explain anything to her at all? Not to speak of running after her to explain, but what? And why?
You are dead right, Amrutha, it looked as if the action had skipped 2 if not 3 episodes. But don't hope for too much by way of romance between these two. After all, taali ek haath se nahin bajti!
And the whole sharing the room bit was pure whimsy. It would NEVER happen in India, nor would any hotel management, even in the West, and even today, ever suggest any such thing to their guests. It was a clumsy plot device that I found nutty, though I am sure I must be in a minority of one on this!😉
As for Akash's secret identity being guessed, even if not in precise terms, that was inevitable in such a crisis, for otherwise, Akash would have been shunted out summarily and cut off from the action. And he the conqering hero, doing the standard climax stunt of putting his gun down in the precap! Toba, toba, it would never do, would it?😉😉
I often wonder why the police officers in TV crime serials, and Akash here, are inevitably shown tucking their gun in their belt or waistband , but at the back, not in a belt or shoulder holster. The gun would be liable to fall off in a rough and tumble encounter, and then again, it might go off by mistake, leaving our hero literally seatless!😉
Shyamala Aunty
A BIG thank you for having spared me the need to do a review of this episode myself. Your excellent and very comprehensive 3 part write up👏 is more than adequate for this incoherent episode, as full of holes as Swiss cheese.
Just a few supplementary points.
The gunman is a policeman, possibly from a paramilitary force, not an Army soldier. In the army, the spirit of solidarity and camaraderie is still very strong, and senior officers pay far more attention to knowing what is right or wrong with the jawans. The subedar in every platoon knows his men inside out and keeps his seniors posted if any trouble is cooking. So if he had been a jawan they would have sent him on leave unless there was a war on, and his pay would never have been docked for that.
The paramilitary forces and police are not quite the same in looking after the lower ranks, but even so, I cannot imagine that a man whose wife is dying would have been forced to come on duty. It is what is called natakiya rupantar, to heighten the tragic impact.
Plus, as for his cribbing about serving in the heat and the cold, take a look at the Border Security Force on the Rajasthan-Pakistan border, where the life is just as hard for the officers as for the men, or at Siachen.
And his wife is suffering from a mortal disease, of which she would have died even if she had been an officer's wife. Or if he had been a farmer or an auto-mechanic working in a city. So all that ranting about no one having shown him any reham was just so much hot air.
Plus he is a LOUSY actor, and now we will have to endure him for another episode!
Your barb about his gun, which looked like a LMG to begin with, is very well taken. SGs at airports do NOT carry such heavy weaponry. Then it seems to be a magic contraption that fires endlessly without running out of ammo! Lastly,where did he get that second gun, a revolver,from?
And the other chap from the rescue team, the sole casualty so far, who fires at the gunman without permission, and then, as the gunman swivels round, sits there without moving, a perfect target, like a sitting duck! Ludicrous. Only matched by the idiotic young man who suddenly started running and naturally got himself shot. And that Kaul blames Akash for that piece of folly! Not that Akash was not stupid on his own, but this one was not his fault.
Why was the Army brought in at all? That too is a mistake, for such incidents are handled first by the local police, and then by an anti-terrorist or a special forces unit. NOT by the Army. All in all, I expected much better stuff from the writer of Kahani.
Akash behaved like a headless chicken, and Ananya like a Sunday school teacher. She deserved to have been shot at least thrice for her bhashans! Plus, the actress cannot go beyond her by now patented knitted eyebrows and/ or frozen face look, even in such a crisis. I begin to despair of her; she seems to be drafting a book on non-acting!
If at least 6 of the passengers, led by Ananya, had jumped on the gunman when his back was turned, they could easily have overpowered him. After all he is not a hard core, highly trained terrorist with hair trigger responses, like the ones in 9/11 in New York or 26/11 in Mumbai, merely a policeman who has gone berserk.
Ananya is obviously not trained in any martial arts, so she lets him lug her around like a sack of atta though she is bigger than he is.
Lastly, Ananya's handling of Akash in the morning was bizarre. He is not her boyfriend, after all, and I would have expected her to make a couple of polite enquiries about his sozzled "best friend" and leave it at that. Instead, she behaves like a roothi huyi premika, and the strange thing is that Akash too behaves like the errant aashiq of the aforesaid premika. Why does he need to explain anything to her at all? Not to speak of running after her to explain, but what? And why?
You are dead right, Amrutha, it looked as if the action had skipped 2 if not 3 episodes. But don't hope for too much by way of romance between these two. After all, taali ek haath se nahin bajti!
And the whole sharing the room bit was pure whimsy. It would NEVER happen in India, nor would any hotel management, even in the West, and even today, ever suggest any such thing to their guests. It was a clumsy plot device that I found nutty, though I am sure I must be in a minority of one on this!😉
As for Akash's secret identity being guessed, even if not in precise terms, that was inevitable in such a crisis, for otherwise, Akash would have been shunted out summarily and cut off from the action. And he the conqering hero, doing the standard climax stunt of putting his gun down in the precap! Toba, toba, it would never do, would it?😉😉
I often wonder why the police officers in TV crime serials, and Akash here, are inevitably shown tucking their gun in their belt or waistband , but at the back, not in a belt or shoulder holster. The gun would be liable to fall off in a rough and tumble encounter, and then again, it might go off by mistake, leaving our hero literally seatless!😉
Shyamala Aunty
AIRLINES- 26 Oct, 2014- My review
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