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Okay so finally i am fully invested in this show to the point that i am finally coming up with Fanfiction ideas😆
Also a question that has been bothering me till now. Say if Chandani was 8 and Dev was 8 years elder to her 16 years back then today he should be 32. but Meghna tells Chandani that he is 27 so what does that mean? did i miss something? not that it matters much coz i could just put it as a writing error or that Advay lied about his age to make sure no one would ever connect him to Dev but just curious about what others think.
that's my ultimate level of involvement with any show.
So what i liked about this show. TBH i really was interested in this show after the initial promo's. It was a story of a dark hero, and an innocent little sweet heart. But then the first episode put me off mid way due to the erratic editing.
i had no reason to stick to it anyways coz i am not a huge Barun fan and the only pulling factor was it was a Gul show hence a really good romance. The first episode also put me off coz of Barun's look. too much facial hair never was something i liked on an actor coz it hides all their expressions.
then after a few weeks my friend asked me to give the series another try coz it was getting on track finally. i was like okay, let's try it but i wasn't expecting much. and main part of it was that this was a hindi Tele series and my standards for revenge dramas was set way too high from watching the korean dramas like Innocent man, K2, healer, empress ki and the likes.
So i started watching, coz i am a IB fan so the chemistry might work for me. the first 14 episodes felt disastrous in that department though. but i was to be blamed partly in that regard coz i had just finished re watching the Taiwanese series It started with a Kiss and they kissed again and my standards were way too high at that point in terms of intimacy which would never pass on India Television.
But then i started with the wedding drama and that was what hooked me. i read many people complain bout how rushed it was but to me it was perfect. may be coz i had binged watched all the episodes. but it was really good to me on all fronts- acting, directing, cinematography, dialogues and music. (Though i did find the music too loud at times.)
Barun and Shivani to me were the ones who excelled though especially Barun. like i said, i was never a die hard fan of Barun. even in season 1 and BHPH i never really connected with him. i liked the story and i always found him adequate coz his character was always one dimensional like an angry young man and a happy go lucky guy. like i felt his pain but never to the point that tears would start flowing from my eyes without me even realizing it. But for the first time i felt that he really stood up to all the praise he always got when he walked into the wedding venue. He made me want to re watch those scenes again and again and make VMs on that just to forever keep it in my memory. And Shivani's each reaction perfectly complemented him in all aspects. and that's saying a lot coz my standards for this character were set to a pretty high level( to Joong ki's Kang ma Ru from innocent man.)this character i felt would give Barun a really good canvas to explore his acting talents and he didn't disappoint me. Chandani on the other hand has been a pretty timid type of character with not much to explore for Shivani and i was really surprised by the subtle changes she brought to the already set character.
and then the editing has improved so much and the fact that all scenes are so well shot. its something i really like to see, that what i am watching is pleasing to my eyes. the costumes are still a little distracting but yeah, i have seen worse in IB so i am immune to it by now😆
but the main point is the story. to me A story is really amazing when every one watching it get's inspired to write something on it. and this story does that. it may not be as tightly constructed like an english or korean series but it definitely is way better then the rest of the India television dramas. even with season 1 and season 2 of IPKKND the story never felt so layered to me as this one. And truth is that Shlok was way more darker that Advay not because he was more cruel but because his reasons were pretty much not worth my time. Advay's reason on the other hand has been well thought out and constructed well. His hatred influenced heavily by his trauma has made him retaliate against the one person he had loved the most. Chandani on the other hand has been made a real character too. She is not born mahan and ball of sunshine from her birth. no. her life experiences have molded her into what she is today. and that is real. wwe all may have never gone through all that she has gone through but what we are today is because of what we were thought, what we saw and the love and even hatred that we got as we grew up. So Chandani's every trait is defined by what she has gone through and that is what i find real.
So all in all that is all i want to say about the show. i really do hope that this show keeps up to the standards it has set for me and never falters coz i have really started loving this one. and i am hopeful that by the end of this series i will be a die hard fan of both Barun and Shivani.
also the rest of the cast is really well casted and amazing in every sense. especially Ritu. she has amazed me by her subtle yet deadly portrayal of a villain. the last time an Indian villain who impressed me was portrayal of Tanveer by Ambrapali but later that character went down the psycho path and was eventually destroyed. hope the same doesn't happen with Indrani. i would love for her to be strong and always sorted in her goals and the means she uses to achieve them.
PS: with this i end this post. i am currently reading Gone with the Wind for the 100th time and really feel that my views of this show are heavily influenced by this. so the post i made on this show might have my views coming from the darkest pits of my heavily battered heart. sorry about that.
Also a question that has been bothering me till now. Say if Chandani was 8 and Dev was 8 years elder to her 16 years back then today he should be 32. but Meghna tells Chandani that he is 27 so what does that mean? did i miss something? not that it matters much coz i could just put it as a writing error or that Advay lied about his age to make sure no one would ever connect him to Dev but just curious about what others think.
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