Originally posted by: AreYaar
I think it's better if I summarize my thoughts on this IV here only😆
https://www.filmibeat.com/interviews/exclusive-interview-gashmeer-mahajani-if-you-have-your-confidence-aura-you-can-make-your-mark/articlecontent-pf324530-328427.html
1) This is probably GM's first IV where he didn't just go on and on about his own work and spoke about ST at length too vis a vis her being the name and face of the show😆.....now whether this is a result of him and ST having gotten closer over time or now him feeling more responsibility for her success to continue even as he exits, that is open to speculation.....lol....but I guess it's more likely the latter....he knows his leaving will take some kind of toll but since he wants ST to do well, he is doing his part in promoting her as the anchor of this show. That is what I think too + I think he feels is waqt apni baat karnese better haibaali loton ka bolo and jao as it is he doesn't want kisi tarah ka ilzam guess hence his I want the show to do well caz these people had already started the bakwas ke Gm is selfish and uska sab kasoor hai he is responsible bla bla bla so he os doing a bit extra ke bhai st ke liye dekho baaki toh yeah they did come close too but I I feel he just wants clean slate for himself and in no way wants to be tagged with the doom which is upcoming and am pretty sure he can see it but ab itna openly bolega to aur aayenge isko tang karne and ab isko sar dardi nahi chahiye so he is like Haan bhai sab acha hai main toh waise hi side tha . Baaki yes it is true ST is the main face but that doesn't take your credit .. but yeah I agree a lot of it is PR exercise and itna candid it is nit as GM can be he is restricting himself to not ponder over the wrongs much and sabko bol raha hai ke mere ko chodo st ka socho .. GM wants to take himself out ache se but bhai regardless you had a part and you were the neev toh tumhars toh higa hi naam and co parisons but good on him for appreciating st aise khulke reason jo bhi ho.
2) Despite all the gushing about how amicable this exit was, the very fact that the GM who is otherwise so blunt and candid about many things😆 - that GM doesn't want to reveal what the reason for him leaving the show was.....lol that in itself speaks volumes. Cuz if it was for a big project or a movie, why wouldn't he reveal that? And he also cleared up the fact that it wasn't his lack of availability to shoot for Imlie.....lol so then option obviously comes back to creative differences only na😆. The IV-er did list creative differences as one of the speculations about why he's leaving but he cleverly never answered that and only addressed the 10 days a month rumor😆. Exactly and also then he says he doesn't have koi plan either aage ka jo hoga dekh lega in the moment toh jab kuch plan bhi jahi hai phir kyin laat maar do again jo bhi hua hai creative differences hi hai but he doesn't wanna say it toh jab aage ka mahi oata commitment issues nahi hai future wala bhinpata nahi hai he is saying jo bhi mila karega toh bhai phir bacha kya yehi ke iska jo bhi panga hua hai with atif and muskaan and didi ji having issues ke unka mahi rehna and unko non stop propping up lol
3) The timeline for the exit decision - it's all still very murky.....lol here he's saying decision was taken two months back so that's around end Nov. then.....lol till first week of Nov, he was rubbishing rumors of him quitting, so he wants to tell us that suddenly in 2 weeks he decided he wants to leave aise hi? And that too by giving two whole months for "show to stabilize with his reduced SS"? 😆.....why do you need to do all of that if you've decided to leave? It shouldn't be your problem anymore either if it's all business, right? 😆....tum apna kaam karke nikal lo - baaki producer ka headache. But no, you still need to hang around for 2 months to "stabilize" something that you still won't give a clear reason for leaving? 😆.....Mujhe toh yeh saare PR type answers lag rahe hain.....lol like he's literally reading out from Gul ki puri PR playbook ki we need to plan this exit in a phased approach, prove Adi wrong for Imlie suddenly after 300 epis of saying they are made for each other😆......now suddenly we will show Adi doing shak on Imlie toh sab log maan bhi lenge - tadaa😆.....Bullshit. This is Gul brand of thinking, not GM's😆. Again, the real crux lies in the REASON for why he's leaving, not how they tried to MANAGE his leaving.....lol but yeh log humein baaton mein ghumaana chahte hain. Again agreed .. tumhraa sar dard nahi hai kaun kaise chalata hai soch ke aaya hai and again as if iske do scene karne se ho gaya yeh galat .. tumhara Productuon nahi hai ke tum 2 mahine do again tumne diye good for you but yeh log phir bhi kuch na kar sake not your fault to defend them choddo.. stabilize and all is none of your headache
4) Biggest LOL was deffo him being like for Aryan to be accepted, Aditya had to be proven wrong for Imlie.....ROFL this is the lamest storytelling philosophy possible and I'd like to believe that the guy who sold us such a humanized version of Adi for so long doesn't subscribe to such lame thinking ki kisi ek ko achha prove karne ke liye dusre ko bura dikhana zaroori hota hai. Later in the IV he was jhaadoing so much gyaan on kaala teeka and people who want to perceive kisi aur ki goodness as a threat to themselves......lol you're telling me that guy thinks it's a sound storytelling technique to prove one person good by making others look bad? Heck this is the guy who called Malini a Devi even when she was wrong for so long.....lol jo aaj tak Malini ki galtiyaan itni candidly nahin point out kar paaya is now suddenly saying Adi needed to be proven wrong for Aryan to supposedly be right? lol so is he then also agreeing with those people who claimed Malini needed to be proven "bad" to make Adilie look good? LOL bullshit.....so yeah this is bullshit answer number 2 from him in this IV which again I also feel is from the PR playbook warna iska bhi 10 page long response aata....the things he actually believes in, he gushes for like 2 paragraphs about....otherwise it's a short one liner😆.
These are cheap gimmicks....when you pull down one person to prop another up, that is never a lasting thing - it's a short term cheap thrill at the most. Last woh karta hai jiski khud ki shaksiyat hoti hai - kisi ko kuchal ke upar chadhne waale ki shaksiyat hi rotten hoti hai. If Aryan had the caliber as a character to stand on his own, he wouldn't need Adi to be pulled down....his goodness would have shone through on his own without his every dialogue needing to be about how bad Adi is.....lol....the fact that makers subscribed to such a lame ideology to set up the next phase of their story reflects more on their bakwaas mindsets than anything else.....and GM at this point more or less seems like he just wants out and he cares in the least Aryan kaise accept ho😆.....writers ne bol diya aise hoga accept toh he's like ok sure if you say so ......but I'll still ace the scraps of Adi scenes I'm getting till the end and baaki sab aap log sambhaal lena....lol waah 😆.....aise hoga transition? Waah re khushfehmiyaan😆
Wohi I have posted in the other CC too ke bhai ohir toh tum yehi negate jar rshe ho maylab imlie ke liye malini ko galat Hina pads but the you were saying nalini bhi achi thi toh dono kaise ache ho sakte thay so all this is also give to him ke bhai tum bol do Aryan theek hai toh shayad broader acceptance mil jaaye tumhare bolne Se but kya hai na sab bas ispe nahi chalta.they have bo faith in their so called new track itna Condfidence hota toh why they needed GM to lurk around I the bg seeedha seedha tabhi maar dete .. again kaam khud nahi kia but ab easy to blame his exit hi toh usse hi kehlawao
And it's hilarious ki he has no thoughts or faraks to spare for Malini didi ji who was the lynchpin for 300 episodes before Aryan....ROFL no faraks to give for Didi ki haq ki ladaai🤣.....the deafening silence on that front also says plenty about the reasons he wanted to exit😆. He's literally done this whole IV like Malini doesn't even exist and it's all about how he's ok with however they wanted to set up Aryan for Imlie😆
And that us the best thing na..jitna she wanted attention both on and offscreen utna GM has dodged her successfully and kuch na dia caz he has nothing lol to problem lies there not I adi ko girana and all
5) The part about Rahul director saab.....lol while I do appreciate him reminiscing about the phase until when they got to do scenes organically and Rahul allowing him and ST to take the scenes wherever they wanted to with their improvisations, it is again the deafening silence about Atif that fills in the blanks.....lol yes, Rahul may have been the director until they left for Hyd, but that entire phase pre-Hyd also included bits like the Dil Se sequence, the PD2 gunshot sequence which Atif did direct....lol and which GM himself at that point used to hail about how Atif makes him look like an action hero etc. etc.....the fact that GM totally omitted to mention that from his journey with Imlie does say a lot now.....lol the fact that GM also mainly loved everything before the Hyd schedule does say a lot😆.....that was indeed the best phase of the show....things were on a downward trajectory after that, even if we got the one odd NDE type scene here or there in terms of grand action stuff.
i was amused too ke pre HYD sab acha wahan se hi things started going down and then toh post Aug never rise up again and we were so right ke yeh sab isn't GM ka liking snd he did say it back at video deletion too ke pata mahi kab tak justify kar paaye hahh shukar hai rape baby se bach gaya yeh
5) The rest of it is a lot of his general reflections on his work, life, career etc.....some good anecdotes in there about how self-confidence is perceived, the energy with which he approaches a scene, the way Imlie honed him as an actor in terms of being able to work in more time crunch and less time to get a scripting heads up.....that was all a good read too :) I think the Imlie experience does seem to have been learning curve for him in his own way and he will probably absorb this as life lessons in his own way to use as anecdotes down the road just like he's still giving anecdotes from the time he ran his event management company since he had to start working at a young age to fend for his family.
Deffo a great read overall.....he's tried his best to leave on a positive/amicable note from his side.....lol but the makers are the ones who thrust the show into negativity a while back and that bill will come due on its own with time.
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