Crooner 1.31 : Kuch aanch baaki hai..UPDATED - Page 7

Originally posted by: -SH-

Such a small world 😆

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/iss-pyaar-ko-kya-naam-doon/3178511/omg-peep-in-o-o-o

Originally posted by: riti4u

Hey Indi di,

Just read your take and couldnt help responding from busy outing..what have you done to me di 😆.. I agree on one thing that Barun is definately capable of more powerful scene as you and Priya did mention and definately if you see impact , feb 15 is still my best till date..but he touched me somewhere last night...I dont knw but I could feel variety of emotions in such short span of time ... I made a post too on that ..will be posting a link for that soon here.. what emotions that I felt in his words- I failed was that Guilt and helplessness, that inspite of giving it all...he cudnt provide happiness to his di... Di long back if you remember we had a discussion on faith ..you and I had different views on it..only time we differ😃..there I had said that this man believes that he can do everything and can control his life but I need his faith to be restored. Yes he is not the one to go and cry in front of God and plead.. but he has to realise that sometimes there are situations in our life where we fail too..😊.. Arnav Singh Raizada the man cannot win against destiny even though he claims to create his own destiny ..hope I made some sense of my blabbering 😆..I respect those who dont believe in God but I still hold view that we have to believe in some power up there which is above us.. Reason khushi was never alone was because she believed in such power and reason why this man was so alone inspite of everything was he didnt believed in one...

Originally posted by: mashira

Indeed. Ashes before the rise.

But before and perhaps even after, then, like he says, everything just goes away.


res.

EDITED

As always thoughtful crooner Priya. 👏 I reserved the space to write about something else but your crooner has made me change my mind. I will instead concentrate on the technical and acting aspects today. The pheonix is yet to rise and my thoughts on it too can wait.

You made me go back and watch the scenes again to get your POV for I thought Barun was more matured yesterday than the 15th Feb breakdown scene.

Let me explain. In the 15th Feb breakdown scene, if you remember, it plays out for the first two minutes almost as an exact replica of the ambulance scene.. him pacing up and down and wringing his hands. And then it picks up pace. For me, the scream to the heavens was personally not required.. it was an unnecessary dramatic element, I felt then and now, in what was already a heartbreaking, high drama scene. It is like a writer succumbing to his love for adjectives and using one too many. Though Barun did execute it very well.. that point made the scene a less notch one for me. But after the scream till he lifts his head and portrays the raw resurrection of ASR, it was flawless.

Yesterday, it was flawless throughout. There was as far as I could make out, there were flaws in the sound department. Barun mumbling is a point always raised by many. But my point is, he has to mumble sometimes...that is within the character portrayal!!! It is for the sound department to make that mumbling clear for us. He is grieving, he is not a person given to shouting out his emotions, this breakdown itself is a huge thing for him and will he shout out his grief then? No!!! He will only mumble.. his words will be half-uttered.. his voice will be broken.. his tears will flow out his voice. That is how it should be. It is the sound department that has to wake up to ensure that the actor mouths the dialogues exactly like how they should be and those dialogues must be heard by his audience exactly like how he mouthed them.


There were minor editing flaws too. Agreed the shot of his bloodshot eyes with the blurred earthen lamps in the foreground is a fantastic one but it was used twice and the effect was thus lessened and in fact it put a kind of break in what I thought was seamless emoting by Barun. He kept it deliberately a notch toned down, the subtlety, especially when he tells Khushi 'here I am.. ' and when he has to shift from grieving for his sister to utter disgust for Shyam with the helpless hate of his father at the back of his mind. Applause-worthy. And finally, the giving up of his everything, in Khushi's arms.. when he becomes the little lost boy that he never had a chance to be.

Finally, a small bit of what I wanted to elaborate on. More on this perhaps in some other crooner.

'Chota tha mein.. par himmat ki'. Courage, that kind of brinkmanship courage sucks you out dry. And makes you fear happiness. You fight against it, (the resisting of 'Khushi' symbolically) or you want to lock it up somewhere when you glimpse it. Both, alas, will only push you further towards grief.

Happiness by its very nature is transient.. like trying to hold sand in our hands but for ASR, the sand seems especially slippery. 'I don't know...everything just goes away'.

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...