That moment in one scene after he's stormed out from hearing Vidhurs words, after being prised away of his dream of procuring the throne, he converses with Gandhari for a while and begins to laugh, his laughs of madness quickly subside into sobbing, thenceforth buries himself into the warmth of ever loyal and loving wife Gandhari, who draws him close into her, it truly speaks to his fragility and helplessness; that momentary glimpse into his inner chaos via his feverish emotions from his outer demonstration of dominance and arrogance before his wife to one of feebleness as he breaks down before his selfpride picks up again and he shuns her away from him... The whole scene was brilliantly played out by both actors, it induced me to feel somewhat sorry on behalf of his pitiful condition as a man afflicted by fate , constricted due to blindness but moreover a man in need of the reassuring warmth of a patient loving wife who will always remain by his side, till death do us part etc; poor Gandhari has made an attwnpt to join Dhritarashtra as such so to close the distance between them yet he fails presently to acknowledge her devotedness to him.
I didn't think that actor d pull off the role that well judging from his youthful boyish looks but when he got talking in that manly voice, i was convinced, and his apt expressiveness through his eyes conveys well the evident desperation which Dhritarashtra found himself within. I am quite impressed, he fits in perfectly as does respective wife
There's just so much to all these characters inhabiting the Mahabharata, because of their human condition and reverberation to ours. I hope others who are introduced into the steory as it creeps ever slowly forward don't dissappoint, esp 2 important figures who have not arrived yet, because after seeing the trailer, me not so sure, as there wasnt any presence to them..we'll see.
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