Lo and behold! The weekend is over and Mondays are a pain! Will the fifth episode of Yudh provide some respite to the start-of-week blues? Let's see.
The first 10 minutes has a cringeworthy moment and a really captivating one indicating that the show has still some potential that it is not reaching, which is both good and bad news. Good news because it means that an already good show can become better as the episodes go on and bad news because the producers actually overlooked the obvious faux pas of a fake british accent, especially to an audience who know much too well to not notice it.
After recovering from the attack of the fake Lagaan soldier, the episode actually got much better. The dialogues, scenes involving some of supporting actors (especially the ones with Anand and his wife and the one with Taruni and Nayan) are heavy with subtext and beautifully played by the actors, the writing and yes, Zakir Hussain, are all taking the show up a notch.
This episode had some of the supporting actors taking centre stage and giving the main plot a push from the flanks and thank god for that! Although a certain Mr. Bachchan is a genius actor to say the least, the show would have been an utter flop if it's cast, as a whole, did not render the support it is beginning to do now.
This show is not only important to its makers as a platform to showcase its story, but also to other writers to venture into such shorter stories (by Indian standards) with a better quality of written and physical aesthetics and, most importantly, find acceptance in that. Therefore, it is natural that the makers of the show feel some pressure to succeed.
However, tonight, the story that started off as a bundle of loose, and numerous, story lines has begun to come together and thankfully, after the initial blind bump, the show seems to be picking up in pace and is more entertaining than it was when it started last week.
The first 10 minutes has a cringeworthy moment and a really captivating one indicating that the show has still some potential that it is not reaching, which is both good and bad news. Good news because it means that an already good show can become better as the episodes go on and bad news because the producers actually overlooked the obvious faux pas of a fake british accent, especially to an audience who know much too well to not notice it.
After recovering from the attack of the fake Lagaan soldier, the episode actually got much better. The dialogues, scenes involving some of supporting actors (especially the ones with Anand and his wife and the one with Taruni and Nayan) are heavy with subtext and beautifully played by the actors, the writing and yes, Zakir Hussain, are all taking the show up a notch.
This episode had some of the supporting actors taking centre stage and giving the main plot a push from the flanks and thank god for that! Although a certain Mr. Bachchan is a genius actor to say the least, the show would have been an utter flop if it's cast, as a whole, did not render the support it is beginning to do now.
This show is not only important to its makers as a platform to showcase its story, but also to other writers to venture into such shorter stories (by Indian standards) with a better quality of written and physical aesthetics and, most importantly, find acceptance in that. Therefore, it is natural that the makers of the show feel some pressure to succeed.
However, tonight, the story that started off as a bundle of loose, and numerous, story lines has begun to come together and thankfully, after the initial blind bump, the show seems to be picking up in pace and is more entertaining than it was when it started last week.
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