Also, because you get used to the film's pace and storytelling. The second half of the film is quite sorted out with respect to its narration, and the film feels smoothly flowing forward, unlike the jittery first half. Sure, Zafar had his own motivations early on, but Roop's love was supposed to be pure and passionate, but only feels so in just a few scenes in the second half and in the climax, otherwise her love towards Zafar mostly feels like an infatuation. Pretty crumbleable love story, not very solidly constructed. But, Zafar and Roop's love story is not really heart-touching and strong enough to for you to care about it, and neither of them appeared to be deeply in love with each other, and you feel that they can give-up on each other easily. It does add a little spice to the story, which otherwise was bland till now. Even the surprise plot twist on Zafar's background and his intentions doesn't quite change the end result.
And, you are just waiting for the doomsday to arrive.
But, once Roop and Zafar meet, you know what's coming up. Zafar is a blacksmith by profession, and fights bulls on occasion. He is shocked to hear that Dev has slept with only one woman in his life, his own wife. Zafar (Varun Dhawan) is a fan of real life Sanjay Dutt, who has no counts of the women he slept with. The portion of Satya coaxing Roop, just felt like an excuse that the film was using to get Roop to Husnabad, so that she could fall in love with Zafar. It just wanted to bring Roop to Husnabad and be done with it. So, what was Satya's initial intention? The film wasn't clear about that. So, Satya initially had no plans to get Roop married to Dev. It was Roop who said, unless she is married to Dev, she ain't coming to their house. Like, for example, Why did Satya initially wanted Roop to be in their house only for one year? and not after that? What did Satya wanted Roop to do in her house? Because, Satya did not go to Roop asking her to be Dev (Satya's husband)'s wife. The film doesn't offer any explanation to some of the dialogues and intentions of its characters, even after the film ends. The starting scenes involving Roop and Satya needed to be more clearer, to let the audience know what exactly is going on. The film doesn't clearly convey the basic setting of the film, and instead seems more interested in astonishing us through its attractive visuals. Kalank, in the initial part, fails to firmly set the premise for the rest of the film to be built around it. And, it also reduces the intrigue and tension in the climax portion, because you already know that Roop is going to be safe. Some of the scenes are already disconnected with each other, and the film decides to go back-and-forth in time, with whatever intentions, but have definitely backfired. I mean, the film is definitely enchanting and well shot, and every frame of the film is very artistic and looks very eye pleasing, but the storytelling suffers from abruptness, and the unnecessary back-and-forth narration further adds to the woes. And, the made-to-look-good characters, like, Roop, with her long beautiful flowing hair, elegant clothes and a miniature bird-cage ear-ring Zafar, with his shampooed dark-black silky hair, kohl lined eyes and painted abs. Three songs into the film, and it's still not clear what is going on, the flow of the story is still quite turbulent, and by the time it gets streamlined, you just get to appreciate the looks of the film, like, the locations, shiny colourful costumes, sets and the vivid colours, predominantly red and its various shades, that the film decorates the screen with. The problem is with the initial part of the storytelling where characters straight up hit the screen with their respective songs, and indulge in conversation with the other characters which also haven't been properly seated in the story, yet.
And, the film in its effort at beautification, mostly forgets about at the subject at hand and only occasionally remembers to give us a few good sequences. The narration is quite jumbled in the first half of Kalank. Roop (Alia Bhatt) is the central character of the film, the supposedly very beautiful girl, as her name suggests. The song and dance sequences try to elaborate on her beauty through slow-motion running shots, slow-motion zoom-in shots of her smiling, raising her eye brows, etc. The film starts by introducing us to a cheerful and bubbly girl, Roop, through a beautifying song, which thoroughly tries to sell Roop as a very attractive girl. Kalank is set during the times of partition of India, around 1945-47, in a fictional place called Husnabad, near Lahore. Turbulent first half almost plays spoilsport.
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