Okay, was it gazab ka epi or what ?! Was it gazab ka epi or gazab ka shocking epi as everyone was totally taken aback by every "new shatranj ki chaal" Balraj is taking even before Asthanas can even manage to take a turn ... all the way from AG to BG !! 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲 The man is gone delirious with his unquenched unsatiated GREED for power. Bachchoo, u going to pay a steep price for your king-size ego and ambition, and sooon ! Mark my words !! 😃
What a bombastic and dramatic way the 1st scene of the day started! Could we ask for anything better and get it??? Nope. AG walking in chacha's special den (study ?) and clapping and giving sabaashi profusely at his marvelous performance of shedding crocodile tears and showing so much pyaar for Ani bhaiyya's mistress ??? And of course we know what his answer would be when he says that he has to resort to "chhal or bal" in order to have an heir to the entire wealth.and usurp the mansion and property. The nature of convo btw the two was rather interesting as if two friends are communicating as to what their next baazi or chhal should be ?!?! Baldev ne kachche papad nahi bele hain when he insinuates AG of deceiving his own chacha coz he kept the news of M being preggy from him. So the nephew is caught red handed, just as chacha is caught red handed too by the nephew (e.g. clapping).
And so Baldev warns AG in no uncertain terms, i.e. holding his collars tightly as if AG is convicted of a major crime, never to use all the tactics that AG learned from him. And continuing with his emotional blackmail (EB), butterifies him as to how AG possesses the tamanna khwahish to acquire whatever he wants by hook or by crook. Then continuing with his scary rhetoric, asks him ~ while following on my footsteps, are you trying to become me ?? (in other words, better remain my shadow, not me ☢️ "Make sure that you never give me room or reason to doubt your sincerity and honesty. So AG, marta kya na karta, said ~ "NEVER"
Scene change and Meera realizing how she has become the victim of circumstances and of Balraj's EB, trying to remember thru FB the way he was beseeching about the helplessness of an old father who has lost everything and is begging her to help him out. M realizes how vulnerable she has become and (me implying) chaah kar bhi kuch nahi kar sakti hai aur majboor hai.
AG cautions baldev that Meera is not the puppet like Nandini has been and that chacha has no right, no haq to hold her in his grip. Whenever she wants, she can up and leave and there's nothing chacha can do to stop her. Baldev reminds AG that when shatranj ki chaal has begun, I make sure that I make all the right moves and asks him to leave him alone, camera focuses on a manipulative sinister-looking baldev, as if wheels are turning in his head as to what's going to be his next plan of action.
Time for comic relief, but of course who else but our jeeja and a little tete-a-tete btw him and AG about the designer blue shirt and how it matches the color of the car that AG has asked him to use to run an errand, and how it's a good sign, good omen since jeeja is going to an important meeting.
Scene changes and amma's bickering needs no reason to start when she blurts out about how late Nandini is in bringing the garland for Ani's picture coz she's keeping ekadashi vrat for Ani which only widows are supposed to keep (really ???). While this hullabaloo is going on, baldev walks to the dining area and hears devraani (amma) complaining about the way Nandini is late in putting up the ekadashi vrat ka garland on Ani's pic, while Meera happens to be present in this rigmarole, and shyama holding the garland thaali by Ani's picture.
Okay, since shatir dimag wala baldev has quick resolution to small / big dilemmas / situations, immediately asks Meera to put the garland on Ani's picture, to amma's utter shock. Baldev ordering shyama: "bring (pause) the garland. Our sane DIL hesitates but marti kya na karti and walks up to Meera. Meera, inspite of baldev's orders, nods her head in disagreement. Baldev softens his tone and tells Meera ~ "beta tumhara haq banta hai. Tum Ani ke bachche ko janam dene wali ho. haar le lo." Meera phir se hathiyaar daal deti hai and lifts the garland up to put it up on Ani's picture, while Nandini is coming down the steps with the garland in her hands, with the sharp cameramanship showing her being "sidestepped". All eyes turn towards her. Needless to say, another shocker awaits her when she actually watches Meera taking her place and putting the garland up on Ani's picture.
Nandini is a bundle of hurt and pain, AGAIN, and as expected runs out of the house, cries profusely, while Meera has sympathetic tears in her eyes for Nandini. Outside Nandini throws furniture around, crushes the garland and takes refuge at her "special" gazebo.
Another comic relief in the form of "Sherlock-Niranjan-Holmes" and another tete-a-tete ... this time with BIL AK and colon ki poori bottle ka satyanash ! 😉
Okay, so finally at the dining table AG remembers that jeeja is actually wearing his designer shirt and somehow didi Pallu quietens AG by smugly telling him ~ dont worry. After all ~~ "ye jo itna ghamand dikha rahe ho na, mere papa ke hi paison ka hai." Talk about the nerve and her own ghamand she has about how rich her father is and the way AG is totally dependent on that source for all his buri aadatein !
Are we counting? Is it now the third shocker of the day when baldev orders to have Meera sit at the dining table with everyone else. Camera focuses on everyone's utter bewilderment and shock, including Beeji (her very 1st appearance of the day). Meera gazes at everyone one by one and their strange reaction, and only decides to sit down when Beeji aankh ke ishaare se tells her to sit down. (guys, this man called baldev is worse than Indian hitler, i.e. Aurangzeb ... gosh 😡🤢).
Yet another scene change. Nandini crying, calling daddy and telling him that she cannot live in this house for another minute. And mutely tells daddy the whole Meera / Balraj saga. Daddy is totally and understandably upset and realizes how baldev has crossed all limits of decency. Nandini says that she cannot bear any more insult and practically begs daddy to take her away from the house. Daddy beseeches her NOT TO LEAVE AND BE STRONG. He sternly tells her that if she left the house, he will lose everything and tells her he needs little time and to remember that the house belongs to him, to her, not to baldev, and makes her promise him never to leave the house, which she does.
Okay, long story short ~~ Meera disagrees with baldev when he asks her to eat food and says she will eat later. Baldev Meera ko uski health ki duhai deta hai and wants to makes sure that she is eating at right time in order to get better soon.
BTW, interesting observation. Howcome baldev in all these years DOES NOT KNOW about the ekadashi ka vrat. Nandini may be new at this, but not devraani (amma). Hello ????? So what does baldev do ? Makes another opportunistic move and EB'g Meera, tells her (just when she's about to put the very 1st bite in her mouth) ~~ "mujhe khushi hogi agar tum bhi ye vrat rakhogi Ani ke liye. (All eyes incl Beeji looking at balraj wih utter shock and surprise) Dekho main koi zabardasti nahi karna chahta, par tum Ani ke bachhe ki maa banane wali ho, tumhara haq bhi hai ye vrat rakhne ka."
Time for precap: Beeji screaming at baldev and telling him ~ as long as Meera was lover, she had no importance. Now that she has Ani's child, suddenly she has become too important, huh ???
Nandini with full force and gumption, pointing her index finger at Meera, tells her ~~ "do u know what does sabhya samaaj consider your kind of relationship ? It's another name for rakhail / mistress (implying). And for the 1st time, right on baby, Meera opens her mouth and yells at Nandini ~~ 'STOP IT" !!!
I will let you all analyze on my behalf, so we can make this epi really interactive !!!! 😆😃
Good MorNight All !!
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