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This one is dedicated to my sweetie-pie Zainu. 🤗
Well, Zainu madam, ab aap yahaan aake zara 'like' zaroor mariyega, as this is apparently the only thing you come to this forum for 😆😆 Aapke liye toh jaan bhi hazir, ek post kya cheez hai? 😆
So, chatt mangni, pat bhya toh suna tha, but this is ridiculous 😆 In three days they've had the engagement already? 😆
Shipra ji takes 1-2 hours to get ready, but the bride-to-be only needs 15 minutes? Haila! 😆 What a cheap date she's going to be 😆 at least Ram won't have to wait hours for her outside the bathroom 🤣
I really like Deepak Qazir (aka Babuji from KGGK - a mini reunion for Saakshi! 😆) but I do miss Shakuni maama part 1: I wonder why he was replaced? He wasn't doing such a bad job...
And from what angle does Ram look "excited" to Niharika?! 😆 but its good to know Mummy's PA Ishika is back...I was really missing her *rolls eyes* 🥱
LMAO at everything Ram was watching/seeing at night being marriage-related 😆😆😆😆 I so believe in such signs, don't you? 😆
Speaking of rings that hold bad memories/bring bad luck in new relationships...many people said the same thing about Kate Middleton using Diana's engagement ring...that it would bring a bad shadow over her marriage. Do you believe that rings (and other inanimate objects that we touch) can carry an imprint of a failure or a success and bring those vibes into a new endeavour?
I like how matter of fact everyone is about Ram's weight - and that Shipra and Priya tease and laugh about it, but it is without venom and certainly not a dealbreaker. I don't like bigoted people.
The ring-choosing scene didn't have the production values of the promos (looks like they spend all their budget on those rose-tinted promos, but as nice as they are, I wish they would spend some of it on the show itself), but I liked the whole scene of Ram and Priya trying to learn each other through such a simple thing. Very symbolic of their strange and "odd" relationship 😆 and the fact that these two simply do not know each other. I prefer such simple and subtle scenes that show (aaargh @ the S's! 😆) their 'Odd Couple' equation. I'd rather not hear again and again - from Priya or anyone else - how different Ram and Priya are, how they are not suited to each other etc etc. I'd rather see it in scenes like this 👏
I really liked that scene where Shipra jhadoed Priya for even thinking about going to work - so my mother 😆
Side note: Looks like this scene between Sudhir and Priya (acc. to the behind the scenes video) was the cause of Sakshi's lost voice 😭😆 though they have made her shout a lot in past episodes. I guess the actual engagement bits were shot today and the stuff that came before this was shot yesterday. You could tell in the few dialogues that Sakshi had her voice was quite bad.
Normally, I hate scenes being repeated and reused with a passion, but as I know that the reason it was added was because of Sakshi's voice, I can overlook the Shipra/Ayesha getting Priya ready scene.
I really like the small continuity touches that they keep in the show - like Priya walking very awkwardly in her heels in an attempt to keep steady 😆 By the way, Switty maama, I doubt Shakespeare "ji" ever had a dheet Punjabi type accent like yours but I guess "a rose by another name"...and all that 😆😆😆😆😆
LMAO at the "green & yellow" combination 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yaar Ram, ek baar dekh hi liya hota uski taraf...you would have avoided that whole scene 😆 but I did like his ulta-compliment - these guys are the perfect example of being completely non-conventional and odd - their interactions, their proposal and this. Everything is coloured by this cute oddness...
They were sitting so far away from each other on that sofa - how exactly did they plan to reach over to give each other the rings? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The final shot of them both playing with their rings really symbolised the whole episode, their whole relationship. Awkward fits...connections too tight or too loose, completely alien to one another. Unconventional, different, weird, odd yet oddly perfect. (Or perfectly odd 🤣🤣🤣🤣).
I guess this is the week we get some great scenes, so make the most of it, people. Agle hafta pata chala and they have broken the engagement and gone back to square 1 again 😕🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
But in all seriousness, Ram and Sakshi make this show. End of story. For all that I might like a few of the other characters, or find them amusing...l am not watching this show for them. If this show ONLY had Ram and Sakshi on screen every single minute, I would still watch it. These two have the charisma to hold whole episodes like that. Every nuance, every small expression, every little detail is considered by them and the entire credit for this goes to them. Yes, good writing helps but as we know from this show, good writing is not always a given. Even in the worst of the writing though, the charm that RP bring to the show, the complete way in which they know their own characters and their idiosyncrasies and bring this to their performances, that is what keeps us watching. I hope we never lose that.
Advocate Anjali Awasthi
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