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The lion growling thing really irritated me yesterday. For one thing, that dadi is not intimidating in the least. She looks like a very annoying woman who likes to slap people, but she's not scary. I mean, she looks about two feet tall!
For another, what was with the instant animosity between the two grandmothers and the "clans"?? When did this turn into some fight? In most families, Punjabi or not, common courtesy dictates that you approach new people with politeness and respect, and try to keep an open enough mind not to HATE them in the very first sighting. Since the rishta is already done, why were they so haughty? It was like that scene in Kal Ho Na Ho just before the Mahi Ve song, except without any humour, class, dignity or lightness.
And I simply have to ask this question - is everyone blind?? How are these people looking at Priya and calling her ugly? She's not jaw-droppingly supermodel-ish, granted. But seriously, unattractive? 🤔 Even if I weren't a Sakshi/Priya fan I could see that she has a charming face. How shallow are these grandmothers anyway? One doesn't like Priya because she is average and too skinny; the other doesn't like Ram because he is "too fat"...but both like Karthik and Nuts. I thought the older generation was the propagator of 'inner beauty' etc but it seems they are the most discriminating. (Granted, there are people like this in real life).
And finally, this sobha rasam - THIS is why Naani wanted to do this rasam? So she could ask randomly obscure questions about food and cooking and business?!! THIS is supposed to determine how well their relationship will be? THIS was the point of a made-up rasam, Ekta? So you could get Ram to say "it's the thought that counts" and Priya could look at him with rapture and the tune which is becoming increasingly annoying could be played yet again? Really? Really?!!!!!
Sigh. I despair. What is the point of all this filler. I couldn't care less about who the hell Apeksha is and what the hell she wants. I couldn't care less about Sid and his random leering of Ayesha, setting up the obvious plot point of getting yet another set of siblings from the same family married (is this a form of inbreeding? Or the beginnings of it anyway?). I couldn't care less about daadi, naani, maama, lassi, chicken (unless I'm eating it!), and all the awful bg music. It's annoying to hear BALH bg played over and over again, everyone knows I hate the Kya Kehna track and as for Jo Bole So Nihaal...this is nothing new for EK, playing religious shloks and mantras as bg scores, but at least before it wasn't used as an accompaniment to some lame-ass dancing...really. All I want to see is the world that we were promised in the promos. I want to see Ram and Priya get married and learn to live and love. All other distractions can go take a hike, and soon, because otherwise I'll be forced to switch off completely. 9 August cannot come fast enough.
/rant.
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