[Episode 105] July 8th, 2016
- Amrish is so sure that his gulel will do the trick. The only thing it succeeds in doing is revealing to the rest of the family that he and Rajni tried using it to scare away the crow, haha. Sorry, Amrish.
- Sharmila's turn, and it's a secret. LOL at Dhyaan and Shogu looking at each other, all confused about what's going to happen next! Sharmila's plan is the most gruesome - I felt terrible watching Surili panic, with nowhere to hide, once she realizes what's about to happen. Interesting that Ghyaan, Dhyaan, and Shogu all look like they're at varying levels of surprise on the shocked expression spectrum, but only Shogu really seems to be worried for her mother's state of being. Rajni steps up to kick the kalash...it travels in an arc, above Surili's head as she maneuvers to safety...and the kalash hits Dev in the head instead. I'm pretty sure Shaan saw that coming and turned Dev around to save his own skin. Shogata's expression, though. From what I can see, she looks pleasantly surprised that her mother has been saved from immense pain...and her eyes seem to light up when she sees who the target actually is. Terrible, terrible.
- "Mujhe yeh bhi yaad nahi ki mujhe kya yaad karna hai!" LOL! Yes, well. That makes sense. She has no memories to remember!
- Last ditch attempt to help Rajni remember the past involves a lovely wedding album full of photos. Some really, really pretty pictures of Ridhima/Rajni in her bridal lehenga in there! But as usual, if Dev and Shogata are in the same frame, my attention is divided between them and Shaan and Rajni. Poor Dev is seated across from Surili and Shogata, with his hand on his head, still reeling from the impact of the kalash. Surili makes a sweetly sarcastic comment about Amrish's emotional outburst and turns to Shogu, who shares a moment of silent amusement with her mother. Surili's little chuckle in response is too funny! This mother-daughter duo is fabulous! That wide shot of everyone gathered around the album - Shogu is still laughing and Surili is just like, "Can you believe this?" And Dev is still in pain.
- "Yeh gadha tera pati hai!" Shaan looks up at his father, scowling. "Kya yeh gadha mera pati hai?" Rajni points at Shaan. That gets everyone's attention. Dev temporarily disregards his aching head, Shogu looks up from her phone, and Shaan stares at Rajni, but that doesn't stop Amrish from confirming, "Haan, yeh gadha tera pati hai!" Amrish is saying this...And I'm remembering Shogu's words now. "Gadhe ki behen hai...gadhi toh hogi. Ek woh Dev gadha...aur uss se bhi bada gadha, mera bhai!" In light of what has happened over the last few days, I actually can see why she said this about her brother. He's not the kindest, most expressive guy out there, especially when it comes to interacting with her. If he was, then I'd be happier. At the moment, I'm not feeling very generous.
- "Rona toh mujhe chahiye..." "Mujhe toh main kaun hoon, yeh bhi yaad nahi!" Haha, I can always count on Rajni to balance things out and make me smile! Shaan launches into a melodramatic lament. He picks up a pillow. I thought he was going to hold it and be even more melodramatic. Nope. He turns to - who else? - that poor soul on the adjacent couch, and starts beating him with the pillow. Dev tries to shield himself from the blows while everyone, Shogu included, is taken aback by Shaan's outburst. "Oh my god! Yeh humare ghar mein achaanak daily soap kyun shuru ho gaya? Shaan?!" Same, Surili, same.
- Shaan pulls Rajni into an awkward embrace and she just leans against him, looking a bit glassy-eyed. "Papa, aap sochiye...Mummy do din nahi hoti, aap kitna miss karte hai Mummy ko. Meri Rajni...uske dimaag mein toh main hoon hi nahi! Main kitna miss kar raha honga usse!" Hah, nice! Emotional blackmail, Shantanu Kant-style. Random note, I like the music in this bit, too. "Chittar tittar bittar!" Haha, Rajni! Such a cutie! LOLLL at Shogu's expression!
- Hey hey! The Bangdus are color-coordinated again! Both wearing shades of maroon! By the way, Dev is now nursing an aching head as well as a bruised arm. When Shaan gets up to leave the room with Rajni, Dev shrinks back against the couch, trying to distance himself from further danger. #PoorDev
- "Kya aapka naam Shaan hai?" "Haan." "Kya mera naam Rajni hai?" "Haan." "Kya maine aapse shaadi ki hai?" "Haan." "Strange." "Strange? Hmm? Yeh wohi strange aadmi hai jisne tum jaisi strange robot ko banaaya hai. Samjhi! Zyaada strange-strange mat karo! Chalo!" Rajni asks all the pertinent questions and has appropriate reactions, too. This is a very strange situation. Her assessment of "strange" is curious to me, though. What does she mean by this? Is it what she was referring to earlier, the strange idea of a human being married to a robot like her? It's important to note that Rajni now knows that this man named Shaan, who is apparently her husband, is also her creator. She accepts this as the truth even though she finds it odd that she is married to someone like him. The family, after all, has given her ample proof to do so, in the form of that wedding album.
- Shaan trips over the rug and Rajni catches him. Deja vu. Except this time, there's no time to dwell on whether or not Shaan's heart rate and blood pressure have increased as a result of Rajni's presence...This time, Shaan and Rajni's presence under the same roof gives someone else a shock. Samaira.
- "Samaira...itne saalon baad...?" Surili is not happy to see Samaira here. At all. She looks over at her son, who has straightened up and is staring, frozen, at his ex-girlfriend. Rajni just blinks and welcomes the familiar face with a smile and bright tone, oblivious to the history between the girl who has just arrived and the family whose house she is standing in. More interesting are Dev and Shogata's reactions. Does Dev know Samaira personally? Or does he just know Samaira as the girl who broke Shaan's heart when she left him? Shogata doesn't look pleased to see Samaira, either. When Rajni begins speaking to Samaira, I almost feel like Shogu is watching the proceedings with a "Wait, you know her?" kind of expression in the background.
- Shaan is such a conflicted coward, my god. He can't even bring himself to tell Samaira that Rajni is his wife. She's standing in a household that has accepted her as Rajni Shantanu Kant, no matter how odd she is to the residents of that house...And Shaan can't even acknowledge that now. As if stammering and not saying that word will make the truth disappear. *scoffs* You knew what you were getting into, Shaan. The Kants have finally demonstrated some level of acceptance towards Rajni...and now it looks like Shaan has done the opposite. All because Samaira is back in his life.
- Surili speaks up on behalf of the entire Kant parivaar because her son won't. "Ghar ki Lakshmi ghar mein nahi rahegi, toh kahan rahegi, Samaira?" Surili fixes the girl with a gaze that merely hints at the simmering anger within. This girl had her chance to become Shaan's wife years ago. She refused. Surili decides to make things very, very clear. "Rajani iss ghar ki bahu hai...Shaan ki patni." Her face. It's like she's trying to prove a point - "You had your chance. You chose to leave him. And he moved on. We've ALL moved on. And this is OUR bahu. Rajni Kant is here to stay."
- "Tumhara chehra dekh ke humein aise kyun lag raha hai ki tumhe aisa lag raha hai ki Shaan abhi tak tumhara intezaar kar raha hoga?" Oooh. There's a lethal dose of poison in that rhetorical question. Surili is REALLY bitter about what Samaira did to Shaan. What happened, exactly...?!
- "Kya yeh aadmi mere pati hai? Is that final?" Rajni is SO adorable! Awww, I love her! Shaan mumbles, "Ab toh final hi samjho..." That tone of voice is not getting Shaan any character points back from me. Rajni brightens up the mood, as expected. "OK then! Yeh information mere data mein save kar leti hoon!" This is going to be a part of Rajni's database now, right? Not part of some removable memory that Shaan can take out and dispose of? Please tell me that this information that Rajni is saving is permanently a part of her now!
- Samaira is Sharmila's cousin, of all people in the world. Great. Just great. "I know ki sometimes she can be very difficult." She speaks of Rajni as if the latter is a toddler. Someone needs to look in the mirror. Sharmila's way of saying thank you to Samaira is off-putting to me. It's like Rajni was Sharmila's personal burden all this time, one that she couldn't bear to carry. The only people who remotely cared about Rajni and took care of her before were Shaan, Dev, and Amrish. Rajni may be naive at this point of time due to her "memory loss", but she's not completely insensitive to her surroundings and the people around her.
- "Mujhe toh pata hi nahi tha ki Shaan ki shaadi ho chuki hai." Samaira looks at Shaan with what I feel is a rather hard gaze. It almost seems like she's expressing her disapproval at the fact that he hid this from her. He looks at her miserably, and I honestly don't feel bad for him at all. He should have told her. Instead of flirting with her and pretending like he was still single and ready to mingle, he should have told her. Well, now she knows. She didn't deserve to find out like this. Samaira turns to Rajni, and her gaze softens a bit. "Bahut khushi hui tumhari patni se mil kar, Shaan. Tumhe bataana toh chahiye tha mujhe." He can't come up with words to say anything at the moment. Wow. Bonus observation here is that Surili is watching the two of them like a hawk, looking quite happy at the tension in the air.
- "Great. Poori zindagi ab robot ke saath guzaarna, Shaan Babu." Okay. Let me get this straight. Even when Shaan was working on Rajni, while in a relationship with Samaira...even when he made Rajni his top priority, which drove Samaira away from him...that whole time, Shaan was stuck with Rajni? All these years, when he was working on Rajni, perfecting her with every bit of time he had, he was stuck with Rajni? These past few months that he spent with Rajni, during which he came to appreciate her for her own qualities, for her own intelligence, and for the care she showed towards him and his family...he was stuck with Rajni? He chose to spend so much time on her. He chose to marry her. He chose this. I know he's thinking about species compatibility, the human-to-human issue, which is important and entirely logical. But Rajni is just a robot now? She's seriously nothing more than a machine? Seriously, Shaan? What happened to all the things Rajni did for you? She made you a better person, remember? You said that yourself. Don't blame Rajni for your choices. She accepted your commands.
- This dinner idea could either be fantastic or catastrophic. I expected Surili to be annoyed with this idea - and she didn't disappoint! - but the surprise, once again, was Shogu. She rolls her eyes, looking exasperated. I take it she doesn't approve of her brother's ex-girlfriend, either? I would really love to know the full story from the rest of the family's points of view...So curious about this.
- Surili is hell-bent on making Samaira uncomfortable, and this is apparently only the beginning. She places Shaan's hand in Rajni's and requests that Rajni should never let go of Shaan's hand. Surili doesn't want her bahu to go missing again. And most importantly, Surili doesn't want her son to be left alone again. She may not have liked Rajni because, as far as she's concerned, Shaan secretly had a relationship with the girl and didn't let anyone know anything until they apparently had gotten married, but it's clear that Surili dislikes Samaira much, much more than Rajni. Ah, Surili and her verbal darts. They just keep coming. And it's amazing. Oh, how the tables have turned.
- Rajni agrees to honor Surili's request. She pulls Shaan closer to herself, and he stumbles towards her. She steadies him and he ends up standing next to her with an arm wrapped around her shoulder. Neither Samaira nor Shaan look happy about this. "Arranged marriage ka isse achha example nahi ho sakta! Main tumhe jaanti tak nahi! Aur ab tum mere pati ho. Wow!" This is an very strange arranged marriage sort of situation indeed. Reluctant husband has to live with the wife his family approves of more than the childhood sweetheart who left him years ago. Also. Important nuance...From "aap" to "tum." Rajni doesn't know Shaan, but she's not calling him "aap" anymore.
- "Tumhare shaadi-shuda bete ki ex-girlfriend ki seva mein kuch kami toh nahi lag rahi hai, na, Amrish?" Oh, I'm loving the sarcasm! It just keeps getting better and better. Amrish doesn't think Samaira's presence should be a problem, they should all just forgive and forget. Hell no, Surili isn't going to do that. She explodes in a fit of rage unlike anything I've seen from her before. "Bhool jaaoon?! Hum yeh kaise bhool jaaye ki uss ladki ne humare Shaan ko nikamma, loser, aur - woh - lukkha! Thank you! Lukkha kaha tha! Tumhe yaad hai na, Amrish, uss ladki ke jaane ke baad Shaan ki haalat kya ho gayi thi?! Poori raat kaise ajeeb-o-gareeb awaaz mein rota tha, jaise ghar mein koi billi ro rahi ho!" This is a revelation that sheds light on Surili's plight as a mother as well as Shaan's way of dealing with grief. Samaira apparently loved Shaan. She insulted him, dumped him...and she's now single and silently hoping that she would be able to get him back?! She didn't expect him to have moved on or have gotten married? Well, Shaan did cry for her. And he doesn't deal with separation or grief well, obviously. He doesn't seem to have moved on, even though he married someone else and just days before, went to desperate measures to save and bring back home. How could he forget all this?
- Surili Kant has transformed into the "strict Bengali mother" that Shaan referred to in his earlier conversation with Samaira. At the time of that conversation, I wondered what Shaan was talking about, because Surili hadn't given me any reason to think of her behavior as "strict." Other adjectives, maybe, but not that one. Now I see it. She requests Shaan to go and sit only by Rajni's side at the table, a request that is accompanied by a dangerous flash of sternness in facial expression and tone. Shaan has no choice but to comply. He vacates the fancy chair at the head of the table, and I love how as soon as he moves to sit down next to Rajni, Shogata casually traipses into the dining room and takes his place in that chair. Her reaction to Surili's final jibe about how Shaan won't eat until Rajni's seated by his right-hand side is surprising, too. She gives Samaira an eyebrow raise and a smile that almost looks like a smirk. I was not expecting that from Shogata at all! Surili, across the table from her daughter, looks like she wants nothing more than to rid the house of this unwanted guest. Compared to what Surili's behavior around Rajni was, this is terrifying. Her silent anger and resentment towards Samaira is far, far more dangerous than any irritation she feels towards Rajni. And this is only the beginning, isn't it?
Edited by MelodiousDreams - 9 years ago
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