Chandra Nandini 31-33:Extended finale;Nos.46-47pg 120;No.48 pg 128 - Page 103

Originally posted by: jayaks02

I love your writing . No Non Sense, Hard Hitting, Humorous and absorbing.

Rooftop and Scream. 🤣

Originally posted by: jayaks02

That precisely is the point. Because the love story cannot take off on its own. Not even at a cosmetic level so there is the set up Chennai Express repeat, falling in the Hamam.

This Pustak business is rubbing me on the wrong side. There is no other hunar other than Mission Pustak for her. Unlike Jodha who had 6434 hunars according to Akka 😆

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Khushi,

Don't you DARE even think of leaving so long as I am still here, nahin to tumhari khair nahin!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: ---Khushi---

😆

OK I won't dare...promise 😆 🤗

My prediction for future storyline:

When Chandra uplifts Nandini en route to the temple, it is soon revealed to the audience that Dadi is actually an icchadhari nagin!!!! 😲...her naag had been accidently murdered by Chandra in his childhood while playing in the jungle...the REAL Dadi is held captive by the nagin in a remote cave...hence the nagin Dadi was actually punishing Chandra by asking him to spend his nights with Nandini!!!😲😆

When Chandra & Nandini are climbing the hilltop, the nagin slithers her way following them all ready to bite Chandra...when lo n behold!!!!...she is suddenly stopped by a nevla!!...after a long bloody tussle, the nagin breathes her last, but not before coming to her true form, which is of...Aapmaa 😆..

N the nevla is also icchadhari...n as he is about to assume human form, the camera freezes...holding the audience in suspense...as to who is the actual nevla ...

🤣...I guess only such tracks can now save EK's Magnum opus 😆

...to be continued 😃

Originally posted by: ankit-pandey24

Good post on the episode aunty
The show is little bit losing it's charm
Only watching for RT and Manoj K
As I had said earlier for the sake of Chandra Nandini love story they are going to make every character weak and maybe of Chankya also

PS- be good and take care of your health

Originally posted by: AJSharma79

This is a mighty brilliant piece!!

In fact, Ekta should hire you as her writer. All her shows will be hit without having to be lame and stupid.

Am just being newly introduced to Baby and Babloo...but am fast falling in love with the merry duo

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Chandra Nandini 48: Heights of absurdity

The best part of the otherwise totally forgettable episode came at the very end, when the voice of the hooded spy revealed beyond any doubt that it is Malayaketu. A nice, unexpected twist.👏

not totally forgettable, aunty. Ought to be forgotten. 😡 One should not subject one's brain with this amount of hogwash. For reasons i cannot really understand i am totally enraged by yesterday's episodes.😡

Adiana once told me that Chanakya persuaded Malayketu to co-operate with him and Chandragupta against Nand, promising him half the kingdom, and then got rid of him using a vishkanya that the idiot fancied. But I hardly think Chetan would have settled for such a short contract, especially since this time, he cannot come back a la Haider!😉

It could be possible that Chetan consulted the glass globe and realised that this series is going down the dump faster than you can say Jack Robinson and decided its better to leave the show with a kiss of death? 🤔I mean, when Chandra Gupta himself is not being given any scope, what are they going to give blanket wrapped Maleketu? I just hope though, the Vishkanya will not be the same one as in JA and she will not be going on and on about her beauty like a broken record🤔

Double agent: It is clear that here too Chanakya has struck a deal with Malayaketu for his help against Nand, probably in exchange for part of the territory of Magadha or something comparable. It would have had to be a big deal to tempt him, unless Chandragupta has conquered the kingdom of Parvatak and Chanakya offers to give it back to Malayaketu and his father in return for this help against Nand.

IT has to be a big chunk of Magadh. Cos in between sashaying in and out of Goldfish's room, and having confrontation with Helena, where will the mighty Chandra have time to be expanding his kingdom? No...no...that we leave to Chanakya. Probably he will have to marry another 457 princess/merchant's daughter/army chief daughter to do that

It is not yet clear whether Malayaketu is a double agent or a triple agent, but I would plump for the former. For the fact is that the info he gives Chanakya about Nand is accurate. Only, he refers to a gupt army, whereas to Nand he says it would be his army.

hhmm...this i have no comments to say, because knowing the CVs god only can guess what kind of twist awaits us as far as Malayketu's intentions are

I wonder what his deal with Nand would have been. Perhaps Nand apni priya putri ke ulte phere laganewala tha, so that she could then marry Malayaketu, in case that is what he still wants!

ugghh...the idea that anyone will want her....🤢🤢

I also wonder why they keep the chap wrapped up in that blanket and make him slouch to reduce his height. Once he opens his mouth, his voice and his way of speaking are both so characteristic that he would be identified at once!

Incomprehensible leniency: The other point that struck me, once I had got over the disappointment of Jodha's delightful daadisaa not playing Chandra ki daadi now - had it been her, I would have swallowed the lousiest script for the pure pleasure of watching her sunny, roly poly self! 😃- was that the bade buzurg seem to have been remarkably lenient in those days!

This dadi had way too much make up. She almost looked the decorated ponggal pot. I am sorry for sounding mean...but really, that is way too much make up😕

Nandini tells the daadi that Yeh mera soubhagya hai ki mera vivah Chandra se hua.. and that wo mera dhyan rakhta hai. So the daadi is OK with the new bride not only uttering her husband's name - a complete taboo even today in conservative families, whence the Ramu ke baba! kind of appellations! 😉- but referring to him using not the mandatory wo form, but the familiar, disrespectful tu form??? It is unthinkable.😡

Perhaps aunty this is the Alien version of 450 BC? You know, Alien believers say aliens are the advanced race...so perhaps these is how the advance culture speaks?

However, in reality this is shortsight of the serial makers. Why bother making a period drama if you cannot follow the basic facts of that time period? It was so odd that Dadi would have this smile plastered all over her while the grand daughter in law refers to her grandson in a disrespectful terms.

Anachronisms galore: As for the daadi, even without having had the exposure to Persian that Helena has had, she says khudh khush!😲 Kya kahein in logon ke baare mein?

Cramped and constrained: Chandra looks, for the most part, like a hunted fox in the last stages of the chase. It does not suit him.

Rajat, the dear actor whose performances i adore, seems unsure whether he is coming or going or where the hell he is as the serial progresses.

Amidst such ludicrous goings on, and probably with his concussion lingering, I am not surprised at Rajat sleepwalking thru these scenes, but we the viewers are getting shortchanged. There was not a single scene of his tonight which was a standout.

Sadly aunty, sadly...😭

Nor could one understand his preoccupation with Nandini's creature comforts. If she had slept hugging that dratted book of hers, iska kya jaata tha? I suppose this is the sign to us dumb clucks that prem ke ankur dheere dheere uske (kuchale hue) hriday mein pallavit ho rahe hain.😆

Could it be possible that he has in him this need to constantly care for females 'in distress' due to the pain that the stepmother endured? Her husband caused the pain, which in Nandini's case is sort of true. Nandini's unhappiness is caused by Chandra. Of course this line of argument has its flaw. The stepfather was a drunken idiot, whilst Nandini's husband's inflicting pain (which only happened once so far) was caused by her own father.

But could it be possible that the scar of childhood makes him act so?

The dhakka, like much else here was, a washed out adaptation of the original, which was of course set in entirely different circumstances, and had a very different outcome. I still remember my Heartbreak Road, and Heartbreak ++ posts on those episodes, which are among my favourites. Anyone interested in going thru them again, and washing away the taste of this clumsy parody, can find them at

Jodha Akbar 130: Heartbreak Road

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/jodha-akbar/3850310/jodha-akbar-130-heartbreak-road

Jodha Akbar 131: Heartbreak ++

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/jodha-akbar/3852259/jodha-akbar-131-heartbreak

Now, as I had told my Babloo kanna, Chandra invites a whole lot of trouble by voluntarily lugging this less than svelte female around in his arms, most recently after she landed on her knees. So I could not understand his sudden reluctance to heave her in similar fashion to the top of whatever hillock there is. If SRK could lug Deepika Padukone, who is a couple of inches taller than he is and surely no lightweight, up what looked like 300 temple steps (in Chennai Express), why can Chandra not follow suit?

Aunty, I protest!! SRK and Deepika cannot be compared with RT and SB...especially Deepika was looking every inch an Indian nymph,in that saree. I refrain from describing the other creature of less grace.

But that unfailing crack about her being moti would have gone down well with the TRP audience, I expect, as would all the rest of the nonsense that was dished out by the pretty healthy looking daadi tonight. They would now feel that they were right back in familiar territory. 😉 Exactly as they would when daadi asks Chauthi bhi hai kya? , and even Nandini smiles.

Incognito Chhaya: One point, Lavanya, about Chandra's royal relatives. They would all have gone into hiding as soon as Suryagupta had been assassinated. If not Nand would surely have got rid of Suryagupta's younger brother. They would have re-emerged from wherever they were hiding in exile only now, after Chandragupta had conquered Magadha.

So Chhaya, who is raised not by this chacha, but by her mama, Mura's brother, and his wife, would have been lost to her paternal family for the whole of this time, as they were themselves in hiding and would have, moreover, assumed that she had also been killed. And the mama-mami would have been concentrating on keeping themselves inconspicuous, for obvious reasons, though they bring Chhaya up in the full knowledge of her royal heritage. Not that this stops her from falling for a commoner.

Maybe Chhya also grew up where Dhurdhara grew up...drank the same water and have the same brain afflictions!

The sylvan seductress: Tomorrow, we can look forward to an utsav, and that they did not simply say jashn was the sole nod to the period that I could see! But after Chandra has, hopefully, survived the trip up the hill with this substantial armful, he is more likely to need a whole tube of Moov than a celebration during which he would have to fight seriously as well!😉

So begins the Utsavs...now there will be one every other day for every possible reasons under the sky...

Oh, I almost forgot. The forest spirit who covets Chandragupta and thus wants to eliminate Nandini (thereby displaying unexpected good sense!😆) is also on the cards for this mini pilgrimage, is she not? Now we can cherish a slender hope that she will be a slinky, gorgeous creature, for poor Chandragupta badly needs some eye candy of the Godiva chocolate kind. All that he has got till now is like hard, sour peppermints!😆

Poor man has three wives and has no marital joy, bliss or a kiss... idduku avan kalyanam pannamale irrukalam, sutha waste. Perhaps he shoudl get some lesson from his father in law Nand, for after all what can Chanakya a bhramchari possible teach him of the 'pleasures' 😳of a marriage...poor boy thinks being married is having tiffs and stand offs or having to put up with Energizer Bunny on steroids

Not that he will have the good sense to take advantage of such a heaven-sent opportunity. Instead he will be busy saving the life of the Third Wife! Oh well, what can't be cured and all that jazz!😡

😭😭

Unexpected pathos: One last and perhaps unexpected point. The eagerness on Helena's face as she comes forward to kneel at daadi's feet and touch them was very well done. It was the same when, during Chhaya's wedding, she gets up with alacrity to do the kanyadaan along with Chandragupta. At those moments, I felt really sorry for her, so eager to belong and to take the place of the patrani!

I too felt sorry for her. For all her banshee shrieks and idiotic logics (like wanting Nandini to be her slave cos Malayketu ditched here) she has been ill treated too. By Mura probably cos she is a Greek, but by the rest? I don't understand why.

Also i want to mention Chhaya...didnt she want to kill Nandini when she found out her mom was alive? And now they are BFF?

God save all the females in this serials...

OK, folks, this is it for tonight.

Shyamala/Aunty/Akka/Di

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Aunty! I can't believe that you pained your ailing fingers and invested so much valueable time behind the analysis of this crap episode! 😲 😃 The show is more than lucky to get such a viewer like you whom it does not deserve!😡

Chandra Nandini 48: Heights of absurdity

The best part of the otherwise totally forgettable episode came at the very end, when the voice of the hooded spy revealed beyond any doubt that it is Malayaketu. A nice, unexpected twist.👏

Malayketu! 😲 Aab to Helena mar hi dalegi Chandra ko! 🤣

Well, I could not continue watching till the end 😆, so this small part was only the saving grace of the whole absurd episode!🤔 I hope they will utilize this twist!

Adiana once told me that Chanakya persuaded Malayketu to co-operate with him and Chandragupta against Nand, promising him half the kingdom, and then got rid of him using a vishkanya that the idiot fancied. But I hardly think Chetan would have settled for such a short contract, especially since this time, he cannot come back a la Haider!😉

Double agent: It is clear that here too Chanakya has struck a deal with Malayaketu for his help against Nand, probably in exchange for part of the territory of Magadha or something comparable. It would have had to be a big deal to tempt him, unless Chandragupta has conquered the kingdom of Parvatak and Chanakya offers to give it back to Malayaketu and his father in return for this help against Nand.

I hope they will have some sensible logic behind it same as you mentioned. 🤔

It is not yet clear whether Malayaketu is a double agent or a triple agent, but I would plump for the former. For the fact is that the info he gives Chanakya about Nand is accurate. Only, he refers to a gupt army, whereas to Nand he says it would be his army.

I wonder what his deal with Nand would have been. Perhaps Nand apni priya putri ke ulte phere laganewala tha, so that she could then marry Malayaketu, in case that is what he still wants!

@bold: 🤣

I also wonder why they keep the chap wrapped up in that blanket and make him slouch to reduce his height. Once he opens his mouth, his voice and his way of speaking are both so characteristic that he would be identified at once!

Incomprehensible leniency: The other point that struck me, once I had got over the disappointment of Jodha's delightful daadisaa not playing Chandra ki daadi now - had it been her, I would have swallowed the lousiest script for the pure pleasure of watching her sunny, roly poly self! 😃- was that the bade buzurg seem to have been remarkably lenient in those days!

Nandini tells the daadi that Yeh mera soubhagya hai ki mera vivah Chandra se hua.. and that wo mera dhyan rakhta hai. So the daadi is OK with the new bride not only uttering her husband's name - a complete taboo even today in conservative families, whence the Ramu ke baba! kind of appellations! 😉- but referring to him using not the mandatory wo form, but the familiar, disrespectful tu form??? It is unthinkable.😡

Matlab kuch bhi! The dadi did not seem a little bit elated to see her long lost grandchildren in front of her after a long time; she did not even look nostalgic... Her only concern was Nandini, Nandini and Nandini!!! 😡😡

If they had to surface a dadi track, why didn't they introduced them a bit sensibly keeping the background of the show in mind?? Can they show anything anytime they want? Do they think audiences as non-sense and patients of amnesia like them?

Anachronisms galore: As for the daadi, even without having had the exposure to Persian that Helena has had, she says khudh khush!😲 Kya kahein in logon ke baare mein?

Cramped and constrained: Chandra looks, for the most part, like a hunted fox in the last stages of the chase. It does not suit him.

Poor Chandra! 😆 I so wish to kidnap him and send him in jungle like his happy bachelor days! 🤣

Amidst such ludicrous goings on, and probably with his concussion lingering, I am not surprised at Rajat sleepwalking thru these scenes, but we the viewers are getting shortchanged. There was not a single scene of his tonight which was a standout.

Nor could one understand his preoccupation with Nandini's creature comforts. If she had slept hugging that dratted book of hers, iska kya jaata tha? I suppose this is the sign to us dumb clucks that prem ke ankur dheere dheere uske (kuchale hue) hriday mein pallavit ho rahe hain.😆

The dhakka, like much else here was, a washed out adaptation of the original, which was of course set in entirely different circumstances, and had a very different outcome. I still remember my Heartbreak Road, and Heartbreak ++ posts on those episodes, which are among my favourites. Anyone interested in going thru them again, and washing away the taste of this clumsy parody, can find them at

Jodha Akbar 130: Heartbreak Road

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/jodha-akbar/3850310/jodha-akbar-130-heartbreak-road

Jodha Akbar 131: Heartbreak ++

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/jodha-akbar/3852259/jodha-akbar-131-heartbreak

Now, as I had told my Babloo kanna, Chandra invites a whole lot of trouble by voluntarily lugging this less than svelte female around in his arms, most recently after she landed on her knees. So I could not understand his sudden reluctance to heave her in similar fashion to the top of whatever hillock there is. If SRK could lug Deepika Padukone, who is a couple of inches taller than he is and surely no lightweight, up what looked like 300 temple steps (in Chennai Express), why can Chandra not follow suit?

🤣 🤣

But that unfailing crack about her being moti would have gone down well with the TRP audience, I expect, as would all the rest of the nonsense that was dished out by the pretty healthy looking daadi tonight. They would now feel that they were right back in familiar territory. 😉 Exactly as they would when daadi asks Chauthi bhi hai kya? , and even Nandini smiles.

Incognito Chhaya: One point, Lavanya, about Chandra's royal relatives. They would all have gone into hiding as soon as Suryagupta had been assassinated. If not Nand would surely have got rid of Suryagupta's younger brother. They would have re-emerged from wherever they were hiding in exile only now, after Chandragupta had conquered Magadha.

They should have spent some minutes for clearing these out in stead of that Nandini Nandini jaap! 🤢

So Chhaya, who is raised not by this chacha, but by her mama, Mura's brother, and his wife, would have been lost to her paternal family for the whole of this time, as they were themselves in hiding and would have, moreover, assumed that she had also been killed. And the mama-mami would have been concentrating on keeping themselves inconspicuous, for obvious reasons, though they bring Chhaya up in the full knowledge of her royal heritage. Not that this stops her from falling for a commoner.

The sylvan seductress: Tomorrow, we can look forward to an utsav, and that they did not simply say jashn was the sole nod to the period that I could see! But after Chandra has, hopefully, survived the trip up the hill with this substantial armful, he is more likely to need a whole tube of Moov than a celebration during which he would have to fight seriously as well!😉

🤣

Oh, I almost forgot. The forest spirit who covets Chandragupta and thus wants to eliminate Nandini (thereby displaying unexpected good sense!😆) is also on the cards for this mini pilgrimage, is she not? Now we can cherish a slender hope that she will be a slinky, gorgeous creature, for poor Chandragupta badly needs some eye candy of the Godiva chocolate kind. All that he has got till now is like hard, sour peppermints!😆

🤣 🤣 OMG I will die laughing!! 🤣

Not that he will have the good sense to take advantage of such a heaven-sent opportunity. Instead he will be busy saving the life of the Third Wife! Oh well, what can't be cured and all that jazz!😡

Chalo iss bahane at least he will be out of the chaos of the palace. 😆

I really want someone captures Magadh again and shoo everyone from the palace so that Chandra has to conquer it again! 🤣 If this is not possible, at least I want this two falls for themselves as soon as possible so that these irritating cupid activities stop!!😡

Unexpected pathos: One last and perhaps unexpected point. The eagerness on Helena's face as she comes forward to kneel at daadi's feet and touch them was very well done. It was the same when, during Chhaya's wedding, she gets up with alacrity to do the kanyadaan along with Chandragupta. At those moments, I felt really sorry for her, so eager to belong and to take the place of the patrani!

Yes me too.

OK, folks, this is it for tonight.

Shyamala/Aunty/Akka/Di

Originally posted by: Shinning_Stuti