Aunty I am having these ominous and alarming intuitions about the future of our show and its storyline. The prospect of this pseudo Nari Mukti Moorcha Mandali in the making and their all ganging up against Chandra is a pretty alarming thought.
Nandini was making such a groveling spectacle of her grief that I am reminded of a prospective job aspirant making a fool of himself before the interview panel by narrating his/her own sob story for the sake of garnering him/her a sympathy wave and getting the coveted job. Only difference, here Nandini's grief was unplanned and she was truly broken and empty from within. Moreover, here she seeks just death, either hers or Chandra's. I suppose after the Friday precap plays out Chandra and Durdhara will stop feeling sorry for the Spectacle Queen Nandini as I have stopped doing by now.
If anything, it just wants me to take a scissors or borrow Nand's own shaving knife and snap the invisible fevicol bond between Chandra and this girl. If I was Moora, I would not let her anywhere near my son. But this Rajmata has definitely disappointed me. I get that they are just on a damage control measure after finding that Nand and Dhananand are still alive and a sizeable chunk of the Magadh army is still with them. But I fail to understand how Moora even countenances to let this girl who behaved in that obnoxious fashion to her and spoke about all that 'Bali chadegi' stuff to roam near her son.
The other women are not dangerous in any sense but Nandini being a warrior who knows fighting, military tactics, and self defense is. How difficult is it for someone on a suicide mission to kill somebody. Moora ought to have suspected that Nandini could get such dangerous ideas. Similarly though they were getting Chandra married to Nandini for political reasons, they could at least continue keeping her "nazarband" though they get her released from the prison.
And where were the sentries or Chandra's bodyguards when Nandini seemed to be so cooly taking a pot shot at Chandra? How could she take that long slow motion walk across the palace from her room to Chandra's with a bow and arrow in hand, and no body thinks of stopping her. I hope they surely did not imagine that this benighted girl was going a-hunting for wild geese or deer in the royal forest preserves of Magadh after facing such a breavement like the loss of her father or brothers the first thing early in the morning even before brushing her teeth or washing her face.
I hated the weepy Chandra bending over too soon to Nandini. I expected him to deal with her a bit more firmly and coldly if not with hatred. But that was not to be. Durdhara whom I usually like also let down things considerably in wanting to make Chandra confess that he was indeed crying with Nandini and for Nandini. How I wished it was not Durdhara who was present on that scene that moment but Helena who could drive some sense into the poor boy's head.
But my major letdown was Rajmata Moora on whom I was pinning my hopes all this while to keep Nandini in place. In the Moora and Helena scene also I felt she was far from satisfactory. She was spouting some nonsensical prem and ghrina stuff which plainly went over my head. I felt she should have plainly and firmly told Helena that she would discuss her decision in private with her, and when alone rebuffed Helena that both in age and position, she was on a higher pedestal and did not have to answer her for everything, and rather it was expected of her to fall in line with it.
Her time would surely come in the future then she could do as she pleased, but now it was Moora's time and that she would not tolerate such behavior quietly the next time. She, Moora was trying her best to be a good mother to her, but if Helena continued this behavior, she might perhaps find a bad mother-in-law in her, Moora! That would have suited my taste. But Moora plainly gives Helena a walkover in that scene as far as I could judge.
The other disappointment was Helena herself. I wish this girl realizes what she wants before it is too late. Her behavior with Moora was unwarranted. I suppose all these gross misbehavioral stunts are to bring in the difference between her and Nandini later on in the story. Though I get none, and feel like a case of being caught between Scylla and Charybdis, Moora is definitely going to favor Nandini over Helena, though even the later tests the patience quotient and jumps off the decency meter with "Bali Chadegi" threats to poor, prisoners of war!
The Helena I have seen and known till now on CN would rather go to Chanakya and Chandra and say that though she is not questioning the Rajmata's judgment or decisions, she is feeling uneasy on the realease of Nandini from prison citing security concerns. And when Nandini makes that foolish attempt on the life of Chandra, she would cooly say that she had feared that something like this would happen, and that was the reason why she was being extra cautious. She would get an opportunity of showing Moora's judgement in a bad light without looking bad or ill-tempered herself.
But one cannot expect better things and a better script when pseudo Nari Mukti Moorchas and sisterhood sentiments start building up at the expense of the male lead!
Edited by shailusri1983 - 8 years ago