Originally posted by: sashashyam
MY ABBREVIATED TAKE ON TONIGHT'S EPISODEI was not at all impressed with Nandini's total collapse, Sri. I did not much like her approach to Helena either, with the appeal to feminine solidarity, but that was still OK. This made me feel ashamed of her, for her lack of pride, her pathetic wailing, her begging at Chandra's feet to be killed.It was very much contradictory to the promos where she was seen to ready herself for revenge. ššAnd no, I was NOT moved by that last. What sort of warrior princess is this? If she had reacted with cold, collected spunk, I would have forgiven her all her trespasses of the last week But she let herself down badly.I did not expect her to fall on Chandra's feet this way. Maar dalo, maar dalo... Pani nehi pini, maar dalo...šIt does not at all go with her determination that had been shown in the promos, the way she puts the hairpin-cum-dagger in hair or waits to hug the murderer of her father in her suhaag-raat...I am happy to see Chandra being compassionate with a poor girl wailing on her father's death this way; but with this behavior of the female lead,how would the revenge-story take shape?Contrast this with Mura's steely, unyielding tenacity and her arrogant sneering at Nand, even when she was at her lowest. Now that is queenly. This girl is just like Chandra's foster mother, with none of the resilience and the backbone of a true royal. I would not normally say this, but it is her father's plebeian genes that are at play here. Avantika would never have wailed and howled so loudly that she could be heard all over the palace.And contrast this also with the same Nandini's total lack of any feeling for poor chained Mura, a beaten old woman, when she went and taunted her. Then it did not matter to her that a helpless woman was treated like that. Now that she had copped identical treatment - which, incidentally, had been on my wish list, as you can see from my last but one post , Vengeance is mine!, where I had said:If I was Chandra, I would have chained Nandini up in the same spot in the same way, and made Nand watch that before decapitating him in front of her -she wails and howls like a banshee. Some warrior princess! She is nothing but a straw woman. and the stuffing is all coming out now by the handful.I was not particularly impressed with Durdhara either. She seems to be getting ready to commiserate with Nandini's aseem peedha, and pretty soon, before we know where we are, she will become her chamchi no.1.She was too much irritating when she was adamant to make Chandra confess that he is crying for a girl. š¤¢š¤¢Also, she bids fair to be a promoter of Chandra's alarming new lachrymose tendencies, which are already giving me the willies. š²Someone ought to tell the director that if they keep giving Rajat such weepy scenes, he will soon reduce the tale to a soggy mess and push the TRPs below 1. As it is, the kind of facial expressions he adopted today after coming back from the karaagrih did not suit him at all.I thought I am the only one who did not like his expression, with his facial muscles shrinking in such a way that his face was looking like a finished pouch of tomato ketch-up. šThe best thing I liked about the post was the precap. Poor, dear Chandra. Every time his Acharya turns up, he has a new female whom he insists that his shishya has to marry! Chandra's horrified expression was pure delight.Yes it was great! 𤣠Poor Chandra! He was prepared for a bramhachari life and now there are 3 women of 3 different categories in his life. šBut of course the cherry on the cake was the resurrected Nand. I think the one whom Chandra killed was a doppelganger, a double,which was why he could not fight with Chandra, either on the battlefield or in the hut, which was something that, as I have noted in this post, puzzled me a lot. The substitution must have taken place before the fighting began on the third day. The first day, Padmanand was the original, so he is ready to fight, and able too.Maybe rather most probably so, but then what was the reason of being so much caring with Nandini while escaping? š²And here, in Ekta's serial I think no reason is needed to get back a dead man again alive. š I watched an episode of Naagin accidentally, where the Nevla was informing the Nagin that he was already dead, but someone was there who gave him his life back again! 𤣠𤣠𤣠Same thing may happen with Nand, no guaranty. šBut how does this tie in with Sunanda's talk of a major secret that she is keeping from (the original) Padmanand? I can't guess.I devoutly hope cvs have already a written story on this secret, and they will not make any shortcut ending up with a flat anticlimax same way it happened in Nigar-Aapa track of JA. šShyamala