Chandra Nandini 71-75: Turbulent Tides - Page 18

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Delightful collage, my pet, and the captions are just as good.

I too loved tonight's episode. Our Odd Couple now have their first insider joke, about the vaanar!

But I would never have imagined them being so easy and pally with each other after the Fr iday night blow up. I think it is neither Chandra nor Nandini but the CVs who are high on madira ya bhaang!

@Bold - Cudn't agree more!🤣

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: AJSharma79

Chandra and Nandini are the sun to each other's Icarus. That is all I could think of at the end of the episode today. The inviting warmth of the sun, makes them soar higher and nearer to the very heat that will burn them, and plummet them to the bottom of the sea. The attention that they get from each other during the merciful interludes between each heightening misunderstanding and argument, magnetizes them to each other instantenously after blow-ups.

Ms. Mishchiefs was such a delight in the snankhaksh with her childlike giggles and zeal. Its purpose was to entice Malay, but the poor sap who got stuck in the trap was Chandra. Her girlish demeanor increased his delight when she was talking about the renewed love, and the same demeanor adds to his chagrin when she says that one forbidden word - Malay. His smile when she said I love you, was the sign of the renewed life of his dying love. But alas, with Aapama and Roopa roaming free, how does one smile for long?

He walks away in angst and anger, and stands there letting it runs its course lest he pummel someone to pulp when walks in none other than Malay with the worst of proof in hand. When he said I know what to do, I thought he was going to question Nandini. But no. Instead he decides to take a bath. Ok, honeslty I thought he was going to make her bath with her...hehehehe... he disappointed me until...ehem...ehem... So moving on. I was happy to hear Nandini's inner voice going on with what is wrong, after all he is your husband. I know he is doing it to spite me but I will do it after all'. So again, I was dreaming about some Hindi movie style stuff, where she will try to rub the past and he will swiftly drag her into the water. But ALAS! He drags Katherina Minola reincarnate.

Now I am stupefied with why Helena does not find any of this absurd of humiliating for herself. And her, its ok soon I will have you all for myself is even more bizarre. In all of the exchange, however minimal it was, he never once took his eyes of Nandini. Even as he pulled Helena close his eyes were firmly fixed to Nandini. And this time, Rajat should take a bow (god how many has he had to already?) for confining that fire of hate and anger within the molten lava dripping from his eyes alone. If I was Nandini, I would happily jump off the balcony than stand the intensity of that glare! Yikes. No snarling, no visible gritting of teeth, nothing OTT. Just perfect.

Helena for all her speeches on how she will reign victory is nothing but a stupid blind vamp who has no inkling of what really is happening. Her mom aptly calls her bewakoof . And still she cannot get a single idea despite her mother's exasperation that what happened is not an victory, and there is much more. What a dumb colt. Sigh... I like her a lot at that scene by the lake right after Chandra lost his battle. She was lovely. How did she degrade so much so fast?

For one thing, Dadi is here to stay because she is the glue that is sticking the jodi together through sticky situation. (BTW I would not have paid a dime to that artist...I didn't feel the portrait did justice to them both). Just like he panicked when Nandini fainted, his worry is immediate when she yelps in pain. I loved the part where he came close to her while telling Dadi he came searching for her and now caught her, simultaneously catching her hurt hand. Very nicely done.

The highlight to me was the tone of voice as he applied lep and talking all the time. Again, I congratulate him for not yelling, snarling or just being a total donkey. For a man who said kitne teh' with so less reason, this time instead all that came through was his pain. I am extremely glad that he showed her that letter. Instead of both talking in code languages that the other cannot understand, at least this time some clarity is there. Whether after her bas she will say he has stooped so low to even fake this letter or she will say I am leaving for I cannot bear this insult or pain anymore, I don't know. All I know is that she now should know, on top of Moora seeing her smoking, Chandra watching her going into Malay's room, now Malay is able to produce a letter written by her. Well, of course she can always say Malay faked it - after all Malay told her he will get her after ridding Chandra, so this could be one of his tricks. Whatever it is, it is about time Nandini used the yodha's brain, if any is left after being churned into chutney by her love and figure out what the hell is going on.

I wonder what did Roopa do to that gift.

In the meantime I found this 2 quotes that I think sums up Chandra and Nandini

To Chandra - "Love hurts when it changes us.", Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

To Nandini - "I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time." Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow

Originally posted by: shailusri1983

Beautiful take Anne. Just like you felt that both of them were the Sun to the other's Icarus, I felt something similar to that. Both of them are like glow worms attracted to the other's light. They are themselves in the dark but emit light for the other. They know that they are going to be scorched and die a figurative death if they go closer to each other. Yet they cannot resist the thrall of each other's light. They rush closer and invite their own pain by approaching each other. That is how they are destined to be till they realize their mutual love for each other.

Originally posted by: AJSharma79

If I may add my 5 sen (MY Currency of course) to your thoughts is that the so called reality based shows are there for nothing but to highlight and milk money out of exposing the ugliest, nasties, most distasteful parts of the deteriorating culture. In any society the deterioration of culture over time can be expected, but what i notice in all this so called prime time serials are the shocking uglyfication of morality and culture for the sake of entertainment? Have we lost it completely that we find this ardent lust over another man/woman spouse and the gross scheming to attain them as entertaining? What has become of us that we are diligently switching on to watch how children disrespect or tear apart family values as on screen characters and we find it entertaining. And the list goes on. Its always wanting someone else's assets, spouse, children one thing or another. There cannot be a story without someone wanting something that is not theirs to take.

The serials are nothing but a slice by slice review of the rotting culture.

I have not watched much in last 20 years. But I think the credit goes to EKTA for creating this trend. I also see some crimes in upper middle class ( IT Industry) where husband or wife of 3 years plot to kill the partner and there have been many cases reported in last 10 years. Art always reflects society and scocity reflects art in any era. It is tragic that we are even treating these as entertainment or Art. Remember DD days when we used to have Quizzes, Chanakya, Tipu Sultan, Malgudi Days, Swabhimaan ( Dialogues were good in that - Mahesh Bhatt and Shobha de) and Surbhi. Those were the days. In vernacular (Read Tamil Serials) many aunts are glued to these serials where scheming and plotting for other's spouse is the main theme. It is disgusting. I heard American TV is now reinventing itself with some path breaking shows. Do you recommend anything ?

The reality is taht there is so much more that this in our culture. there is so much more than this cheap stories in our lives. it is so sad that only this cheap stuff sell. Nobody is interested in making stories about achievement, fighting for the rights of the unfortunate because good stuff dont sell.

Even historical stories are not spared as we saw in JA. But small mercies are that there is limit to how low they can stoop in historical stories, so i think we are save in CN.

JA was a disaster - There was neither a love story nor a warrior or a monarch story - It was the story of Agra - Block 3 - Ward Number 23 doing Pooja for his HINDU Wife. I hated it.

As for expecting historical accuracy or showing the skill of Chanakya, we can forget it. in fact it is wrong to expect it as this serial has been promoted as 'can hate turn to love' type story. So the fault is in us if we expect Chandra to be shown as brushing his warrior skills. Nope. Just be glad that we dont have a besotted king who is like a lap dog to the ice queen.

I understand it is expensive production costs to keep showing war scenes . They sold a love story in trailers or promos. If I get one , I am going to be okay. But i am slowly getting a hunch that serial is becoming Nandini Chandra instead of Chandra Nandini and i hope it will not degenerate into Nandini Nandini in some months.

I cannot understand the logic behind competition between Helena and Nandini. Helena is Patrani and why challenge this status Quo ? And how can it be ? Dur is going to be the monther of prince or future king. Leave Nandini to be Chandra's Dil ki Rani . That would be a good love story.

But here they want to prove Nandini to be a great warrior . If these things come at the cost of Chandra's stature, I will go down the JA route again. 😭

Originally posted by: harrybird

Originally posted by: harrybird

This one dedicated to those who use belan😉

This one dedicated to those who are at the receiving end😆

Originally posted by: liberty2

Originally posted by: harrybird

This one dedicated to those who use belan😉

This one dedicated to those who are at the receiving end😆