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CHANDRA NANDINI 76: TANGLED SKEINS
My dear Sri, Shailaja, Anu, Krithika, loveislife, and the others who will undoubtedly soon join in the lamentations about tonight's episode 76,
I do not share your excessive despair, which I feel is a premature and kneejerk reaction. And I watched the episode the way I watch every episode of any serial for as long as I follow it, from end to end, to make sure there are no interesting segments or lines that I have missed. I did not expect anything much more, and I was not disappointed.
See, we knew there was going to be a doubles track, twins or a look alike. So how can it be any different, in the broad outlines, from what they showed? The dialect that Roopa speaks is the rustic lingo, rather like what is spoken in rural Bihar today. She is a wild, uncontrollable creature, and that comes thru well.
One sees that Sunanda has been using her till now for other purposes of her own, and they have been paid for it. This was most likely a question of Roopa impersonating Nandini with others who did not know the original well, and extracting money from them under whatever pretext. Now Roopa, who clearly hates Nandini with a white hot hatred, is ready to do this latest job for free as it matches with what she wants as well. So far so good.
But as she says herself, she is going to need extra coaching about how to impersonate Nandini in her day to day activities. Probably from Sunanda.
The scene where she hugs Chandra was impromptu, but soon she will want him as well, and given her generally rough and ready techniques, her wooing of Chandra should be side-splitting. I was in stitches looking at his face when Roopa suddenly fell on his neck!😆
And his first ever, tentative ventures into sensuality with the girl he takes to be Nandini should be equally amusing. How can one declare, as if one was around in this era, and that the historical Chandragupta Maurya would never have flirted with his wife or wives in the bath? He was human, after all!😉 I have no problem with Rajat trying this kind of stuff out for a change.
A potential clash between Roopa and Aapama already looms on the horizon. Roopa wants to become Nandini in Chandra's life. Aapama, however, wants Nandini - both the Nandinis, actually - out of Chandra's life for good. It is not yet clear what Sunanda wants and why. It is a nice tangle.
The real Nandini is nothing like as tough as it takes to confront all these chudails, and then she goes to Sunanda of all people for advice, instead of going to her mother.
So I am not going to watch anything in FF mode, or drop out till this track is over. But this lightweight stuff might let me skip a weekly post or two. Let me see.
I am delighted that all of you enjoyed this post so much.Sri, I am more relieved than anything else by that, as I am never sure how any post of mine turns out in the end!
One last point. Sony has begun telecasting Peshwa Bajirao from tonight at 0730 pm daily. They have a promising cast, with Manish Wadhwa as Bajirao's father Balaji Vishwanath, and Pallavi Joshi as Tara Bai Saheb, Shivaji Maharaj's redoubtable daughter in law. Tonight's one hour episode was very good. I plan to watch it regularly, and I would recommend it to all of you.
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Ye Hai Mohabbatein
