Random Ramblers Timbuktoo#95 *Invites Only* - Page 13

Originally posted by: without-fathom

But back to the scene. I was seriously rolling eyes at the "Seduction" sequence, because JUST like you said Nurey, it was sooo patchy! Matlab ek second he was doing the classic Manik rubs his hands down his face thing, and the next second he'd gotten a leaf to prop the romance? Hain??? Whaaa? 😳 Matlab hadd hi random tha. That leaf bit was the WORST🤣...pura KACHRA scene tha...ughh...can't believe it was these same two that did the confession/kiss bit so well...this entire seduction was a big senseless khichdi only redeemed by Nandu's PUNCH...I mean it started off kinda sweet with Nandu putting her head on his shoulder lekin uske baad editing waale bhaiyya took a Parth style open eyed nap and everything went down the drain😕

But the punch, the punch, the punch!!! It was like, SHUKAR HAI, finally a woman who doesn't think half assed A, B, C reasons behind the male lead being so inexplicably twisted in his head is ANYTHING on justifying his ENTIRELY UNACCEPTABLE behaviour towards her!! Like WAY TO GO Nandu, go show every other female lead on TV what having a backbone is about, and how your "loweee" doesn't make you a perpetual punchbag! 👏 Quite the contrary, if anything 😆 I know,man...all those LEGIONS of Kekta and Gul leads that don't even have a peanut in the name of a brain in their heads should watch and learn from Nandu...for once they didn't show a girl just stewing miserably in her heartbreak but ACTUALLY using her brains to figure out the truth...and yes it helps that she was dealing with a GADHA of THIS dumb a level😆...Yay for female intelligence and intuition being respected in a show for ONCE👏

Back to Nandu. LOVED how woman held her wits COMPLETELY in hand, plugged him in, punched him out, and then gave him a reality check dressing down. Manik Malhotra, frankly, you got nothing for what you gave. Like the point when he tells her he went through the same pain, I was like, you can't be for real dude, you can't be... See it's not like Manik DIDN'T go through ANY pain...but yeah the WAY they made him say it there, he just sounded SO stupid that no one will sympathize with him...I was saying this in the EDT also, Manik got really watered down in all this...not that I didn't enjoy the laughs his dumbness provided but thoda credibility also took a hit😕...but maybe this will be a turning point...let's see.

But SO SO glad, KYY made Nandu have LEGIT answers to give back, to all the feeble attempts he made at justifying what, it was increasingly visible in that moment, was starting to seem like a rather bad idea even to him. Yes, the punch as usual opened his eyes and when Nandu laid it out for him, he also FINALLY started to see just HOW badly he's messed this up and his conviction in his reasons was totally shaken.

And yet, yet he could go around and pull her out of Dhruv's hold the way he did. Oh Manik. Haven't you figured? This is not Alia. Make all the googly eyes you want. You've dug a grave, and frankly, you can't find your way out of it by digging it deeper. Just saying. LOL but I liked that bit...SO Manik...I like how they are both so STRONG WILLED...usually in these dumb love-hate stories, only the guy is pulling the girl around and she's just fuming pointlessly...but Nandu is one STRONG girl who gives it back as good...she's making a POINT of showing her pain to him now any chance she gets...and he knows now that he deserves it so he's going to take it also...but they will find their way again😆...these kind of resolutions are anyday better than contrived melodrama.

Originally posted by: without-fathom

I just think even he showed better substance than Manik, in pulling off the KKHH scene, because according to their 'I'm the loser' conversation, he's made whatever peace he will make about the Nandu heartbreak. Toh kam-se-kam I have the memory of a guppy about the kiss we just shared toh ni kiya usne. Unlike Baba, who then went on to stamp "loser" on Nandu's head

I'm not saying I'd like a nicey nice goody two shoes Manik, ever. I'm just saying even Dhruv - KKHH chori se hi sahi - stood by his action.

Originally posted by: OneThatGotAway

Yaaarrr I know Dhruv was a a retard, still prolly is.😆

But aaaj usne pahli baar .. Kuch KIYA !!👏

KUCH toh kiya !! 😆😆😆

Mujhe issi baat se khushi ka thikana nahin .. 🤣!!!

And personally I don't mind him not seeing thru Nandu's tears. Nandu is not his to worry about. Manik ka ssarr dard hai. Wohi sambhale. I am soooper happy Dhruv is off his unhealthy obsession with Nandu and finally found someone more befitting of him.

That and my DhruLya gaaon wala ship has finally sailed .. jaeeb random makeout se hi sahi 😆

Originally posted by: OneThatGotAway

The way he opened his shirt and DUMPED it on her, and after Nandu throws it away ... that chastised puppy look on Baba's face ... SO much LULz 🤣

And yesss ... Dhruv KABHI koi decision LE payega kisi ke tutions yaa prodding ke baghair eh toh kisi ne sapne mein bhi nahin socha thaa ... Aaj chalo, hormones ke sahare hi sahi ... hez finally done something on his own, without anyone guiding/pushing/training him. And that Alya ka haath pakad ke rokna bit ... For someone like DHRUV , that is like being SINGHAM-level ballsy 🤣

Originally posted by: without-fathom

On a serious note, I think I love not just the fact that Nandini got be a female lead with a wits even in love; but the fact that she goes with her connected dots, her intuition, the signs glaring at her about her suspicions, also says SO MUCH about how, unlike every other bichari lead on Indian TV, Nandu, despite the crap Manik says to her at more than one occasion in support of his facade, Nandu doesn't reduce herself in her own estimation. There needs to be a very grounded self-confidence in her as a person, to not fall for Manik's demeaning ploys, but still believe that dude did fall for her, and that she's ENTIRELY good enough to be special to him. For bringing out that trait to her character, underneath this standing up for herself, I'm so happy about the treatment of this track 👏 And on that note, how ironic, that Manik, the male character, in fact lacked that sort of belief in himself. In an interesting manner - even though it may or may not have been intentional in the writing - it sort of aligns with the kind of history that is allegedly Manik's. He's a lot of things on the surface, but clearly, an honest to the bone self-esteem is not something that comes as a package deal with any amount of ego or arrogance. In his subconsious, he is not good enough; he could convince himself, with the most twisted sense of logic and loyalty ever, that Nandini would be happier with Dhruv and that he was in the way! Unlike Nandu, who pieced the understated signs of his attention towards her, still, together, to realize his words could not be true, it did not even occur to him that the girl whom he time and again accused of smiling at Dhruv, had gone and kissed him without holding back her heart for a moment, had shared something so honest, and personal with him. Matlab, major wala facepalm!