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Woof woof Ve!! 🤗
No, I haven't suddenly changed species, nor am I being catty. Or doggy. 😉 But today is the day when Jamba-Jamba settles down to see if Chan-Chan and Puch-Puch will be able resurrect the satyanash that was TV-TV in 2012.
I'll freely admit - after Dilli and Lucknow exited stage left, I've been wandering the wilds of uncut-land and Dikhra-giri and howling at the moon, wondering if any show will ever fill the void that Voldemort (The-Show-That-Shalt-Not-Be-Named) left. 😕
Will it? Dekhte hain.
(Jab kuch hoga hi nahin to aap kya..) CEASE AND DESIST - J. 😡😡😡 RIGHT NOW.
The hopes pinned on this soap are stratospheric. Bitiya is expected to pretty much carry the show on her slender frame, and Sony hasn't even given her a Gangotri to help shoulder the load. 😕 What they have given her though, is a PH that apparently doesn't believe in cutting corners on production values ⭐️ (if the grapevine is to be believed), and a decent counterweight to balance her considerable acting skills . ⭐️⭐️⭐️
On that note. Supriya Pathak? Bhelcomes. We will watch this duo with interest...
...and unfortunately, with far more interest than I'll watch the pairing of SaHan (literal Hindi translation - tolerate). That twosome reminds me of a lioness toying with a mouse before she snarfs him up as a mid morning snack - and doesn't even bother to burp afterward.
Bitwa will have to bring his "A" level game to match her if he doesn't want this to end up like Little League versus the New York Yankees. Or gali ka chokra versus Sachin Tendulkar. You get the general idea. 😛
Today's introductory Take 5 posted from the doghouse. Coz on this show - it be the best place to settle down and watch the upcoming fireworks!
1. Opening Act - Bhagwan ke naam pe ek dulha dede baba!! Dadi-ji is desperate to find a dulha. Not for herself (how cool would THAT be! 😃 ) but for her granddaughter, who apparently prefers four legged companions to the two legged kind. Unfortunately for Dadi - she's stuck with a family of libertarians, who don't GIVE. A. DAMN. They all believe that things will work out for the best.
Losers.
Unfortunately, the laid back attitude only gives Dadi heart palpitations. Jingle (ChanChan) doesn't even know how to make rotis!! (Good God in heaven, talk about unpardonable crimes! Let's tar and feather the girl and run her out of town on a donkey 😡). But thankfully for bitiya, Amma is more level headed. She'll find a mother in law that will help, Dadi-ji. So chill!
And by inference - the rest of us as well. Chill, that is.
2. Shaadi be damned. Where's the puppy? Circle of girlfriends. One of them is getting married. And Jingle's friends are waiting anxiously for the...POOCH. And fitted saris. Coz none of them knows how to drape one in the traditional fashion. Jingle to the rescue with her suitcase, just in time for a quick photography session with the mutt holding pride of place.
I'm starting to sympathize with their future mothers-in-law by this point.
However, at least one of them is nervous - but that's probably because its is HER neck on the line. Purvi is fasting on the day of her wedding. Coz that's really what you want to do - show up at your wedding with low blood sugar, and keel over and faint at the sight of the groom. Or his relatives.
Genius. 👍🏼
3. Yay for YaYa!! 🥳 Due acknowledgement to @Docgirl - babe, love the new name!! 😃 Jingle and sidekick go to the temple to get prasad. Unfortunately for them, visiting hours at the temple are over, and the priest bars entry.
But this be Mera Bharat Mahan. Especially saabun-land (soap) Bharat. 😎 A little palm greasing goes a long way - and Ya Number Doh (Supriya) gets into the temple as easily as if she skidded on that grease. Ya Number Ek is indignant. Et tu Brutus? She glares at the priest - who is wise enough (or foresighted) to step back and let the Ya's battle it out.
Aunty is unapologetic. You want prasad for your friend? Then shut up and fall in line. And they do. Aunty enters the temple uttering what is obviously intended to be her signature line.
Something along the lines of "Bless everyone but work your way downwards - beginning with me." Coz she be at the top of the dung heap of humanity.
Jingle is still ticked off - I hope no one gets a mother-in-law like her! Satyanash ladki - that be called TEMPTING FATE. And Fate shalt deliver that kick in the behind post haste...
4. ...in the form of Han. Due apologies to anyone who's already phangurling over the newbie - for referring to him as a kick in the posterior. But he's gotta prove himself in my book. Or the audience won't hesitate to snarf up the appetizer called SaHan and move onto the main course - namely YaYa. 😉
So how did the twain meet? Jingle has left an expensive necklace - a wedding present for Purvi (someone FEED that girl already before she makes a snack out of the pooch) in her scooter. She collides with "Chotey Saab" on her way out to get it, who then proceeds to sneeze all over her. A Chotey wearing sunglasses and a suit, sans jacket. All that's missing is those beloved fake Hermes wingtips. Sigh.
Quick time out for Pet Peeve. Dude - sneeze into your elbow! NOT your hand. Even a kindergartener knows that these days. 😡😡
But I digress. Back to sabun land. The sunglasses come off (stirring deja vu in about a million minds), and the eyes meet...not across a crowded room, but over a scruffy pooch.
5. Jingle and Jangle have met. And the fireworks have begun. The question that everyone is waiting to see is - will this particular firecracker explode, or fizzle out in the chemistry lab?
My two cents - kinda ironic how Sony insists that this isn't a saas bahu show. It ABSOLUTELY is, dammit! Why would they try to underplay the USP of the show - the one thing that is going to have folks tuning in to watch...namely, two powerhouse actresses from different generations pitting their skills against each other? 😲
Answer - the stubborn belief that every X chromosome needs to have a Y match for a show to be a hit. Unfortunately in this case - the decks are heavily stacked against the poor sucker, since he has some Goliath sized shoes to fill. 😕
Bitwa - taking off your sunglasses in slow-mo only gets you so far. Phront phront we will see bhat bhat you can do. But for the rest of us...
BHELCOMES TO YET ANOTHER PHORUM ...and JINGLE AWAY!!! 🥳
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