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Jingle-Ben Ve!!! 🤗
Today's message...Dahej be BAD. REALLY BAD. Like committing a crime, BAD. Like torturing someone, BAD. Like popping a zit right before a party, BAD.
Ok - maybe not that last one. 😉 Not to trivialize a serious subject - 'tis a rare show that is able to handle any discussion on a social menace like dowry with the appropriate level of sensitivity, and without excessive preaching. Was Jingle-all-the-Way able to do this today? Almost. But not quite.
Today's Take 1 posted from the shaadi ka mandap - where J-J was a fly on the wall during the Clash of the Titans.
1. WEDNESDAY. Talk to the Hand. What IS it with women of a certain age using THE HAND as a stop sign to end discussion, on desi soaps? 😕😕😕
Sanaya - bitiya, something to consider putting into your contract for your next show - thou shalt not accept scripts where the matriarch of any prospective sasural displays this habit. Bas. 😡
The bride is being frog marched around the fire for the pheras, when Jingle puts a spanner in the works. Psst Purvi - the groom? He was purchased at a premium at Walmart, for 25 large smackers! 😲 Purvi is shocked, and her foot hangs in mid air. She can't marry the guy - not after finding out that this wasn't a free giveaway as she had supposed, but a full priced swindle!
Unfortunately for her - her father has mortgaged his eternal soul to the resident steamroller, and she isn't willing to budge. The pheras WILL happen, and she doesn't have to take advice from a diminutive chokri in green who is setting out to change the world, but doesn't know how to drape a sari. The bride's father has 5 minutes to see reason, and not embarrass her.
Unfortunately for her - he does. 👏 See reason, that is. His daughter will NOT wed into a household that views him as a 24/7 ATM facility. So there - Maalkin, stuff that into your pipe and smoke it. With all due respect, of course.
And Malkin does. Coz she knows exactly who the instigator is. She walks up to Jingle and does the senior citizen version of "I'm watching you" - minus the eye poke.
And J-J has 5 (yeah - its always 5. So sue me) observations 😉
1. Maalkin apparently lost her nose today due to the shaadi being cancelled, as did the parents of the groom. Somewhere, a plastic surgeon is cheering.
2. Ya senior does a great Gujju accent. 👍🏼 Not that I'm a connoisseur or anything.
Wait!!
I just watched a month of Dikhra and Dikhri in Ratnagiri. So maybe I am, after all. 😛
3. Its early days yet - but Manav bitwa really is shaping up to be an afterthought on this soap. It doesn't help that his "grinning-like-a-Cheshire-cat" expression in the precap was monumentally misplaced.
For Pete's sake, dude - your overbearing mother is talking about a modern day Spanish Inquisition for your future bride. Doesn't the thought scare those pee-stained pants off of you?
4. Ya junior is slowly shedding her previous skin and settling into this role. Her performance today was much more restrained - someone who is willing to face off a foe many times her body weight, but not being completely OTT with the preaching and sermonizing.
5. Did Uncle-ji return the money? Or did he walk out with it - bilkul phree? Come on, tells us? 😉
So. The first week of the soap ends tomorrow, since Sony apparently believes in European working hours and 3 day weekends.
The verdict? It still be out, verdicting.
But then, most people were tuning in to watch YaYa anyway, and on that score - it delivered BIG TIME. ⭐️
The cast and crew of Jingle All The Way disperse for their weekend break tomorrow, and the rest of us obsessed lunatics go back to watching uncuts. Without them...humari toh...
SRJ wonly 😉
