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Peeps!!! Wasn't that episode so wholesome, awesome, freaksome much?! 😍 The title comes from how much double meaning dialog the episode had. How much meaning there was behind a majority of the smiles today. And how beyond the smile, other characters are doomed to the dark.
Dark Dilemma
They covered Raman and Dushyant (finally throwing light on what Raman has been upto 😡) I really like they bring out Dushyant's brotherly side. When he first catches sight of his vulnerable brother being threatened like that - all Dushyant can think of is standing up for, and goes and does exactly that - something Raman can neither appreciate, nor understand much less reciprocate - ever! 😡 Again, when those people bad mouth Raman he's all defensive, the moment he realizes the deep soup his brother is in, its like role reversal and like Dushyant was always the elder sibling looking out for his younger Raman, the kind of elder who would be pained by his junior letting him down... somewhere I think - this is how Vasant and Dushyant were. Where Vasant was what Dushyant is now, and Dushyant was what Raman is... karma sure hits back! Again... When he is back in his room - my heart went out to Dushyant. His dilemma. His conflict between standing up for what is right, or what is blood. For the first time, he was the loneliest person in that big house, with too much too tackle, none his own mess (not until Durgesh steps in, if, anyway!) and not a soul to confide in. It made me want more than ever, for Dushyant and Kesar to bond - if only briefly, before the Vasant showdown and whatever that climax brings us in its wake. I truly think the brothers in this house have never had a chance to be mature fraternity for each other. Vasant and Kesar were thick - but Kesar was only a child then. Watching Kesar and Dushyant now would be like watching a glimpse of what this house has never seen!
Ludo!!!
Moving on. To the Ludo scene of course! Well scripted, entertaining, and so GK! When he tells her he forgot about their sleeping arrangement I had to pause for a bit and look around for my jaw that had fallen and was rolling around the floor. I was like - did you really?! Then again, the comparison of his having forgotten, vs Gulaal actually making the elaborate arrangements for sleeping separately in the same room - was so indicative of what we've established for a while now. Kesar is beyond his turmoil and transition. He's settled in the phase where he's likely to be all his life - as long he's the one responsible for it! Gulaal on the other hand is the one undergoing the change now. The way she's stunned by his touch, jumps at being caught in his trance, or remains painfully alert of sleeping arrangements and awkwardness much - screams of how its playing on her mind 24/7 even if only in one secluded corner of her head! Ever since her revelation at Kesar's showdown, she has certainly stopped treating him with suspicion, but it has not made her any less aware of his presence or love - only ever more! And so, in a way, something as subtle as Gulaal remembering and Kesar forgetting, is just right. Of course Kesar can tell the tense air is back. But he's had his night of being bewildered into inactivity, and today he gears up to fix the matter. First, he takes over the floor - and cracks his classic Kesar joke to begin ebbing away at the kinks. It works, Gulaal laughs, and gives in - and that is another chance proof of their 'equal status'. I can't imagine Gulaal letting any damn other person get their way about sleeping on the floor while she gets the bed. But with Kesar, it's okay! Not because he's younger - because if this was Kesar the child that she was guarding over, he would be forced into the bed, no matter what - but this Kesar is an equal! Special mention to Kesar's joke - about having to miss the pillow, hit the floor, wake up 2-3 times, before his sleep feels satisfying - yeh right Kesar. And what exactly are you dreaming about to 'fidget' so much in your sleep?! ☺️ He's so cute! 😆 When they each hit their own sack - he's looking over at her, cause he knows her - and has to but ask if she's going to pull off the night sitting straight 😆 Even when she relents and pulls over the duvet, he knows its all futile. And so goes off his Eureka bulb and he remembers Ludo. I like how you say this one Reemz, about Kesar knowing the best way to draw Gulaal into a plan is to challenge her! 😆 Heck, he's seen that first hand in the hopscotch time and gotten his share of shock over it, hasn't he?! It's pretty Kesar again, the way he tells her he needs to beat her at it a few times to get tassalli! 🤣 Their little dialog, behind the facade of Talli's pretext, is all about them. Gulaal is echoing her subconscious worry as Talli's. Kesar is offering his personal experience on the platter as advice! And no, neither of them is trying to intend the pun. They're just naturally good at talking in double meanings. 😆
Miracle Much?!
Onto Talli and Gulaal - yes yes yes, a must discuss scene because Gulaal has finally hit a home run - her first in like one entire lifetime! As I said in the EDT, when I saw her to be the one snooping on Talli's personal misery (oh can she stop getting FB's of that nightmarish sagai with Kesar btw! Kills time, and kills the mood 🤢 ) I nearly walked off to hit my head into a wall assuming Gulaal was going to revert back to her, see I told you Talli was hastening mode with Kesar! But no. For once in her life, Gulaal does what she has done best in the past. She sits with Talli, consoles her, and offers her genuinely good advice - not just well meant, but correct in content! One of those documenting moments of the show - will Gulaal talking so much sense of moving on, with the one that loves you, and not the one you're trying to old back in vain! Like everyone else, it was my big whoaa moment! And then it had me thinking, of how much Kesar had changed this woman - or let's say, revived her old self. She was no longer the wallow in a problem and dwell in a limbo person. The woman who less than 2 weeks ago could not imagine how Talli or anyone could move on just like that, was assuring Talli now that this was right and she should go for it. Give her happiness a chance! Without realizing it, being happy has done this for Gulaal - make her seek it out, look for it and claim it as her own all over again. She's progressing on that path slowly, even obliviously - and she's telling Talli to do it! For all the Talli-ism I had to bear, Gulaal's big leap of faith was worth it! Just a little skeptical about Talli's expression in Gulaal's hug - but she's been inexplicably stoic these few days - so benefit of doubt to her.
Transition Continues...
Finally - to the Jay Parvati vrat. Nothing to say about the scene as such except send a virtual hug SD's way to continue being the lovely lovely much needed cupid - but the PRECAP was it! Yes, she's probably not just going to shock us with something like I am doing the vrat because a wife does it for her husband and I'm your wife after all - with elemental Galool still lurking inside her, she will pull some blinds of elaboration on why doing the vrat is not her majburi ...But that's immaterial! I honestly think this will not be like Vat Savitri time - when she pushed the entire credit to PB. She may name SD but if that was all, then it would be 'majburi' as Kesar calls it ... no, Gulaal is probably going to pull only half wool over Kesar's eyes and come up with something more of a reason - and whatever that is, I'm positive it is a forward in the GK movement, not backward! For now - Kesar's expression at her telling him it's not majburi is worthy of a day's speculations!
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Thankfully Kunal is go went gone to city and we wont get anymore Kulli [oh I didn't mention their scene, cause well... there was nothing to it, except the ending with Kesar walking in 😍 and then I was just concentrating on how good he was looking 😆 so no analysis! ] I personally think the Raman Dushyant angle is going to be more Dushyant after today - so relief at that too! Plus, the precap being GK is such a relief. Whatever with GK - irrespective!
Only one disappointment. Not the greatest, but I'm really intrigued by GK's surprise plan just vanishing into the thin air. Very unlike the CVs - whatever the talks of ending show maybe - and I think I'm just going to end up telling myself it's a consequence of Mansi's injury... she didn't get to shoot together with the unit - and just maybe, if this was to be a dance, the injury didn't allow her... but oh well. that's a mysteriously closed chapter now - sadly.
Do chip in your comments/opinions/interpretations/debates!
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JZee
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