Sush, great points - on board with much of what you said. 😊
So, I thought this was a pretty good epi for one reason and one reason only - we're back to the mudde ki baat - not water fights, dhobhi ghat, dabba service, sethi brothers... the truckload of nonsense that is too painful to relive, but you get the idea. Both protagonists locking horns, frustrated, impatient, stubborn in their tunnel vision. How far has ASR come? The girl that he dropped with nary a twinge from the first floor of his office is the one he can't bear to let go depite his belief that she is a homewrecker and a cheat. It's the pull of mohabbat. Yet, once he pulls her close he can't let her in, it's the push of nafrat. The essence of the show that we were promised...
Why then is this not a great episode, an awesome one even? A couple of reasons:
1. We've been here before and come Monday will the latest bit of comic idiocy present itself? Will we will spin into another endless cycle of stupidity?
2. The mohabbat-nafrat standoff is built on the flimsiest of circumstances, a tissue of contrivances that would be laughable if they weren't so frustrating. 😡
Khushi's strange dialog on the terrace started it and Anjali's wierd insistence on keeping mum around chotte is cementing it.
Khushi who is finally a tigress (not a retarded goof ball!) around Arnav, rolls over and plays dead around Shyam. After smartly dropping the pestle on his foot and siccing Anjali on him in the champi episode, she stands mute, helpless and complicit while he brazenly paws her in public - go figure! 😕
The kind hearted, generous Payal, who is now best buds with her sis again, knows of Shyam's villainy yet seems content to pretend that aaal izz well on that front. She and the world saw Shyam's opportunism during the holi episode. How does a sister..??? Go Figure! 😕
Shyam is now a card carrying member of IPK's band of schizos - one moment lecherous and leering at Khushi and the other aiming to convince Arnav he's turned a new leaf devoted to his wife and unborn child. What is his game?
And so it goes on and on...
Still, despite all these brain dead fabrications, all is forgiven if the creators stay the course in the coming week - galatfaimi ka khel anjaam tak khelna hoga. If necessary create more complications (I shudder as I say this coz every time I've left myself open to such options the writers have slammed me with the most egregious of contrivances!) and let things get worse before they get better... BUT, BUT, BUT let's not go into another tailspin of comedy, romance and hate that keeps us cemented to the same spot in the plot.
Tailpiece: DOA - Rabba Ve. It arrived and the angry intensity of hissing and spitting ebbed away without trace. It was the ultimate W*F Rabba Why (copyright Rag1ni). RIP Rabba Ve. It's a good thing we have a bunch of old youtube vids and awesome VM makers to fondly remember you by. Thanks for the awesome memories! If I weren't so sad, I'd try to write you a pithy epitaph and a mushy eulogy. 😭
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