The Week That Was - Page 2

Diya... I am happy to see your TWTW😊. Yesterday i was checking for this as if i need a Diya's TWTW shot😆😆😆, Happy to see that you got your motivation to write again. Yes, even i felt like the old charm of our show is back. I never knew that you also write OS. I loved the part 1 of your OS. It is wonderful.

Any how excellent writeup and it was a great pleasure to read👏👏

Res

Hello from a very rainy and cold Helsinki... 😃

Diya...I have to say your write up is fantastic!!!! 👏

LOved your sketch of the fight between good and evil...the DM and the 666...I am really enjoying that angle too! About the Mahabarath analogy...ummm...don't quite see KHushi as Arjun because she is not the ultimate warrior...she will get trapped into the chkravyuh. Similarly...I think NK is too sweet and straight to be a KRSHNA...he will support her alright but she has to find he own way...not expecting NK to be the one showing her the way and being her rock to not care about relationships when you fight...

In fact...I am hoping that ARnie will be the Arjun in the end...with DM showing him the way and fighting the fight with the dear ones for the truth ...not caring about false relationships...like his cheating jija and moh Maya that he brings that his ji is trapped into...Let's see...really want a man of action...not a princess ARnie who is sitting in a castle waiting go be rescued... 😆 😆

Giving credit where credit is due...I think the CVs are right in not making it straight forward I love you...yOu love me...let's start a family...kind of deal...One phone call when some one
is holding a gun to your head of I love you is just not enough...Like Sandra Bullock said in the original Speed movie...extreme situations bring extreme reactions ...we need a true recognition from Arnies side that Khushis love is real...no doubt left in his mind...and then revisit what made him distrust KHushi...he has to get all intellectual answers too along with the emotional ones..

😃

Good to see you back with another TWTW, fab as usual. I enjoyed TWTW, even with little Arnav things have moved ahead. The return of DM was one of the highlights for me, the FB, the hesitance before Khushi took the final step were all well done.

Originally posted by: premparbat

Hi Diya

Pleasure to read your TWTW . I have always been a fan of it and glad that you have been able to find time to recap the entire week.

For me the 5th week of kidnapping was a bit of a stretch. Dont get me wrong..I have absolutely enjoyed Khushi in the past weeks and the growth of characters as mami and Payal but the need to make this further round and round has been obvious. Lack of the main lead. Will see if the cvs keep up this good work after his return ? Fingers crossed.

Khushi going back to DM was the highlight for me. Its like me who blames god for everything that goes bad in my life to return for forgivness and strentgh after a short stint of discord. Her remembering the time ( good FBs ) when she complained about the rakshas who forcefully married her and now is praying for the same to be bought back safely to her. 👏 I have loved that background music that plays along with the DM scenes. excellent.

Khushi & NK combination. Cvs failed to make much use of it last time when NK was there and maybe that was beacuse they did not see NK having a long term presence. But after Lavanya I think he is the best character they have introduced. NKs feelings for Khushi were never well defined , did he look at her as a love interest or just casual flirting to being her firend but this time he is definetly her confidant and friend. If he had a hard time believing jiju was involved imagine how hard it will be for other family members.

Shyam and his games and Khushi entraping him in his own web. It seems a bit far fetched and has loopholes . It assumes that Khushi remembers her Holi confession to Shyam about the particulars of her marriage hence Shyam would understnd her reason for revenge. If not then why should he believe her. Since thsi track needs wrapping up I am sure Khushi will pass the test and Shyam will recruit her for the next level of games. Shyam will not fully trust her for sure and this is where NK will be of use.

Lastly the K'napping track has a lot of illogical strands. Leave aside that no one in the family is inquiring about Arnie in this day & age of communication, and the blood on Shyams show when there is no injury on Arnie etc etc... to me the biggest is Arnie's journey form the airport when he turned back to meet Khushi ...to his particular timing fo saying ILU ... to his first need to say sorry than to find details of his kidnapper... This needs to be explained and the audinece needs to be privy of that Eureka moment when Arnie said to himslef that nothing matters but Khushi and I need to tell her I Love Her..

Wont hold my breathe for it coz it seems the Cvs are busy luring the audience back with a repeat Teri Meri ..Why again.?..We loved teh first one and every time the song plays I think of ArHi. Also if it is a dream please do not make it BW style. It has to IPK style...

Till next week Dia.

Thanks Ratna 🤗
Three main highlights in the week for me, and two scenes -
Khushi going back to DM
Khushi and NK team
Khushi deciding to play Shyam at his own game

Two scenes - The Khushi -DM temple scene
The Khushi-Shyam scene
I would add the ArHi scene just because i'm a sucker for Arhi romance 😛 but in terms of progressing the track, it didn't really do much. But it was good to see Bitwa back on screen, however briefly!

Agree with you, the kidnapping track is illogical and full of loopholes ... no one is anxious that Arnav is out of communication for so long? And he's supposedly in Scotland, not in Greenland, or in Antarctica ... or outer space! So that part is completely out of whack ... but am just ignoring it, because I'm glad that at least Mami and NK do know that Arnav is missing ... in many shows, the heroine would be the only one!

Khushi telling Shyam about the forced marriage - I presume she guesses from what Arnav has told her during their confrontation, and Shyam has also told her that he knows she was unwilling ... so she basically told him only the things she knows that he already knows ... or could guess ... or would add to her reason for hating him.

Again, Arnav's journey from the airport to the ILU - another huge loophole ... we know it's because BS is not available, but the regular viewer may or may not know ... I just hope they do cover it in the form of fb's ... actually, instead of putting in random fight scenes and dream sequences, they could have shown Arnav have some fb's to show that journey ...

But maybe the cv's have something else up their sleeve, so as long as the episodes are entertaining and well-acted - which they definitely are - I'm happy to go with the flow! Logic takes a back seat these days ... and if you check out some of the other shows on telly - which I did randomly, then logic is really not a strong point anywhere, so why bother too much?! 😆

hola DIya 🤗

its been ages since I read your weekly round-up...loved it👍🏼
may be I was missing the PMs so thought you were not writing this at all...😉

Diya! 🤗 That was another fabulous analysis of the entire weeks episodes. 👏 I am so glad that you are back. It is always such a lovely recap of the whole week. TWTW is definitely something to look forward to during the weekends. 😃

Originally posted by: -Jamba-

Diya - FANTASTIC SUMMARY! 🤗

Loved the way you tied it all together - the Mahabharata symbolism is so apt when you think about it! Some of us are denser than the rest, and TWTW lays it out beautifully 😛

Many of us are too busy baying for Sobti's blood coz he's been away for so long, we fail to recognize how brilliantly the rest of the cast is making up for his absence. That said - WE WANT HIM BACK NOW!!! Also, PLEASE don't even raise the PROSPECT of YAMU! CV's troll forums for ideas!

You know - I actually checked IF on my phone at some ghastly hour this morning, saw your PM, res'd and went back to sleep...that's how much I love reading TWTW 😉

Thanks Jamba 🤗 aww, that makes it worth the effort of writing TWTW ... 😳


I missed Arnav a lot during the first week, but it was so beautifully done and had so many fb's that it was easy to concentrate on what was happening in the story ... and now I've kind of got used to his not being around ... besides, the guy went out of his own choice, he wants to be hero in BW, so he misses out the chance to be hero here ... 😆 ... can't have his cake and eat it too 😆

That said, I hope ASR gets back with some major evidence of a Shatir Dimaag ... otherwise it will be the usual tellywood heroine being the only intelligent one around, and the hero becoming a wallflower, just there for the eye candy! 😛 Don't want that happening, not when ASR has been the first hero worth the name for a long time on telly!

I love Indian mythology, and these chess games and mind games are so reminiscent of the Mahabharat ... I just hope they continue when Arnav is back too, it would fulfill a longstanding wish to see ArHi band together, knowingly or unknowingly - to defeat Shyam at his own game. No more YAMU ... 😆

Originally posted by: savvy05

Diya,wonderful post again. Engaging view from the Mahabarat perspective
vs the Ramayan angle that we were looking at. Nani is indeed the Bhishma, who inspite of know the truth against Shyam will be forced to take the side of Anjali because of family loyalty. But I am sure she is going to slowly but surely open Anjali's eyes to reality.

Khushi returning back to DM's fold has to be one best scenes from last week.
The hesitancy in entering the shrine, her nadaani saying she is at fault
and not her husband and asking for forgiveness was beautifully done. DM has always been the 3rd angle in Arnav and Khushi's story, guiding them through their tumultuous road.

NK-Khushi friendship was beautifully shown. The transformation from the crush prior to the marriage, to being a shoulder for Khushi during her trying times was well done by Karan. I love this and hope that even after the kidnapping is over he is very much retained and the focus is also laid on the track of this friendship blossoming.

Khushi has indeed stepped into the chakravuyh without knowing an exit strategy. Her sole goal of finding Arnav makes her oblivious of the dangers in the web of deception she is weaving. Only person who can save her and bring her out safely is Arnav

Hats off to Sanaya, to me she effectively portrayed all the nava rasas, only thing missing was the anger and nafrat which came out brilliantly in the Friday episode.

Thanks, savvy .. oh yes, the nafrat and krodh ... the nava rasas ... beautifully put!!!

I am loving the unusual relationships this show has portrayed - so different from the usual ghisa-pita types on tv - the Khushi-Lavanya friendship was one, the beautiful Arnav-Lavanya break-up was another, the Khushi-NK friendship is the newest ... it started as a crush, and how beautifully it has evolved into a genuine friendship, with trust and mutual respect - lovely! Even the Mami-Khushi equation has evolved so well ...

And Khushi going back to DM, apart from being a beautiful scene, was also the harbinger that from now on, things will go Khushi's way ... so we can relax, sit back and enjoy! 😆

Sugar pointed out the first chakravyuh that Khushi stepped into - the diyas at Diwali ... where Arnav held her hand to bring her out. So similarly we should get something like that here ... waiting 😍