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Well, seriously! Today's episode so badly stretched my incredulity, and strained my stomach as I laughed, that this was the one thing that I fixated on as an inexorable truth! First a TN Lawyer with red swimming pool slippers, and now TN Lawyer 2 who likes wearing red uppers (no! NOT underwear, OVERwear! :-) ) What _is_ Balaji Telefilms trying to tell us about TopNotch Indian lawyers??? So this is what it feels like watching a Hindi Soap! Oy Vey! Onto the show.
The first set begins after Top-Notch Lawyer 2 asks little KS to buzz off from spoiling his one-man wine-women-and-song bash. KS looked depressed, but must've gotten her famous resolve back, because the next thing you know, she's stalking TN Lawyer 2! Our ingenious lady has found the address of his house and as per his instructions has buzzed off, but merely as a diversion to his house. As TN Lawyer 2 staggers drunkenly up the path clutching a bimbo-accessory to his side (reminiscent of old AK staggering into the outhouse long-long-ago, but in a cooler BLACK leather jacket), little KS leaps in front of the poor sloshed (presumably) hormone-laden fool. Gutsy gal, our little KS, I tell you. The fool towers over her a tad more than AK does. She appeals to his better lawyer senses: you _have_ to take my case; you're my only hope! In return, he is staggered at her temerity (oh, was he just staggering because he was sloshed?) Will you get out of my life? Lots of ping-pong dialogue of basically the same nature between the two later, he brushes past her and leaves her weeping on the porch.
(Y'know - yes, I admit am thinking! I can't help but think! Sorry, I was born _with_ a brain! - being a lawyer, I'd have called the police and immediately got a restraining order slapped on little Kripa "Stalker" Sharma. But I guess that now the KYPH-black-magic is so powerful that characters lose their brains even _as_ they enter the show?
BTW, what an ultra-cool cabin-style-bungalow TN Lawyer 2 has -- being sloshed is evidently not a deterrant to being a successful lawyer just like it wasn't a deterrent to being a successful popstar...)
The next day dawns on Little KS who is cutely curled at the side of the cabin-bungalow fast asleep. She startles into wakefulness when a door bangs after TN Lawyer (who is now in a bright red T-shirt! See!) swigging at a hip-flask, and tripping merrily down the stairs to his car. KS does a dash after him, but as _always_ happens with KS - she misses catching him. However, this time, she doesn't need to flag down a rickshaw because she's got her car!
(Gee-whiz, KYPH-writers are so smart! Since the cabin-bungalow is in the green boondocks somewhere, obviously it wouldn't be so easy to flag down a rick, silly! So obviously she needed her car to chase-stalk TN Lawyer 2! See, how smart KYPH-writers are??!
Idiots - missing the wood for the trees is something they obviously never read...)
We cut to (sigh) a cemetry that is in a world of green (green hills, green pastures all around) with a chap selling the typical saffron-flower garlands. But for TN Lawyer 2, he brings out a wreath that is woven with red roses and white lilies. Sigh. TN Laywer walks over (not staggers, despite continued swigs at the hip-flask that seems to have a never ending bottom -- perhaps it is from that magic warehouse with the magic phone and the magically appearing bottle of water?) to a headstone which reads "Anna D'Costa"; he gently lays the wreath there and chats with the lady lying beneath, speaking of continued misery in his life because she is gone (guess he tolerated the night's wine-and-woman in suffering silence) and ending with a request to Anna's God to take him too. Little Stalker KS is standing behind, trembling with strategies to emotionally attack him with as soon as he turns.
She starts with a spiel on slotting him as someone who has loved and lost, and so would understand how she doesn't want to lose her lover. TN Lawyer 2 snarls at her - would she PLEASE leave him alone in his misery? He is NOT interested in _her_ happiness, only in his misery! Tears tremble down her porcelain cheek: o, she thought that he wouldn't want the same pain that he suffered on anyone else, so won't he please take AK's case? TN Lawyer 2 is growing hoarse with all the snarling he is doing: no, No, NO! Leave him alone - he is done with cases, and he doesn't give a damn for ANYTHING. By now, it's a torrential downpour of tears on that perfectly made-up KS face: Oh, he can never have been Anna's lover! He has become STONE, does he hear her, a STONE!
(Er, KS, he's already admitted he feels nothing for anyone anymore -- ie, he has himself admitted that he is stone? Your point is...? Sigh.
I thought Stalker KS pulled a rather nasty psychological attack on TN Lawyer, and quite an incredible one too. She had read all this of his character from just one sob session that Poor TN Lawyer 2 had over Anna's grave? But perhaps the underlying nastiness was supposed to convince us that she was prepared to do anything - anything! - to get AK free? If I were the TN Lawyer 2, I'd have carried through with my threat to haul off and thrash her. That he didn't, convinced me that he must be a Saint. Oh no! Did I just say Saint??! Not again!
Sigh, I feel like I must apologise for the rant, but it was all just too quick and too slapped-together to be convincing.)
The second set starts with KS at Daadi's knee, weeping all over Daadi's kurta. Daadi asks her to be strong, have fortitude - after all, she's been through so much more. But KS is inconsolable - she can't see a way out of this.
We cut to AK in jail, being brought out of his cell; he still ambles like a bearcub but with chains on his feet (none at his wrists, though). Stubbly AK ambles across to the hangman's noose; it's put on, the witnessing cop tracks the time, nods and the hangman pulls the lever; the noose around AK's neck goes taut as the trapdoor opens and he hangs...
KS wakes up screaming from her nightmare (Ha!, ya, E, like we didn't know this had to be a dream -- AK _can't_ ever die.) She can't bear to see it become real; she won't bear it, she won't allow it to happen! Even though she doesn't know what can be done. :-(
We cut to Troll Prithwi tossing back a glass of what appears to be hard alcohol. (_Now_ he tries to be an AK-be-alike? Why not earlier, when he had a real shot with KS?) He can certainly handle it better than AK. Troll is gloating: after the next day's court day, he will had put away AK for ever! He will have KS forever! Because the next day's court case will put away AK for good: and it will be just punishment for two reasons - one for Josh's murder and the other for having taken KS away from him. Wo-kay, Troll, sure the latter's an offence punishable by law. Take it easy, caaaalmmm down. FF Simone (I can never quite figure out if she is Femme Fatale or Frankly Freaked out at any given point) watches him silently. Suddenly she pipes up: what if AK wins? Troll sneers: no one ever won a case like this without a lawyer! But she persists: But what if? Troll is confident: he won't and Troll will have KS forever.
(Someone PLEASE explain to me what is FF Simone's angle in all this??!)
We cut back to the Court: where the judge is presiding over a new day of the case. The Dilip-Naina combine is there with KS-Daadi, Troll Prithwi-FF Simone, Mishti-Alliyah, but the defence lawyer is missing. The judge frowns at AK and asks where his lawyer is; AK is defensive (bwahaha!): he doesn't know. Well, sez the judge, without a defence lawyer, he's going to have to close the case and proclaim justice himself. Camera cuts to a lot of worried faces, except for a silently gloating Troll... The judge takes a look around, and the camera focusses on his picking up a pen from a gloriously golden pen stand that is made of the three lions that traditionally stands on the Ashoka Chakra. (Should I expect that stores in India are now going to carry a similar penstand?) He's about to scribble when .. (ta tada!) in true soap fashion, a voice rings out from the back of the court: Judge, I'll defend this case! It's TopNotch Lawyer 2! Without a dot of red on him anywhere! Could hardly recognise him, really...
(Ya, ya, I know I haven't seen other soaps, but I expect other soaps have this ridiculous dramatic unexpected lawyer entering the scene, no? It just felt soooo ... soapy!)
TN Lawyer 2 comes in, apologises to the judge (nice-ish touch in an episode devoid of any special care whatsoever) and asks AK's permission to defend his case. AK has nothing to say. TN Lawyer 2 calls the police-inspector-in-charge to the stand, and cuts IMMEDIATELY to the chase. He leans in close to the Inspector-in-charge. Hmm, from the records I see that the killer was left-handed? Yes, hmm? Inspector-in-charge agrees and Troll suddenly looks like he is suffering a Troll-heart-attack! Quick as a flash, TN Lawyer 2 chucks his pen across the room at AK; who in suprisingly fast reflexes catches it .. (ta tada!) in his right hand! Oh, oops! I say, Mr. AK! You are right-handed?? Gee, you can't be the murderer! Case closed, sir. The judge agrees! (No, no, that last line was just me being logical! :-)) KS-Daadi, Alliyah are beaming fit to beat the sunshine that is drying Bombay these days! Hurray!
(Seriously! In this scene, they spend more time on swearing the Inspector-in-charge than TN Lawyer 2 takes to establish that AK couldn't have been the killer! :-) That Lawyer's too cool! Next time, I will use Koogle too -- Google _never_ got me such a fantastic solution! :-) )
We cut to the grounds outside the courtroom where Troll Prithwi and FF Simone are having a terse pow-wow. FF Simone smirks: well, so much for your confident closure of _this_ case. Where did this TN Lawyer 2 come from? Troll Prithwi is controlling his anger: huh, what do you know? The case isn't over yet. Tomorrow is the big moment, when all will be decided. And then, I will show my ace of cards, my (darn it! what was the phrase?? Hukkum ka ikka -- What the heck is that??! And what is a Joru ka Gulam that people keep talking about when they want to talk about Dilip Khanna? Someone PLEASE tell me!)
End of show.
Preview: Troll Prithwi and FF Simone together where Troll is scheming evil things for when KS will be called to the stage. There's a scene with AK facing KS and thanking TN Lawyer 2 for taking his case. TN Lawyer 2, all sober and clean with his hair slicked back and NOT wearing a dot of red! smiles gently and asks him to thank KS for her efforts.
(Well, .. well. All has been said? :-) Let me wrap up with saying that Daandiya Ras dance hopping is fun in Bombay! The range of colours and shine and patterns and styles are amazing - even the guy's outfits! The drive for people, who work from 8am to 8pm, to dance the night away so vigorously is most stunning. What a sensory shock today has been: Bombay vs. Grey UK; sunshine vs. grey rains; colourful-skirts-colourful-kurtas vs. grey suits. Sigh. I'm going to miss this; I'm going to miss this Forum. I am probably off tomorrow afternoon, else the day after afternoon, and will be away till early December.
Take care, have fun, give Deepey my best wishes for a rapid recovery and keep ripping up this silly show when it misbehaves like it did today? :-) )
The first set begins after Top-Notch Lawyer 2 asks little KS to buzz off from spoiling his one-man wine-women-and-song bash. KS looked depressed, but must've gotten her famous resolve back, because the next thing you know, she's stalking TN Lawyer 2! Our ingenious lady has found the address of his house and as per his instructions has buzzed off, but merely as a diversion to his house. As TN Lawyer 2 staggers drunkenly up the path clutching a bimbo-accessory to his side (reminiscent of old AK staggering into the outhouse long-long-ago, but in a cooler BLACK leather jacket), little KS leaps in front of the poor sloshed (presumably) hormone-laden fool. Gutsy gal, our little KS, I tell you. The fool towers over her a tad more than AK does. She appeals to his better lawyer senses: you _have_ to take my case; you're my only hope! In return, he is staggered at her temerity (oh, was he just staggering because he was sloshed?) Will you get out of my life? Lots of ping-pong dialogue of basically the same nature between the two later, he brushes past her and leaves her weeping on the porch.
(Y'know - yes, I admit am thinking! I can't help but think! Sorry, I was born _with_ a brain! - being a lawyer, I'd have called the police and immediately got a restraining order slapped on little Kripa "Stalker" Sharma. But I guess that now the KYPH-black-magic is so powerful that characters lose their brains even _as_ they enter the show?
BTW, what an ultra-cool cabin-style-bungalow TN Lawyer 2 has -- being sloshed is evidently not a deterrant to being a successful lawyer just like it wasn't a deterrent to being a successful popstar...)
The next day dawns on Little KS who is cutely curled at the side of the cabin-bungalow fast asleep. She startles into wakefulness when a door bangs after TN Lawyer (who is now in a bright red T-shirt! See!) swigging at a hip-flask, and tripping merrily down the stairs to his car. KS does a dash after him, but as _always_ happens with KS - she misses catching him. However, this time, she doesn't need to flag down a rickshaw because she's got her car!
(Gee-whiz, KYPH-writers are so smart! Since the cabin-bungalow is in the green boondocks somewhere, obviously it wouldn't be so easy to flag down a rick, silly! So obviously she needed her car to chase-stalk TN Lawyer 2! See, how smart KYPH-writers are??!
Idiots - missing the wood for the trees is something they obviously never read...)
We cut to (sigh) a cemetry that is in a world of green (green hills, green pastures all around) with a chap selling the typical saffron-flower garlands. But for TN Lawyer 2, he brings out a wreath that is woven with red roses and white lilies. Sigh. TN Laywer walks over (not staggers, despite continued swigs at the hip-flask that seems to have a never ending bottom -- perhaps it is from that magic warehouse with the magic phone and the magically appearing bottle of water?) to a headstone which reads "Anna D'Costa"; he gently lays the wreath there and chats with the lady lying beneath, speaking of continued misery in his life because she is gone (guess he tolerated the night's wine-and-woman in suffering silence) and ending with a request to Anna's God to take him too. Little Stalker KS is standing behind, trembling with strategies to emotionally attack him with as soon as he turns.
She starts with a spiel on slotting him as someone who has loved and lost, and so would understand how she doesn't want to lose her lover. TN Lawyer 2 snarls at her - would she PLEASE leave him alone in his misery? He is NOT interested in _her_ happiness, only in his misery! Tears tremble down her porcelain cheek: o, she thought that he wouldn't want the same pain that he suffered on anyone else, so won't he please take AK's case? TN Lawyer 2 is growing hoarse with all the snarling he is doing: no, No, NO! Leave him alone - he is done with cases, and he doesn't give a damn for ANYTHING. By now, it's a torrential downpour of tears on that perfectly made-up KS face: Oh, he can never have been Anna's lover! He has become STONE, does he hear her, a STONE!
(Er, KS, he's already admitted he feels nothing for anyone anymore -- ie, he has himself admitted that he is stone? Your point is...? Sigh.
I thought Stalker KS pulled a rather nasty psychological attack on TN Lawyer, and quite an incredible one too. She had read all this of his character from just one sob session that Poor TN Lawyer 2 had over Anna's grave? But perhaps the underlying nastiness was supposed to convince us that she was prepared to do anything - anything! - to get AK free? If I were the TN Lawyer 2, I'd have carried through with my threat to haul off and thrash her. That he didn't, convinced me that he must be a Saint. Oh no! Did I just say Saint??! Not again!
Sigh, I feel like I must apologise for the rant, but it was all just too quick and too slapped-together to be convincing.)
The second set starts with KS at Daadi's knee, weeping all over Daadi's kurta. Daadi asks her to be strong, have fortitude - after all, she's been through so much more. But KS is inconsolable - she can't see a way out of this.
We cut to AK in jail, being brought out of his cell; he still ambles like a bearcub but with chains on his feet (none at his wrists, though). Stubbly AK ambles across to the hangman's noose; it's put on, the witnessing cop tracks the time, nods and the hangman pulls the lever; the noose around AK's neck goes taut as the trapdoor opens and he hangs...
KS wakes up screaming from her nightmare (Ha!, ya, E, like we didn't know this had to be a dream -- AK _can't_ ever die.) She can't bear to see it become real; she won't bear it, she won't allow it to happen! Even though she doesn't know what can be done. :-(
We cut to Troll Prithwi tossing back a glass of what appears to be hard alcohol. (_Now_ he tries to be an AK-be-alike? Why not earlier, when he had a real shot with KS?) He can certainly handle it better than AK. Troll is gloating: after the next day's court day, he will had put away AK for ever! He will have KS forever! Because the next day's court case will put away AK for good: and it will be just punishment for two reasons - one for Josh's murder and the other for having taken KS away from him. Wo-kay, Troll, sure the latter's an offence punishable by law. Take it easy, caaaalmmm down. FF Simone (I can never quite figure out if she is Femme Fatale or Frankly Freaked out at any given point) watches him silently. Suddenly she pipes up: what if AK wins? Troll sneers: no one ever won a case like this without a lawyer! But she persists: But what if? Troll is confident: he won't and Troll will have KS forever.
(Someone PLEASE explain to me what is FF Simone's angle in all this??!)
We cut back to the Court: where the judge is presiding over a new day of the case. The Dilip-Naina combine is there with KS-Daadi, Troll Prithwi-FF Simone, Mishti-Alliyah, but the defence lawyer is missing. The judge frowns at AK and asks where his lawyer is; AK is defensive (bwahaha!): he doesn't know. Well, sez the judge, without a defence lawyer, he's going to have to close the case and proclaim justice himself. Camera cuts to a lot of worried faces, except for a silently gloating Troll... The judge takes a look around, and the camera focusses on his picking up a pen from a gloriously golden pen stand that is made of the three lions that traditionally stands on the Ashoka Chakra. (Should I expect that stores in India are now going to carry a similar penstand?) He's about to scribble when .. (ta tada!) in true soap fashion, a voice rings out from the back of the court: Judge, I'll defend this case! It's TopNotch Lawyer 2! Without a dot of red on him anywhere! Could hardly recognise him, really...
(Ya, ya, I know I haven't seen other soaps, but I expect other soaps have this ridiculous dramatic unexpected lawyer entering the scene, no? It just felt soooo ... soapy!)
TN Lawyer 2 comes in, apologises to the judge (nice-ish touch in an episode devoid of any special care whatsoever) and asks AK's permission to defend his case. AK has nothing to say. TN Lawyer 2 calls the police-inspector-in-charge to the stand, and cuts IMMEDIATELY to the chase. He leans in close to the Inspector-in-charge. Hmm, from the records I see that the killer was left-handed? Yes, hmm? Inspector-in-charge agrees and Troll suddenly looks like he is suffering a Troll-heart-attack! Quick as a flash, TN Lawyer 2 chucks his pen across the room at AK; who in suprisingly fast reflexes catches it .. (ta tada!) in his right hand! Oh, oops! I say, Mr. AK! You are right-handed?? Gee, you can't be the murderer! Case closed, sir. The judge agrees! (No, no, that last line was just me being logical! :-)) KS-Daadi, Alliyah are beaming fit to beat the sunshine that is drying Bombay these days! Hurray!
(Seriously! In this scene, they spend more time on swearing the Inspector-in-charge than TN Lawyer 2 takes to establish that AK couldn't have been the killer! :-) That Lawyer's too cool! Next time, I will use Koogle too -- Google _never_ got me such a fantastic solution! :-) )
We cut to the grounds outside the courtroom where Troll Prithwi and FF Simone are having a terse pow-wow. FF Simone smirks: well, so much for your confident closure of _this_ case. Where did this TN Lawyer 2 come from? Troll Prithwi is controlling his anger: huh, what do you know? The case isn't over yet. Tomorrow is the big moment, when all will be decided. And then, I will show my ace of cards, my (darn it! what was the phrase?? Hukkum ka ikka -- What the heck is that??! And what is a Joru ka Gulam that people keep talking about when they want to talk about Dilip Khanna? Someone PLEASE tell me!)
End of show.
Preview: Troll Prithwi and FF Simone together where Troll is scheming evil things for when KS will be called to the stage. There's a scene with AK facing KS and thanking TN Lawyer 2 for taking his case. TN Lawyer 2, all sober and clean with his hair slicked back and NOT wearing a dot of red! smiles gently and asks him to thank KS for her efforts.
(Well, .. well. All has been said? :-) Let me wrap up with saying that Daandiya Ras dance hopping is fun in Bombay! The range of colours and shine and patterns and styles are amazing - even the guy's outfits! The drive for people, who work from 8am to 8pm, to dance the night away so vigorously is most stunning. What a sensory shock today has been: Bombay vs. Grey UK; sunshine vs. grey rains; colourful-skirts-colourful-kurtas vs. grey suits. Sigh. I'm going to miss this; I'm going to miss this Forum. I am probably off tomorrow afternoon, else the day after afternoon, and will be away till early December.
Take care, have fun, give Deepey my best wishes for a rapid recovery and keep ripping up this silly show when it misbehaves like it did today? :-) )
