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(Previously titled "Angad thinks Kripa&Mishti bizzarre!")
Hmm, a weird episode which starts with a very distasteful display by KS, has several distasteful episodes with a badly-acting Prithvi, sweet Josh-AK interactions and ends with a shocked AK. Nothing much to write home about except that AK looks very nice in bright blue denim, and that Josh probably has got some kind of health problem that needs him to eat constantly. Well, onto the show:
The first set is at a gym/dance-practice floor, where lots of pretty, agile people are practising their moves. Josh and KS are there, as is Alliyah! Josh walks to a bunch of people, picks up some water and saunters across to Alliyah, who's watching the action with a smile. Josh parks himself next to her and says "Well, where is it?" Alliyah is puzzled: Huh? Josh is peeved: Don't tell me you forgot to bring some! Alliyah's face clears, and she brings out a pack of chocolate. (What IS it with Josh and food? Perhaps he is diabetic and has to constantly keep eating something? Or do KYPH writers want us to know that he is still a growing child?) As he gets ready to munch, he asks where AK is to which Alliyah replies that he must be on the way. Josh contemplates KS sitting alone, fiddling with her phone, and says he's on his way and she's here alone.. hmm, let's cook a plan.
They get back to practising - and it's the same old steps swing-the-lady,-bring-her-over-your-arm to probably the same old tune - when AK ambles in with his bearcub gait. (He's a popular bearcub, waving and smiling and slapping hands with people from the moment that he enters.) Josh notices him and gets sly-eyed. He complains loudly to the choreographer that he just can't get the step. The choreographer is puzzled: but you got it yesterday. Josh sounds frustrated: not happening today! Hey AK! he calls across the floor, come here and show me how to do this step, would you? AK looks like he wants to back away into his bearcub cave. Err, keep at it and he is sure that Josh will get it. But Josh is persistent: why? does AK have a problem showing him the step? AK looks at KS who instantly flares up: does he have a problem doing the steps with her??! AK is silent for a moment and then is resolute: no, he has no problems doing the step with her.
And then comes the most uncomfortable version of the AK-KS dance that has been done in the history of the series! They step together, hold hands together, neither can look away from each other, but they are not sure that they should be enjoying even a moment of it. The dance is smoothly executed, because that's what happens when AK&KS dance together, but the pair themselves look like the other's touch is like holding a live wire. At the end, there's applause and Josh exclaims "That's rocking" and casually slaps KS' bottom! (Huh!? What's with this duo and butt-slapping?? Maybe this was something that they were taught this at school? Maybe it's genetic? Whatever it was, it was NOT Maybelline!) AK is standing looking aghast! Time hasn't changed KS any -- she reaches over and nearly knocks big Josh over with a resounding slap! But this time, her entire spiel, her stance is different: she is arrogant and steely-eyed, as she turns and amazingly, enough starts to laugh! (I cannot describe how bloody weird that was!)
She turns to a stunned, beginning-to-get-angry Josh and tells him that she's learnt a lot in the industry, but the one thing that others learn with her is that there is a line drawn on their behaviour with her, or they will regret it. That is something that will never change. This was directed at AK. That she laughed because she knows that Josh has learnt the lesson and will never do that to her again. Josh, rubbing his jaw ruefully, says you can bet on that!
(I don't know what it is that the KYPH writers wanted us to learn about KS in this scene. She just felt rude and cocky and not nice at all! Perhaps they just wanted us to see the contrast between the sweetness and earnestness of the girl who had slapped AK and the arrogance and confidence of the girl who slapped Josh. She is becoming hard...)
The second set continues at the dance floor: Prithvi and the inspector comes in. They have sketches of the kidnapping thug. They show it to KS who instantly turns pale and confirms that it was indeed the thug. Prithvi is elated - let's go out and get this. The inspector is a little more cautionary: this is no ordinary small-fry thug, it's a big-daddy thug, who is a "established criminal" and will not be so easy to apprehend. Prithvi (who spent all of this episode being consistently beetle browed) glares at the inspector and says that is not good enough, he wants the chap caught now! By the end of the skit, he was beginning to sound on the verge of throwing himself on the floor in a tantrum!
Back in the makup rooms, AK is holding his own copy of the thug's sketch and saying this is the creep who dared touch KS to Josh. (This is the preview from the previous episode.) Josh tries to calm him: the cops are on the case. AK shrugs off the justice system (the one that he had had SOOO much faith in when his head was on the line!) and says that _he_ will have to do something else nothing will happen, and that Josh will have to help him. Josh is instantly at attention: what can he do? Then AK does the thank you scene we saw last night, and it was just as nice. Josh is embarrassed: hey, if you get into what I did for you, and what you did for me, I'll go crazy. But sweet AK persists in thanking him, they hug and go to get the thug like Batman and his Robin. In the background, Beetle-Browed Brithvi (sorry, but doesn't it fit better? :-) ) turns around slowly: Josh and AK are old buddies?? What the hell?? And we cut to:
KS' dressing room where Tattle-Tale Beetle-Browed Gnarly-Gnome Prithvi has just spilled the beans about the AK-Josh friendship to KS. She doesn't understand it: they're friends? But Josh helped her out, is there a link? Why did Josh help her out? TT-BB-GG Prithvi knows it all: it's a conspiracy! AK is trying to create a huge complicated plot where he will lift her upto stardom and he gets Josh to help KS to do this and at the top of her success, AK will do something nasty and manage to make her terribly embarrased and bereft again and the aliens are ruling the universe, and Elvis is still alive -- argh!! TT-BB-GG Prithvi is also Jumping-to-stupid-conclusions Prithvi! KS can't believe that Josh will ever do something like that. TT-BB-GG Prithvi is doing his best to override her objections and press his wild conspiracy theory as we cut to:
AK (pretty in blue denim) and Josh (deeply involved in playing a cellphone game) are riding towards an unknown destination, presumably in search of the thug. (What? They were riding around Bombay, looking out of the car window, searching for him amongst the crowds??) AK looks like he can jump out of his own skin: he's deeply convinced that unless _he_ gets involved, nothing's going to happen. Josh, not paying attention, asks him to leave the cops to do their job. As AK looks restlessly around, he suddenly stills and smiles: he knows who can help him out. And without a by-your-leave, he leans across and snatches the phone out of Josh's hands. Ignoring Josh's pleas, he dials a buddy (no names needed here among boyfriends) who hears him out, and says that he will get on the case right away. AK is relieved, hangs up, smiles at Josh - his work here is done - and hands Josh back the phone, who then picks up with his game as if he never left it! (Oh, please don't let Josh, the ray of childish sunshine, die!)
Back at the office of AK's friend-who-apprehends-thugs, a leather-jacket-clad figure swivels in front of an impressive looking bookcase and thinks about how to catch the established criminal who dared touch KS. He's got the power and resources enough to commandeer a little army of four lieutenants -- one of whom is a girl! There's a board to discuss the broad criminal-kidnapping strategy, the location and off the little army go. They drive over to the shipping yard where AK was last night, and spread out. Boss-man gets an inspiration that the car that drove KS there might still be around. They should find it. And obediently, so they do! They discover that the car was rented out to Bose Enterprises! And obediently, they tell Boss-man so. Boss-man's brow lowers (!) and he and his faithful crew rush out to Bose Enterprises!
(Is there a competition going around amongst all the young and dynamic KYPH men, other than AK and Josh, that causes them to lower their brows? The person who would win the award in the category of who-can-lower-his-brows-lowest has to be Prithvi!! Would someone PLEASE tell him he looks ridiculous when he does that??)
And we cut to: the KS-Prithvi apartment where Prithvi just does NOT stop spinning his wild web of wild hypothesis! (And people on the Forum call MY little hypothesis wild!!) He is now trying to convince KS that there can only be one person behind the kidnapping -- Naina Khanna. She has the most to gain from KS' downfall and disappearance, the most to hate KS, it has to be Naina K! I think KS forgot that they were shooting the next scene and mouths exactly the same dialogue that she used when Prithvi tells her about Josh and AK: Naina could not do such a thing. (Huh??!!!!) BB-GG Prithvi is completely convinced in the face of her lack of convinction, but then we:
Cut to: the offices of Bose Enterprises (BE) where Boss-man and his faithful army are looking through papers and asking the secy for answers. She says that the car was indeed owned by BE, and that the driver was indeed their employee, but that he'd vanished for a 6-month long holiday. Boss-man wants to know who sanctioned the leave and secy hands over the leave application which is signed by....
Boss-man is on the phone to tell AK of the signature on the leave application form. AK reacts with sheer disbelief: it cannot be true. Boss-man wants to take the person in for questionning, but AK asks him to hold off, the person is a dear friend of his and he wants to talk to them first. Boss-man looks unconvinced, but gives AK time. He wants AK to call him back after he's had his chat though. And we
Cut to: Mishti's apartment/Bose house (where the walls are done up in lots and lots of very large black-white-grey canvasses: a little creepy...) where Mishti is going through her mail. The door bell rings and she opens it to find: AK, who is back to being pretty in blue! She is surprised but very pleased and invites him in. He is uncertain about what he is going to find, but looks resolute about finding it nevertheless. She is a good hostess, asking him what he wants to drink. But she is careless about her snail mail which she leaves on the table before going off to get herself a drink. AK is as jumpy as a cat: he has a dirty job to do and obviously does NOT relish the prospect of doing it. He starts to pace, and accidentally knocks a letter to the floor. As he picks it up, he notices the name at the corner of the letter within the envelope -- it's the thug's name! (Bad AK, didn't your mother teach you not to read other people's mail? Oh, sorry, your mother is Naina - you wouldn't know anything about manners!) AK reads the (handwritten) letter in growing horror. The letter pleads for an opportunity to meet Madam, after all he did do the job that she'd wanted.
The episode ends on his horrified face.
Preview: KS receives an SMS on her phone asking to speak to her, and to her alone, 5pm at Royal Gardens. There is no signature. Prithvi is adamant that he go with KS, and KS agrees that he should. At the gardens, it is AK! Gnarly Gnome is instantly all prickles, telling AK to just get lost. KS asks him what it is that he wanted to say. AK looks at her, does a side-ways glance at Prithvi and says that it hurts him to say this, but that at the bottom of KS' kidnapping was the hand of Mishti!
(After all the excitement of the previous few days, and a little bit of extreme excitement in my very own life, today's episode was distasteful - Ugh KS behaviour at the dance floor! -- and rather dull. I guess AK in brigh blue denim and some cute AK-Josh interactions are not sufficient to lift an episode above irritating Prithvi's Beetle-Browed monotonous act, both in monotonous expressions and monotonous idiocy in his far-fetched hypothesis. Now _he_ is one person who really ought to just leave it to the cops!
I'm not sure that I can believe Mishti's guilty, but she _does_ have an axe to grind. I guess one will have to wait and watch. Onto waiting for tomorrow.)
Hmm, a weird episode which starts with a very distasteful display by KS, has several distasteful episodes with a badly-acting Prithvi, sweet Josh-AK interactions and ends with a shocked AK. Nothing much to write home about except that AK looks very nice in bright blue denim, and that Josh probably has got some kind of health problem that needs him to eat constantly. Well, onto the show:
The first set is at a gym/dance-practice floor, where lots of pretty, agile people are practising their moves. Josh and KS are there, as is Alliyah! Josh walks to a bunch of people, picks up some water and saunters across to Alliyah, who's watching the action with a smile. Josh parks himself next to her and says "Well, where is it?" Alliyah is puzzled: Huh? Josh is peeved: Don't tell me you forgot to bring some! Alliyah's face clears, and she brings out a pack of chocolate. (What IS it with Josh and food? Perhaps he is diabetic and has to constantly keep eating something? Or do KYPH writers want us to know that he is still a growing child?) As he gets ready to munch, he asks where AK is to which Alliyah replies that he must be on the way. Josh contemplates KS sitting alone, fiddling with her phone, and says he's on his way and she's here alone.. hmm, let's cook a plan.
They get back to practising - and it's the same old steps swing-the-lady,-bring-her-over-your-arm to probably the same old tune - when AK ambles in with his bearcub gait. (He's a popular bearcub, waving and smiling and slapping hands with people from the moment that he enters.) Josh notices him and gets sly-eyed. He complains loudly to the choreographer that he just can't get the step. The choreographer is puzzled: but you got it yesterday. Josh sounds frustrated: not happening today! Hey AK! he calls across the floor, come here and show me how to do this step, would you? AK looks like he wants to back away into his bearcub cave. Err, keep at it and he is sure that Josh will get it. But Josh is persistent: why? does AK have a problem showing him the step? AK looks at KS who instantly flares up: does he have a problem doing the steps with her??! AK is silent for a moment and then is resolute: no, he has no problems doing the step with her.
And then comes the most uncomfortable version of the AK-KS dance that has been done in the history of the series! They step together, hold hands together, neither can look away from each other, but they are not sure that they should be enjoying even a moment of it. The dance is smoothly executed, because that's what happens when AK&KS dance together, but the pair themselves look like the other's touch is like holding a live wire. At the end, there's applause and Josh exclaims "That's rocking" and casually slaps KS' bottom! (Huh!? What's with this duo and butt-slapping?? Maybe this was something that they were taught this at school? Maybe it's genetic? Whatever it was, it was NOT Maybelline!) AK is standing looking aghast! Time hasn't changed KS any -- she reaches over and nearly knocks big Josh over with a resounding slap! But this time, her entire spiel, her stance is different: she is arrogant and steely-eyed, as she turns and amazingly, enough starts to laugh! (I cannot describe how bloody weird that was!)
She turns to a stunned, beginning-to-get-angry Josh and tells him that she's learnt a lot in the industry, but the one thing that others learn with her is that there is a line drawn on their behaviour with her, or they will regret it. That is something that will never change. This was directed at AK. That she laughed because she knows that Josh has learnt the lesson and will never do that to her again. Josh, rubbing his jaw ruefully, says you can bet on that!
(I don't know what it is that the KYPH writers wanted us to learn about KS in this scene. She just felt rude and cocky and not nice at all! Perhaps they just wanted us to see the contrast between the sweetness and earnestness of the girl who had slapped AK and the arrogance and confidence of the girl who slapped Josh. She is becoming hard...)
The second set continues at the dance floor: Prithvi and the inspector comes in. They have sketches of the kidnapping thug. They show it to KS who instantly turns pale and confirms that it was indeed the thug. Prithvi is elated - let's go out and get this. The inspector is a little more cautionary: this is no ordinary small-fry thug, it's a big-daddy thug, who is a "established criminal" and will not be so easy to apprehend. Prithvi (who spent all of this episode being consistently beetle browed) glares at the inspector and says that is not good enough, he wants the chap caught now! By the end of the skit, he was beginning to sound on the verge of throwing himself on the floor in a tantrum!
Back in the makup rooms, AK is holding his own copy of the thug's sketch and saying this is the creep who dared touch KS to Josh. (This is the preview from the previous episode.) Josh tries to calm him: the cops are on the case. AK shrugs off the justice system (the one that he had had SOOO much faith in when his head was on the line!) and says that _he_ will have to do something else nothing will happen, and that Josh will have to help him. Josh is instantly at attention: what can he do? Then AK does the thank you scene we saw last night, and it was just as nice. Josh is embarrassed: hey, if you get into what I did for you, and what you did for me, I'll go crazy. But sweet AK persists in thanking him, they hug and go to get the thug like Batman and his Robin. In the background, Beetle-Browed Brithvi (sorry, but doesn't it fit better? :-) ) turns around slowly: Josh and AK are old buddies?? What the hell?? And we cut to:
KS' dressing room where Tattle-Tale Beetle-Browed Gnarly-Gnome Prithvi has just spilled the beans about the AK-Josh friendship to KS. She doesn't understand it: they're friends? But Josh helped her out, is there a link? Why did Josh help her out? TT-BB-GG Prithvi knows it all: it's a conspiracy! AK is trying to create a huge complicated plot where he will lift her upto stardom and he gets Josh to help KS to do this and at the top of her success, AK will do something nasty and manage to make her terribly embarrased and bereft again and the aliens are ruling the universe, and Elvis is still alive -- argh!! TT-BB-GG Prithvi is also Jumping-to-stupid-conclusions Prithvi! KS can't believe that Josh will ever do something like that. TT-BB-GG Prithvi is doing his best to override her objections and press his wild conspiracy theory as we cut to:
AK (pretty in blue denim) and Josh (deeply involved in playing a cellphone game) are riding towards an unknown destination, presumably in search of the thug. (What? They were riding around Bombay, looking out of the car window, searching for him amongst the crowds??) AK looks like he can jump out of his own skin: he's deeply convinced that unless _he_ gets involved, nothing's going to happen. Josh, not paying attention, asks him to leave the cops to do their job. As AK looks restlessly around, he suddenly stills and smiles: he knows who can help him out. And without a by-your-leave, he leans across and snatches the phone out of Josh's hands. Ignoring Josh's pleas, he dials a buddy (no names needed here among boyfriends) who hears him out, and says that he will get on the case right away. AK is relieved, hangs up, smiles at Josh - his work here is done - and hands Josh back the phone, who then picks up with his game as if he never left it! (Oh, please don't let Josh, the ray of childish sunshine, die!)
Back at the office of AK's friend-who-apprehends-thugs, a leather-jacket-clad figure swivels in front of an impressive looking bookcase and thinks about how to catch the established criminal who dared touch KS. He's got the power and resources enough to commandeer a little army of four lieutenants -- one of whom is a girl! There's a board to discuss the broad criminal-kidnapping strategy, the location and off the little army go. They drive over to the shipping yard where AK was last night, and spread out. Boss-man gets an inspiration that the car that drove KS there might still be around. They should find it. And obediently, so they do! They discover that the car was rented out to Bose Enterprises! And obediently, they tell Boss-man so. Boss-man's brow lowers (!) and he and his faithful crew rush out to Bose Enterprises!
(Is there a competition going around amongst all the young and dynamic KYPH men, other than AK and Josh, that causes them to lower their brows? The person who would win the award in the category of who-can-lower-his-brows-lowest has to be Prithvi!! Would someone PLEASE tell him he looks ridiculous when he does that??)
And we cut to: the KS-Prithvi apartment where Prithvi just does NOT stop spinning his wild web of wild hypothesis! (And people on the Forum call MY little hypothesis wild!!) He is now trying to convince KS that there can only be one person behind the kidnapping -- Naina Khanna. She has the most to gain from KS' downfall and disappearance, the most to hate KS, it has to be Naina K! I think KS forgot that they were shooting the next scene and mouths exactly the same dialogue that she used when Prithvi tells her about Josh and AK: Naina could not do such a thing. (Huh??!!!!) BB-GG Prithvi is completely convinced in the face of her lack of convinction, but then we:
Cut to: the offices of Bose Enterprises (BE) where Boss-man and his faithful army are looking through papers and asking the secy for answers. She says that the car was indeed owned by BE, and that the driver was indeed their employee, but that he'd vanished for a 6-month long holiday. Boss-man wants to know who sanctioned the leave and secy hands over the leave application which is signed by....
Boss-man is on the phone to tell AK of the signature on the leave application form. AK reacts with sheer disbelief: it cannot be true. Boss-man wants to take the person in for questionning, but AK asks him to hold off, the person is a dear friend of his and he wants to talk to them first. Boss-man looks unconvinced, but gives AK time. He wants AK to call him back after he's had his chat though. And we
Cut to: Mishti's apartment/Bose house (where the walls are done up in lots and lots of very large black-white-grey canvasses: a little creepy...) where Mishti is going through her mail. The door bell rings and she opens it to find: AK, who is back to being pretty in blue! She is surprised but very pleased and invites him in. He is uncertain about what he is going to find, but looks resolute about finding it nevertheless. She is a good hostess, asking him what he wants to drink. But she is careless about her snail mail which she leaves on the table before going off to get herself a drink. AK is as jumpy as a cat: he has a dirty job to do and obviously does NOT relish the prospect of doing it. He starts to pace, and accidentally knocks a letter to the floor. As he picks it up, he notices the name at the corner of the letter within the envelope -- it's the thug's name! (Bad AK, didn't your mother teach you not to read other people's mail? Oh, sorry, your mother is Naina - you wouldn't know anything about manners!) AK reads the (handwritten) letter in growing horror. The letter pleads for an opportunity to meet Madam, after all he did do the job that she'd wanted.
The episode ends on his horrified face.
Preview: KS receives an SMS on her phone asking to speak to her, and to her alone, 5pm at Royal Gardens. There is no signature. Prithvi is adamant that he go with KS, and KS agrees that he should. At the gardens, it is AK! Gnarly Gnome is instantly all prickles, telling AK to just get lost. KS asks him what it is that he wanted to say. AK looks at her, does a side-ways glance at Prithvi and says that it hurts him to say this, but that at the bottom of KS' kidnapping was the hand of Mishti!
(After all the excitement of the previous few days, and a little bit of extreme excitement in my very own life, today's episode was distasteful - Ugh KS behaviour at the dance floor! -- and rather dull. I guess AK in brigh blue denim and some cute AK-Josh interactions are not sufficient to lift an episode above irritating Prithvi's Beetle-Browed monotonous act, both in monotonous expressions and monotonous idiocy in his far-fetched hypothesis. Now _he_ is one person who really ought to just leave it to the cops!
I'm not sure that I can believe Mishti's guilty, but she _does_ have an axe to grind. I guess one will have to wait and watch. Onto waiting for tomorrow.)
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