Subject: 'Apropos KZK eps. (10th, 11th, 15th, 16th & 17th Oct. 2007)' by leelaa9.
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Ever since Bajj wished Prrn good-night & then sat alone with an inscrutable expression on his face (Wednesday, 10 Oct. 2007), I have been constantly wondering whether he was faking amnesia. Up until he fainted after bridally-attired Prrn ran & embraced him, I believe his amnesia *was* indubitable. But after he regained consciousness...
Considering that both Bajj & Prrn have a proven habit of putting on lengthy acts that discomfit & hurt their loved ones if they believe the reason is worth it, it was a certainty that if Bajj had just regained his memory, he'd have no dearth of reasons for faking amnesia rather than letting on about his recovery.
His readiness to believe Prrn to be harbouring a repressed but existent nonplatonic love for Anrg has been seen time & again.
And the last time Prrn had married Anrg at the persuasion of the Bajjs, Bss & Sharms a few months after Bajj's purported death, she had not only been more than willing, she had also had no intention of leaving Anrg merely because Bajj was revealed to have never been dead. This time Bajj had been believed dead for approximately two decades. Keeping in mind the volatile nature of the man, he was most likely to believe he had walked into an encore than that this time Prrn had been merely complaisant rather than delightedly willing. So as he sat on the bed after Prrn left the room, I wondered whether he was faking continued amnesia.
The next ep. (Thursday, 11 Oct. 2007), when Bajj walked in with a wrapped gift as Prrn had her head against Anrg's shoulder, again I wondered whether the gift had been for Prrn as a prelude to revealing he did in fact remember everything & whether he had changed his mind about candour after misconstruing the hug.
But then the next ep. (Monday, 15 Oct. 2007) & even more the ep. after that (Tuesday, 16 Oct. 2007) established that the amnesia was genuine.
The embarrassing thing as I analyzed why I had thought the amnesia had gone from real to fake was there was no other reason than simply that Bajj can be at his most inscrutable when he thinks someone's betrayed him & he plots to bring them down.
Yd was a rarity in that he betrayed Bajj & got to savour the triumph because the belief that Prrn had loved Anrg nonplatonically through the duration of her & Bajj's marriage & the helplessness to keep his cherished child Snh from her downward spiral into drugs had already broken Bajj from within.
Prrn as his wife albeit loving Anrg or Prrn loving him, both are circumstances that mellow Bajj. What he's capable of if Prrn is not with him, he is not capable of if she continues to honour a standing relationship with him. Even believing her to have never loved him, he could not discount her longstanding marital fidelity to him. He could not unleash his vitriol while Prrn still maintained her relationship with him. And so, after Yd crowned his gloating triumph with the information that he had ensured his mother's imprisonment, Bajj left.
But if Bajj believed Prrn had agreed to wed Anrg... Her decision to remarry after even a year of purported widowhood let alone twenty, he would accept. Not tranquilly or even graciously, but at least without retaliation. Remarry... anyone but Anrg. And this has nothing to do with Anrg or Prrn but with Bajj himself. Prrn marrying Anrg or even agreeing to marry him would ignite every one of Bajj's insecurities about her having never loved him or moved past Anrg. Anrg's innate nobility & spirit of self-sacrifice ironically worked more to his benefit here than Bajj's. If Mhn's scheme had worked, if Prrn had married Anrg & then Bajj were to regain his memory... What he did the last time he found Prrn ensconced as Anrg's wife would be nothing compared to what he'd do this time. Mhn blissfully wrote out a one-way ticket to hell for her son, in the delusion that a recovered Bajj would endure the Prrn-Anrg marriage in silence & Anrg would live happily ever after with Prrn.
And Snh. Snh is about Bajj what KSBKBT's Karan is about Tls. She is the good daughter. Devoted, protective, adoring. And she loves Prrn dearly. But the only time Snh independently turned completely against Prrn was when she thought Prrn had hurt Bajj by nonplatonically loving Anrg. And she reconciled with her only after Prrn convinced her that Bajj's misapprehension about his wife's emotional infidelity was unfounded.
Like Karan with Mhr vis--vis Tls, Snh's filial regard for Prrn hinges on Prrn's prioritizing Bajj above all others. It's unfair because it means that no matter how much Mhr & Prrn do & endure for Karan & Snh respectively, the slightest estrangement from their side against their spouses causes their biological child to turn against them for the other more adored parent.
The last time, Snh wrecked herself because she thought Bajj's devastation was at the loss of his beloved wife after Prrn sacrificed herself to protect Snh from the charge of murder. And then she nearly wrecked Prrn when she found out that her 'pp' believed her mother had never loved anyone but her biological father.
This time, though the bright idea of remarrying Prrn to Anrg was – separately – Prrn's granddaughters' & Yd's, Snh had backed the idea after it was put forward. She was one of those who persuaded Prrn to agree to the wedding. How much more would she have punished herself this time after she found out that her 'pp' was alive & his daughter Snh had helped marry off his wife & her mother Prrn to her biological father Anrg?
Mhn Bs always was selfabsorbedly shortsighted. A nave
schemer who always thought everything would turn out as she wanted. The world would always exist to her only as she would have it. When she wanted Anrg to marry the stylish Komolk, she was convinced he'd end up loving Komolk & forgetting Prrn. Now when she wanted for Anrg to get Prrn & Snh & for Bajj to passively stand back once he regained his memory, she thought it would happen. She wanted Bajj to passively endure, so of course he would. She wanted Snh to love Anrg as her 'pp' instead of Rshabh Bajj, & to think of herself as a daughter of the Bs family rather than the Bajjs. Mhn wanted all this to happen, so of course it would. Like hell it would.
How much would anyone want to bet that by the time Prrn would *begin* to overcame her reluctance to consummate the relationship with Anrg, Bajj would be back in the picture?
Anrg wouldn't then be the self-sacrificing saint. He'd be stuck with Prrn desperately wanting to get back to Bajj but not wanting to desert the supportive Anrg so precipitately ( la Balaji's now defunct series "Kesar" when Ksar's beloved husband Rdra returned from the dead after she had married the supportive & loving Abhnav. Another – albeit nonstoryline – link being that Hiten Tejwani, the current 2nd 'Anrg', had also then played 'Abh).
And the affection Anrg has fostered so arduously with Snh would have been drowned in her guilt at unwittingly hurting her 'pp'. Mhn's stunt would have ensured that Anrg & Prrn would be walking on hot coals around each other. And Snh'd completely distance herself from Anrg & quite possibly from Prrn as well, at least until Prrn reconciled with Bajj.
Thank the gods Anrg's desire to see Prrn happy at all costs inadvertently foiled Mhn. Because if that hadn't happened, it would have been Anrg who would have suffered for Mhn's stupidity.
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Apropos KZK ep. (Tuesday, 16 Oct. 2007).
Yd's displeasure at Tshk's decision to invite non-family into the celebrations of Bajj & Prrn's wedding-anniversary was finally explained as he urged Tshr to consider the potential for any number of disasters that might be unknowingly committed in a setting in which Bajj himself had no idea who he was & believed "Dad-Bs" to be Rshabh Bajj. Tshk was in no mood to listen to Yd's attempting to place a curb on his celebrating his father's return, & was further irked when Yd said that Tshr should have privately discussed the prudence of throwing the party with Prrn or Anrg. His furious retort that his gratitude to "Mr. Bs" for Bajj's return did not extend to his taking Anrg's advice in matters related to Bajj angered Yd on two levels – the crass disregard for the magnitude of Anrg's sacrifice, & the willful refusal to place Bajj's wellbeing over Tshr's own desire to publicly show his joy.
On an aside as regards props, the portrait of Prrn la Aishwarya Rai's 'Pr' of "Devdas" is supposedly the same item as it has ever been. But the prop has actually either been touched up or replaced by a less exquisitely flattering production. The painting of the face is identifiable as Prrn but is somewhat podgy & conveys none of Prrn's sterling grace.
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Apropos KZK ep. (Wednesday, 17 Oct. 2007).
At the party, Yd's fears were manifested, to the horror not only of Tshk, who had chosen to ignore Yd's urged cautioning, but also Veen and all the Bajjs and Bss present. The reason was, ironically, Bajj's courtesy & his feeling of being indebted to Prrn Bajj & her family. He chose to acknowledge – with the microphone in his hand so that no-one at the party could fail to hear every damn word – "the time-tested love evident to all in" Prrn & Anrg.
Now, here one would do well to remember that courtesy is far more allied to pleasantry than to veracity. If you are shown someone's baby & it's the ugliest thing you've seen, you still say it's so beautiful or sweet or something else very nice. Likewise, if you are immensely indebted on humanitarian grounds to someone, & you have seen that person with spouse for totally not even half-an-hour over a period of just a few days, since you cannot say they are never from each other's side for long, you say that they are never from each other's hearts.
But rather more likely it is – & I do pity Prrn for the aftermath once Bajj does get back to himself – that even with amnesia, Bajj perceives Prrn's love for Anrg as nonplatonic. Nice to know that with or without memory, his perception of his wife's relationship with her beloved friend & former love is constant & consistent. <LOL>.
Keeping in mind that when Bajj had said, albeit *much* less graciously, much the same things over two decades earlier – & that wasn't the first time – about Prrn's love for Anrg, Anrg had decided to leave Prrn's life & Prrn had decided to turn away from both her husband & her friend for the aspersions upon her trust as a wife & as a friend.
This time, Bajj was fortunately & unfortunately amnesiac.
Fortunately, because Prrn was not even remotely likely, after his *this time* proclaiming her "obvious nonplatonic love" for Anrg, to sue him for divorce. Now if only he had known to suffer a spell of temporary 'amnesia' after his massive faux pas the last time... <SNICKER>. Oh, well. Live & learn. <LOL>.
Unfortunately, because the sheer discomfiting embarrassment of the speech could be placed in perspective only by thinking *how much* worse the situation would be than this if Prrn had in fact wedded Anrg by the time Bajj reappeared in her life. And that really did place things in perspective, thank the gods.
On a tangent, does Shweta Tiwari have some kind of allergy to sndr? Ever since Bajj & Prrn had the accident in Kolkat that had her reviving with amnesia & believing herself still married to Anrg, Prrn's sndr disappeared. With Bajj's return this time, Prrn applied the sndr for exactly three episodes before jettisoning it again. Probably because during those episodes, the camera would frequently focus on her mangalstra *and* her sndr. There had been a particularly ludicrous scene way back when Doris entered the family. Prrn, herself not wearing any sndr, had explained to Doris the importance of it in a shgan's life. <LOL>.
Anyways, a nice touch in the last scene of the ep. was the difference in Yd's expression from the rest of the family's as Bajj unwittingly committed the faux pas. He swiftly shifted from being as stunned & horrified as them to directing a blazing glare concentratedly on Tshr. Lord, poor Tshk. One of the exceptionally few times Yd gave good advice, Tshk didn't want to listen. Can't really blame him. But the fallout? And then Tshr decided to salvage the situation. Which closed the ep. on the tantalizing possibility that he'd ignore that doctor's idiotic advice & let Bajj know the truth. Maybe. But then again, maybe not.
leelaa9.
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