abhi and pragya only thing great in mahasangam..

Where is everybody ? I have been away from the show for a while now. Seems like everybody else is too😲

How were the marathon shows of the weekend and Monday? Is there any reason for me to watch? Obviously I can't watch all of it as I don't know or care to know about anybody else other than our duo, Abhi, Pragya. Is there a way just to watch them only, for example, are they at the very end or the very beginning of those marathons, so I can limit myself to those parts? I know, I may be asking for the impossible😃

Most Indian TV viewers usually won't have interest to sit thru a 4.5 hrs marathon mahasangam telecast during weekday prime time slots at a stretch, that too with some confusing promos..😳 Hope such decisions get made after collective brainstorming and analysis with creative, production, marketing, promotion and channel programming teams going forward. Its not necessarily the same section of TV audience that sits and watches every 30 mins slot between 6.30 to 11.00pm continuously on a Monday. 😛

I am sorry to dig this up again. But I have to say this before we retire this topic. So if you are not interested to hear me fret and fume, please don't read any further.

AAJ LIKHENGE KAL🤣😡. It was aggravating and laughable when I watched this piece of rubbish. What an annoyingly incongruous rhetorical nonsense! I can't imagine they could find a more irrelevant tag line/title for what they showcased.

It all started off innocently, I was back from a committee meeting at my institution where I spoke nonstop for 10 min where the topic was if we should get more women speakers in order to balance out the women/men ratio, they were basing this off of a recent paper. I got irate with this, and of course my argument was that in order to further our mission, we must get the BEST speaker, doesn't matter whether this is a woman, man or whoever else . Understandably I was reminiscing this and switched on the above show. My, I fell off the couch as the show progressed. I watched most of it in FF mode as I am not familiar with anybody else other than our KKB cast.

What a nonsensical plot it was😡. So the piece of garbage is that the bride's mother who is a physician had given up her passion and profession and stayed home to bring up her kids and now as they are adults wants to get back to her profession. As simple as that😲 Fair enough. For this, they had to drag up into paraso ( almost into 50s ) and then bring us back to beetha hua kal ( yesterday ) and leave us there. Sure they did write yesterday into today😡🤢

So for this we had to see the evil MILs of two generations ( the bride's mom's MIL and the bride's MIL ), both with exactly the same mind set, never mind what generation they belong to, what century they belong to or what their socioeconomic status is. Both of them feel like the bahu has to be subdued, her foremost duty is to the sasuraal wale ( the mayke wale can go to dogs FYI ), shouldn't step out of the house to work as this somehow disrespectful and less honorable😡🤢💔 For the life of me, please explain to me what is disrespectful and less than honorable to be working outside of the home. The bride's mom's MIL threatens to throw the bride's mom out of the house if she doesn't follow her order😲😡😵. This is after what 25-30 years after being married to the son. So the conclusion is that the bahu is never the master of the house, no matter how long she is married to the beta of the house, but she is the head servant to take care of their needs and moods and be thrown out when they fancy. The husband ( bride's dad ) is another complete nonsensical disappointment who agrees that she needs to be suppressed and is physically and verbally abusive to his wife when the house is full of festivities and guests😡 He cares a damn about respect and honor of his wife, let alone her wishes, dreams and passions😡😡. This guy apparently is the well respected, raees of the city😡

The bride's mom's MIL ( or is it the husband ? ) tries to give her sleep inducing drug while this wedding is going on in the house and have her slip on oil to break her leg so she can't go out of the house for her oath taking at the naval base😡🤢WHAT A LUDICROUS IDEA? Can't the navy make alternative arrangements, if they were told that there is a medical emergency and she can't make it to the ceremony? Do they only have these ceremonies only once in their life time?

The bride's MIL keeps feeding the son, the groom, every opportunity she gets to back off this wedding ( mind you they are already at the bride's house for impending wedding ) as she thinks the daughter may be like her mom too, dutiful😡😲, but not exclusively to her family , but maybe to other people or her work. APPARENTLY, GIRLS WHO ARE DUTIFUL DON'T MAKE GOOD BAHUS. So is the FIL. Bunch of evil looking people.

And let us come to the heroine of the show ( at least I think that is who she is ), the bride's mom. I don't know this actress, but she is carrying the whole world on her shoulders, doom and gloom written large on her face and body language as she moves about the wedding festivities of her daughter 🤢😭. Her back breaking problem is how to appease the husband and MIL and daughter's MIL in order to go through with this marriage. Not so much as to what if her daughter also faces the same fate as her at the hands of that bunch of moronic in laws who are replicas of her own MIL. So what does she do, she tries to back out of her dreams/wishes/ passions several times, all the while crying her heart out and let's people around her manipulate her, tries to plan, plot on how she can secretly go to this ceremony. INSPIRING INDEED😡 I do understand the planning /plotting is part of the shows, but really guys...😡

And we have a bunch of leading ladies of different shows, including Pragya, who try to help out this inspiringlady to remain inspiring😡😳. BTW, none of the guys' is in on this apparent life and death struggle, so they continue to have fun and frolic with their own bachelor parties, item girls etc., except our dude, Abhi. Of all the bunch, I guess only Abhi is the sole supporter of women working outside of the house, have a profession, their own ideas, wishes and dreams and have a life👍🏼 I guess, I have to appreciate him, but amidst all this nonsense I didn't. We all heard the saying that it takes a village to bring up the child, this show has rewritten this to say this " IT TAKES A LOT OF good WOMEN TO LET ONE WOMAN TO STAND UP ON HER OWN TWO FEET" 😡 Disgusting.

And then comes the worst of all, Pragya's speech💔No doubt, she is exceptional in emoting, but the content 😲 is simply too much to bear and comprehend. She has asked the naval academy to find it in their hearts to give exception to this newly drafted doctor who is late because SHE IS A WOMAN. How demeaning, insulting and hopeless is that argument to any woman😡. We scream from the roof tops about gender equality and in the same breath we ask for exceptions, pemissiveness and to be held to a lower standard than the men. HOW UNFAIR IS THIS 😡. She elucidated all the sacrifices this particular doctor mom has done, but what about a doctor or any other professional dad? Isn't the dad making sacrifices, if not exactly similar, doesn't the dad have responsibilities, duties and his own headaches he is managing effectively. I understand we are wired differently, but that doesn't mean one gender is at an unfair advantage of performing a certain duty just because that person is a man and therefore be held to a higher standard and woman should be shown linience. For the sake of argument, what if once she gets hired as a navy physician, then a critical patient comes in and she has been called pronto by MIL, will she ask to be excused as well ? I am sorry guys, if I came too strongly, but I couldn't believe they made a complete show out of this. IT IS INSULTING TO ALL THE GIRLS/WOMEN. And all the while we see a weeping, backboneless woman standing behind the metal detector. Guys, who will have the confidence to be dealing with such a professional, who can't speak for herself, who can't stand up for herself, and has to have an army of supporters to speak on her behalf.😭

The best line is from our own KKB daadi in the show " an ideal husband for a girl is one who gives her, her rights, is supportive and respectful to her ". Amazing👏👍🏼❤️ I never thought, I would say this about daadi.

Have to share this before I end my rant, husband walked in the middle of the show as the bride's mom is fretting that " in laws know everything about me and this marriage will never happen ". This is what he read in the subtitles, he is weak in understanding spoken Hindi. He said why is this lady crying buckets, what did she do? I was far too gone and quipped " guess " His guesses are these 1. she is caught red handed having an affair ( I wish ) 2. she has some incurable genetic disease which will be transmitted to the bride ( how I wish ) 3. they lost all money and faking that they are rich . Then I had to tell him that she is a doctor who wants to practice medicine and that is sinful according to this show. He thought I was strange to be sitting through that nonsense

Sorry for taking your time guys. I wish the makers stop feeding this nonsense at least in independent shows like this. Why does it always have to be a damsel in distress that needs to be rescued?

I like this quote from Kamla Bhasin in Satyameva jayathe with Amir Khan " we need to send away pati parameshwars and welcome jeevan saathis". Isn't the vice versa true as well😊

Have a good day !!!

Sorry Ann, if I violated your space

Thanks Ann❤️. I know, it is like heartburn that doesn't go away😡