points to ponder, 25 apr

* hmm, felt like it was an unusually short episode today? time flew. that's a good thing for a daily soap, imho. 😊

* who else was struck by that blinding contrast between the lakshya-nakul session and tanya-karan? lakshya talks about relationships of the heart being greater than relationships of the blood. and then, bang! we're thrown into that karan-rip session where tanya taunts karan about respecting relationships of mutual respect and love over the relationship of blood. if nothing else, it was an interesting juxtapositioning of extremely opposite views - nice.

* lakshya-nakul was rather nicely done. nakul stoically denigrating himself. lakshya's stuttering out "maa?" neither looking at each other during their speeches, but forcing direct eye-contact at the hardest statement. loved this one.

* okay, here's my problem with tanya: she's beginning to sound like a hypocrite. here's my reason why:
- i'd have liked her to have been so forceful against karan before bhoomi proved manthan right. it really sucks that she has been a quietly smouldering volcano, apparently unable to think and do anything for her son, and allowing everyone else to do all the work. now she is spitting righteous fire?? the same problem with her tirade against tulsi-daadi. tulsi-d has always had to shoulder the responsibility of choosing right-vs-wrong for this family. tanya could've spoken up on so many occasions where she chose to be the quiet cow. this felt like a small-minded cowardly person thrusting a knife into caeser when caeser fell. didn't anyone else feel like shouting that karan took tulsi-daadi as devi partly because everyone else did as well! no one said a word when she was shouldering the responsibilities.
- she has finally come out of her frustration of playing second fiddle to karan-nandini. and all that frustration is coming out now, and primarily against tulsi-d, who she is using to further twist her knife of frustration to hurt karan.

i disliked hysterical tanya today immensely. i wish that tulsi-daadi would leave this miserable bunch to themselves, and let them all deal with the problems of dealing with a bunch of grown up young people by themselves. 😡

i seriously dislike the way this show has been displaying women as a bunch of twisted people. guys don't come across as so .. twisted, do they? 🤢

* but i must say, karan chachu acquitted himself brilliantly in that horrible tanya session. i wonder if he did it because he is partly acknowledging that tanya is one heck of a frustrated woman, and such a heck of frustrated women have to let the steam out, and it is best to let them talk and talk and talk.

say! that's actually a brilliant punishment for having been such a selfish and blind husband to tanya all these years. spend the next 20 years hearing her vent this kind of stuff. 😈 brrr! poor guy! he'll go as mentally withdrawn as mayank!

* actually, i didn't get the ganga-damned-ini session. it's one thing to stand up for damned-ini in the public tamasha. but to go to her room to comfort her? what's the deal? 😕 unless, the goal is to show that ganga is the real devi? which i buy, i buy! 😆

* must admit, i liked daksha-c's spin on why tulsi-d was intent on getting all the virani's into jail. 😆

* must admit, i really felt sorry for tulsi-d, remembering eklavya-manthan-mayank. here's a 60/70 year old woman who came from a purer, simpler life, having to deal with the complexities of today's generation: that trio are soooo very different problems and upto that point, she was the world-appointed gaurdian of their souls. remember the fanfare with which everyone (read: mihir, karan) welcomed her back to the house? "now that tulsi-d's back, everything will be fine again." poor tulsi-d. i don't blame her for not understanding. and she didn't get any help either from her coterie of sons+daughters-in-law either, who actually ended up messing everything up..... 🤔

* man, is karan-chachu an escapist or what? gee, mom, i'm a dud of a dad and it's all your fault! you knew i didn't have a brain and that i depended solely on you. you messed up, and now i'm gonna have to depend upon tanya's brain -- arrrghh!! 😆

most brutal line from karan-c to tulsi-d: one bad deed crushes the entire weight of a hundred good deeds. he has lived an entire life under her good deeds! how dare he say that to tulsi-d! slap! karan-chachu, slap!

but i must say that this scene too was brilliantly done. i was actually wondering why tulsi-daadi didn't drop dead from a heart-attack on the spot. karan's distress at his mother, and her distress at him was spot on.

i've now got one more "want to see" scene: when karan comes and apologises to tulsi-d for having been such an ass!

* urgh! who else wanted to scream in frustration when eklavya came up behind an obviously shattered karan, to further twist the knife sticking out of karan's chest? who else knew that eklavya was there to find out for himself that karan-chachu was breaking ties with tulsi-d, and was there to cement that demise?

* 'tis a pity that this whole thing is not just a stunt that tulsi-d and karan-chachu are putting together to figure out who the heck was responsible for kt's assault?

oh well, i guess it looks like eklavya-ansh and mandira are on track to destroying tulsi-d. i wonder what happens after they acheive their ends? another "leap"? why can't they just stop/end the show, and start a new one? keep the actors, maybe even the characters, just give them new names, and put them into new lives. the characters in this show, and the actors in this show, are too good to be tortured in this manner, just so that there can be a "long-lived" soap drama in india, no? 😕

really didnt ponder much on anything in this episode!! was 222 busy admiring hiten..but of all the things u said the lakhya-nakul n tanya-karan contrast struck me the most!!

like always estee agree with all ur points...i felt very bad ...what karan said to tulsi was so wrong...she has given him his life..worst thing was when he said that she lost him 🤢

Thats absolutely true karan seems to need someone to sponge of his thinking capabilities from. Earlier when he felt his Tulsi Maa was right and strong he followed her blindly, and this time around when he sees her in distress and Tanya is shouting her righteous guts out, he seems to feel safer in her arguments. But as u said I hope this is some game he is playing. For otherwise what was the necessity to introduce Vijay into the whole drama again. thats something to ponder on isnt it?

Originally posted by: susmithamanav

But as u said I hope this is some game he is playing. For otherwise what was the necessity to introduce Vijay into the whole drama again. thats something to ponder on isnt it?

i'd love to think that they are hatching a plot! that would be soooo cool - if like the baddies (mandira, eklavya, etc.) - tulsi-daadi and karan-chachu had a plan to bring eklavya's ansh out in the open to shoot and kill, so that we can get left with the pundit again. i keep hoping 'cause remember that's what mihir-daadu and lakshya pulled off with meera! if they can do it, why can't tulsi-d and karan-c?

but i'm very afraid all the wonderful things we ponder are not being similarly pondered by the scriptwriters! and they probably matter more than us in what comes on screen. no? 😆

btw, out of curiosity, what role do you think vijay would have to play in all this??

I was pondering over it for Tulsi's reaction to Ekalavyas scheming was to call Vijay for assistance. And it is well known to all of us that Karan trusts Vijay immensely too. So in all fairness they may discussed about this. Well, going by logistics that is. But going by the scriptwriters they prefer to make the characters mum when situation demands verbose explanations??????? anyways, so if they have discussed, then Karan may have taken matters into his own hands and taken this step on his own to set all things right. Earlier too Tulsi had taken such a step against Karan to save Gautam. So was kinda making my own script. sounds good to our sensible brains though isnt it. 😆 😆 👏 patting myself.

YH I AGREE KARAN SHOULDNT HAVE INE THAT