back to school, pondering all the way!

how i love vacations! and when one gets to do a trek in the old himalayas, facing the worst cold conditions imaginable, thinking you are doing to die every moment, the last thing you worry about is what is happening to a bunch of characters in a television show in hindi-land.

which is why i didn't send up a request to whatever divine being who was keeping me safe to also protect and keep ksbkbt safe. up there in the rarified atmosphere, so close to the heavens, the request might have the best chance of getting through.

i came back all refreshed and charged, opened up the updates and after reading the first five, stopped and came up with two points to ponder:

1. how come balaji telefilms chose to wind up ksbkbt so quickly?? i thought they were deeply attached to the show and had sworn to keep it running forever...? why did they decide to suddenly kill it?

2. why are they running another show using the same theme song?

and boy do they like the sets of the old show, 'cause they're using all the same locations!

and hey, they like the actors in the show, 'cause they're using all the same actors too! and hey, hey! the actors all have the same names!

talk about recycling! or rather talk about lazy scriptwriters! they're using all the same things in a completely new and bizarre story! couldn't they at least have come up with new names??!

wait a minute -- don't tell me this is the same show????

* mihir daadu throws tulsi-daadi out of the house again?
* kt can't differentiate between tall-broad eklavya and small lakshya again??
* ganga-mom comes in and vanishes in a flash again?
* tulsi-daadi gets hysterical in a loud voice, and loses to eklavya's evil plans again? and dies again? and comes back again?

naaah, 'tis not possible. 'tis not the same show. that snivelly, weak-voiced woman begging in front of each member of the family, and later in front of mihir-daadu, is not tulsi-d! the cute looking, silently suffering guy perpetually standing in the opposite corner from kt is not lakshya. the dramatically teeth-baring facial grimacing good-hygiene-allergic fellow is not eklavya.

no, this is not the same show. they should've show some respect and at least come up with a new name for this new show.

lazy poophead scriptwriters. 🤢

in the meantime, i strongly recommend a himalayan trek. if it doesn't kill you, it's something that you will remember forever. 😊

ps to minniemau: i recommend the trek - even if you don't run into the most profitable sheep and goat dairy farm in the mountains around haridwar! 😊

ESTEEEE! HOW ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL-ABULOUS-ASTIC TO HAVE YOU BACK!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, now lemme go back up there and read the whole post! 😳

Ok. Done with the reading.

*sigh* Yes, I'm sorry to say, this is the same show. Except I think, the big group of writers were horribly inebriated one night and decided to write a bunch of codswallop, you know, just for fun.... They thought it would be even more fun to try and convince Ekta to actually show this on screen. But behold!!!!!!! Ekta herself was a lil tipsy what with all the late nights and all, and she shouted "BRING IT ON! IF THEY'VE WATCHED IT TILL NOW, THEY'LL WATCH MORE!!!!!!!"

And thus with a rebel cry, the bunch of inebriated dolts wrote good Tulsi out, brought snivelly Tulsi in, made Lakshya a mere mannequin, Eklavya - some kind of animal not given food for a long time (and a bath. Would it kill the man to shower??? Now, I'm curious. Will the melt away and flow down the drain if he comes in contact with water? Hmmm...) And all the sons have decided - "To hell with Ma and Pop. They've been hogging the limelight all this while anyway." The bahus are smirking; the Abhir is sneering and ogling at the Bhoomi who is sneering, while the Archita is oblivious.

Oh. And Baa might be dying.

*sigh* I am depressed. Bring back F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

Welcome back Estee. I haven't watched da show in ages so dunno wots going on therefore no input on that regard .

Good to see you back though. I luv reading yo posts babe. You rock. 😉😳

👏 👏 👏 Great to see old friends back on the forum! Thanxs Nimmi for waking me up from eternal slumber 😆 😆

Oh yeah Estee I know the last time I was up there I was walking on top of this world in a remote little kingdom, felt like heaven, I agree about not praying for this show, seems like even heavens can't save/ don't care about KSKBT now! 😆 😆

Lot has changed since we all met up last time .. no more sweet things and hardly anything to ponder.. the Laksh we knew too fled into the mountains leaving a zinda lash behind 😆 😆 But y'know now that you all are back we can have some hearty laughs over the mindless drama.. I've stopped watching it, miss Nimmi's updates and your ptps and sweet things.

But what the heck, y'all are back we can have our good laughs again! 👏 👏

Hey! I have actually been there too, on vacation, a few summers ago!

Originally posted by: darkness_123

she shouted "BRING IT ON! IF THEY'VE WATCHED IT TILL NOW, THEY'LL WATCH MORE!!!!!!!"

y'know, this is exactly what i thought at the few, few episodes that i took a look at, in random. we keep hearing this line about how this show gets the highest trps -- now i wonder: how exactly do they calculate these trps? is there some realistic way in which they measure it?

given that everything in india can be bought, how do we know that balaji is just not bribing whoever puts out trps to say that this show has the highest trps?

given that every single show by balaji is poop, covered with some very cute looking people standing around like mannequins, i seriously wonder how these poopy shows - with their hysterical camera work, their even more hysterical background music and sound effects - get the highest trps?

there's meri awaaz.., which is an extremely lovely, beautifully done show. there's also love story which is a little dramatic but superbly shot and created. love story also runs in the same time slot as this show.

how, oh how does balaji shows get the highest trps?

i go with the bribing hypothesis. after all, characters on the balaji shows do it so very often, it looks like something that the creators of the shows have a lot of experience with -- first hand experience, maybe??? 😆

Originally posted by: minniemau

no more sweet things and hardly anything to ponder..

hey! a challenge! really nothing to ponder?? sincerely no sweet things? at all??? hmm... i think i feel a tinge of the old tulsi-daadi fighter spirit rising in me. 😆

only one thing gives me pause - that would mean that i will actually have to watch the show, no? sca...ary! 😆

Originally posted by: estee

only one thing gives me pause - that would mean that i will actually have to watch the show, no? sca...ary! 😆

Exactly! I dread watching the show its like some cheap Chinese torture (y'know sitting in a dark room with drop of water falling over your head and then it suddenly stops.. that would be brilliant but watching this show now is plain cheesy😉)

I can't tolerate the moronic looking characters anymore.. Laksh is Devdas personified and after he married that woman who ran out on him I don't find him as likeable as before I hear Mihir-Tulsi-Baa are on the streets with a begging bowl?? Wonder whether to laugh or cry at the sorry state of affairs.. It's rather stay away from watching this for the moment until something in the show gets better.. Inspirations any one?

yippeeeeeeeeeee estee is back
btw i missed ur and nimmi's comments so much estee
keep on posting dear
so do you minniemau 👏