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This episode is a filler because due to unforeseen reasons, the show's producers lost their minds and despite the best efforts of the Mumbai Police and CBI, they, that is the minds, could not be found. Which, considering the track record of these agencies, is hardly surprising. Or maybe there is a Zombie apocalypse in Mumbai. The brains have been eaten! Because that is the only excuse for today's episode.
RKham Asylum
WE are still aarti-ing.
Internal monologue continues. Suddenly everybody is tying Moulis to each other. Which, as everyone with half a brain knows, is a thread of sanction which the yajman gets tied on his right hand so that he/she can accrue the merits of the pooja conducted for him/ her by a brahmin/proxy. But not in MBverse. Here they are like funny friendship bands. MB ties one on her MIL, who returns the favour. And they go ' zomg, do you think that totally like hot guy in sixth form will accept my friendship band, zomg!' . Trust me, travesty becomes a travesty of a word to describe this situation. Will have to go all Shakespeare on their posterior to invent a word for this mess.
Upstairs in le grotte, Bittuji has donned shoes et al after enthusiastic participation in the puja. He is still providing exposition for the 25 cr ransom Sultan story. He apparently has the commissioner of police on the phone, and is discussing strategy with him using slang like 'sulta'. Gee, Bittuji, you might have brushed off the formal Hindi to speak with a top police officer.
Enter RK. He has been washing his beautiful, beautiful face with his extra gentle hypo-allergenic facewash because the roli spray on it, i.e, the face, has still not come off. He stares at his lovely face in the mirror and tries to get the colour off using the luckiest cotton bud in the world. And then gets entranced by his own beauty. One would have thought 29 years of staring at that face in the morning would have made him immune to it, but apparently not. Enter MB. She too gets in a not so surreptitious ogle in before asking Bittuji to tie Molly. Bittu retires. He has done his bit, he can do no more! Our eyes are already singed by that shirt!
Madhu turns to her husband and says: 'Kneel before, ZId!' which is a reference that will please the more geeky of our readers. The rest will just wonder anew at the oddity that is FQ's brain.
MB offers RK the choice of tying the molly or tying the molly, ala RK offering her his magical tisane, as we see in flashback. RK is amused, bemused, shocked, appalled and taken aback. Because even he cannot see how on earth the writers will get him out of this one.
Madhu sets Molly and a burning dia on a flammable couch ( because of husband's feet on the table) and takes her leave. Not just sense, even health and safety prescriptions have deserted this set.
Downstairs, Sikki tries to steal Bappa's cash. Kukku stops him and explains that that money is his bribe to Bappa so that the very clumsy plot the writers have had him cook up, aka hiring someone to blackmail RK, will come to a successful fruition. Oh, I doubt it Kukku. You are doomed to failure. Largely because the writers have NO idea what they are doing.
Which we learn on the set of Saath Nibhana Saathiyaa also known as the kitchen of RKham Asylum.
The next half of the episode felt like somebody in the studio got the scripts of MB and SNS mixed up. I hope somewhere in soap land Gopi bahu has grown a backbone and is going all Madhubala on her husband's posterior. Which, the posterior of Gopi's husband, that is, is not as toned or beautiful as Madhubala's husband's posterior. Because NO posterior in the world can hold a candle to that posterior. FQ may or may not have tried and there may or may not be a restraining order.
But here, Rashi aka Deeplali, is asked to make modaks for Bappa. She hates doing it because of her nails. And because she is a vampy vamp of Vampshire. And the sitting on the floor business. Which again, why? And if your nail spa made your nails look like massive spades attached to the end of your fingers, NEVER go their again, Rashi.
Moving away from the precipice of plunging plot crevasses, we find that Rashi hates it that she has to learn anything from Gopi bahu.
MIL is called away, Rashi finds an excuse to shirk her task and then comes back to sabotage Madhu's, sorry, Gopi bahu's efforts. This is all so crass that I cannot even mock it.
It's just too painful. So stuff happens that is entirely pointless and could have been avoided by showing RK taking a shower. For 15 minutes. That would have been ace tv, at par, in FQ's considered opinion, with Season 2 episode 3 of Sherlock.
Precap.
RK eats kebabs and Jhansi ki Rani makes a comeback and tries to take it from him. ' mai apna kebab nahin doongi, kisi keemat par nahin doongi!'
' wanna kiss, biwi?'
' oh, ok! All the kebabz r belong to u'
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