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St mangos
Filler scene 1
Madhu, who has just availed of the express manicure service at St Mangos, asks Radhji to go home and rest. A wild doctor appears and drops clunky exposition that RK will gain consciousness in the next 24 hours. That means: be prepared to see him tossing and turning and mostly silent for the next week or so... Time has a different meaning in Madhubala verse.
Madhu wants to have hot husband all to herself. He has, alas, been clothed in the interim. By Darth Vader, who has taken up man nurse duties since the fall of the Empire. Because we hear the ventilator, but RK's not on it. Ergo: Vader.
I hope the next plot twist involves him, ie Vader, saying: 'I AM your father, RK! Not that ugly fellow who hanged himself!' But FQ knows that the writers of this show are just not cool enough to know of a galaxy far far away. Le sigh!
Bittu reappears after dropping off Saddoji at le manse RK.
He returns and proclaims Madhu a real life heroine and they become pals for life. Like BFFs. That's a good partnership, me thinks, and the two actors play well off each other, despite the horrible lines they were given in that scene.
Anyway, Bittu goes to get Madhu some tea. A wild nurse appears. She forces M to go and get some meds from the pharmacy. At that very moment or else! It's all very crude and contrived and suffice it to say that the enforced abandonment of hot husband is due to an entirely predictable appearance by deeplali.
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Deeplali enters the hospital like a ravening Wraith but wearing much uglier shoes and proceeds to stun the dumb policeman at Rk's door ( so pathetic that not worth the s in my sarcasm) using her just sharpened eyelashes. Honestly, that eye makeup is fast becoming a distinct and predatory life form.
Madhu and Bittuji find her trying to tie a taaweez on RK.
They fight a bit, throw casual insults at each other, as one does in an unconscious patient's room, and Bittuji totally bitchslaps D like a boss.
Madhu pretends like she's offended but doesn't try too hard to stop her new BFF from going all ghetto on D's arse. Deeplali flounces away with her taweez.
Somewhere in the middle of all this hospital drama, Radhji overhears Kukku and sikki arguing over Rk's life insurance moolah at le manse RK. Now, we are meant to believe that she didn't hear the juicy bits of that conversation, but please, please writers could you contrive to give like ONE layer to her character and make it so that she did hear her husband and is merely pretending to be dumb? Please? We know subtlety is not your strong suit, in fact it is not even your strong string vest, but please, could you at least try? Yes, subtlety. The one with the silent B?
Moving on.
Madhu is nuzzling her husband while Darth Vader watches from a corner. Through the dirty hospital blanket, so it's all very PG.
Suddenly, RK is thrashing and pouting adorably and moving his eyebrows, also adorably. I've switched my adverbial suffixage to adorably instead of sexily for the duration of the hospital stay. It just seems so wrong to perv on someone who is in a backless hospital gown and has parts of his anatomy, important parts, one might add, attached to catheters and stuff. Please to note this change.
Madhu, who has no such reservations, watches her husband thrash about. She has had another st mangos express manicure at the pharmacy. Her nails are now blood red again.
RK thrashes and whimpers, saying that his dad left him because it was his fault. Oh please let this be a plot opening for juvenile arson and subsequent bankruptcy! Rk also does what is fast becoming his routine: grabbing his biwi's wrist. I suspect Madhu put in some hack hypnosis while sharing his bed. 'You will hold my hand and pull me close. You will draw me in for a kiss and--' You can guess the rest. At least RK got the hand grabbing part pat. The rest will surely follow!
Madhu soothes him ( leaving no oppotunity to cop a feel) and says that no , Rishab darling, it so wasn't your fault! It so was, you naughty little whippersnapper! Who was lighting firecrackers in the premises of Sitara studios that day?
Precap
Darth vader mind-chokes Deeplali.
One wishes!
Madhu plays the heroine and prohibits MIL from telling RK that her, ie Madhu's erythrocytes are making sweet love to his, ie Rk's luekocytes.
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
