Having watched the miserable start and stellar presentation⭐️ of the faux-'revenge' track in this ep (9th Feb. 2013, Saturday), sincerely hope the MEIEJ CVs assurance of "two weeks" doesn't mean it's going to take Madhu 12 episodes (6 eps per week) to unravel this mess and figure out what RK is actually up to.😕
We'll not only end up losing out on Valentine's Day in MEIEJ but also most of the upcoming episodes in this month of February to this depression-inducing marathon.😲😭
Technically, he was quite right, as watching the ep had VD's stellar performance clearly reveal that RK was putting on an act in claiming to be out for revenge.
And he would not be the first producer in Hindi or Western serials to even outright deny something because it's still a few days yet for the telecast.😕
One producer absolutely denied something about his new serial's lead character, and it was revealed some days later to not only be true but the main story aspect.
Saurabh Tewari has been far kinder - and indeed far from ruthless - to the stressed among his serial's fans by stating outright that the romance was *not* a lie, and giving us the two-week timeline to wait things out.😊
It's not an option, fine. So one waits and watches. Damnit.
Even more relieved that the varmala, chunri et al went flying through the air and yet avoided falling into the fire.😊
The episode was excellent in terms of characterization, acting, dialogues et al.👏⭐️But hopefully the fact that RK actually did get almost killed by Shamsher and then by Balraj, and then Padmini did kill Balraj will at some point - hopefully soon - ping with Madhu that RK is playing her *now*, not before.😊
Absolutely confounded why any of this idiocy would conceivably be needed to commence Madhu's stardom track.😕
If RK were to be inspired to think of it, and then insist on it, the stardom track would happen without such a mess to distract from it.😊
And if it had to happen *outside* of his aegis, then too putting several months of an exquisitely detailed relationship-build into ICU seems - at the moment - beyond senseless.😭
But the habit of those very months means I'm going to wait for two weeks and trust in the CVs to make sense out of this mess.
It had better be their finest denouement yet.
First, the Ballu-return track waited for with great anticipation came prematurely and ended.
And now, if Madhu's stardom track commences, I'm going to be too thoroughly depressed and distracted to enjoy it. Why, CVs?
On the plus side, it's definitely not revenge.😃
DD's portrayal of a woman in love shaken, anguished, and slowly shattering was superlative, straightforward, finely nuanced and heartwrenching.⭐️
But VD had to play a far more difficult line this time to ensure that there will be a baseline identifiably in place for the story to project from whensoever RK's this play's curtains go up.
Because when Madhu finally comes out of shock and simply reacting to this 'game' and starts figuring things out, she will need that baseline to work the situation out.😊
She has already done that on a comparatively almost trivial scale when she went from almost passive anguish at RK's turning away from her in the hospital and sending her to be with her mother, to proactively working out just what his motivations had been, heading back to him and sorting things out.
The inadvertent revealing catalyst then had been Trishna.
But this time, the mess is on a massively grand scale.
In trying to ensure that she will not lack for support, RK's every action is making him look the villain of the piece in front of everyone that might have otherwise remained in ignorance.
When Madhu does figure out what his motivation is for this idiocy, she is going to have a herculean task clearing up the peripheral rubble of this drama, let alone the main damage closest to home, heart and family.
VD absolutely outdid himself in the light touch of every nuance and every expression while emotive switching.⭐️
RK was playing a role, and if Madhu were an emotionless robot instead of the anguished and tenderhearted girl she is, she might have noticed.😳
Every true admission he makes momentarily lifts the mask, and then he twists it into a lie.😳
Every outlandish claim he can make to increase the scope of that lie to cover the entire duration of their life together, he makes.
Every key event RK talks about in their conjugal life actually had him more as the affected party than as someone pulling strings.😕
And the great key event that involved Kukku-Sikki and Shamsher in competition to shoot him at the visarjan was quite a performance, was it? Really?
What in the world is the man doing, and why?!😕😡
RK has a skewed sense of logic and proportionate response.
When he simply tried to sweep under the carpet Shamsher trying to kill him *three times*, he effectively proved that preventing Madhu from feeling hurt mattered less than his own life.😳
So if he is now himself hurting Madhu, the reason has to be - at least in his opinion - exponentially worse for her.
I'm absolutely on tenterhooks to find out - not just why he is doing this but even more - precisely when he went from planning to go off into happy exile with Madhu to instead driving a wedge between them.😕😭
He is very clearly taking every next step to ensure her reactions go against him.
When she appears in shock and does not cry, he keeps goading for the tears to spill.
And when the tears finally do spill, he appears relieved rather than triumphant before the veneer is back in place.
The new promo where he publicly breaks off with her also fits into that reasoning.
The one thing that had been somewhat confusing about the Madhu-Padmini bidaai scene in the previous ep (Friday, 8th Feb. 2013) was that they didn't wrap it up within the house.
They went all the way to the courtyard-gates unmindful of who in the chawl might see it.
And now RK will bring Madhu back there for Act 2 of that particular location.
And is the mangalsutra to be removed once you have delivered the girl safely to her parents' home and ensured that her entire chawl gathered for a puja sympathizes with Madhu for being married to such a 'knave' as you, RK?
Just how far is too far in this play to drive away a girl who forgives you anything and everything? How far will RK go?
Or rather, how far do the CVs intend to take him on this depressing 'playacting-villain' path so that we may all be collectively more miserable?
Madhu can't stand to see her parents shattered because of her.
And RK will be shattering them in such a way that when they stand up from this blow, they will stand for and with their daughter.
After everything he has done *for* Shamsher and Padmini, the blow he strikes has to be terrible for them to not look for an explanation for the change in him.
At the venue in private, RK goaded Madhu into crying past the first shock.
Now he will apparently seek to goad her into rage.
And he seems to be doing his best to ensure that he - not she - will be the one destroyed in the conflagration he is stoking.
It was damn evident he *was* putting on an act.
And if RK had actually wanted revenge, he could have simply left Madhu in that shattered state of shock at the deserted venue in the middle of the night.
She might not have gotten back to the chawl safely. In fact, she would have had a dreadful time getting to either of her homes in that mental state.
She might even have come back to her sasuraal rather than to her parents'.
Or he could have taken Madhu to maayka or sasuraal and *not* made a speech making himself look like a villain.
He didn't just tell Padmini in private, and have the chawl wondering how long Madhu was back for.He announced it to everyone in the chawl in a way that made him seem a wretch, and ensured that they would all sympathize with Madhu.
The two ways RK did *not* choose to opt for in the aftermath of the wedding nightmare, in either situation, Madhu would have been unlikely to tell anyone what all he had just said, whether she got back home on her own or with him.
She *would* have tried to keep her hurt secret, especially from her parents and mother-in-law.
RK would have remained the perfect son-in-law, the adoring husband and caring son, in the eyes of both families.
Instead, he is ensuring the shifting of the opinion-base in Madhu's favour.
Those that might have supported him out of ignorance will now strengthen and support her against him.
Once, to save himself, his career and his reputation, he had turned public opinion against her and her family.
This time, he appears to be set on immolating his reputation in stages - with all implications thereby to his life and career - and ensuring sympathy and support for Madhu.
It is perhaps a more difficult sacrifice he is making now - a far bitter draught - than when he was risking his life to save her from her psychopath biological father.
He is a proud man, and death or injury would perhaps not matter as dearly as the disfavour he is courting from all those that actually know him personally or peripherally.
Madhu will assuredly fall for the play hook, line and sinker for some time.
But for how long before she realizes that RK getting almost killed *five* times (thrice by Shamsher, and twice on Balraj's account) and more is a bit of a steep price to ensure revenge?
And just how was he intending to enjoy her misery from his successful revenge posthumously?😕
This 'revenge' drama has more holes than a sieve, damnit.😕
RK's characterization is that he would go to such extreme self-destructive lengths for the one he loves for a reason he believes worthwhile.😳
(I'm inclined to believe no reason in this mess would fall outside of idiocy's all-encompassing ambit, but then I've never had a bent for romantic selfless self-destruction either.😕😆)
Then can Madhu be shown as the sort to count her hurts and hold a distance in keeping with sanity and self-respect?😳
Neither of those two qualities have been a steady part of either of these two characters, especially when it comes to each other.😳
And after the way Balraj's return was turned into a damp squib in comparison to what had been expected in terms of duration and effect, not looking forward to just how this current increasingly unpleasant-looking track is going to segue into the 'better' that we are being assured of.
And we are to endure this for *two weeks*?😲😭
Knew when this series started that Madhu would be a star.😊 Did not know that she would have to become detective as well.😕
Fortunately the happily-married-couple-in-love montage is bookmarking each ep at least so far, and preventing depression from becoming absolute.😳😊
And regardless of *what* reason unfolds for RK's Jekyll-into-Hyde performance, I hope - at least in my current irritation at the fictional series ruining my real weekend - that Madhu clobbers him in addition to many *many* slaps.
However much he may have gotten hurt by then for Madhu's sake. Idiot.😡
The basic rule of secrets is that they generally get revealed after a lot has been endured to keep them secret.😡🤢
Which means that one might as well have let the revelation happen on day one, and skip a lot of double dosing of heartache, guilt and sundry other elevated emotions.
One would have expected a star who has an inborn knack for drama even offscreen to remember this basic rule.😡
But if he had remembered and not gone into self-sacrificing self-destructing 'charade-villain' mode, and the CVs had not opted for this utterly depressing track, then we wouldn't have two weeks of tonight's absolutely delightful misery to look forward to in many variations in each coming ep.
And if RK's main reasoning (rather than potentially a mere tangential one) for all this upcoming damage to Madhu and himself emotionally and socially is making Madhu a star, then in addition to slaps and clobbering, Madhu should use a padded blunt object to knock some sense into him. (Ermm, I'm not suggesting actual violence here.)
CVs, the reason for this debacle had better be really *really* good.
Madhu's stardom should have been effectively accomplished without ruining the romance track.😊
Massacring one lead's characterization to create a sympathy situation for the other lead would be a wretched case of splitting the boat in half while paddling in the deep.
Please don't stretch out RK's drama for too long. Let the revelation happen soon, and please *please* don't butcher the superb story you have created so painstakingly.
Every ep of this forthcoming miserable act won't just be RK trying to convince Madhu he fooled her.
This track is going to be a triple-edged weapon cutting into Madhu, RK and the viewers.
So please, CVs, speed up the track, and sort out the misery. Soon. Pretty please?😊
Admittedly getting a bit desperate here. Hope he'll actually do something soon to pull the curtain on this pretence.😕
The point is that RK doesn't think of what he does covertly as favour or selfsacrifice. Anything he does for people he loves is all about him doing it for himself.😕
Financing luxury for the Bhatias all these years was so that *his* mother wouldn't be uncomfortable.
Anything he does for Madhu is for *his* own sake.😕😳
Remember when he told Madhu that he saved her life from Balraj and his goons because if she had died, how would he himself have gone on living?😳
Whatever he does is not logical. And he has previously also made decisions without asking Madhu - in the matter of making Padmini realize her feelings for Shamsher, for example.😊
He's destroying himself because he feels the result vis-a-vis Madhu is worth it.😳
The MEIEJ series may have started with Balraj, Padmini and Shamsher, but it truly hit its stride when Madhu and RK first met.😳⭐️ The Lord has worked overtime to get his two obdurate devotees together despite all their efforts to the contrary.😳
As for RK's harping on about 'Madhubala Shamsher Malik', it's like when they got married, and he'd keep saying their marriage was incomplete because they didn't complete the rituals.😕😛
By that standard, Padmini and Shamsher would also not now be married.😳
RK is basically trying to put Madhu back at square one, where she had not been in love with him, willing to forgive him anything and do anything for him.😳
And what RK is doing now, from what we have seen of Madhu's characterization, pretty damn sure that for the same motivation, Madhu would be willing to do exactly the same thing.😳
But she would perhaps have a harder time and less past to help her be convincing.
That is why I don't think she will actually have too hard a time forgiving him this time either.😕😊
Because however idiotic his reason may or may not turn out to be, and however much she is getting hurt, she too would have hurt him and destroyed herself in his eyes for any reason at all for *his* sake.😳
Madhu's ruthlessness is only glimpsed occasionally, but it is both far rarer and far more comprehensive than RK's.😳😊
Actually, this twist feels upsetting because it's the first time in MEIEJ.
But when - if - it's worked through its length, we could then relax and wait for its next time.😊
It may - if this serial lasts a nice long duration - be interesting to see this situation in reverse.😊
Madhu believing she needs RK to think of her as the bad guy?😳
After his current performance, he is unlikely to believe her guilty if the shoe is on the other foot.😕😳😊
Seeing what lengths she would be willing to go to be convincing would be a track definitely worth watching - theoretically.😃
But considering just how depressing the current track is, would prefer to have reservations at this point about ever having to endure a repeat in reverse.
These two - RK and Madhu - are not logical in their love for each other and what they are willing to do for each other.😳
And while their focused dedication to each other's interests may head however convolutedly to each other's wellbeing, the path is not nearly as conducive to viewers' peace of mind.😕😳
