DVD's performances were superb.👏⭐️ The supporting cast was good.
The episode was as depressing as expected.😭
*This* is the story the CVs decided to give us with Valentine's Day coming up?😭
Couldn't they have presented this delightfully miserable track from this coming Saturday at least, and let us have this week to maintain the romance points for flashback purpose in the storyline at remote future points?😡
We could have missed out on most of this emotionally wretched ep (the production was excellent in every aspect).
And as regards symbolism, immensely relieved that only a few of the green glass bangles - a 'suhaag ki nishaani' that neither Madhu nor RK may know as such - broke, rather than the whole bunch.😊
Even more relieved that the varmala, chunri et al went flying through the air and yet avoided falling into the fire.😊
Was worried that one or the other would land in the fire, with the ominous symbolism that would carry. So very glad that didn't happen.😊
As to the scene beyond symbolism, the RK-Madhu scene did *not* need to be so damnably heartwrenchingly lengthy.😭
But the CVs resolve to milk this track for every bit of depression potential it has is promising to turn this into the most wretched week ever in MEIEJ viewing.😭 Madhu was formidably indomitable even in such a nightmarish situation, and whether RK were acting or not, he would not be able to leave her belief unbroken.
The emotional moments RK had not brought up in the 9th Feb. (Saturday) ep, he did in this ep, making a mockery of every private moment that Madhu had been privy to.
But we have *always* seen him be secretly watchful and aware of her.
What his words did do was imbue what had before seemed a cherishing reticence with instead - as of now - a sinister contextual tone.
What he did not mention was any scene she would not know about that would have added extra hurt to this scene.
He seemed to be aiming for just enough to break her without having to go one inch beyond that already abominably point.
He could have brought up the recent 'gazing at the moon' phonecall, and told Madhu that he never even got up from the bed, and just lay back and laughed at her for being stupid (which would have been a clear lie and an alarmbell to the viewers).
Or he could have said he went and looked at the moon and dreamt of his revenge (which would have fitted into the current scene regardless of whether he was pretending).
That was only one of many such scenes that were left unpresented.
At the chawl, he stuck to the aspects of their relationship that the chawl people knew about.
If Bittuji is playing loyal to the hilt - "my Chief right or wrong" -, then that may be why Bittuji *may* possibly not figure in the next few acts.
RK has always trusted him to be in the know and back him up regardless of whether he may disagree with his Chief's intentions professionally or personally.
So Bittuji may know whether it's an act or not, and may or may not have his own damnable part to play.
And we may anyway for dramatic impact get a scene of RK explaining to someone or the other why he tolerated being ranted at by Bittuji as well.
It would make for one more scene in this dismal marathon.
I never thought I would feel like wailing that if only this were a saas-bahu serial from day one.
If it were, I would now be not even a whit depressed and already relaxed and expectant for the track's happy sorting out. I'm not.😭
The weekend was ruined, and depending on how long into next week the CVs push off their assurances of 'sorting out', that accounts for most of this month.
TRP audiences - however traumatized they may be - are unlikely to find any of this actually unseen before.
They may make raging rants about the unforgivablity of RK's behaviour, but far *far* worse has been seen, digested and gotten over while watching any number of serials before.
This was the male lead doing this.
*Female* leads - fullfledged sati-savitris - have stood and *convincingly* mocked and humiliated their adoring husband and every doting family elder, and shamed everyone to what always seemed point of no return.
Male leads have played the faux face-heel-turn far less despicably, but even then it was always vicious.
And then the reveal would happen for the viewers benefit, and the TRP audience would switch to weeping with the unfortunate having to play such a pretence.
One time, one such heroic faux-heel almost got killed by one of the other good guys before a secret good-guy accomplice rushed there and unveiled the act to at least the almost-killer.
This sort of pretence track has a long history of almost getting to fatality for some innocent relative, and in some cases actually crossing that tragedy line.
Watching it the first time I ever did was traumatic for the several months of its duration.
After the 10th time, one gets used to it, and at some point after that, it's an emotional rollercoaster that elicits spontaneous reactions immediately but does not shatter as much as the first nine times of watching a trusted and loved character brazenly, viciously and condescendingly mock another beloved character's (and us viewers') trust.
This sort of track is the ultimate test of of gauging and proving depth of trust from the character being played for a fool.
But previous instances were most of them not even remotely naive husbands of varying shrewdness having to find it in them to trust a beloved wife who now appeared the clear and ruinous cause of all harm, after having his parents etc publicly shamed.
Here the track concept has been turned on its head.
The female lead mocking the male gender generally and her husband specifically offends TRP audience on a very different and equally deep level as the spectacle we are enduring of the male lead mocking the female gender generally and his wife specifically.
Madhu is still a naive young girl, though with exceptional stubbornness and while she may choose to turn a blind eye to what she does not wish to see, she has never ever failed to swiftly understand and act once she hones in on a situation.😊
The concern is whether tomorrow's ep or how many more eps are intended to be endured before she does hone in out of the shock and subsequent phases.
I admit to being immensely - and almost morbidly - curious to see just what reasoning the CVs plan to unveil to us for this catastrophic follow-up to weeks of tender adoring romance.
Because track history irregardless, the superlative performance and presentation has me hooked and miserable for this track for this and immediately upcoming eps.
Had either acting or intensity been a bit more shoddy, I for one would have much appreciated it instead of feeling heartwrenched like I haven't since the first track variation several years back.
Padmini's behaviour in the precap was very much in character, though I'm hopeful that Madhu will be shaken at least out of numbness to halt her mother's pleading on her behalf.
Padmini is heedless and unmindful of dignity or any other concern in fighting for her children. And being willing to grovel and plead takes a depth of love and courage as much as - perhaps more than - firing a gun.
Also, as much as RK has by now done *for* Padmini and Shamsher, she would not be able to promptly switch in her attitude to him.
Really doubt that Padmini's decision to finally remarry has suddenly reduced social and marital bounds in her opinion.
*And* she knows that her daughter loves RK, and considers herself indebted to him for her own conjugal happiness as well.
But had Balraj been less heinous a character, RK would have had a far more difficult time talking his saasuma into marrying Shamsher.
And by the way, really wondering whether RK intends to give some mocking reasoning why he felt it needful to go to so much trouble to get his wife's parents married when that did not ever occur to his wife and when he himself was simply intending to soon escort her to her maayka and dump her?
Or was the plan still happy exile with Madhu at that point?
I'm getting that awful "I don't want to know but can't bear not to know" feeling to see exactly what extent the CVs intend to take RK on the mental calisthenics in order to best defame himself validly or otherwise.
The CVs have dug themselves into an unpleasantly deep trench.
Now it remains to be seen whether they live up to their past trackrecord and give an outstanding result to this disastrously complicated-seeming mess.😊
They have assured us that the lead couple's love was never a lie, and that all will be sorted in two weeks.😳😊
So, just holding on to those two basic points in the face of act after act that they are presenting to us in each consecutive ep.
And very grateful for the past viewing experience of saas-bahu serials which means that no twist is ever completely unthinkable.😕😊
Edited by leelaa9 - 12 years ago
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