Episode 368 Discussion: 4th Sept 2013

Episode 368 Discussion: 4th Sept 2013

I can't believe today's episode was written by the same team who wrote the dahi handi episodes! What a huge difference good actors make! And if they are backed by logical writing, then it is sone pe suhaagaa 👍🏼

looking for some respite here?

Originally posted by: ClosetRomantic

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- Finally, really glad to see Raza Murad back in the show. He can just lift any scene just with his presence. The way his expressions and voice modulation changes while talking to each character - dismissive with Sikky, sweetly sarcastic with Madhu, affectionate with Deepali (surprising!), and openly hostile with RK.

I have to say I loved today's episode! I enjoyed the whole thing and found it engaging! I liked the family scenes in the beginning between Madhu, Radha, Sikki, and Dipali. Very cute! I kinda wish we could get those types of scenes for a few days before the the drama starts. I'm hoping all upcoming episodes are like this!! I'm glad Raza Murad is back!! All actors did a phenomenal job!!

Good episode. Hopefully, we can get our serial back on track. No RM scenes and yet the episode was engaging...

"Welcome to RK hotel parasite no 3"
Welcome to RK hotel,ur room number,sorry room full u can go...biwi right from morning my left eye is fluttering thought something would happen and look who's returned...
wht a way to welcome Kukuji by RK...this has to be the best dialogue and best moment of the episode... nice that the CV's have brought the veteran actor back in the show with a strong role...
The producers hold a meeting where Amar tells them to impose ban on RK...Kukuji enters as the head of the ph guild...and assures the producers that will ban RK...but in private Kuku tells Amar that RK's the reigning superstar of the industry... so the ban won't affect him as the producers may line up in front of RK's house tomorrow...
Madhu,Radha,Dips and Sikky cleaning was a light hearted scene...
wht a diff good actors make to the scenes...commendable job by all the actors 👏...

At least in one aspect, we're back to the good old days of MEIEJ - every actor currently in the story is a superb performer.⭐️

Secondly, alongside RK's adoration and protectiveness of his wife, his hard contemptuous persona was finally back as well.

Thirdly, Madhu and Radha as a united force in playing 'happy family' incorporating Kukku and Dipali, and expecting RK to be pleasant.🥱
And yet both wife and mother would stop if RK were to put his foot down and stick to that.

Madhu will not draw off to a halfway point.
She'll only break off completely and ruthlessly against the Bhatias if RK stops playing refugee centre to Radha's other family even while refusing to truly consider them kin.
RK can't expect Madhu to join him in simultaneously playing aegis and turning a contemptuous blind eye to the Bhatia trio who have been living off him for years.
Madhu can't manage a middle ground in anything to do with him.
She'll hold every relationship associated with him as something to be preserved until she knows for sure that he wants nothing more to do with any or all of them. At which point they could all vanish into thin air and she could care less - and that's not likely to be an exaggeration by much.

Likewise, Radha for whom only two things matter in the world - her son and her socially approved image.
When it was a matter of Padmini, Radha had all the right reasons why Padmini should discard the weight of the marriage to Balraj (which was already legally invalidated unless she wished to maintain it) and even marry Shamsher thereafter.
Every one of those reasons was equally applicable to the discarding of Radha's marriage to Kukku.
But unfortunately for Radha, her traditional social image concern will not permit her to get proactive on her own behalf, and neither RK nor Padmini have pushed for her to discard Kukku.
And the only way she would act on her own initiative to discard the marital bond with Kukku is if she truly believes she would otherwise lose her son completely - not merely in an extremely estranged manner as in varying degrees until now, because that does not motivate Radha enough to stop vacillating.
She has got proactive so far - firmly and shrewdly - only in the two situations when RK and Madhu were likely to become distant from each other, which would also represent Radha losing Madhu as the one person assured to initiate or preserve Radha's reconciliation with her son.

So long as RK makes neither a firm threat to totally break off his relationship with his mother, and is also unwilling to act proactively to terminate in his mother's life the despicable stagnant marital bond that he sought to terminate in his mother-in-law's, Radha will be content to play 'happy family' and permit the miserable familial situation to continue so that she can - in however routinely unpleasant a way - hold on to both her son and her traditional sympathizable image in society.

I'm content to see as little of the three Mallick women as possible.
Roma was always irritatingly flashy and endurable in very small doses.
Arti Puri as Trishna, though good as an actor in some facets, seemed not quite as stellar an actor as the rest, though she may improve.
And while Padmini - both in characterization and acting - was a pleasure to watch, the extent of her clunky behaviour in the past several months makes it difficult now to watch any scenes of her. Admittedly unfair, but she's not RK or Madhu that one may curse the clunk and love the characters anyway.

Shamsher Mallick as enacted by Bhupinder Singh was a memorable character. Better that he remain missing than another actor make all flashbacks nonviable.

All in all, a good episode, though this is feeling rather like the serial's gradual recovery day-by-day from a prolonged illness.😊 Hoping for the standards to keep getting restored to former levels so that entire episodes may be not merely liked very much but loved.😳