Episode 552 Discussion: 18th April 2014, Friday

What is happening in the show??

abhay Kapoor was blaming his family, talking about rishte ,as,if Sweety rani and leelu aunty ko koi property se matlab nai, they r delighted to have a susheel,sanskari uncle abhay as a groom..

I liked the episode in totality. Had it been any other day, I would have complained about the screen time given to AK and Kapoor clan.. but today it made sense. They needed a confrontation scene. And I am so relieved the will drama is done with!!! So, can we now move on to a better parallel track that is interesting and gives less screen time to the Kapoor clan, please?


Didn't like Leelawati's scene though... it was dragged.


The phone conversation with Bittuji and JM was a little weird though... it seemed at one point JM will spill the beans but she didn't. And it really looked like Bittuji was pushing it on purpose to get JM to spill the beans... 😆 ... kuch ziada h guilty feel karwa dia JM ko. 😆

Loved RM. And absolutely loved the hug. 😳

The precap was good.

lets all push them to

Originally posted by: _charu_

lets all push them to

1. Spill the beans to bittuji and radha both

2. Let ak know who killed rk so that this idiotic drama ends once and for all, he donates his entire property to rm ..pam ni , kill ak , pam kills leelu , Sweety kills pam, ni kills Sweety, and bittuji kills ni

Tanu's Live Update - 18th April-Short LU-Madhubala

Rashmi's WU - Madhubala Written Update- 18th April 2014

Niki - https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/madhubala-ek-ishq-ek-junoon/3992221/and-the-war-has-begun

Seema - https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/madhubala-ek-ishq-ek-junoon/3992276/raju-dulhaniya-le-gaya

Today's episode was good in entirety.

They seem to be finally hitting all the right notes, which may or may not provide instant benefit but should help steadily reassure and regain lapsed mass-viewership.

Today, Madhu unilaterally committed to her marriage in a reassurance to mass-audience, closing off the worryingly mass-unappealing prospect that she'd leave Raju somewhere, and both would be seen in separate scenes with co-stars and situations that mass-audience may be unlikely to care about enough to watch such hinged developments. The mass-connectivity with the characters post-leap does not seem to have been particularly massive, to make any difference if some or several no longer feature in episodes at any point.
Might be appreciable if JM soon removes herself and Raj from that adversaries-overflowing residence for a while, or any other development which changes the victim-couple situation effectively at the soonest.
Considering that no reason has been good enough for mass-audience to tolerate this pairing not sharing screenspace and cohabiting, a separation now might perhaps be unenthusing and unlikely to be the most compelling viewing for majority-audience, who will anyway be tempted with IPL cricket and several rather strong competing programmes in comedy, mythological and other varied genres in the MEIEJ timing.

Tomorrow, in addition, they seem likely to finally seal off one irritant that was still in place - the fact that Raj had been sehra-veiled during the entire wedding.
So even knowing that they were indeed married, there was not the best visual satisfaction of the couple vis-a-vis the marriage rituals.
If the primary rituals are now accomplished again but without any tangible veil this time, it will be an even better reassurance than that officiating priest having told JM that her wedded bond was for this lifetime, and JM today herself declaring it for seven lifetimes.

Once she's wearing the mangalsutra and sindoor, all other developments of the story should be manageable so long as the mass-sensibilities are kept in mind and not contravened to cause them to switch channel out of disinterest or distaste.
Fortunately, from the episodes pace and developments so far in this track, the CVs this time seem to be quite comprehending of what would be acceptable and unacceptable to mass-audience.
If they can avoid backsliding into the 'different' creative ideas of the previous tracks of the past year, viewership should recover and rebuild quite nicely, albeit gradually.
They just need to keep emphasizing not only that the couple are definitely going to remain together with no separation adventure planned, but also keep the couple's loyalty and care for each other as priority for each above all other relations and considerations.
Once the mass-audience gets habituated to watching at least the first half - preferably the latter half as well - of each episode everyday, we may hopefully see TRP secured to the level where we might possibly see a track we would like to, but without the couple-conflict and overshadowed-husband aspects that can be counted on to terminate a track due to not enough millions of viewers watching in India at primetime. Anyway, that's all a distant dream for now. First, just hoping the viewership steadies and rebuilds in the next few weeks.
The DVD pairing managed to climb past 1.4 to 4+ TRP once before. It may not be unreasonable to expect at least an uncareening gradual rise over the next few weeks into the upper half of the 2+ spectrum and maybe even a return into 3+ if the CVs avoid mass-averse ideas, and keep the tastes of the mass-viewership in mind to get them to tune in for every next day's episode.