MM Archives October 10 - Page 2

Banshee, stay indoors!

God is great, really!

Update for Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010:

My heart was beating fast when it started with Prema's face, her hand holding the cyanide pill, then an image of someone blowing on a sangu, someone beating on that round disk, and sounds of a funeral procession, then she was walking towards KK, Janaki stopped her, took the pill from her, asked her to bring the water, turned and went to KK. KK had just picked up a plate with kumkum and turmeric, Janaki gave her the pill, she was about to take it and Janaki tells her to wait for the water, the water is given to her, she is about to put the pill into her mouth, the picture of magic thatha is right there in the background, and Janaki suddenly screams, and ... the pill has fallen down, the plate has fallen down, all because a lizard fell (where? who knows?). Now the pill thedum padalam begins, (and still nobody is suspicious of the zeal with which Prema and Janaki are trying to make sure that KK takes her pills! What a bunch of naive people!) Prema spots the pill, it has fallen near Janaki's feet, she asks Janaki to get the pill, and just as Janaki steps forward, in comes a foot and steps on that pill! Truly, my heart was beating so fast at this point, idhellam innikki Tuesday vera, idhai paarka vendi varumaanu I was worried, and here is KS, asking what all the noise and commotion is about. That pill has been crushed!

KS asks what the matter is, asks where the palli fell, apparently it fell on Janaki's hand (so does this mean she will die? does anyone know about this palli josiyam?), he tells her to sprinkle water, take a shower, and come. Prema tries to remind about the pill, he says not to bother, and hurries KK into the car. Prema is furious with Janaki for sodappufying, she says she and her mother will go home, take a shower and then go to the mandapam.

Prema goes, not to the mandapam, but to a kudisai, to see the cyanide supplier. He wants to know if everything is over, she says there was a problem but she has an alternate plan. He is admiring of this shishter who plans all the time, says she could easily become the leader of his kuppam (we agree!), she tells him that the wedding is to take place in Ayya kalyana mandapam in T.Nagar (is this a new mandapam? Must have come up in the last 30 years, after I left the place!) and she outlines her plan (muted, luckily!). Cyanide supplier says he will do this himself for his dear shishter, and she leaves.

Tamil praying in her house, neighbor lady tells Meena to tie some money in the yellow cloth and pray for the weddings to take place successfully, tells AM to light the karpooram and do arati. He then gives it to the daughters, but when it is Swati's turn, the karpooram gets extinguished. She is shocked, all the sisters are shocked, the neighbor lady tells them to turn the fan off, and asks Tamil to light it again. She does so, AM tells Swati to take the arati, but once again, the karpooram dies out when Swati places her hands on it. She is shocked - again!

AM consoles her by saying that the karpooram must have been damp, and says that if she applies vibhuti and kumkum, everything will be all right, proceeds to do so and goes outside. There he confides his fears to the other lady, who may be his sister, and she consoles him. Meena does her prayers, then her famous RKO with her daughters, then Tamil makes the daughters do a namaskaram to the parents and get their blessings, and finally, appaadaa, they leave!

KAB (karpukkarasi banshee!) sitting in her house with three chains around her neck, two or three rings on her fingers, multiple bangles (didn't have time to count!) and multiple earrings, tapping on the arm of her chair, calls Sara, the idiot as usual answers the phone, she wants to know what color sari she should wear, says the tickets for Tirupati have arrived, wants to know if she should wear lots of jewelry or minimal, tells him that he need not bring any jewels or cash, finally asks him where he is, and he says he is in the mandapam. KAB is exhaling fire through her nostrils ...

Thodarum ...

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I must be a masochist, otherwise why would I do this to myself, volunteering to do eclat's share of updating as well as Laksh's share for these lousy serials? Will I never get any sense into my head?

Update for Wednesday, Oct 20, 2010:

KAB continues to pour fire at the phone. She tells Sara to leave the mandapam immediately and go to her house. He pleads with her, saying that his mother cannot stand the shock and she will die, so KAB says that if he does not go to her house, she will go to the mandapam and disgrace him in front of his own family and then not only will his mother die of the shock, his father may also get a heart attack and die, and his whole family will hate him. She gives him an hour's time to go to her house in Valasarawakkam. How does she think that she will have a happy married life when he is being forced to marry her?

Janaki and Prema - Prema updates her mother on the new plan, and tells her that she is going to take revenge on the KS family for the deaths of her father and athai. She orders her mother to put turmeric on the new sari, which is a flame colored sari (what kind of a daughter orders her mother around like this? only a villi daughter in a Tamil serial!).

KAB is sitting and waiting . Her friend says she doesn't think Sara will come, and KAB is angry, says she doesn't want to hear Sara being spoken about in the singular, says she is confident he will come, and sure enough, the bell rings, and it is Sara. KAB is all smiles, says she knew he would come, picks up the bag, but he says he wants to talk. He tells her again that his parents cannot handle the shock, she says that they will forget his absence in the midst of getting the other two brothers married (you mean, if there are three children, the parents will not miss one child? Wrong, lady, wrong! My grandmother had eleven children, and till the very end, she remembered each child's birthday, and would make a payasam for them on their birthdays. Obviously, you know nothing about closely knit families!). Finally, after much hemming and hawing, Sara comes out with it - I cannot marry you!

KAB is shocked, but Sara explains that he has done drogam to the parents who believed in him and to the kaadhali who believed in him, he is not able to sleep at night, not able to eat properly because of his guilty feelings, so he has decided to commit suicide in her house. She is sarcastic, applauds his latest attempt to get out of marrying her, even though her friend tells her to stop him. She says he is a coward who couldn't tell his parents the truth, how would he have the guts to commit suicide? He opens the bottle and swallows the contents.

Thodarum ....

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Thursday- no RKO from Meena on dangerous wedding crashers lurking around...

Tuesday - my turn😭

Rojaaaa, how could you do this to me? RKO in full force - will do update after watching all of it😭

Update for Tuesday, Oct 26, 2010:

Nadaswaram in full force - everybody is dressed to the hilt in grand sarees - flowers, jewelry, all decked up, Kavitha comes and sits beside MK. They steal glances at each other, more nadaswaram, Kavitha says she is wearing a covering gold chain in case his brothers ask about the chain he supposedly gave her, he praises her thoughtfulness, she wants to know if they sell ice as well as rice and paruppu, he tells her he will be even more playful after marriage, smiles exchanged (all this is too good to last!). And I sat and wondered why Mr. el didn't do any playful talk while we were getting married - unfortunately, that was too many years back!

Next couple come down - Sara breathing a sigh of relief, looking remarkably healthy for a guy who had his stomach pumped out last night after taking poison, carrying a bouquet in his hand (I thought the bouquet was only for the reception! why are they carrying it in for the muhurtham?) Vasanthi follows, also carrying a bouquet - eljay, you don't know how they do it these days, so just shut up!

Priest asks for third couple - Karthik comes in, sits down, then Meena asks Tamil to go and get Swathi. Tamil walks down the aisle, all the way to the end, then turns left, then goes to the room where Swathi was dressing, opens the door, calls to her - no reply! Where are her friends? Now they also come in, everyone looks at the empty room, Tamil keeps calling her name in the empty room, then sees the letter on the table, reads it - Swathi has written it (did they show this yesterday>? If she was forced to write it, why didn't she write it in a way that would be different from her usual style, so that they would know something was up?)

Tamil takes the letter, goes back to the hall, walks down the center aisle (did she have to do this big drama? couldn't she have gone from the side and done this discreetly?), then calls her amma, who comes, reads the letter, and stands there frozen. Janaki is watching all this, comes up and asks them what has happened, and Meena gives her the letter. Janaki reads it, and bursts out with a loud Aiyayo! She goes wailing up to the stage, My kudumba maanam mariyathai ellam poche, en annan veetu kalyanam ippadi aache, and so on. KS asks what happened, AM shows him the letter, Janaki does more wailing, goes to Karthi, says Aiyo, enga veetu maapillaikku ippadi avamaanam (folks, these may or may not be the actual words, but I have no intention of watching it again, this was the general meaning!), unnai ippadi vittutu andha odukaali poittaale, and so on. Then she says that don't worry, your marriage can still take place, you can marry my daughter Prema, goes up to her daughter and says Prema dear, I said this without consulting you, but please do this for my annan's veetu mariyadhai's sake, etc. Paati steps in and tells her to stop, says that the three sons must get brides from the same family, there is still one more daughter. Prakash's mother steps in, says that Tamil is already engaged to Prakash, they cannot do this, and at this point, KS's niece steps in and says that they are the boy's family, they can do what they want (enna, boy's familyna enna vennaalum pannalaama?) Some big guy says that it is his sister's daughter, the marriage will have to stop, KS asks them to be calm, and wants to talk to AM, some guest steps in and asks the rest of the people to stop interfering and let the principal parties discuss this and AM and KS step aside to discuss this, along with Meena. KK takes Tamil's hand and asks her to come along, Prakash's mom tries to stop her, saying that they have already started distributing the invitation cards, but KK ignores her and proceeds to take Tamil with her.

Thodarum ...

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Update for Wednesday, Oct 26, 2010:

KK takes Tamil with her ignoring Prakash's mom, who reminds Tamil that Prakash always defended her and stood up for her, even against his own family.

KS tells AM that they consider his father their God and they cannot go against his wishes, they know Tamil's wedding is fixed, so the only solution is to stop all three weddings. Meena and AM protest, saying that if they take their daughters back from the mandapam, how can they get married again? Your sons will get married, but our daughters? (I don't know where this idea took hold that if a girl's wedding gets stopped, she will not get married again, but if it happens to a boy, there will be no problems for him. Aren't the same rules applicable to both?)

Now KK takes up the emotional blackmail, saying that Meena calls KS her brother and KK her aNNi, she couldn't have asked for a better naathanaar, she loves their family and she would rreally like to see her three sons married when she dies. She talks of her two heart attacks, says she may not live long. Meena says the other family is equally close to them and have been very good to them, how can she poke out one eye to please the other eye?

Tamil speaks up and talks of how Prakash has been so loving to her and shown her so much paasam. Finally AM comes and speaks to Tamil, tells her to make a decision, but says she should think of her sisters, and goes out., followed by Meena. KK and KS also leave.

Now it is MK's turn to apply emotional pressure. He tells Tamil about his mother's heart condition, is about to fall at her feet, Tamil stops him, he says he is begging for his mother's life, and leaves. Tamil is under pressure and thinking.

Thodarum ...

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