The 15th

Just a note to say that I found the episode on the 15th probably one of the best on PR so far, definitely way more watchable than the grand reunion on the 12th. The CVs hit the right note - at last and however briefly! - with the complete confusion in both houses; this is indeed how a lot of Indian families react in a crisis. 😆 Pooja Pihal, at her prettiest too, had some fairly strong lines about her secondary role in the Deshmukh household - der aaye durust aye, ameen to that - and she delivered them well. And Usha Nadkarni showed us her experience and talent; her range across both comedy and tragedy is quite commendable. Some respite for Archana and Manav by the lakeside, but of course we all know they're sitting in the calm eye of the storm to come. I found their scenes more "normal" than usual as well, possibly because they were speaking in even tones, and Ankita - for once - wasn't awash with tears. A half-way decent episode is a rarity; we'll be flung our regular slop of balderdash soon enough though, I expect. 😔

C

Thank God Shravani saw through Savita ..

She can do so much better in her life without savita influencing her the way she does ..

Archu looked too much in love to think about the storm that is heading her way ...

I really like satish for whisking her out of that wedding mandap and giving her confidence to go after what she wants ...

But then, the 16th.......!

The Sulochana-Savita fight was still convincing, and Prabha acted decently, all things considered - one more hysterical mother we DON'T need - but will someone tell the CVs that it is NOT usual for people who elope to return to either of their homes on the VERY SAME day??? That numbnuts mechanic needs to get off his coconut-water sipping a_ _ , buy a charger and/or go to a payphone and call people on his side to inform the par-nts they're safe, check into a hotel or go quietly to Tarun's place or something for the night, bed his woman good and proper, and marry her legally rather than in some unwitnessed lakeside moment, however meaningful, romantic, etc., before they return to face the angry mob. M knows J has criminal ways and G-ji has contacts in high places, and both have "legitimate" grievances; why take chances? Except, of course, to help the serial along: it's Catch 22, folks, if we want to keep watching A and M they have to stay in trouble; a happily united couple doth not a serial make. At least, not this one.

C