For most of today's episode, which I had to force myself to sit thru, Savita was raving and ranting, and Archana was cringing and crying, It was all very depressing and totally meaningless. I think Manav deserves this harpy of a mother, and it would be best if the pair went back to Canada pronto and left us in peace.
Archana too deserves nothing better. She goes out of her way to dispel any doubts about her being yet another spineless fool (the prize in this category of course goes to the faltu lover), and such people all end up the same way. She carefully refrains from checkmating Savita's rant by mentioning the divorce papers that Savita had brought her 18 years ago, and instead allows herself to be driven out of the house and the chawl. I found myself actually wishing that it had been Manjusha in Archana's place, to give some fight to the harridan Savita. And yes, at the airport, she tells Manav she wants of buy Savita a 9 yards sari as a birthday gift that she asks Manav to send over to Canada, and this out of her own money! What can one say after that!!
Then there was Purvi hovering in the background while Archana was crying enough to flood the chawl and Sulochana was having a perfectly timed asthma attack. All this put paid to Purvi's tenacious day dreaming about her aai and baba being reunited after 3 months. I do not know what lesson she is supposed to have drawn from today's blow up, except perhaps that the grand ArMan reunion is not going to be a cakewalk.
Janhvi's faltu lover aka slowpoke almost upset Punni's apple cart by ringing her up on the private number she was using to call Ovi. She of course does not take the call, and gets so scared that she removes the SIM card from the mobile. Then, to make matters worse for her, he calls her in and actually asks her to find out all the details about her own private number and then report to him! The result of all this will be that she will not dare to call Ovi again from any mobile. That leaves only a public landline, and that is always a dicey proposition.
So maybe Punni will lie low for a while and plot new schemes to detach Arjun from Ovi. What she does not know is that Ovi will NOT let go of Arjun even if she were to discover that he had a whole harem in keeping. She would stick to her 'baby' as usual, and reserve her anger for the harem!
Well, here is wishing that we all survive the attack of Savitayngitis in reasonably good shape till the limpet gets back from Goa or the slowpoke from South Africa, or both.
Meanwhile, Purvi is busy repeating the outfit in which they show her in the opening frame of PR, and Ovi seems to be in another black dress, after having repeated the other black one with a halter neck at least 4 times beginning with the restaurant lunch. Arjun seems to wear the mauve shirt every other day. So, one presumes that there is a resource crunch at PR, and they are crimping on the wardrobes. Savita is of course the exception; she never seems to repeat her gaudy saris; the one she wears on the flight had 6"of zari in the border!
Shyamala B.Cowsik