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I was in two minds about writing anything about today's episode, but in the end I am posting this, if only as advance intimation to those 10 hours behind Indian Standard Time.
1) Everything except the little segment between Arjun and Ovi could have been predicted in advance by any of us, given Archana's determined masochism. She not only returns to the Deshmukh chawl with Manav, disregarding her mother's vociferous opposition, but declares, with a face like an early Christian martyr, that she would put up with all of Savita's insults, as 3 months would soon pass.
Worse is to come. When Manav, in the car driving to the Deshmukh chawl, assures Archana that he would make sure his mother behaved properly with her as long as she lived with them ( a statement that boggles the imagination,but let that pass; after all, it is the thought that counts!), she actually tells him not to interfere between her and his mother, as abusing her (Archana) helps Savita let off steam and thus feel better. Enough said, don't you agree !.
2) Purvi is just as irritating in a different way. She stares gooey-eyed at her baba and clings to his arm like a teenager till she is sharply called to order by Sulochana. Later, she is unfazed, and insists that whatever Manav might have failed to do for Archana 18 years ago, now he was standing up for her and he had come to fetch her as she (Purvi) had known he would. The rest of her effusions can be predicted easily: in 3 months, her aai and baba would be together with their whole family; her faith that Bappa wpuld reward Archana's goodness (after having forgotten all about her for 18+ years!) would prevail against her aaji's pessimism. One feels like clouting her with the nearest blunt instrument.
The curious thing in all this is that Purvi hardly seems to be mourning the loss of her relationship with Arjun any more. She seemed quite at ease and not particularly hassled in the office yesterday, and today she seems genuinely cheerful, planning a movie session with her aai and aaji. It does not look like a pretence; she used to look so woebegone in the days after the Arjun-Ovi engagement.There is none of that visible sadness now; quite the opposite, she seems normal.
3) We need not waste any time on Sachin and Vandana and Savita. Coming to Arjun, what he says - when Ovi bemoans is absence, saying that it would have been very nice if he had also come to Goa - goes as follows, as near verbatim as I can remember it "Mera kaam kuch aisa hai ki main chah kar bhi aa nahin saka.. Unfortunately!' and here he laughs briefly.
It is exactly like what he said in the car episode (when Ovi wanted him to spend much more time with her once Purvi took care of all the work),. "Ya.. of course!"
This time too, he should have kept quiet, or at the most said that he had a lot of work. What he actually says makes no sense at all if he is going to break up with Ovi soon, for it sounds as if he is quite comfortable with her and their engagement. Of course when she babbles on about their honeymoon, he says nothing at all, but that does not retrieve the lost ground, does it?
This is NOT to say that he would have gone to Goa if he could. He would never have done any such thing. That is NOT the point.
The point is that he should not utter these meaningless pleasantries as if God was in her Heaven and all was right with the world. There is none of the aloofness and distant behaviour that one would expect of him in the present circumstances. How does what he said today jell with his begging Purvi yesterday "Don't do this to me!"? It doesn't.
As I told Trish after the car episode, it is very bad scripting and very bad character development. I do not know WHAT to make of Arjun Kirloskar these days, and I am not surprised that poor Rithwik has availed of the first opportunity to run away from this mess, even if only for a few days!
Folks, PR is now literally in the doldrums. As you would all know, the origin of that expression was linked to those parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans where sailing ships used to be becalmed for weeks on end in the old days, unable to move in any direction because the winds cancelled each other out and there was no propelling force at all.
The parallel with PR is exact. Even if 4 more weeks were to pass, nothing would have changed. Manav would still be staring helplessly as Savita rants at Archana. Archana would continue to look a crucified early Christian saint, shedding photogenic tears (luckily for her, she, unlike Purvi, can manage to look very pretty even when she weeps buckets of tears). Purvi would still be dreaming of her aai and baba getting together. Ovi's case would still be in a limbo, and Arjun would still be dithering in the most inane and exasperating manner with both Ovi and Purvi. I do not know where DK, who seems to have dropped off the radar, would be or what he would be up to.
One possible dramatic development: Sulochana is planning to tell Teju and Ovi that Archana is their mother, largely to beat Savita to it. Expect fireworks all the way from Goa, if she chooses to do this over the phone. Now that would be something to beat the doldrums!
Shyamala
1) Everything except the little segment between Arjun and Ovi could have been predicted in advance by any of us, given Archana's determined masochism. She not only returns to the Deshmukh chawl with Manav, disregarding her mother's vociferous opposition, but declares, with a face like an early Christian martyr, that she would put up with all of Savita's insults, as 3 months would soon pass.
Worse is to come. When Manav, in the car driving to the Deshmukh chawl, assures Archana that he would make sure his mother behaved properly with her as long as she lived with them ( a statement that boggles the imagination,but let that pass; after all, it is the thought that counts!), she actually tells him not to interfere between her and his mother, as abusing her (Archana) helps Savita let off steam and thus feel better. Enough said, don't you agree !.
2) Purvi is just as irritating in a different way. She stares gooey-eyed at her baba and clings to his arm like a teenager till she is sharply called to order by Sulochana. Later, she is unfazed, and insists that whatever Manav might have failed to do for Archana 18 years ago, now he was standing up for her and he had come to fetch her as she (Purvi) had known he would. The rest of her effusions can be predicted easily: in 3 months, her aai and baba would be together with their whole family; her faith that Bappa wpuld reward Archana's goodness (after having forgotten all about her for 18+ years!) would prevail against her aaji's pessimism. One feels like clouting her with the nearest blunt instrument.
The curious thing in all this is that Purvi hardly seems to be mourning the loss of her relationship with Arjun any more. She seemed quite at ease and not particularly hassled in the office yesterday, and today she seems genuinely cheerful, planning a movie session with her aai and aaji. It does not look like a pretence; she used to look so woebegone in the days after the Arjun-Ovi engagement.There is none of that visible sadness now; quite the opposite, she seems normal.
3) We need not waste any time on Sachin and Vandana and Savita. Coming to Arjun, what he says - when Ovi bemoans is absence, saying that it would have been very nice if he had also come to Goa - goes as follows, as near verbatim as I can remember it "Mera kaam kuch aisa hai ki main chah kar bhi aa nahin saka.. Unfortunately!' and here he laughs briefly.
It is exactly like what he said in the car episode (when Ovi wanted him to spend much more time with her once Purvi took care of all the work),. "Ya.. of course!"
This time too, he should have kept quiet, or at the most said that he had a lot of work. What he actually says makes no sense at all if he is going to break up with Ovi soon, for it sounds as if he is quite comfortable with her and their engagement. Of course when she babbles on about their honeymoon, he says nothing at all, but that does not retrieve the lost ground, does it?
This is NOT to say that he would have gone to Goa if he could. He would never have done any such thing. That is NOT the point.
The point is that he should not utter these meaningless pleasantries as if God was in her Heaven and all was right with the world. There is none of the aloofness and distant behaviour that one would expect of him in the present circumstances. How does what he said today jell with his begging Purvi yesterday "Don't do this to me!"? It doesn't.
As I told Trish after the car episode, it is very bad scripting and very bad character development. I do not know WHAT to make of Arjun Kirloskar these days, and I am not surprised that poor Rithwik has availed of the first opportunity to run away from this mess, even if only for a few days!
Folks, PR is now literally in the doldrums. As you would all know, the origin of that expression was linked to those parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans where sailing ships used to be becalmed for weeks on end in the old days, unable to move in any direction because the winds cancelled each other out and there was no propelling force at all.
The parallel with PR is exact. Even if 4 more weeks were to pass, nothing would have changed. Manav would still be staring helplessly as Savita rants at Archana. Archana would continue to look a crucified early Christian saint, shedding photogenic tears (luckily for her, she, unlike Purvi, can manage to look very pretty even when she weeps buckets of tears). Purvi would still be dreaming of her aai and baba getting together. Ovi's case would still be in a limbo, and Arjun would still be dithering in the most inane and exasperating manner with both Ovi and Purvi. I do not know where DK, who seems to have dropped off the radar, would be or what he would be up to.
One possible dramatic development: Sulochana is planning to tell Teju and Ovi that Archana is their mother, largely to beat Savita to it. Expect fireworks all the way from Goa, if she chooses to do this over the phone. Now that would be something to beat the doldrums!
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