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Janhvi,
Of course your heart is dancing, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly would be nothing to you in high fettle!
What broke (well, at least bruised) my heart😭 is your saying that you loved my latest infliction on the long-suffering forumites (is there such a word? ) only because you totally agreed with (almost) every word in it. Janhvi, how could you? And here I was thinking that you would be taken up with the quaint conceit of the triptych, which I think came off quite well, if I say so myself😉. You deserve that I should have gone in for the raagamaalika instead, and made you sit through three different nishi ragas (it would have to be night ragas, after all)!
As for Purvi's reasons for denying their love, I fully understand and empathise with her fears that she will lose the vishwaas of her parents. It is the nonsense about Teju, and much more so that about Ovi that I object to, and this strenuously. It is ridiculous, and makes Purvi look as if she had been dropped on the head as a baby.
What I loved was her saying is a small voice "I don't love you", like a little girl trying to get out of a sticky situation, and looking up at him timidly, convinced that this will not wash. Also Arjun's barely controlled exasperation as he asks "Aur kuch baaki hai?"
And what exasperated me in him was his casual dismissal of the party disaster as something that was wrong, but worked out for the best in the end. It is obvious that Arjun Kirloskar has no idea what it is like to be slapped and humiliated in public, and subjected to the basest accusations. It is not to be expected that he would be able to feel it under his skin, but he should have at least tried to grasp the enormity of it for Purvi.
As for your apologia, and that of many others, for Archana's behaviour yesterday, I am sorry but I do not buy it. Love and faith have any meaning only if they are strong and enduring even in highly adverse circumstances. If Archana's faith in Purvi is so weak that she acts as judge, jury and executioner rolled int one, and that without giving the girl even the right of reply, this is not love.
Nor do I admire this kind of high decibel ranting that passes for acting in most of our serials, and which most of the TV actresses could probably do in their sleep. I am dismayed by the readiness of so many to admire it. Then why complain about rona dhona? When it seems to be what the audience likes? No wonder Ekta and her team dish it out in plenty.
I prefer low key and dignified reactions, even in a crisis, and DK would the classic example of this. That also calls for much more than lung power and the ability to scream at the others non- stop, it calls for subtle body language and controlled facial expressions. It is of course far easier to just let yourself go and behave like something out of an Italian opera, but I for one cannot stand it.
Well, if Archana cops it in the Deshmukh household over the next week or so, and you hear the sound of clapping, that will be me. She deserves all that she will be getting.
Come to think of it, she has always been like this is a crunch situation, letting down her nearest and dearest with a thud. She did it twice to Manav, first very early into their marriage when she is shown photos of him in a bordello, and again much later at the time of the chawl demolition crisis. She had of course completely forgotten the time when she landed up in a bordello, and ended up with Rs. 20,000/- in her purse, accused by a dalal of being a call girl.
Now she has done it to Purvi. So what is the big deal - she is like that only. In fact I feel that when she defends Purvi stoutly earlier, it is not because she is standing by a beloved child, but because she cannot admit that her sanskaars and her parvarish could have failed.
Oh dear, I seem to have caught some of the archananygitis virus, and have started ranting myself. I shall immediately desist and take myself off. Bye for now.
Shyamala
Of course your heart is dancing, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly would be nothing to you in high fettle!
What broke (well, at least bruised) my heart😭 is your saying that you loved my latest infliction on the long-suffering forumites (is there such a word? ) only because you totally agreed with (almost) every word in it. Janhvi, how could you? And here I was thinking that you would be taken up with the quaint conceit of the triptych, which I think came off quite well, if I say so myself😉. You deserve that I should have gone in for the raagamaalika instead, and made you sit through three different nishi ragas (it would have to be night ragas, after all)!
As for Purvi's reasons for denying their love, I fully understand and empathise with her fears that she will lose the vishwaas of her parents. It is the nonsense about Teju, and much more so that about Ovi that I object to, and this strenuously. It is ridiculous, and makes Purvi look as if she had been dropped on the head as a baby.
What I loved was her saying is a small voice "I don't love you", like a little girl trying to get out of a sticky situation, and looking up at him timidly, convinced that this will not wash. Also Arjun's barely controlled exasperation as he asks "Aur kuch baaki hai?"
And what exasperated me in him was his casual dismissal of the party disaster as something that was wrong, but worked out for the best in the end. It is obvious that Arjun Kirloskar has no idea what it is like to be slapped and humiliated in public, and subjected to the basest accusations. It is not to be expected that he would be able to feel it under his skin, but he should have at least tried to grasp the enormity of it for Purvi.
As for your apologia, and that of many others, for Archana's behaviour yesterday, I am sorry but I do not buy it. Love and faith have any meaning only if they are strong and enduring even in highly adverse circumstances. If Archana's faith in Purvi is so weak that she acts as judge, jury and executioner rolled int one, and that without giving the girl even the right of reply, this is not love.
Nor do I admire this kind of high decibel ranting that passes for acting in most of our serials, and which most of the TV actresses could probably do in their sleep. I am dismayed by the readiness of so many to admire it. Then why complain about rona dhona? When it seems to be what the audience likes? No wonder Ekta and her team dish it out in plenty.
I prefer low key and dignified reactions, even in a crisis, and DK would the classic example of this. That also calls for much more than lung power and the ability to scream at the others non- stop, it calls for subtle body language and controlled facial expressions. It is of course far easier to just let yourself go and behave like something out of an Italian opera, but I for one cannot stand it.
Well, if Archana cops it in the Deshmukh household over the next week or so, and you hear the sound of clapping, that will be me. She deserves all that she will be getting.
Come to think of it, she has always been like this is a crunch situation, letting down her nearest and dearest with a thud. She did it twice to Manav, first very early into their marriage when she is shown photos of him in a bordello, and again much later at the time of the chawl demolition crisis. She had of course completely forgotten the time when she landed up in a bordello, and ended up with Rs. 20,000/- in her purse, accused by a dalal of being a call girl.
Now she has done it to Purvi. So what is the big deal - she is like that only. In fact I feel that when she defends Purvi stoutly earlier, it is not because she is standing by a beloved child, but because she cannot admit that her sanskaars and her parvarish could have failed.
Oh dear, I seem to have caught some of the archananygitis virus, and have started ranting myself. I shall immediately desist and take myself off. Bye for now.
Shyamala
Originally posted by: soapwatcher1
Shyamala. my heart's a dancing 🥳so I will not even make the pretense of taking umbrage that the only reason I don't support my damaad (that is an aboutface 😉if any from wimp to damaad - full circle🤣) is because I don't want to be a turncoat! Ha!😆
I loved your post more than any other you have written in the past as I totally agreed with every word you have said, well almost every word😃!I felt that Archana's undue emphasis on how Manav would feel and how she would face Ovi, without a solitary thought to the girl she had raised, was totally out of character (I am being kind here).Purvi had to say those things to Arjun about Tej and Ovi and her Aai Baba, she is conflicted, poor girl, and Arjun takes it in his stride,👏 does not believe her bak bak for an instant! Bodes well for their future relationship!.The dialogues were lifted straight out of the ARVI lioious posts here - Arjun is not going to brook her being a bhagwan and neither is he going to become one! Hurrah for common sense!! I would have liked him to have admitted his error in judgement at least in passing instead of being happy that things had come out this way (wimp! There, had to say it one more time in case I never get the chance to call him that and faltu ever again😆).Ovi was pitiful, stopping her dad from asking Arjun if he loved her, why would she not want to confirm that? She is pathetic in her clinginess.Archana looked gorgeous, loved her sari and her facial expressions were awesome (apart from the shrieking you mentioned) but I did not like her turning her daughter out into the night in the pouring rain. I liked Sulo's whole demeanor except for when Purvi walked out, I would have liked her to glance at least at the departing girl, a torn look, caught between her ever sobbing daughter and her grand daughter who was being thrown to the elements.Other than that, will not complain much, as Arjun was a rockstar😍 in finally admitting to Manav that he does not love Ovi.Poor Ovi, yes, and poor Archana with her eternal woes which will escalate due to this latest development. Savita will have a heyday berating Archana and her sanskars, Sachin will rub salt into Archana Aai's wounds, Tej will doubt her parvarish, and Ovi will hate her with a petulant passion!!As for Manav, he blows with the wind, hither and thither, with his mom's words and son's words so I will withhold judgement on the poor man though he did show signs of steel and paternal sternness when he asked Arjun that question in the precap.All in all a 👍🏼 episode! 👏
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