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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 13 years ago

#21

Laurie,

Glad to see that I was able to pep you up a little bit. Now why did I not think of 'toady'? Perfect fit, Laurie!

And no, what you wrote yesterday was NOT a faux pas. It was an unusually beautiful and hopeful analysis, the only problem being that you were too optimistic about the capabilities of the CVs.

They are not Herman Hesse, after all, and they prefer time-tested solutions, in this case the garage and the mechanic's job. As I noted elsewhere, it is like hitching a Derby winner to a coal cart, but hey, if they decide to do that, who is to stop them?

@red. If you say so, I will believe it, but only very reluctantly. It seems far too pat; if it was so easy, surely one of the others could have done it as well, not to speak of the garage owner? Oh no, I now realise that it was a leg pull, you wretched girl! Well, you did not con me this time!!

Lastly, please do not get conned into watching the London-based serial that lies ahead. It sounds suspiciously like a rip off of Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam, and the heroine is far less pretty and far more irritating than Aishwarya Rai, while the hero is no Ajay Devgan.

Instead, I would strongly recemmend Dance India Dance Little Masters on the weekends, with multiple repeats all thru the week. It is well advanced already, but the episodes are self-contained, and you can see back one during the week. The kids are fabulous, especially 6 year old Jeet Das from Kolkata and 8 year old Om Chetry from Assam. Do watch it; it will make you forget all the exasperation with PR!

Shyamala

Originally posted by: Axiom
My Dear Shyamala,

Loved your post today! It had me in stitches! The towel 😆

His place was miraculously clean too when he woke up from sleep the other day - invisible house elves? 🤣

I could not stop laughing either after I got over my initial faux pas with yesterday's post. Boy, what a whammy for me! Needless to say, I well seasoned up my words and made a quick meal of them this morning! 🤣

Granted, that I am still very much in favor of Arjun stepping up the crease and performing like Sachin Tendulkar but as a mechanic? Well Rithvik has to dig deep for that one to be convincing to me. If he can pull this off then hats off to him. Although, I must agree with Asha - I'll take one John Abraham to go please 🤣

I, by no means, speak 'automobile' but in order to get the car running today - he checked the oil (the wire he pulled out and wiped was the oil gage), checked a 'fuse?' (guys can help with this one if you know) and screwed on the cap to the radiator? 🤣 Yes, that will get a 6 cylinder car running in no time. 🤣

I like him humble and seeking the respect of his elders - especially the one who will become his mother in law but I agree with the delivery. Humble, yes - Toady, no way! 😕

I was attracted to the show because of the fire that I saw in him from the beginning - a strong, confident man with a truck load of arrogance (that might be a personal liking 😉). Oh well, c'est la vie.

P.S. I saw an upcoming show on Zee that is being filmed in London 😉 and it looks somewhat interesting (am I a trendsetter or what? 🤣). I may switch to that instead. Atleast I will have no expectations going in so even if it doesn't meet my liking I would have lost nothing. 😆

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AnjanaYYZ

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Posted: 13 years ago

#22

Extremely well-written post. Agree with every point... Arjun the mechanic after his impatience with his own driver when his car breakdown was totally ridiculous... I think Ekta's CVs reboot their brains periodically and/or don't have recall function!

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@FireLordPhoenix

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Posted: 13 years ago

#23

@ bee - So you also guessed that Arjun would be a mechanic? I remember in one of Shyamala's other posts I wrote the very same though as a joke. I can't believe what the CVs have done.

I will not speak on the entire episode since I didn't like it, but my favorite was Purvi and Arjun's conversation. No romance, just a simple conversation where Purvi comforts Arjun and tells him that he's not worthless. I really hope the day is near when Purvi can fight against her Aai.

Arjun's character has been butchered for quite some time. I really miss the old AK. That ashirwaad scene did not fly with me. But if you guys have watched PR from the beginning, or any Ekta show for that matter, the men are always at the mercy of the heroines in the show. The male leads usually start out like Arjun Kirloskar, but by serial's end they are the equivalent of the seedhi saadhi sanskaari bahu. I just hope the CVs read the forum and take some of the intelligent suggestions for their tracks.

And as for Soham, I'm starting to believe he was just a rumour generated by Balaji itself to get viewers to keep watching PR since most people seem to be interested in Soham-Varsha track than anything that has to do with ARVI.

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 13 years ago

#24

Ashu, it was not an Indian car; there are, as far as I know, no Indian-made 6 cylinder cars.

The point is HOW did he know how to fix any car at all? He never showed any mechanical inclinations thus far; a man who is so inclined will NEVER pass up an opportunity to get under the hood in the event of any problem. Manav tries to do that once though the driver does not let him; but Arjun only parades up and down, irritation writ large on his face. Now he has suddenly become a genius at auto repair?

Shyamala

Originally posted by: samarp2
Laurie...
i too was seeing the promo of that show just now...
new zee show which first initial parts r in London..

i was surprised seeing Arjun fixing the car in 5 mins...when once his own car broke down, he needed a mechnaic..
& how can in this world, who studied in foreign can repair Indian car that fast?❓

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sashashyam

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Posted: 13 years ago

#25

Dear Anjana,

Thanks a lot. Since you have a low threshold for stupidity (aha, I remember that, you see!) you would have been both exasperated on the one hand and in stitches on the other. Like me, in fact, except that with me, the first was overwhelming, whence this post.

Not that any of this self-satisfaction is of any real help. One is somehow chained to this wretched serial like the shorn Samson to his treadmill. I live in the (probably vain) hope that it will all end by December, and we shall all be released from this malefic spell.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: AnjanaYYZ
Extremely well-written post. Agree with every point... Arjun the mechanic after his impatience with his own driver when his car breakdown was totally ridiculous... I think Ekta's CVs reboot their brains periodically and/or don't have recall function!

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samarp2

@samarp2

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Posted: 13 years ago

#26

Hi Shyamala😳

yaa, that only😆, today he became genius in car repairing..when his own car broke down., he didnt even bother to c whats wrong..& now he's become mechanic

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 13 years ago

#27

Dear Ashu,

Far be it from the CVs to bother about such tiresome detailsl! They know that the bulk of their audience (not us, of course!) will swallow anything so long as they can copy yet another of Archana's backless blouses.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: samarp2
Hi Shyamala😳

yaa, that only😆, today he became genius in car repairing..when his own car broke down., he didnt even bother to c whats wrong..& now he's become mechanic

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ptamom

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Posted: 13 years ago

#28

Shyamal as always many thanks for the anaysis. Well all thanks for the laughs. I haven't seen the episode and can't really comment. However, from the written update it makes me LOL. Really Arjun did not even asked for his fathers blessing when he left the house. That was a scene I was expecting him to ask for DK's blessing but he just took his bag and walked out. So the scene with Archana's is too funny and saccharine for my taste.
Also the mechanic bit...really have to agree with everyone else. There were were several times his car broke down.
Any scene that shows a sensible decision with Arjun and Purvi I welcome. Really good to speak like real people than keep secrets and create unnecessary misunderstandings.

Also CV's if you at reading, take notes we all love Khadoos men with a heart. No doormats please!

@Archana loved your story suggestions. I do hope the CV's are taking notes.
@Laurie thanks for the laughs and don't doubt yourself- good post yesterday. Still be optimistic...tHe CV's can still redeem themselves. Remember Dallas they shot JR Ewing and made the whole season a dream when the audience was disappointed. You never know???

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 13 years ago

#29

Dear Janhvi,

Yes, I remember that post very well, you had written it after the engagement fiasco, if I am not mistaken. I felt then that it was unusually sensitive and perceptive, and I think I told you so.

Archana sees Purvi as her own creation, a successful project the credit for which is hers alone, a child of her heart whom she does not have to share with anyone else.

We mothers all have that vanity, some more and some less, to be and to remain the centre, the fulcrum, of our child's universe, and to share that sense of being indispensable to the child with NO ONE else. Normally there is a father to claim a share of the child, but with Purvi, there is no one.

So, what you felt then was absolutely correct, she should have been dearer to Archana than her own daughters, and this also because, unlike them,she has no one else to fall back upon.

I do not quite accept the Kunti parallel. The welling up of maternal love that Kunti feels on seeing this splendid eldest son of hers is a fact, just like Draupadi's feeling of regret that if this had been known earlier, Karna too might have been her husband. (It is because of this moral 'slippage' of hers that Draupadi was downgraded among the Panchakanya - Sita, Ahalya, Tara, Draupadi and Mandodari - Panchakanya smare nityam, sarva papa vinashakam -if you meditate on the panchakanyas, you will be free of all your sins).

To revert, Kunti is above all keen to ensure that Karna does not kill any of her other sons. She does not love Karna more than the others, and never more than Arjuna.

With Archana, it seems to me that her love for Purvi has been dimmed ever since she found out about her and Arjun.
It is now Ovi who is the centre of all her preoccupations, plus the suffering Manav goes thru because of, as she says, Arjun (and the ever present undertext, Purvi).

If she could make Ovi happy by jettisoning Purvi, I have an uneasy suspicion that she would do it, and there would be none of the terrible anguish of a Sophie's Choice either. Whence the savagery of her initial attack against Purvi, and her virulent hostility against Arjun, not so much for the stated reason that he is untrustworthy, but really because he has abandoned the apple of Archana's eye.

No, this is not natural, Janhvi. A mother should be rent in half by the need to make such a choice, as Sophie was, but for Archana, there is no such anguish, no compassion for Purvi, no empathetic suffering. She looks at the shrinking girl with open hostility when she asks Kahaan gayee thi? , and her eyes are as hard as agates.

Well, enough of Archana. I see that you liked the Arjun-Purvi conversation as much as I did; you would have seen my detailed comments on it. Apart from those, I love the way in which Purvi says "Arju..un", stretching out the syllables in a soft, pleading whisper. It was there also when she drags him out of the water queue that morning. It is enormously endearing, but it is not the way a girl pleads with her lover. There is a strong maternal note to it; it is the way in which one coaxes and tries to persuade a recalcitrant but beloved child. It is obviously Asha's own contribution to Purvi's persona, and it is a very sweet one.

Finally, I can never understand why you folks keep calling Ovi 'lovely'. With that practically non-existent nose and the over luscious pout? Purvi is no real beauty, but she is ten times better looking than Ovi any day, even with that tiresome and unbecoming bump atop her head.Did you notice that when she had that grand scene with Sulochana, the bump was not there and she looked far better and younger. But when she gets to the park to meet Arjun, it is back!

Shyamala

Originally posted by: soapwatcher1
Shyamala, I second everything you've said, not contrary at all. You have voiced what many of us who watched today's episode felt. I will refrain from saying anything further except that I loved Purvi reasoning with Arjun that he is not a nobody like her mother has tried to establish but is a successful businessman in his own right. These are the beginnings of a backbone against her mother's nonsensical conditions to (dis)prove Arjun's worth.

I called Purvi Archana's soul child, the sinews of her heart, in one of my older posts, I am realizing I might have been mistaken. Even Kunti felt the pull of motherhood when she met Karna face to face, Archana is after all a mere mortal, full of foibles and churning emotions, it is but understandable for her to feel overwhelmed by the sight and presence of her lovely daughter, Ovi. She is still pre-occupied with her lost dream, a life with Manav and her daughters and so for her not to (unconsciously) want Ovi's ex to become Purvi's current is natural.

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 13 years ago

#30

Dear aviaanya,

Thanks. It is always reassuring to find that others are of the same mind as I, though I have never bothered about being in a minority of one!

Your comment about his not seeking DK's blessings is spot on. He does not even think of hugging him till DK opens his arms. His lines with Archana yesterday must have made poor Rithwik cringe.

You might have watched the episode by now, and I am sure you loved the Arjun-Purvi conversation. I commented on it in such detail because it was so sensible, and such a refreshing departure from the norm of lies, lies and more lies, every one of them spoken with the best of intentions, but nonetheless surely paving the way for the tale to become an even worse hell than it already is. I often wonder what would happen if Raja Harishchandra auditioned for one of our TV serials. He would not last a day!

Shyamala

Originally posted by: aviaanya
Shyamal as always many thanks for the anaysis. Well all thanks for the laughs. I haven't seen the episode and can't really comment. However, from the written update it makes me LOL. Really Arjun did not even asked for his fathers blessing when he left the house. That was a scene I was expecting him to ask for DK's blessing but he just took his bag and walked out. So the scene with Archana's is too funny and saccharine for my taste.
Also the mechanic bit...really have to agree with everyone else. There were were several times his car broke down.
Any scene that shows a sensible decision with Arjun and Purvi I welcome. Really good to speak like real people than keep secrets and create unnecessary misunderstandings.

Also CV's if you at reading, take notes we all love Khadoos men with a heart. No doormats please!

@Archana loved your story suggestions. I do hope the CV's are taking notes.
@Laurie thanks for the laughs and don't doubt yourself- good post yesterday. Still be optimistic...tHe CV's can still redeem themselves. Remember Dallas they shot JR Ewing and made the whole season a dream when the audience was disappointed. You never know???

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