PR Today: Absurdities abounding - Page 4

Sorry,I slipped up in not thanking you for liking my post so much!

Shyamala B.Cowsik

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Because, my dear nimi, Vishnu is very good at his trade and knows what the traffic will bear, and moreover he wants to impress HIS baba and erase the shame of his failure in the Rahim Khan affair.

Shyamala B.Cowsik

My dear, I am truly and deeply honoured and overwhelmed! I had never in my wildest dreams thought that a fellow Plum-addict would actually compare my efforts to the writing of the Master!! A thousand thanks!!!

Shyamala B.Cowsik

Originally posted by: testing9

🤣 🤣 🤣 loved your post...really funny...your writing reminds me of the stories of jeeves and berty wooster..thank you for posting.

Dear Jam,

Thanks and thanks again. Of all sweet words of tongue and pen, the sweetest are "We will miss you"! (with deep apologies to the poet for so mangling his perfect lines!)

Shyamala

Originally posted by: jamkarajj

I don't normally read the written episode, I read your analysis. It's far better off than those. Looks like we have to wait quite a while until your back with your analysis. Anyway, enjoy whatever you'll be doing during these period!!!! We will miss you.

Cheers😊

Jam

My dear Nemesis (what an intriguing id!),

One aims to please, and it feels good when it comes off. You just made my day! I am sure we shall be back in touch by the last week of the next month. In the meantime, there are some older ones that I liked, if I say so myself, just as much as this one!😉 Thanks again.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: Nemesispower

Hi Shyamala,

am new to the forum & while browsing through it found your post. I don't follow the show but found your writing totally laugh inducing 😆 super writing i must say...very neat 👏 will come back to this forum just to read your posts 😉

Dear Nina,

Thanks a lot. I am glad you liked it.

Shyamala


Shyamalaji, another awesome post.

Why, Jyothi, does it not go to prove the old adage that one sees only what one wants to see?

Shyamala

Originally posted by: jdronamraju

Abhi,
I just read somewhere on the forum that he was gentle with her !!!!! What do we say to that??

Dear Vilasini,

Yes, the Kanjeevaram stat is real, for the authentic Kanjeevaram, not Dharmavaram or some other lighter variety. When I was undergoing my district training before taking up my first diplomatic assignment in Geneva, I did a brief stint in Kancheepuram to study cooperative societies, and I chose the weavers. A good middle level Kancheepuran weighs about 750 grams for a 6 yard saree, and the heavy ones could go up to a kilo. In Kancheepuram sarees, the zari is gold-coated silver, and for a heavy double bordered saree like the one shown, with bootees all over, it would be 12000/- minimum at the current prices of gold. Probably more, but then it literally lasts a lifetime.

How could Ovi help identify anyone? She dealt only with Vishnu, who already had gulaal all over his face, and she did her bit to thicken the coating. As they say, even his own mother could not have recognised him under all that colouring.

Yes, I was in an odd sort of mood last night, but not precisely humorous, I don't think. Exasperated would be more like it.But how does it matter what mood I was in, so long as the audience laughs?

Shyamala

Originally posted by: vgiri

Shyamala ji.. you are really in a humorous mood today.. 15 min straight I have been laughing...

moderate degree of the hardness needed for his new knight on a white horse role 🤣

I knew, without the shadow of a doubt, that he would be grounded. 👏

I have a feeling..Ovi is going to help..she has seen those guys right?

that is another unbreakable rule of romantic fiction 👏

Also a near backless blouse to match, into which the priest's wife could not, by any stretch of the imagination, have ever fitted (and the blouse had to hers, right?) 🤣🤣

so the "Renegade" is gone looking for his "Renaissance" 😭😭😭😭😭

btw.. is the Kancheevaram stat real? sry.. I am used to asking my daughter "Is it your stat or real one?"

Janhvi,

I thought you might like it, and then as an oversize cherry on my cake (though, truth to tell, I do not like cherries), testing9 paid me the HUGE compliment of comparing me to the immortal Pelham Grenville Wodehouse!! My cup truly runneth over!

I too agree that Vishnu is no Lothario, but I am also sure that if it all goes awry and he ends up with no money and a useless Purvi, who can identify him, on his hands, he will dispose of her pronto without batting an eyelid. I really like the way he looks at his target; his eyes are like those of a hawk, cold, merciless, and totally focussed. He would make, indeed makes a splendid villain. All that he cares about now is that he should redeem himself in the eyes of his baba, whence the hiking of the ransom amount by 100%.

Talking of babas and all this sanskaari falling at the feet of one's elders, it is a salutary thought that if Purvi had been a little less sanskaari, Vishnu would never have taken her to be Manav's daughter, and would have dumped her somewhere as an error to be rectified, still unconscious but free.

Secondly, something that occurred to me just now, and which should make all those who were so moved by his seeking Archana's blessings for his projected coup. Vishnu knows, well before he touches her feet, that she is his target Manav's wife. When he is dancing in the crowd, he sees the whole Deshmukh bunch turning up, with Manav in the centre and Archana clinging close to him on his right. He approaches her some time after that. Given this, what does one make of his gesture of seeking her blessings for his plan of kidnapping her husband? A piece of cruel mockery?

Then again, when he sees Purvi is the one who has been kidnapped by mistake, he immediately recognizes her, after just one cold, appraising gaze at her face (I admired that too, as a good display of acting skills and as sketching out Vishnu's character. Your reaction of revulsion was of course dictated by personal and not aesthetic concerns). When he recognizes her, he automatically also knows that he is going to bargain with Manav for the freedom/ life of the girl who is the daughter of the woman whose blessings he sought and obtained. This is just as revealing of what Vishnu is really like. Janhvi, unless they do a Valmiki with him very quickly, you are going to have a tough time defending him. He is too much of the genuine article for any whitewashing to work!

@red. No, it cannot be Manav, whatever he might have declared. It has to be Arjun, and not just because of the First Commandment that I had cited, but also because Archana needs to be very, very grateful now to Arjun, not to Manav. The latter will serve no purpose at all in terms of moving the story along. Ovi will issue an ultimatum – me or her !– and before Manav can open his mouth, DK would have jumped into the breach and taken over the task from him. I hope he remembers to grab Manav's phone before he sweeps off.

As for Ovi's immediate attempt to stop Manav from going off to save Purvi – well, she hates both Archana and Purvi with a passion, and given that, what else could be expected of her?

Lastly, I agree that while Manav is hugging Archana, Savita looks more resigned than furious, but if I remember it correctly, when he says that Purvi means as much to him as Teju and Ovi, her expression hardens, and no wonder. In any case, one can surely stretch a point for the splendid Three Witches simile!

As for Archana's dramatic scene, I am afraid that I am no admirer of this kind of standard issue stuff, which every actress in TV soaps has to do, some better, like Archana, some worse. It does not touch me at all. I prefer the more subtle kind of despair, like Purvi's growing desperation on the Janmashtami night at home, when Arjun fails to show up, and later in the corridor outside his kholi. But of course the Archana style rona dhona connects immediately with the audience, who have been fed so long on this kind of overwrought stuff that Purvi's more delicate emoting probably strikes them as cold and unemotional. To each his/her own!

Shyamala

soapwatcher1: Posted: 30 July 2012 at 4:08pm | IP Logged

Dear Shyamala, loved the witty irony, the post is laden with delightful sarcasm. My golden rule is to williingly suspend disbelief (Goldsmith), that way the ride is merrier and one can indulge in all sorts of absurd theories with gay abandon.

Arjun unshaven and leaner would look even better.

My Robin Hood is no Lothario and so he will behave circumspectly with my ladli and she will escape unscathed from his clutches. Yes, you are so right about the Kanchi sarees (your post reminded me of past Diwalis when mom would special order her saris from the kanchivaram society).

Poor Puru indeed. And I didn't think Savita glared at the hug, she kind of looked helpless, I thought. Loved Ankita's acting and the only bit that jarred me was the dialogue about her picking up Purvi when she was wee small. No fingers pointed at Ankita, just the dialogue writers, if my child went missing, I would not be describing how tiny she was when she was born, the immediate is what I would be focusing on. But that is a minor flaw even though it was irksome somewhat.

I sincerely hope you are wrong and that Manav stands up against his daughter and proceeds to help in the "find Purvi mission" regardless of Ovi's stentorian mandate. For all her helplessness, that girl is pretty resourceful, has had us and the rest of her family fooled with her little helpless girlish ways.

My dear Jyothi,

I am glad I could make you laugh; they do say that this is much harder than making people cry (which is undoubtedy why the soaps take the easy route!) and your reaction is thus doubly welcome.

No, Jyothi, the gender equality thing was for the anshan( fast), not for the rescue operation. The latter is mandatorily Arjun's to undertake and succeed in, and I am sure he will go at it full tilt, like a medieval knight in a tournament. I am not sure he can oblige you with the shining armour, for that would be tough to locate in Mumbai where they do not shoot historicals very often (the last was the splendid Jodhaa Akbar), but I am sure he can collar a white ghodi from one of the innumerable baaraat organizers. He will thus do his very best, , like Imran Khan in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, to satisfy even your romantic heart!

Mine being more of the realistic kind, I do hope that he will know where he is going. If not, for if Vishnu gets any idea of who Arjun is, and how he is an even more promising bakra than poor Purvi, our Lochinvar might very well end up in the cooking pot alongside her. Don't start fretting now about the CVs filching this idea, they have all they can handle on their plate at the moment, with one failed and one 'successful' kidnapping!

@red. You have not read the post properly, Jyothi, undoubtedly because the tears of laughter were clouding your vision.What I said was : Arjun has dashed off as soon as Manav informs the assemblage that the kidnappers are asking for a ransom for Purvi 'as she is also part of my parivaar', and he had not reappeared till the end of the episode. He knew that all right, and where he dashed off to God knows. To his favourite inspector, I dare say.

Do also take a look at my response to Janhvi above. There are a couple of rather telling points about Vishnu that occurred to me just as I was typing that out; you would find them interesting.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: jdronamraju

Absolutely Hilarious, Shyamala !! 🤣... I was in meetings all afternoon, came back and what do I see. Your wit and sarcastic humor at its best 😃... I am have been laughing like crazy for the past 5 mins..

Yes, Yes, I did note Ovi's strong arm.. It does look like I have underestimated Ms.Ovi Maam, while our poor Purvi is still lying there unconsciuos. Ovi maam is definitely stronger than that goon, who fell unconsciuos as soon as Vishnu put it on his face (the chloroform cloth), but Ovi Maam took it with great aplomb !! She even attacked him with gulaal.. She is Savita's granddaughter after all...

Today, Arjun dashed off thinking that Purvi is still around, and not really missing. It is tomorrow, that he will have to face the truth.

But, please, however absurd it is, our romantic hearts still demand some action from our hero, Arjun. We need this for that Maayi of Vishnu to finally accept our kiddos. When Archana can fall at Manav's feet and proclaim to one and all "Purvi meri jaan hain", that makes Manav all puff up his chest and declare himself the saviour, why cant Arjun be the knight in the shining armor and rescue his Purvi. She is after all his. We need it to make our hearts go pitter patter...😉. I did feel bad looking at Arjun's face in the end, all shocked and stunned in disbelief. I will probably shed a few tears along with him tomorrow too 😊.. I am sucker for romance, after all.

Kidding aside, He probably wont be doing any fist fights, he is not a gali ka munda, more a canadian dude, but will sure work with the cops and figure out how to get her out... So what if the three witches, as you say, ground manav baba, our DK is there to bail his bahu out. Apparently, it is now Ovi's turn to give out dikhat's...let us see what she has in store for us tomorrow. Hopefully she wont barter for Arjun for paying Purvi's ransom money.

As far as gender equality, why not !! If Purvi can bail Arjun out of prison, cant Arjun do this for her?? 😃.

BTW, Vishnu's high pitch rendering of those bihari dialogues still grate on my nerves!! If he talks at this length every time on the phone, it is gonna be a piece of cake for the cops to trace him !!

@red: too funny...ROFL stuff...

Jyothi

Dear Shyamalaji,