Let me know too, folks. Maharana Pratap on Sony is quite new and is pretty good.I am afraid I do not watch anything beyond that, Saraswatichandra and DKDM.
Meanwhile, I broke my own recent resolution not to post any more on PR, and wrote the following on another thread. Do take a look at it. Pari, my dear, I am so glad you liked it and commented on it too.
Not surprised at all
Posted: 19 June 2013 at 1:51pm | IP Logged
Isn't there a contradiction in @red? If, as I too feel after I watched yesterday's episode because a friend wanted my views on it, Onir is putting on an act to help Purvi get back with Arjun, then he is not likely to be married to Shalini at all. There is then no question of his having hidden anything from his Mishti-that-was, is there?
In fact, it was clear to me, after running the Arjun-Onir encounter part thru thrice, that Onir was egging Arjun on by the casual arrogance of his remarks about how he liked Purvi and married her, but now that his past had resurfaced, he had to go back to Shalini. There was a deliberateness to what he said and how he said it - ending with the statement, undoubtedly accurate, that neither Shalini nor he owed Arjun any explanation - that admitted of no other explanation.
I wish, however, that he had asked Arjun what his locus standi in the matter was: as Purvi's ex-lover or her current hopeful? It was a pity he did not do that. Archana slapping Onir, or Manav or even Soham pulling him up is logical, but why does Onir need to explain anything to Arjun?
What stayed with me from that scene was the very curious expression on Onir's face after he surfaces from the slap with all the effortless aplomb of Amitabh Bachchan in Bombay to Goa (the scene that got him his first big hit, Zanjeer, and thus his whole career as well), and tells Arjun again, without the slightest awkwardness, Leave! It was somewhat sad and knowing at the same time, and that told me beyond doubt that he was faking all this quite deliberately.
Which is something I detest. I HATE this mahaanta complex, whether in Archana or Purvi or now Onir. Why can people not sit down and talk things over decently and part decently? Onir could have told her: You go back to Arjun as he is now free, and I am tired of a loveless marriage.
She would have gone, for she never really cared for Onir. She simply accepted all he did for her and focussed only on her own interests, viz her parivaar. I used to say that for Purvi, there are only two categories of people. First, those for whom she will do anything: her aai, her aaji and her aai's parivaar. Second. those to whom she will do anything, to protect the interests of the first lot, and Arjun and Onir fit in here.
If she had really cared for Onir, and I am not talking of love, she would never have been able to get over the professional destruction and public shame she has brought down on him, reducing a world renowned doctor to doing manual labour to provide for her and her kid. She would have felt it under her skin every waking moment. But she shakes that off in a jiffy, and all she can bring herself to utter, and that too just once, is Kahin na kahin, iske liye main bhi zimmedar hoon.!! Main bhi?? And by now, she seems to have forgotten all about it.
In all the time that they were together, what has she given him? Not even a proper bed to sleep in, and that too even after she has had the baby. I cannot think of a single thing that Onir gained from marrying this girl, and I can think of a lot that he has lost. Of course it was due to his own folly in indulging every whim of hers regardless of ethics and commonsense, but the fact is that it is he who has become a public pariah for something that was never his idea. Who says anything to her?
Even now, when she believes that Onir has two-timed her, how does that take away all that he did for her when she was expecting the baby, and since? Or the fact that his very highly regarded career and reputation was wrecked for good by her folly? Or the fact that he never took advantage of her physically, not even when she made advances to him?
But one does not expect her to remember any of that – in fact she now talks of her not having given him pati ka darja, as if all that makes a man your pati is that physical relationship, not caring or affection or protectiveness. What a cheap concept!
So there is no question of expecting her to talk to him for once and see what he has to say.
The fact is that she is hurt in her amour propre, and in nothing else. She is used to dumping people for a greater bhalaayi, as defined by herself, witness what she did to Arjun on that hilltop, when she betrayed his trust totally and brutally. Now that it seems that she has been dumped, she cannot see beyond that, and she cannot take it.
And yes, I too agree 100% that ArVi (I never used this vegetable terminology in the old days, but it will do just fine now) need to get together pronto. There is no need to bother about Ovi, for the ubiquitous divorce papers are already there, and Onir, after committing professional suicide, has eliminated himself deliberately for their bhalaayi . When I think of how much I used to care for ArVi just a year ago, and how faded and tattered their love story seems to me now, it is enough to make one weep.
Of course, the fat will be in the fire if and when Ovi turns up in 3 months, with another Kirloskar Jr. on the way. Now that should liven things up, and give an lot of grief to all those plumping for the ArVi reunion because they insist that a child, in this case Pari, needs to be with both her biological parents. With another Arjun-Ovi baby on the way, it can hardly be argued that only Pari has this right. What to do then, other than hope that this baby too goes the way of its predecessor, the one that Onir trashed without so much as a by your leave to its mother? Clone Arjun, perhaps?
Oh, well, what is the point of lamenting over this train wreck of a show? As I wrote elsewhere today, my last forlorn hope, that Jodha Akbar would be so successful that it would bump PR up to the 11 pm slot and then out, has been dashed to the ground. So we are stuck with this horror show for a long while yet, and the only thing for me to do is to revert to not watching it..
Starting now, after sending off this one off post.
Shyamala B.Cowsik
PS: It was not a question of Purvi being "honest with Onir about her situation that she's pregnant". He finds that out for himself when he examines her when she is suddenly taken ill at that NGO. What she does tell him, honestly, is that she is not married. She could have pretended that she was a widow, but she does not, and to that extent, she is honest and courageous.
Originally posted by rayadallie
[I agree. Even if he had confided in purvi when they came to mumbai, purvi would have understood but he choose not to. Onir's opportune time to confide in purvi was when purvi was revealing her past to him. He should have gone on to tell her but his hiding this from her was premeditated. It seem as though he still had hopes about shalini.
Even if he is doing all this act to get purvi reunited with her love, the fact still remains that he is married to shalini and hid that truth from purvi. They dont share a husband and wife relation per se but they are friends and companion.
QUOTE=sk11]Purvi has every right to be upset with Onir. Fact is she was honest with Onir about her situation that she's pregnant. Onir said he didn't care for anything not even her past, he simply liked her and wanted to marry her. So now that onir declares he's still married to his first wife, then how should purvi feel? Just because purvi has made mistakes and isn't perfect doesn't take away from the fact that she's human and is prone to getting hurt and angry also.
I agree Arvi deserve their happy ending.
Originally posted by: m_masti
exactly i was about to tell same...no ekta serials please...pm me too...
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