Living in denial! - Page 2

@sashashyam

Pallavi, absolutely brilliant post!!
Was surprised that Archana asked Purvi to take Pari to the side. Why handle Ovi with such kid gloves? But then the same Ds gladly without any compunction let a pregnant Purvi leave the house when Ovi couldn't brook Purvi's presence there. Ovi says "jump", the Ds always ask "how high?"

@koolsadhu1000

Yes, of course, and I have said this again and again and again myself, adding that they should both be kicked from one end of Mumbai to the other with hobnailed boots. So there is nothing here that is new for me!

Moreoever, in a human or animal sacrifice, the offering must always go willingly to the altar to have its head cut off - whether it was the white bulls the Greeks offered to Zeus. or Arjun and Onir now. If it did not go willingly, the gods would not accept it. Luckily, Ovi is not so particular about Arjun, and as for Onir, the goddess of justice is blind, so no problems there either!

Nonetheless, I was surprised that when Onir was stripped of his medical licence, after a court procedure that was laughable even by Balaji standards, Purvi did not even stand up in court and sneak in a vehement declaration that it was all her fault, before the judge either shushed her or invited her to come to the witness box. She just sat there like a dummy. And till today, she is in such a state of denial that all she could bring herself to say, and that too just once, was Kahin na kahin, usme mera bhi dosh tha. Amazing.

As for dungeons and keys, it is all very well to talk, but the fact is that you are still watching this train wreck of a show, and I have come back to it after a break, for whatever reason! So there is no point lamenting about the mess it is in, unless one votes with one's remote and stays off the IF.

As for Ekta Kapoor, she knows her audience(s), which is why. she is thriving, with both her films (which are quite different from her serials) and her TV shows. So I do not see anything going wrong with her for the foreseeable future. She is in fact the female counterpart of Karan Johar.

Shyamala B.Cowsik

Originally posted by: sharadrocks

@sashashyam

The kind of sacrifice that Ovi asked of Purvi could not be achieved without Arjun's co-operation. Let us say she had needed an accomplice in Mahanta. If he had any brains, he could have asked both women to jump off a cliff and gone his way. Same goes for Onir too. Both the men are dimwits who are incapable of making the woman see the pointlessness and stupidity of her efforts. So frankly, I have no great sympathy for them.

In my opinion, the whole bunch needs to be thrown into a dungeon and the key thrown away somewhere. Or maybe it is what needs to be done to Ekta and her creatively challenged creatives!

nicely written.

@sashashyam

Originally posted by: pallavi25

Archana and whole Deshmukh family know that Ovi is emotionally unstable. She cannot accept anything concerning Purvi...thats why Archu is hiding Purvi's presence. Ovi will either:

1) drink like Devdas

2) slit her wrist again

3) Do something even more dangerous

Ovi hates Purvi and Pari both with a passion that stems from jealousy and outrage that an adopted daughter shd get love and attention from people who supposedly should belong to Ovi. Arjun and Archu shd have a stamp on them that they belong to Ovi. She knows Manav is exclusively on her side so shes not worried abt him.

Inflated ego and narcissism are well defined aspects of her character.

She suffers from NPD...

Persons diagnosed with a Narcissistic Personality Disorder are characterized by unwarranted feelings of self-importance. They have a sense of entitlement and demonstrate grandiosity in their beliefs and behavior. They have a strong need for admiration, but lack feelings of empathy for others. These qualities are usually defenses against a deep feeling of inferiority and of being unloved.

Sense of entitlement...that made her convinced that shes entitled to have Arjun...nobody

else can have him! That he belongs to her inspite of his repeated admissions that he

doesnt love her.

Strong need for admiration: Hence she chose modelling as a profession...people will look at her and admire her...thats her main objective in life. 😆

Lack of empathy for others...have never seen her ask Teju abt Sunny or care abt Soham

Dada as Teju does. She even seemed detached when Archu was shot and therafter in a

coma. Shes always too busy thinking abt herself.

Shes psychologically impaired, like "that mad daughter" of the family. Thats why all Deshmukhs and Archu treat her like a china doll...they tread on eggshells

when dealing with her...pata nahin kab bigad jaye ...😆.

God knows when she will burst out in that shrill voice of hers and start blaming everyone.

Lovely Post Pallavi Di. Another great post.👏

Originally posted by: pallavi25

🤣 @ Hiding Purvi and Pari in a closet!

Of course Ovi is made of glass, wine glass, champagne glass, shot glass! 😆

If Archu let out that Purvi was staying with her and she had forgiven her, Ovi would open a bottle right away and start drinking herself to oblivion!

She uses alcohol to escape from everything, the truth, the facts, and especially the hatred she feels for Purvi.

Actually she is virulently jealous of Purvi not only because of Arjun but also because she thinks Archu loves Purvi more than her! According to her Arjun and Archu both love only Purvi and she is the one who is ignored, unloved, neglected etc.

Ovi is so self-obsessed and self-occupied that she feels everyone around her or connected to her should only think abt her, worry abt her, devote themselves to her!

So naturally Archu had to hide Purvi and Pari's presence from Ovi...

And Purvi and Ovi both hiding the divorce papers fact from Archu...

Everyone is hiding something from another person to protect the other's feelings.

Very true.

But that was always the TV audience, right? At least since the 1990s.

As for kitchen politics, it has been with us since the Ramayana - even if Kaikeyi had never seen the inside of a kitchen! You cannot trump the Ramayana for tyaag and balidaan and adarshvaad, plus endless suffering by the righteous, and the Mahabharata goes it one better, even if it has far more of rather interesting grey characters. I spent the whole of my teen years arguing fruitlessly about the Ramayana with my grandmother,

Coming back to our TV, it is sad that no one makes a Buniyaad, or even genuinely funny, clean shows like Kakkaji Kahin or Mr Yogi any more. Humour now is so crass that old fashioned people like me are driven away, or so stupid that one cannot stand it. The same holds good for reality shows, which are anything but real.

And as for family dramas, if they are not Ekta's, they end up like hers. I can vouch for that, for the number of serials that I have watched post-retirement, and abandoned after a few months, is legion. And as I wrote to you earlier, really top class TV productions die on the vine without fail. So, her diminishing success in TV does not , unfortunately, translate into better shows.

Why did Ekta succeed in the first place? And why did the likes or Ramesh Sippy and Basu Chatterjee quit TV? I think it also had something to do with the advent of the GEC, as against the staid and not ad conscious Doordarshan, which is much better even today, plus it does not have pop ups. It is like cheap fast food driving out wholesome, traditional cooking. TV serials nowadays seem more like video ads for sarees, dresses and jewellery than story-telling exercises. They are mostly watched only by the ladies of the house - for the kids are on their laptops and the spouse on his - and that too in between getting dinner ready and eating it. No wonder the attention span has to be so low, and the content can be even lower provided the latest backless blouses and shoulder-length earrings are on full display.

I frankly do not know why I stay with PR; there is some awful fascination it exerts over me!😉 I dropped out for a few months before the 18 year leap but came back. I dropped out after the Arjun-Ovi marriage and then came back. I dropped out a month back, and am now hoping that this is not yet another come back. I must be having recidivism in my genes!😉 But for this!?!

Shyamala B.Cowsik

Originally posted by: sharadrocks

@sashashyam

No, I don't follow this show anymore. Except for reading updates to see how ridiculous it can get! That is the reason why I come to this forum. And obviosuly, since debates excite me, I can't help jumping in when I see fit!

On ekta's future on TV, it is already quite shaky, Which is why she has made the move to the big screen. Her movies are thankfully not saas bahu sagas. However, their intent is to titillate in the name of being bold and progressive! I hold her singularly responsible for destroying the ethos of Indian TV. And of course a captive audience which gets its kicks out of kitchen politics!

sharadrocks