Episode 611 Discussion: 27th June 2014, Friday

Tanu's Live Update - 27th June-Short LU- Madhubala

Two kids in school trying to irritates each other 🤣

Wow! This is what I wanted to see in Madhubala. Typical saas bahu torture with bahu(who was supposed to fight for a much sensitive and controversial cause and change the system)doing household chores with Hausalon se BG.👏. So she will win the villagers by using gadgets..AK after the leap of 20 years did not have a mod. Kitchen Why was Raja gaping at vacuum cleaner? How silly , cheap and idiotic this will turn before July 12?

Since this somewhat acceptable (unlike the previous two) episode was focussed on the invaluable benefit of household appliances - and *not* on backfiring joint-presentation of rude epithets from the female lead and 'torture' by the male lead -, I'm going to focus on the household appliances facet first.

The vacuum-cleaner unexpectedly turned out to be a good move by JM, not because it stunned Raja that she would figure out the easier way to do the cleaning, but rather because she was not then goaded or coerced to stick to the broom.

It does not seem to have occurred to JM - or to Raja later - that her ideas of using gadgets depend on not being forced not to.

Or that her purchase (wholly dependent on someone else giving the money) of more could have been refused at the door itself, by the simple universal method of not paying whether or not the item is left at the door or handed over or taken back.

It was actually baffling that Raja wasted his money on buying something that would ease things for her, unless it was out of pity.
But his switching off electricity - so that she could then show her smartness in choosing a gadget with battery - clearly proved that he was not yet overflowing with sympathy for her, especially not to the extent of spending almost 20,000 rupees to make things easier for her.

So why the heck did the script witlessly write that nonsense?

And it was that second gadget-usage scene that was foolishly presented.

Firstly, we are to believe that a cosmopolitan millionaire's furnished home has a kitchen not already furnished with such conveniences?
AK should posthumously sue his then household staff for incompetence and maybe also pocketing part of the kitchen budget.

Secondly, JM has been in three kitchens - (1) at her grandmother's home in Mathura, (2) at Leelawati's furnished kitchen at the Sharma house and then at the chawl, and (3) AK Mansion's kitchen.

If the last of those three did not already have such a gadget, and neither Radha nor Bittu's family have the financial wherewithal to splurge on such, then where the heck did JM learn to operate it without even checking instructions-pamphlet?

Two versions of the same gadget can have some difference, and the good chance of the gadget flying apart and splattering the food in masterpiece abstract paintings on the kitchen's walls and ceiling.

The scene would have been flawless if - proceeding from the common-sense fact of there being a vacuum cleaner in the house - they had taken that further in common-sense that the other devices were also already part of the kitchen.
JM could have simply used those.
Same effect, less silliness of buying stuff for her convenience with someone else's money and effectively negating her own dialogues.

Instead Raja and JM both looked version 1 and version 2 of the category known as 'Idiot, MEIEJ leads, male and female'.
And it was an idiocy that could have easily been avoided in the scene-planning.

And yet, compared to yesterday's episode (Thursday, 26th June) and even more so the excruciating one before that (Wednesday, 25th June), this episode was a relief.
I'll even be rewatching it to see if the scripting's favourite 'jungli' 'jaanwar' epithets are actually not there in this episode - *finally* - or if I missed them interjected with casual ease at some point.
If they are actually absent, then fingers crossed they stay absent and don't wreck JM's image any further with mass-audience.

Today's episode was good.

Both leads were idiots - JM for not even thinking that Raja might refuse to spend his money for her purchases, and Raja for spending his money on something that was surely not going to make things more difficult for her.

But what made the episode acceptable was the laughably nice ideas of 'screaming torture' from the vengeful husband and sasuraal, and the absence of uncouth rude epithets from JM.

And with the nightly diya-watch continuing, hope the CVs don't show the wick lit up in JM's palm again.
Yet one more thing they have forgotten - holding a blazing item upon the palm as prayer or as penance is not something shocking - it's been there in umpteen films and serials, and is not at all unheard-of in real life as well.
Just a more extreme case of the even more common practice of walking barefoot on a path covered with sharp pebbles and possible thorns and splinters, to a shrine. Any long or short distance may be an endurance then.

There are two ways to ensure mass-audience switching the channel via the female lead's traditionally-unappealing characterization - (1) her disrespect while speaking to and/or about her husband/sasuraal (regardless of their conduct), and (2) making everyone else (especially the husband) look stupid to showcase her cleverness.
*Both* ways are a humiliation, and mass-audience unfortunately may be counted on to *not* be stupid enough not to understand that with clarity and react very unappreciatively by continuing their viewership-wrecking inclination of switching the channel.

In a serial's lead couple, neither the husband nor wife can be shown with lack of shrewd sense in holding the household together in a mass-acceptable way, if there be intent by the channel/CVs to not get crashing viewership at length for the track.

Hopefully the channel/CVs don't repeat past blunders by trying to showcase the female lead's cleverness in a way that the mostly unprogressive mass-audience would skip watching and leave the viewership floundering for each day's screentime by any such foreseeably poor track-planning.

Let *both* leads show sense and shrewdness and efficiency, and let them reconcile fast and then *unitedly* work against the antagonist (rather than the channel/CVs sterling twofold floprecord for this series of either the antagonist winning until the last few minutes of a track, or the mass-unappreciable inadequately-traditional heroine as the solo rescuer and saviour. Every track on both these variations has crashed with remarkably foreseeable lack of viewership).
Let the couple fight *together* against the antagonist, effectively and successful at every increasing step, culminating in their combined triumph as a couple.

An episode dedicated to Kitchen and home appliances (with advantages and disadvantages)...this ws jm's THIRD cooking test in THREE different situatns with THREE different cooking methds and THREE different time period...so nw we all knw abt cooking in THREE different ways...all thnks to cv's...Tomorrw all be ready fr "light and lamb game day 2"...kya madhu dia jala payegi?????kya Raja Jm ko rokh paayega???Kya hoga agni ki nayi chale????? Jaan nea ke liyea dekhiyea Madhubala EK Ishq (not really) EK Junoon (wht does it mean by the way)...

PS: fr the first time on indian television i saw saas-bahu drama "without saas"...thnk u NF...