Good grief! Where do I start? Do I start order-wise? Or just start off with what made me roll my eyes countless times thruoghout the episode? With what is MORE cliche than anything that has EVER been shown in Bollywood?
If the CVs had decided only an AIRPORT CONFESSION would be good enough, then why didn't they borrow from the classier ones in Bollywood...at this minute, the airport scene from Hamara Dil Aapke Paas hai crosses my mind, and believe me, that was wayyy more tastefully done than the disaster that's coming up tomorrow..
Just because the lead characters have to whisper sweet nothings to each other doesn't mean EVERYTHING they show has to be something related to Punjabi-Madrassi cross-cultural differences or something...So there was definitely no need for the OTT stupid ridiculous Sardar scene, with Raman lending him unsolicited help and the Sardar, in return, asking him not to leave behind his pyaar and all...I mean, WHY do they make us laugh till our tummies hurt, right after the day they shoot up our hormones???
In the whole family, it was only Bala who asked the most OBVIOUS, GLARING qs - ki "sab koi itna senti kyun ho rahe hain? Tum toh aa rahe ho naa wapas.." Don't know why that didn't strike the others..the finality of each word Raman Kumar Bhalla uttered.
Well..barring very few exceptions, today's episode was a riot of sorts. An absolute circus. Ishita Bhalla starts off well, with the desperate, anguished look on her face..the sense of urgency..and just as we start warming up to a breathtaking performance like yesterday, the CVs decide they should give us a reality check. Alright, so DT aka Ishita decides she will show Raman ki who kya cheez hai. And then she swells up like a tigress, blows some hot air, and mutters out loud "Unki himmat kaisi hui MUJHE divorce dene ki?"
And so while I'm planning to lay coconuts and flowers and fruits and light diyas coz they finally decided to portray ISHITA as the Angry Young Woman who's come of age and realized her husband is a MAN after all, she rolls up the divorce papers and smashes it into her palm like a judge would pound the gavel. I mean, WHY CANT CVs strike a balance between Irritatingly Optimistic Miss-Goody-two-shoes Ishita and the Tragedy-mein-doobi-bechaari Ishita?
I suppose the stupid guilt trip was introduced coz they WANTED us to feel the intensity of the lead characters' emotions...not clutch our stomachs laughing like IDIOTS coz Ishita Bhalla leaves the house huffily, like she is about to lead a morcha...it sounded like Ab Chhup Nahin Rahenge, Humen Insaaf Chahiye" type nautanki...
"Jinhone unhe janam diya unhe chhod ke jaa rahe hain"
"Mere pati mujhe chood ke jaa rahe hain aur mera unse baat karna bahut zaroori hai" hit-my-head-against-the-wall
The FAKE, FAKE, FAKE acting during the fiasco with the traffic police..god, I can't start even start on that one...
I was thinking - Poori Dilli mein Ishita aur Toshi ji ko hi pakadna tha
...And of course...if the nth man in the hour of need (Traffic Police) doesn't transform into a Dharm ka Devta, going out of his way in believing slipshod stories strange women tell him, and actually offering a drive to the airport..how would the leads confess, and then consummate???.some smart thinking on the part of CVs...
And my my...Ishita has SOME major widespread contacts throut Delhi...
I mean, even people at the airport are profusely thanking her for treating their unfortunate teeth, and going out of their way in making her bharat milaap with her hubby successful...I wonder how did that happen? When in the last two months or so Ishita hasn't even been SHOWN to visit the clinic? All we saw of her, were her OTT lecturing on "Hum parivaar hain", her tryst with molesters, and attending and preparing her husband's ex-wife's fated wedding...
I used to love, ADORE Toshi ji, marvel at her spontaneity...one fine actress EK has managed to find...and I did believe in her, convinced with her pain, her tears, at her son going so far away, at knowing her son actually wants to divorce Yasodha Maiyya Ishita Bhalla...everything was spot-on...TILL..
She decided to dash it all by mouthing those extremely OTT line like "mera puttar hamesha ke liye jaa raha hai, zindagi aur mat ka sawaal hai, humen jaane do badi meherbaani hogi" to the TRAFFIC POLICE...and then MORE OTT scenes followed by RUNNING into the airport...and then screaming OYE! I mean, can we DO that at the airport, railway station, BUS STATION, goddammit anywhere??? So no...she isn content with that..so she goes all "Halla Bol" at the security..she ends up looking like a clown with the last shout that rang out in my ears till 10 minutes after it ended "OYE RAMAN KITTHE JAAYI NAA" or something like that!
I will salute the CVs for ANOTHER major feat they have achieved today. MANI - the perpetual zombie with monotone dead expressions actually turned up at the Bhallas's because he wants to save his Ishu's marriage...aww..for the first time since he's been introduced he spoke absolute sense...Raman is lying to you...wow...there, Ishita..SUDDENLY, even MANI has grown a brain...and some powerful intuition
But what made me L.O.L was the extreme psychic lines he muttered next "Use lagta hai who tumhare layak nahin hai..isliye who tumhen hamesha ke liye chhod ke jaa raha hai" NO backstory whatsoever..no logic...they show the flashbacks without building up even an OUNCE of camaraderie between Raman and MANI ...pathetic...
.Alright...he feels for his bestie and wants to save her marriage...but he actually tries to behave like a mind-reader of sorts and translates Raman's feelings for Ishita...the same guy who earlier thought Raman, his family and its associated problems were a PANAUTI for Ishita..
Now that, caused a bit of indigestion in my tummy ;p
Ruhi was super, super, supercute as usual..and I wanted to hit Raman on the head for just a teeny-weeny second for making her cry so.
PRECAP - Now we know AIRPORTS allow maximum use of our fundamental right to expression..so we can run behind our spouses, screaming our love from the rooftops, play hide and seek on the elevators, hit ur spouses with rolled up divorce papers...do OTT acting..and think its cute, while making a hundred odd people choke to death.
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