Since I was bored of my unending rantings about the various inconsequential dragged minutes that seem to abound in an IPK episode these days, am borrowing from a review, a numbers game.
Star Plus 330 is titled as "Shyam wears a disguise". Not important. Just saying. (no points.. yet..)
I was very confused about all these things that Shyam tried. Wiring, camera, glass shards. (-30 for being clueless about what really was planned and not making any sense whatsoever).
It is as if each marriage Shyam has to spend planning to kill. Remember the last wedding? During havan when ASR was immersed in throes of faraq parta hai and Khushi was happily running around with beautiful bangles and a bandaged wrist, Shyam was trying to burn his wife. While the families teased and danced their way through sangeet Shyam ran after an elusive scorpion. (+50 because of the lovely time we had during Payash's wedding, inspite of Shyam and his madcap schemes. I might have even called that Shyam for tea and managed to not poison him. Or poisoning him would be a good idea then he wouldn't have grown so unbrearable just 150 episodes later).
Sadly this time the consequence of his actions are more more catastrophic. (-50 because I know what a heinous crime all this is leading to)
Achche karaman ka phal jarur milehe.. I liked buajis dialogue. Sometimes you need an unknowing push to do the right thing. Buaji's reminder to Garima about how she has always been a good person, helped Garima get courage to finally face dadi. (+30 not because I particularly want her to face dadi. I don't care by this point anymore, but more because am extremely bored of her terrified expressions and tear filled wide eyes. Also I do not understand why no one notices any of the above).
ASR is about to make his way upstairs when that familiar calling of the wind halts him. She is here. She turns around the corner looking for him. He waits. bas pata chal jata hai.. NK tum nai samjhoge.. (+20 for the reminder of the mehsoos. The directors are hell bent on reminding us that they have already shown us everything significant that could happen in this love story in the first 200 episodes. Everything happening now is simply a not as impactful repetition.)
He has to tease her. Naughty Raizada in a mood to get his would-be/already wife red in the nose.. (+ 40..wait -10 for too much smiles.. )
Ignoring his cousins he focuses on outrageously flirting with the girl... tum pehle aap pehle aap ke bina hi rakh dogi.. (+ 20 aah he was actually paying attention that phone call when he was trying to convince Khushi he had not one romantic fiber in his laad governor tycoon heart..)
A mischievous smirk by the girl who always jumps to a challenge.. Hands over phone to buaji.. ( + 20 for a spunky Khushi.. -30 because she didn't get adorably flustered when the man was at his teasing witty best.. )
I enjoyed the three cousins together in one frame thoroughly. Guffawed right through it. Specially when Akash wanted to intervene and ASR smoothly stepped in. Then he continued to pretend to read the paper. His ears however were focused on NK and his lips were trying hard to suppress the smile. (+150 you three guys in the same frame without any weepy women are a blast to watch)
(+60) Akash won these solely for giving the exact befuddled transformed to understanding expression as he watched NK. (+30 for NK)..vartalaap had a perfect sing song tone.. (-10) They should have brought a nice girl or two for NK to talk to. Imagine if Khushi was actually trying to do match making for Nanheji.
(+25) the ladies looked colorful.. (-5) didn't like Khushi's look tonight.. The slightly heavy make up makes her look older and not the young disarmingly charming girl am used too.
Mean guests were present as always ready to talk in loud audible whispers about the missing damaadji (-40 Why are they even invited each time? )
Wo aadmi is ghar mein nahi aayega. ASR steps in and makes it clear his word is not to be trifled with. (Face off + 100.. You go Arnav.. The good grandmother is the one who calls you chote, please go ahead and remind the other one who calls you Arnav she, has no clue what she is talking about when she insists bringing Shyam back will bring happiness.)
di ki dawai has to make an appearance (-80 I can't take it anymore).. but it is always refreshing to hear the man address Payal without any inkling of ji. And even in these barely there exchanges there is something in the slight change of tone, a little mix of formal and familiar air that Barun adds whenever he talks to Payal. (+ 20 because asr is asr even when he is made to talk about dawai.)
A profoundly touching scene follows. A grandmother desperately attempts to calm the hot headed people in the room. Another grandmother blindly refuses to understand the truth and choses to ignore the apparent Dadi and Anjali had a lot in common it seems. A certain regressive dependence on needing a man to make everything right.
And finally the man who with the utmost sincerity wants to move on with his life warns dadi in a strictly firm respectable unwavering tone. He wants to ensure his di's happiness, not based out of a lie, but the truth.
ASR tried so hard to do the right thing and it broke my heart to see the battle. For a fourteen year old to process what happened on the night his parents committed suicide, only closest relative's wedding broke, followed by being thrown onto the streets and forced to fend for themselves, would be an almost impossible feat. ASR managed to not just deal with it, he managed to understand who was in the wrong.
Betrayal.. dusri aurat has a very powerful suffocating impact on ASR.. "14 saal pehle jo hua". He had to watch his ma die because of it. And Shyam is a reminder of this exact same sinful crime and how much it destroys. Not just di, ASR trusted him too. There was a lot of respect in this young man for his jeejaji. "he cheated on us".. The dialogues spoke of how Shyam had broken not just di's, but all their trust.
We should forget our past and move forward. Main mama banane wala hun. Di ma. Aur meri shadi bhi hone wali hai. .He watches di happy and you can see from the torn look on his face, how much he wishes to be able to let go of all the bitterness of the past.
When we first met him he was a man fortifying himself and his family against the cruelties of the past. Today the man is essentially the same, only now he isn't just protecting from the past, he is also trying to embrace the possibilities of the future.
Nani was quick to show her confidence in his judgement and how proud she was of him. (+ 120 The integrity in this man never fails to elicit a raw response out of me. Am as proud of him as his nani is)
Garima running around with payal.. With mami.. alone.. running to ..running from dadi.. (-130 .. Why do you insist on doing this to your viewers? )
Shaym as electrican.. As dhol wale bhaiya.. (+ 20.. Sorry but the moustache does good things to his face).. Shyam as killer (-20.. Who cares what your stupid complicated plan is.. I would ahve deducted more points but for now I still am not supposed to know it actually succeeds. he has had a pretty bad track record in his plans thus far.)
The big question of what letters adorns the beautiful hand is getting decided.. "LG"... He casually saunters up and is ready for another round of loving banter with that wife to be of his.. Poor mehendi wali must be completely distracted. (+15 LG is flirting again)
"nai aap A likhiye".. Prim and proper Khushi informs the mehendi wali.. So even in jest she won't take him on his offer and call him laad governor for now.. (-20 Khushi don't be boring)
"oh I forgot tumhare naam mein bhi A hai". Still ignoring the mehendi wali, his eyes are on his bride as he recalls a time she was particularly the perfect mate.. enchanting alluring intelligent. (+20 aa.. He remembers everything.. What the.. had he dared to claim faraq nahi parta hai for this same girl?)
Let me remind you of the heavenly details.. Man in crisp white starched shirt, sleeves rolled, forearms exposed, a stubble, and a hair cut, smirk firmly in place, eyebrows expertly raised, arms folded, head tilted.. in that lazy wicked amused drawl.. "aah".. a nod.. When beautiful flustered girl caught with a letter from his name on her hand had come up with an ingenious excuse .. Then in a burst of delightful sanka daringly backed it up.. She has A in her name too.. suna aapne? (+174 was this just before the kiss? .. Maybe this memory deserves even more points then..)
Ya ya I know you have done this before.. (- 35.. Enough of reminding us this has happened before .. at this rate we might as well be watching momento and suffering for partial memory loss that needs rekindling..)
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