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Maybe its the relief of having been spared the sight and sounds of the screech owl Uma or the two mopping lovers, Amaya and Mantu, or maybe the dhaansu acting and dialogues by Rama and his mom and Rachita too, but I loved today's episode!
Rachita goes to check on Rama and he is in full-fledged nautanki mode acting like he has some major illness going on. Rachita is of course worried for him and she asks him to take care and rest and starts telling him about stuff that was taught in class. Rudra makes his grand entry then with apples and oranges to see his sick "friend" except, he had taped Shyamu's phone conversation with Rama before coming home where he asks him to get ready to fake his illness since Rachita is coming to see him. Rachita is visibly upset that Rama tricked her and yells at him. She tries to leave in a huff but Rama, the hero that he has become, tries to stop her and tell her he did this only to win her love. The drama reaches the street and Rudra intervenes. He starts beating up Rama and Rama who discovered a sleeping Shah Rukh Khan in him, started to hit him back but the moment he sees that Rachita is trying to stop Rudra because she is concerned about him, Rama baits Rudra on to hit him more and with each hit, he says he will keep loving Rachita and he has done no wrong.
Poor Rama did get thrashed around pretty bad but the tashan with which he stayed firm on his stand made it a total seeti maaro, thaali bajao scene to watch. My heart though went out to poor Rama's father who because of his handicap could not even try to stop Rudra thrashing up his boy. He pleaded with anyone and everyone just standing in the sidelines and watching to intervene and save his boy. I really wanted to go give a hug to Guptaji.
Rachita finally manages to yell loud enough to get Rudra to stop. Rudra warns Rama that the next time he tries his tricks with a girl of the Chaubey family, he won't spare him alive. But our hero Rama, typical SRK style, gets up from where he is left to die and shouts out to the world that he can never stop loving Rachita and that he would surely wiin her love and marry her someday. He shouts I love you Rachitaji at the top of his lungs before falling unconscious and Rachita who is being dragged away by Rudra (who also takes the apples and oranges he had brought back.. I thought that was hilarious! š) cannot stop herself from constantly turning back to check on Rama.
Special mention to Shyamu too for being such a sincere friend/brother Rama and trying to intervene in the fight not minding getting hit numerous times in the process.
Rudra comes home and the nautanki that he is, tells the whole story to the whole family and makes it appear as though Rama was some sadak chhaap trying to tease Rachita and not a sincere, young man who was in love with her and wanted to win her love. Where were your duties as the girls' bodyguard when the boys were teasing Amaya that day Rudra?
The next round of seeti maaro, thaali bajao is for Rachita for not taking BS from anyone - not Rudra, not GC. She asks some very valid questions that should have been asked long ago - who the heck is Rudra? And what right does he have to interfere in the family's matters? In matters of the girls? She also states emphatically that they've taken care and looked out for themselves before and can continue to do so. Of course, that does not go down well with GC and he starts his bhashan but Rachita does not give a damn and says she still believes that she did no wrong in going to see Rama. I like that Sneha did not jump to conclusions and tried to talk to Rachita about it. Otherwise, she would be making the same mistakes that her dad made all those years ago while raising her.
GC, the sadu khadoos that he is, calls Rachita a badtameez and declares that what Rudra did is right. Rachita is upset and when Sneha tries to tell her that her Nanaji only wants the best for her, she makes a very valid point. "Of course Nanaji can't ever be wrong. Which means I am wrong, isn't it?" I am loving Rachita's character! At least she hasn't lost her brains, sense and sensibility after coming to Banaras. Maybe its because she did not run in the Shravan pooja race. Rama and she are the ones who did not participate and maybe thats why they have their brains intact. Everyone else fell during the race and lost their brains during the process I tell you!
If this wasn't seeti bajao, thaali maaro enough, Rama's mother takes it to another level altogether. Not only does she march into Chaubey mansion with a sickle in hand ready to slice anyone who comes in her way into two, she even calls the great GC a rat!!!! š It was spectacular! She calls him out on his self-proclaimed righteousness and honorable man image and asks him the very same questions we viewers have been wanting an answer to all this while.
She asks how on earth is he an honorable man when he hires and sends sadak chhap gundas to beat up people on the streets. She questions where his honor was when his own daughter living right next door was struggling to make ends meet, could not afford even a fridge to store medicines. Way to go Rama's mom!!! I was cheering her on throughout the entire sequence but then her bitterness got the better of her and she started raising questions on Rachita's character. Rachita intervenes to make her realize she is going way overboard but then Sneha steps in, literally. Then its a face-off between the moms and I loved it. Because while everyone made feeble attempts to stop the raving lunatic Rama's mom as she hurled abuse and accusation after accusation at GC, as soon as Rama's mom started questioning Rachita's character, Sneha jumps right into the middle, unmindful of the fact that Rama's mom is wielding a sickle in hand and threatening to kill anyone who comes near her. Sneha jumps right in and defends her daughter with the kind of fierceness that only a mother can possess. You go Sneha! I just hope you keep this unwavering faith and love and maternal pride towards your daughters in the testing times that are about to come.
Sneha challenges her to prove her accusations that Rachita had done anything that would make her character questionable and Rama's mother is left speechless for a minute before she gets back in form and says she'll bring proof and she'll show not just the Chaubey-Mathur family but the whole of Banaras.
In the precap, Rama's mom I guess tells Mantu what happened (what needs to be seen is if she gives him an honest account of what happened or if she adds her perspective of what happened) and Mantu turns into angry young man and decides he wants revenge on behalf of his friend. And of course, he stops Rudra, who is taking GC and the girls somewhere, in the middle of the road to settle scores with Rudra.
This is only going to worsen Mantu's impression in GC's eyes but who cares about the buddha anyways? I hope it'll teach GC not to mess with Mantu in the future š
After days and weeks of the nonsense they doled out to us in the name of Mantu and Amaya's "passionate" love story, I am so impressed by today's episode. It was awesome! Definitely a paisa vasool episode!!
Character of the day - Rama, Rachita and Rama's mom - All of them were fabulous in the way they stood their ground against Rudra and GC. Way to go! Though Rama's mom does get some negative points for steering the whole confrontation towards maligning Rachita's character.
Scene of the day - All of them. Really, be it Rama confessing his love while being beaten black anbd blue, Rachita giving it back to GC and Rudra alike, Rama's mom taking GC to task, Sneha defending Rachita... All of it was fab!
Dialogue of the day - I really have to give it to Rama's mom calling GC a rat! LOL! And of course the dialogues where she questions GC about his so-called honor.
Hasi ki dukaan of the day - Us viewers. Such an amazing episode after so long.
Nautanki of the day - Rama.. for the scene where he fakes his illness and Rachita asks him what he is suffering from and he says something about wanting to eat when he has to sleep and sleeping when he has to study and studying when he has to eat or something, Lol! š
Kudos to the makers for this episode. It had the just the right amount and right kind of drama to make it enjoyable.
Today was Rama's tashan and now I'm looking forward to Mantu's tashan tomorrow.
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