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ya, i know. this is one late bt,lt, ain't it? i've never tried so hard, and never yet failed so firmly, to get one done like this one. this is the first show in a long time that i've seen on my own -- mom was well enough to leave her room to have dinner "like a grown-up" and i finally got the tv to myself. posting it has been hell.
first, my uncle had friends over to celebrate mom's getting-well-dinner. one of them is at a big tv-channel in bombay and had lots of stories to tell about these shows. didja know that trps are usually collected from the poorer areas in the metros -- like chawls and slums. high trps mean high viewership in these areas. so to get high trps, the shows need to make these viewers happy. and they like high drama and flashy clothes which they can buy (apparently). he gave an example of "love story", apparently directed, written by one of the hot-shot "new young" directors of hindi movies. the show was nicely produced but had bad trps 'cause the poor just didn't like the common-sense storyline and the low-key look of the characters. got many such stories. but that meant dinner went on too late to write the bt,lt. second, the near-disaster project was good enough to surprise the crusty professor. who got even more mean and gave us a more painful assignment for next friday. 🤢 third, the gang came to dinner tonight to celebrate "estee-mom-gets-well" and i had to help with preparations. fourth, i log in and find that the mnster vs. lalit juneja case notes have been published!!
https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/kis-desh-mein-hai-meraa-dil/1041001/court-case-mnstr-vs-lallu-before-lunch-break argh! soooo badly want to read that instead of doing this. but am gonna perserve 'cause i thought this was actually a brilliant episode for just the one segment - prem desperately wanting to tell heer what troubles him. such a delicious new facet of prem -- he is finally coming across as seriously mein-bhagwan-nehi-hoon! am thinking i can go back to actually ... uh ... liking him. somewhat. 😆
* little thing: at a time that the household's clearly fast asleep, kooky's stalking prem! seriously! he comes around a corner, and who's right after him?!! heer! do something! and he's still in his magnolia-white shirt. heer has changed into simple night clothes. and kooky? kooky's in full regalia -- including metal in her hair and on her fingers. and metal in her voice as she says "huh! we'll see whose trust holds true."
'kay, rapidly changing my mind about vitchface veera being the only potential vampire in the show... 😡
* heer thing: the smile on her face as she catches sight of prem as she comes in with oj and an entire medical box to cure her prem's headache. soooo sweet! go, go heer.
(teeny thing: i think i want to apply for the job of person-who-helps-prem-out-of-his-white-shirt as well. i mean, look at this:
don't you think he'd looked less troubled if someone helped him out of that shirt? no???? argh!!! 😆)
* big heer thing: the look on her face as she slowly thinks about kooky's words, and then (in such a tradtionally polite way! go heer!) says "with due respect for your age, chachi, i trust prem." what a brilliant way of putting it! first she gets to call kooky old! 🤣 and then she gets to demonstrate that she is a mein-bhagwan-nehi-hoon match for her prem. *fiercely* go heer!
* big thing: never thought i'd say this, but aaaaarrrrgggghhh!! want the hairy baby-ratpal back!! this new one doesn't look like a baby-ratpal and i'm gonna have to think a new name for him. ugh! i guess it's true what they say about the devil you know...!! 🤣
* little thing: the arrogance of dheer! any courier that comes for nihaal has to be evidence against him??! seriously want to eliminate this character!
and a little thing along with this one: nihaal's got a seriously cute grin! or was it just that i loved that a good guy won against a bad guy, even in a small way? hmm.
and the last little thing with this: that courier-dude is dressed like a post-dude -- does the post also do courier service in ludhiana? and man! that courier guy had attitude! go courier-dude! 🤣
* big thing: prem stalking heer moment. 😍 i mean, 'tis not like he hasn't been stalking her throughout this show 😆 but this one was special. earlier, he stalked her 'cause she was under his skin and he couldn't stop thinking 'bout her. even though he thought he could never have her. then, he stalked her 'cause .. well, prem-heer are one. 😍 but this one. this one was new. this time he's after her 'cause he has his own troubles to solve and needs her to help him get rid of it! this is not something where someone else is at fault - here, he's at fault. he knows it. and he needs absolution from his heer. sigh😍😍😍
every single thing he said made me smile even more goopily (i was soooo happy i was on my own for this. even if you're watching it with prem-crazy-pals, it's .. um ... kinda not done to drool as much as them. after all, i'm "first member, hate-prem" club. i have a reputation to protect! 😆) "can i help?" and after that "whatchya doooin'?" (prem! 😆) "oh, you're making parathas. make lots. 'cause i like parathas" -- all said with a face like he's got the worst stomach pain on earth, poor prem. and even in this poor-prem state, he can't resist reaching out and touching heer. 😍*seriously, this guy is going to be the death of me.*
the big thing? at the end of it, we know this for sure: prem knows that heer knows he has a secret. heer tells him so upfront! "stop going round in circles, prem. tell me what you wanted to tell me. you are holding something back from me." even in that, she is being truthful to him! and prem know that heer knows he has a secret which he is not telling her!! it would be one thing for heer to know prem's keeping a secret from her. and for prem to not know that she knows. but here, after this scene, prem knows that she knows. (has everyone's brains been twisted into knots enough with those lines?? 😆)
that look on his face where he has decided that he will tell her -- that firm "heer". with that beautiful jaw all firmed up to take the pain that should follow. "heer, i need to tell you to something"
this part was totally brilliant! have we ever been in such a situation before? in any love story? in any story???? where the only thing left is for an old secret to come out -- but everyone is completely aware - even to each other - that there is a secret? i soooooo badly loved this.
and there's a heer thing here. even while she's telling him that she knows he has a secret, she gives him a way out: "i am worried for you. you work too much. this family depends upon you. whatever you do, please, take care of yourself." how much more of a declaration of "i love you" can a old-fashioned girl make? heer! 😍
so while my heart bleeds for prem, and some for heer, i am fiercely glad that this is happening to prem-heer -- 'cause there has not been a single pair of lovers who have been so perfectly created to handle such a situation. i am dying to see how this go ahead! oh go prem! go heer! i love you two. *totally embarassed that i've written that down, but can't help it. my heart is full just remembering that scene.*
* big thing: so exactly what the heck is this secret? that even after saying that he's gonna tell her, prem stops as heer gently says "tell me, prem"? what?? i mean, he's practically admitted he has a secret -- what else can he get from not telling her what it is? this is almost like prem standing like a stone and not doing anything, while heer had to weep tears and suffer at dirtchachi's hands after he did his confession in front of all of society that he loves heer.
and i think it has very little to do with his memory of gayatri-mom cautioning him not to. i think it has everything to do with what the secret is. and i worry: is prem prem juneja? or not? 😲 (this bt,lt is too long already to take my take on this -- gonna make a new post -- watch out for wtf by estee. coming soon to a forum post near you! 😆)
after this scene, everything else for me was a little thing. so gonna race through it:
* little thing: after the purity of the prem-heer moment, kooky looked like dirtkooky, sister of dirtchachi. same dirty genetic material. seriously! 😡
* little thing: liked that detective nihaal had the photograph to get cleaned and enhanced. kinda liked how shattered he got when he has a flashback to where he has seen them before -- he oculd've saved his own parents and couldn't! poor nihaal, i thought at that moment.
but desperately wondered how someone who has done detective roles could've missed that the photographs of those very two people are hanging in the juneja house. but i liked how they didn't stretch the that he doesn't know the between him and heer-meher too long. even if it was done by having heer come to fetch ratpal-bro - and that too from nihaal's room! did she actually search every other room looking for him??
*this entire household is full of mad(e)@ people - do they all come to the house because they are mad(e) to begin with? or does the house make them so?*
@: copyright mnsters. 😆
* little (really old) thing: vitchface veera needs to be vritten out of the script. she is boring as hell. and this episode was the 356th demonstration of it! 🥱
*and it's not just because - of all the bloomin' people in the show -- she gets to fall into prem's arms the most - thank goodness, it's not been when prem's been in a white-shirt! 😡 oh c'mon! don't tell me that no else noticed this?? or that she got kissed by prem (on the forehead)? i mean, vitchface getting prem-cuddles! arrrrrghghghghgh! and no! it's not personal! i'm miffed on heer's behalf! seriously! so take that sceptical look off your face!*
* little thing: 'kay, it's really bizarre that the first reaction a guy in this show who gets into trouble is to look worried and weepy. seriously! first it was prem - who's reaction at every accusation was to get "peaky-eyebrowed" -- ie, weepy. with prem, since the accusations most came from his beloved bauji, it was kinda okay. kinda. but harman and nihaal also? seirously don't like it. guys in my world get all angry and wanna-fight when they get falsely accused. don't they in yours? wanted to hit nihaal on the upside of his head for that stoooopid expression.
* little thing: for the first time, i didnt like preet's impetuousness. oh, not 'cause he got angry. that was okay. but why the ott shouting bit? somehow that didn't ring true... but ooooh! harman made an angry face (melissa!! really! your harman-teaching skills have surpassed themselves! 😆)
hmmm. so -- a break in the household coming up. will heer-meher stick up for nihaal? i think meher will certainly do so -- heer also, i think? is this going to be more vitchface-vs.-heer tension coming up? and if so, where's prem gonna choose? will he side with common-sense and heer or with his family? er... or is that not even a question for what's-common-sense-next-to-my-family prem? 🤣 and he's already ridden with guilt of not opening up to heer -- is he going to use this as an excuse not to tell heer sooner rather than later? more mein-seriously-bhagwan-nehi-hoon opportunities for prem? and some serious mein-bhagwan-hee-hoon opportunities for heer?
oooooh! can hardly wait to know what happens next! seriously! 😊
highlight of the episode: hands-down winner -- prem-stalking-heer in the kitchen. prem wiping heer's forehead with a troubled look on his face. prem's jaw becoming firm as he wants to tell her. prem's strength and conviction battling in front of heer's love and faith and the horror of his memories. (which are about... what??? i want to know, damnit!) btw, teeny thing: didja notice how prem left the kitchen the same way he entered -- walking backwards???! pooooor, troubled prem!!! 🤣 stooooopid! just tell her - and then, you can make your usual gorgeous loving face when wiping atta off heer's face, instead of that stomach-hurting-someone-get-me-some-pepto-bismol face. 🤣
(photocredits: khushix
https://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1040261
)
first, my uncle had friends over to celebrate mom's getting-well-dinner. one of them is at a big tv-channel in bombay and had lots of stories to tell about these shows. didja know that trps are usually collected from the poorer areas in the metros -- like chawls and slums. high trps mean high viewership in these areas. so to get high trps, the shows need to make these viewers happy. and they like high drama and flashy clothes which they can buy (apparently). he gave an example of "love story", apparently directed, written by one of the hot-shot "new young" directors of hindi movies. the show was nicely produced but had bad trps 'cause the poor just didn't like the common-sense storyline and the low-key look of the characters. got many such stories. but that meant dinner went on too late to write the bt,lt. second, the near-disaster project was good enough to surprise the crusty professor. who got even more mean and gave us a more painful assignment for next friday. 🤢 third, the gang came to dinner tonight to celebrate "estee-mom-gets-well" and i had to help with preparations. fourth, i log in and find that the mnster vs. lalit juneja case notes have been published!!
https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/kis-desh-mein-hai-meraa-dil/1041001/court-case-mnstr-vs-lallu-before-lunch-break argh! soooo badly want to read that instead of doing this. but am gonna perserve 'cause i thought this was actually a brilliant episode for just the one segment - prem desperately wanting to tell heer what troubles him. such a delicious new facet of prem -- he is finally coming across as seriously mein-bhagwan-nehi-hoon! am thinking i can go back to actually ... uh ... liking him. somewhat. 😆
* little thing: at a time that the household's clearly fast asleep, kooky's stalking prem! seriously! he comes around a corner, and who's right after him?!! heer! do something! and he's still in his magnolia-white shirt. heer has changed into simple night clothes. and kooky? kooky's in full regalia -- including metal in her hair and on her fingers. and metal in her voice as she says "huh! we'll see whose trust holds true."
'kay, rapidly changing my mind about vitchface veera being the only potential vampire in the show... 😡
* heer thing: the smile on her face as she catches sight of prem as she comes in with oj and an entire medical box to cure her prem's headache. soooo sweet! go, go heer.
(teeny thing: i think i want to apply for the job of person-who-helps-prem-out-of-his-white-shirt as well. i mean, look at this:
don't you think he'd looked less troubled if someone helped him out of that shirt? no???? argh!!! 😆)
* big heer thing: the look on her face as she slowly thinks about kooky's words, and then (in such a tradtionally polite way! go heer!) says "with due respect for your age, chachi, i trust prem." what a brilliant way of putting it! first she gets to call kooky old! 🤣 and then she gets to demonstrate that she is a mein-bhagwan-nehi-hoon match for her prem. *fiercely* go heer!
* big thing: never thought i'd say this, but aaaaarrrrgggghhh!! want the hairy baby-ratpal back!! this new one doesn't look like a baby-ratpal and i'm gonna have to think a new name for him. ugh! i guess it's true what they say about the devil you know...!! 🤣
* little thing: the arrogance of dheer! any courier that comes for nihaal has to be evidence against him??! seriously want to eliminate this character!
and a little thing along with this one: nihaal's got a seriously cute grin! or was it just that i loved that a good guy won against a bad guy, even in a small way? hmm.
and the last little thing with this: that courier-dude is dressed like a post-dude -- does the post also do courier service in ludhiana? and man! that courier guy had attitude! go courier-dude! 🤣
* big thing: prem stalking heer moment. 😍 i mean, 'tis not like he hasn't been stalking her throughout this show 😆 but this one was special. earlier, he stalked her 'cause she was under his skin and he couldn't stop thinking 'bout her. even though he thought he could never have her. then, he stalked her 'cause .. well, prem-heer are one. 😍 but this one. this one was new. this time he's after her 'cause he has his own troubles to solve and needs her to help him get rid of it! this is not something where someone else is at fault - here, he's at fault. he knows it. and he needs absolution from his heer. sigh😍😍😍
every single thing he said made me smile even more goopily (i was soooo happy i was on my own for this. even if you're watching it with prem-crazy-pals, it's .. um ... kinda not done to drool as much as them. after all, i'm "first member, hate-prem" club. i have a reputation to protect! 😆) "can i help?" and after that "whatchya doooin'?" (prem! 😆) "oh, you're making parathas. make lots. 'cause i like parathas" -- all said with a face like he's got the worst stomach pain on earth, poor prem. and even in this poor-prem state, he can't resist reaching out and touching heer. 😍*seriously, this guy is going to be the death of me.*
the big thing? at the end of it, we know this for sure: prem knows that heer knows he has a secret. heer tells him so upfront! "stop going round in circles, prem. tell me what you wanted to tell me. you are holding something back from me." even in that, she is being truthful to him! and prem know that heer knows he has a secret which he is not telling her!! it would be one thing for heer to know prem's keeping a secret from her. and for prem to not know that she knows. but here, after this scene, prem knows that she knows. (has everyone's brains been twisted into knots enough with those lines?? 😆)
that look on his face where he has decided that he will tell her -- that firm "heer". with that beautiful jaw all firmed up to take the pain that should follow. "heer, i need to tell you to something"
this part was totally brilliant! have we ever been in such a situation before? in any love story? in any story???? where the only thing left is for an old secret to come out -- but everyone is completely aware - even to each other - that there is a secret? i soooooo badly loved this.
and there's a heer thing here. even while she's telling him that she knows he has a secret, she gives him a way out: "i am worried for you. you work too much. this family depends upon you. whatever you do, please, take care of yourself." how much more of a declaration of "i love you" can a old-fashioned girl make? heer! 😍
so while my heart bleeds for prem, and some for heer, i am fiercely glad that this is happening to prem-heer -- 'cause there has not been a single pair of lovers who have been so perfectly created to handle such a situation. i am dying to see how this go ahead! oh go prem! go heer! i love you two. *totally embarassed that i've written that down, but can't help it. my heart is full just remembering that scene.*
* big thing: so exactly what the heck is this secret? that even after saying that he's gonna tell her, prem stops as heer gently says "tell me, prem"? what?? i mean, he's practically admitted he has a secret -- what else can he get from not telling her what it is? this is almost like prem standing like a stone and not doing anything, while heer had to weep tears and suffer at dirtchachi's hands after he did his confession in front of all of society that he loves heer.
and i think it has very little to do with his memory of gayatri-mom cautioning him not to. i think it has everything to do with what the secret is. and i worry: is prem prem juneja? or not? 😲 (this bt,lt is too long already to take my take on this -- gonna make a new post -- watch out for wtf by estee. coming soon to a forum post near you! 😆)
after this scene, everything else for me was a little thing. so gonna race through it:
* little thing: after the purity of the prem-heer moment, kooky looked like dirtkooky, sister of dirtchachi. same dirty genetic material. seriously! 😡
* little thing: liked that detective nihaal had the photograph to get cleaned and enhanced. kinda liked how shattered he got when he has a flashback to where he has seen them before -- he oculd've saved his own parents and couldn't! poor nihaal, i thought at that moment.
but desperately wondered how someone who has done detective roles could've missed that the photographs of those very two people are hanging in the juneja house. but i liked how they didn't stretch the that he doesn't know the between him and heer-meher too long. even if it was done by having heer come to fetch ratpal-bro - and that too from nihaal's room! did she actually search every other room looking for him??
*this entire household is full of mad(e)@ people - do they all come to the house because they are mad(e) to begin with? or does the house make them so?*
@: copyright mnsters. 😆
* little (really old) thing: vitchface veera needs to be vritten out of the script. she is boring as hell. and this episode was the 356th demonstration of it! 🥱
*and it's not just because - of all the bloomin' people in the show -- she gets to fall into prem's arms the most - thank goodness, it's not been when prem's been in a white-shirt! 😡 oh c'mon! don't tell me that no else noticed this?? or that she got kissed by prem (on the forehead)? i mean, vitchface getting prem-cuddles! arrrrrghghghghgh! and no! it's not personal! i'm miffed on heer's behalf! seriously! so take that sceptical look off your face!*
* little thing: 'kay, it's really bizarre that the first reaction a guy in this show who gets into trouble is to look worried and weepy. seriously! first it was prem - who's reaction at every accusation was to get "peaky-eyebrowed" -- ie, weepy. with prem, since the accusations most came from his beloved bauji, it was kinda okay. kinda. but harman and nihaal also? seirously don't like it. guys in my world get all angry and wanna-fight when they get falsely accused. don't they in yours? wanted to hit nihaal on the upside of his head for that stoooopid expression.
* little thing: for the first time, i didnt like preet's impetuousness. oh, not 'cause he got angry. that was okay. but why the ott shouting bit? somehow that didn't ring true... but ooooh! harman made an angry face (melissa!! really! your harman-teaching skills have surpassed themselves! 😆)
hmmm. so -- a break in the household coming up. will heer-meher stick up for nihaal? i think meher will certainly do so -- heer also, i think? is this going to be more vitchface-vs.-heer tension coming up? and if so, where's prem gonna choose? will he side with common-sense and heer or with his family? er... or is that not even a question for what's-common-sense-next-to-my-family prem? 🤣 and he's already ridden with guilt of not opening up to heer -- is he going to use this as an excuse not to tell heer sooner rather than later? more mein-seriously-bhagwan-nehi-hoon opportunities for prem? and some serious mein-bhagwan-hee-hoon opportunities for heer?
oooooh! can hardly wait to know what happens next! seriously! 😊
highlight of the episode: hands-down winner -- prem-stalking-heer in the kitchen. prem wiping heer's forehead with a troubled look on his face. prem's jaw becoming firm as he wants to tell her. prem's strength and conviction battling in front of heer's love and faith and the horror of his memories. (which are about... what??? i want to know, damnit!) btw, teeny thing: didja notice how prem left the kitchen the same way he entered -- walking backwards???! pooooor, troubled prem!!! 🤣 stooooopid! just tell her - and then, you can make your usual gorgeous loving face when wiping atta off heer's face, instead of that stomach-hurting-someone-get-me-some-pepto-bismol face. 🤣
(photocredits: khushix
https://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1040261
)
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