now that the disciplining action has been taken... what a brilliant week of show, this has been, no??! even if they haven't told us much about exactly what happened six years ago, there have been soooo much we got to see in character's actions and reactions that i ended up ignoring that there was a big gaping hole in the story! and that's a big thing for me! 😆
wtf #1: y'know? practically, the only thing that constantly bugged me during the shows this week (other than the phact that i was watching most of 'em on my laptop rather than on tv-screen -- bleagh!) was seeing the thoughts inside the weird-weirder-weirdest head of gaali-maa.
she is yucky beyond belief. she is like bhindi in sambhar -- pond scum green with slime and white balls dripping when you pick it out of the sambhar. *ya, i just had sambhar with bhindi for dinner -- why does anyone ever do that to sambhar is beyond me! 😛*
she sits large and weeping 'cause her husband doesn't come to her during that fasting thing -- and yet, the moment she hears heer's name on his lips, the only thing she is focussed on is how to keep heer out of the house?
she keeps repeating -- over and nauseatingly over again! -- that she has had prem to the exclusion of everything else. and yet?
- she can't feel even the smallest smidgeon of pity when she sees prem crying his heart out in his bauji's arms.
- she doesn't feel the tiniest bit of remorse that her son's soul is shrivelled and dead in her presence.
- she doesn't care that he doesn't talk to her anymore about anything.
- she cannot imagine that setting prem up with that mz.fake-moon will end nowhere.
- she cannot imagine that after seeing heer in india, his heart is not interested in any wedding with anyone else?
y'know what? i discovered an interesting compare-and-contrast between the two evils in the show -- dirtchachi and gaali-maa. i figured that dirtchachi was a heartless woman -- but an entertaining one. i think one of the reasons that i used to dislike her soooo much was that despite the fact that i despised her -- her face, her way of speaking, her everything -- she used to make at some of her lines. she was entertaining evil -- despicable thing! 😡
but gaali-maa? she is just heavy evil. with her, nothing close to a happy thought ever comes. instead, there is horror and detest and worst of all! regret that she replaced so loving a mother-character. a step mother who had done so much. but who finally was vanquished by a greater love for her own child than her step child. she is a creepier evil -- one who was loving, and now is hating -- but doesn't even seem to know it. for how can anyone who wishes prem to be dead in his heart be anything other than someone who hates him? 😒
wtf#2: what a superb contrast of what love-for-prem means in heer and gaali-maa, no? my heart just sings watching the difference between these two, doesn't it?
on one side, you have gaali-maa -- cooing over prem, making sure he is fed, wiping his face, smoothing down his hair, calling him to parties, feeding him to mercenary girls for use as a husband -- owning him, using him but never ever loving him. and yet? she doesn't have a clue about what he wants or what he will do, does she? how much of a blind person did she have to be to think that prem would evince even the slightest interest in that mercenary mz.fake-moon??? or should i be asking how much of an idiot did she have to be? she had absolutely no clue -- she! who had spent all the last six years owning that guy.
she had. no. .. er ... featuring!!! 🤣 clue.
on the other side, you have heer -- who hasn't seen the guy for the last six years. who has (probably) been struggling to put a life together for her broken hearted self and her little daughter. who may have thought of prem every day, ever hour, every minute of her new life. but who has not had a chance to see what he is like, or what he wants. but heer? she growls and tears at him like a wounded lioness when he tries to reach out to her, asking him for the impossible so that he loses all hope and walks away. she watches with tears in her eyes, knowing that her goal of turning him away from her is done.
you'd think that heer would just sit back and relax thinking he is gone. but of course, this is heer of prem-heer-are-one! she knows that no matter how hard she fights, prem is not going to stay away from her -- or their chahat. i loved how her eyes flickered when she heard him confess to her that for six years he stayed away as her ''izzat ka vasta''. i wonder how then she knew that he would be back despite his promising that he would as their ''daughter ka vasta''. i wondered how she knew so well that he would be back! so well that she ran before he could get there!
heer! who hasn't known prem of the last six years -- she read his intentions and acted on them. while gaali-maa, who has had prem under her thumb, her eyes, her nose for the last six years -- gets shocked when he throws mz.fake-moon out of her perky offended bottom!
oh, i was *fiercely!* overjoyed when i realised that no matter what gaali-maa can do to keep these two apart -- there is no way in heck that she or any other force on earth can really ever touch prem-heer-are-one.
is amazing, no? they are really connected by the moon. their link has been forged in the stars. they are one... together or not. they are one.
*baaaaawwwwwwllll -- my heart weeps at the beauty of prem-heer-are-one. nothing makes me want to cry like these two do. why? why do they touch me so? 😭*
wtf#3: *sniffling as i come back to wtf-ing 🤣* ram-bharat-lakshman are here, alive and kicking! man, i loved knowing that!
they've been on cold-storage for six years. and it takes mortal threat to ram for bharat-lakshman to thaw. but oooh, now that they have, there's no going back for them, no?? and i loved that.
preet is all miffed and snarky that his ram didn't manage to get his sita back with him before returning to canada. but along with cursing his heer bhabhi's misfortune and badmouthing his pb's ineptitude, preet also fumes and refuses to join with the normal jzoo festivities and parties after this. for a guy who refused to be with his pb, he sure was joining ranks with him against gaali-maa, no?
and harman! oh, bharat truly rocked this week! when he found out that gaali-maa had organised the party to get his pb married off, he was the only one out of jzoo who bothered to warn prem about it! everyone else stood around with mouths hanging open -- harman went to prem and told him. when prem tried to freeze him out, did harman give up like everyone usually does when frozen by prem? no! he doesn't. he reprimands him! ''you are already married. you have a daughter!'' oh, go bharat!!!! and of course, his was the secret medicine that magically healed prem's wounded heart -- and injected a healthy dose of (estee-style? 😆) hope into it, which totally revived that dully beating thing. and brought back ... boss-prem!
'kay, i don't care what he did before. or what he will do after. bharat rocks!!! *er.. harman? please don't do anything silly later. like .. er.. create triangles or quadrilaterals or anything, wouldja?*
wtf#4: prem running after heer again... 😍
i kinda like that he's back to running after heer. 'cause y'know s'thing? the other day i remembered all the shiv-mandir events that prem-heer have gone through:
- prem first sees heer's eyes, hears her crying for help to her god. (prem runs after heer)
- prem (the cheapie! grrr!) taking heer's photographs while she is crying for help to her god, and pretending not to be himself. (heer runs after prem)
- prem vanishes from heer's life and she finally figures that he will be at shiv-mandir. (heer runs after prem)
wtf#5: the entire jzoo coming back to india. *sigh* dunno what i feel about that, actually.
we've never quite had a chance to ever see prem woo his heer on his own -- and it'd have been sooo nice to see that, no? *sigh* why can't pbauji fake another attack instead of gleefully telling his wife in a totally brain-dead way that her bloomin' fasts are finally done some good? of all the people in the zoo, he is the one who knows how much gaali-maa hates heer, no? then why? why? why isn't he strategising to stay in can-atta till prem gets his heer? why does he imagine that when prem runs off to get heer, gaali-maa will have any other reason in her head than to stop him?
*sigh* why is pbauji such a fool?
i am tempted to think that well, at least, preet-harman will be there too. although against the evil of gaali-maa, they've been pretty ineffective so far, no?
i have a bad pheeling 'bout gaali-maa going back to india. *brrr!*
wtf#6: so. chahat. that is some kid, huh?
watching her manipulate her mother while loving her totally. watching her sass her father while not knowing him at all. watching her use the arguments of hotel-owner-vs.-client power, or how she understands the importance of a job in a person's life, or how she loves the sound of planes (like her mother? [Day dreaming]), or the intricacies of rental-lease-renewals -- i must say: heer rocks as a mom! what a lovely child she has brought up.
she comes across as a child who is utterly confident in how much she is loved, no? something which i think is the most important thing a parent can give a child. i know she is only six -- maybe she has gaps in her heart from missing a father. but considering how chahat reacted to prem (a stranger, authority figure who was reprimanding her) or to harman (a stranger to her, but familiar to her mother) -- the sheer lack of fear she had in facing any of them -- was lovely.
if chahat is krishna, then i get the feeling that i should relax about kans coming back to india. 😆
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wtf #7: ooh, forgot to add this -- so, does everyone think that heer found out everything about gaali-maa's evil intentions against her six years ago?? does anyone think that gaali-maa did additional stuff to scare heer off? i know i do. and smits does. and khushi does?
and 'cause prem-heer-are-one, does everyone also think that prem found out everything about gaali-maa's evil against heer too? would be brilliant if they both did know, no? would be even more brilliant if they both found out together -- although *sigh* after the episodes last week, it does seem like they didn't. *sigh*
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*sigh* maybe there is more stuff to wtf, but i've suddenly out of thoughts and feelings 'bout this show. 😆 maybe it's just been a long day -- coming back from the rockies, flying back home, catching up with mom, catching up with pcp. having to eat sambhar with bhindi in it. making do with french vanilla instead of pistachio ice-cream. *sigh* a long terrible day! 😆
help me and what else i'm missing out here, wouldja, please? 😃
and in the meantime, lemme see if i can cook up a prayer for us for next week? 😆 or are we too happy this week -- with boss-prem and that ''prem bhaiyya ki chahat'' flashback to need one? 😆