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Another mixed episode - but I suppose its somewhat inevitable to wrap up the show without dealing with all its characters. Overall, annoying or not - I'm glad we didn't get anything as redundant as the SF scene yesterday which was just retard level lame!
But without digressing, first things first:
* The first scene somewhat surprised me, but I like the implicit nuances of it in retrospect. For the first time - we're getting a scene where Gulaal is the stubborn resistance to stay back, while Kesar tells her to go. His 'voluntary letting her go' is obviously, just like the DV time, only for her sake... but I have to admit it surprised me in coming like that initially from him. We saw the E24 segment and sort of fore-guessed this kind of a situation, but I personally had speculated there would be some reverse psychology tact involved on Kesar's part - except, he really is telling her to go back, to go out of this mad house where all fingers point at her. I wish (for the nth time) we'd had the old PB, because a dialog like jab is ghar ke logo ke dil mein jaga kho di hai, to ghar mein jagah banakar kya fayda could have been so much more significant - so much more effective, and a much better justification of how much it hurts Kesar to prompt him to actually tell Gulaal to abide by her father's word and leave! Instead - it comes out unnecessary and lame and rather peevish from this PB, so Kesar walking in and telling her to go, well, is a little shocking!
Anyway - what I like even more is the bit where Revji immediately realizes his lapse in taking a decision for Gulaal and Kesar all by himself, only after Kesar shows up; the way he admits his impulse in the decision and admits he should have involved Kesar in the decision making is such a relief - I'm glad some people are finally beginning to learn to give him his place! He is an adult, now the sole heir of his family, Gulaal's husband, and thereby Revji's SIL - a relationship that demands much respect and obligation in such traditional Indian set-ups! I was glad Revji acknowledged his right to be involved in such decision, and not just be walked over like a mat - as has happened in most of his most important decisions of life! People have taken him for a kid, or granted otherwise, too long! Add to that Revji's final sentiment of leaving Gulaal upon Kesar's word and in his care - its like sweet redemption to the times this same Kesar has been accused of being the root of all of Gulaal's problems from all ends! Revji once called Kesar a selfish person - and today was like taking all those words back, in showing trust, and faith - not to mention respect, for this young adult! He's not OTT like PooBaa tends to be... when he says he trusts Kesar - he's saying it out of acknowledgment for Kesar himself, and not this guy who is his daughter's husband!
Of course - the quick look GK share when Kesar promises to stand up for her self respect and dignity is another of those silent exchanges. Gulaal has ceased to be 'shocked surprised' at his limitlessness with regard to her, I suppose, but she cannot help but keep realizing over and over, what how Kesar and his love is selflessness personified ! Right from the day Kesar resolved to give her every happiness in the grace time he has - and especially since her own revelation of how pure that intention has been on his part - she has rediscovered the essence of her unending importance in the life of another... not that she has been anything short of indispensable for the rest of the house... but this importance she finds for herself in Kesar's being is another level; to have found someone who is more hurt than she is, when something wrong happens for her, is a privilege she had long forgotten, and after leading a life of a decade of only giving - even though becoming a taker in a relation has come to her the hard way, now that it has, she's truly depending on it, and feels the need for it so innately. So far and deep it now goes, that when she's asked to leave the house, her appalled reaction is not for all the reasons she gives, including that she deserves the punishment - but because leaving this house (where everyone is against her) is no longer about leaving a place where she has no position or acceptance, but about leaving a place where she has him... Kesar - and in him, that person, that support, that absolute need of her, and her happiness! There is such irony in the fact that for an austere soul like her who had learned to live her life only for others - she could make the harsh decision of leaving the house previously, when people of that house did need her; as opposed to now, when she's avoided like a plague, and yet she can't walk out of the place, because in here, is her safest haven... Kesar!
* The morning scene when Kesar wakes up and asks for his tea (aww, he's such a cutie cookin up all those random chats like tu to jaldi uth jaati hai, achi adat hai, mujhe bhi uthna chiye 😆 oh Kesar!) again, Gulaal's open confession of backing out - 😲 the Gulaal backs out - and then, further asking his help, indirectly even though, cause hello, there's no way (even if subconsciously) she expects Kesar to sit down and take her expelled condition from the kitchen, or any other common place ! I'm not saying she shares her problem with him out of designs to get him to move in as her shield, but that's how reflexive her dependence on his help has become, and that's how willingly she can allow him to take over the reigns now! When she tries to protest - it is not out of reluctance of Kesar helping her, but just because there's a limit to what she can take from the witches, and she gets it so bad each time... the confidence and fight characteristic of Gulaal has so fizzled out for now!
* Kitchen Scene - Soldier Kesar walks right in and does no beating around the bush or mincing of word but declares his decision - just like that, because that's how does things right?! In your face?! 😆 Attaboy Kesar! And even if they can dish out taunts and snide cold liners at him (or rather her, behind him) isn't it awesome how not one of those Kali Devi wannabe women of the house can't stand up to Kesar's statement and say NO, she cannot enter?! Another drastic change, as we can recall, from the last time Gulaal was stopped at the door of the kitchen by Sudha, when she even had feeble support from PB and selfish support from JK on her side... Kesar's protests had fallen on deaf ears - because from then to now, GK have gone from being two warring individuals to a unit, a team! Now they stand united, and every one relents, happily, or grumbling! 👏
*Kitchen Nok Jhok - Aww again! How cute does this guy get! Goes right back to tea making - geez he's still a learner?! Aisi bhi kya rocket science hai! 🤣 - Obviously the scene is dripping of cuteness what with Kesar confessiong he got Talli to make his tea that day, and then telling Gulaal now they will take their sweet time and let the others go hungry, and again, how she just has to eat what he cooks (oh he can wish and she can dream... khana kabi banega to khayegi! 😆) and well - the entire deal of that scene - so so cute! Of course, the most glaring thing to note is his flow of pati patni mention, and holding hands... which takes me to the next point...
* When Galool ji takes all the pati this patni that talk, THREE TIMES IN ONE EPISODE without so much as raising an eye, batting a lid, gulping, clutching to her ghoongat for shield, toying with her neck piece or earrings, or just looking away ... you know the Gulaal element is so beaten down! Of course Kesar was not testing waters with her tolerance and acceptance of his repeated and legit brandishing of their pati-patni rishta - but the way he said it once, twice, thrice... it was almost like in all his banter to get her out of her morose self, react to his words and just sort of lighten the air, he was doing everything to bait her, consciously and subconsciously! It reminded of the scene of feeding each other for opening the Jai Parvatti vrat, when Gulaal had been all out trying to distract Kesar from his kill Dushyant with his eyes mode! Its interesting how these two, in getting each others attention off something get right out of their cordially accepted comfort zone and suddenly become this couple who have always been man and wife... they forgo things like, we stand a foot apart at all times, don't feed each other with our hands, never try anything coy or cute, and definitely don't go publicly adressing each other as pati patni 😲 All that matters is getting through to the other person - whatever it takes, and they aren't thinking out explicitly what to say to poke the person out of their current obsession (anger or melancholy) but this couple like ease is so natural to them - they don't even realize how man and wife they are, whatever their formal claims! Anyway - while Kesar harping about pati patni all of today was cute, and endearing, and oh music to the ears - tomorrow's precap looks even better! This is not in cajoling Gulaal - this is declaration of rights, and position, and the rishta! Gaonwalo, ye jo Gulaal hai na, isse mera deeyarvattu hua tha... par ye chaar chudail... (Rewa replaced by Sudha?!) ... inki aisi ki taisi! Main sui-saad nahi karunga... main to chala, ghar chodkar, humesha humesha ke liye !!! 😎
*jumps up and down excited about tomorrow! the blessed exile at last, Amen!*
*About MB - I'll say what I said yesterday too, there's no way you don't sympathize with this man, or not respect him. He's got legit reason to be disappointed, and his overwhelming sense of loss all over anew with the addition of betrayal has only mislead him so much that he wont entertain reasons from Gulaal - but really, he's been so reasonable and man about this entire thing... and today, he rose a notch higher on his pedestal. There is a reason he has sons like Vasant and Kesar - clearly, they have no genetic semblance of their lovely (not) mother dearest... 🤢 MB was awesome. PB can stay out of my post, since I can't do much about keeping her out of the episode. JK was... well, classic JK. 😕 Giga was actually decent. He didn't take his wife's crap sitting down. He's always been the feeble no action guy, and continues to be that - but at least that doesn't mar his sense of right from wrong, thank God! Sudha even now, doesn't seem outright witch. She's just going with the flow. But oh she's got her shock waiting around the corner, mention of Raman was promise of justice - he's not forgotten!
Talli - well... more tomorrow I suppose?! Her heart is finally in the right place. That's all I'll say for her.
Welcome to discuss debate like always,
xx
JZee
Its interesting how these two, in getting each others attention off something get right out of their cordially accepted comfort zone and suddenly become this couple who have always been man and wife... they forgo things like, we stand a foot apart at all times, don't feed each other with our hands, never try anything coy or cute, and definitely don't go publicly adressing each other as pati patni 😲 ...In response 😛
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