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Okay - the episode started well... like everyone, I was high on aww mode - but too soon, too much?! Sort of!
Anyway - before I gush about the GK scene (I should have done it without watching the last 2/3rds of the episode and it would have been a lot more happy shappy) but anyway, let me get rid of the lesser people, and their lesser matters.
* Good thing about the episode (second after GK of course) - PB wlked out in the opening scene and did not come back all 30 minutes... how exaggerated is it to hope she wont come back till 27th?! 😳
* Stage setting up for Dushyant redemption - like finally! I know, I know, I hate the space deviation from GK as much as everyone else, but seriously, Dushyant deserves a better closure than what he's got. My complain is, the redemption grounds should have started setting up last week - when the Dushyant showdown was so fresh and vivid... why put us through so many days of kitchen politics before getting here, so that now all we can think of is how every non-GK scene is just a waste of space?! Whatever. Dushyant deserves redemption, and not only does the PRECAP pave the way - wohooo at JK taking that! I swear I could punch Raman all my life and not tire, when he said ek beta nahin hain, par main to hu! main apni baa ki baat nahin taalunga 🤬 🤬 🤬 Not even funny, grrr! But what I'm saying is, apart from Raman's true face coming to the fore - there is also the sequence of Kunnu's Baa telling MB how can they have rishta from a house where one brother murders the other?! Not even with dahej now! In a way, its redemption coming in combination for Dushyant and Gulaal - see why she was living with the dark secret all alone?! See why she was singularly suffering on behalf of the entire house?! I've never supported Gulaal's execution of welfare for the family, including her decision to hide this secret - but really, if someone in the house needs to crack beyond the Gulaal has cheated us for a decade delusional exterior, MB must! He needs to see - and is probably the only one capable of half the logic needed - how Gulaal's intention makes her, if nothing else, then complete clear of any dhoka intentions! While I rejoice JK getting it in her face on account of Raman - I can hardly wait to give it back to PB. Although, I cringe at the idea of what her apology liners will be like - if her mourning was so hard to endure. But anyway - vengeance is sweet, I want her to rub her nose in regret, literally! 🤢
* Again, I do remember mentioning - and hoping - Kunal would not be getting Kesar his job - sigh! Of course this would happen. The CVs have always loved Talli ... now Kunal has been added to the list. There's no getting rid of Kulli - I can't understand the need for proving Kulli idealism over and over - like fine, we get the point! Why could Kunal just not call Kesar and pack him off for the new job? Why did we need to watch them jump away like 3 musketeers, and get the exclusive Kulli shot?! Oh shoo them away, shoo, shoo!
I know - the tracks are needed - the base line is needed - but like I said above, the CVs have truly tested us through the last few days and what should have happened promptly after the Dushyant showdown, while that iron was still hot, was pushed back, and now I for one am just impatient will time ticking and lack of GK!
Which finally brings me to their scene. Very well executed, adorably GK - and the exclusive space definitely helped. I wish we' had more follow up on them in the same episode. We're getting too many GK teasers every day - and no real substance to dwell on. I loved how Kesar took to tease her about being the guy and then made her sit like a princess while he cleared it all ... I loved the significance of him telling her that he can do all this only before her - all these low for a man kind of things, and no where else. Hasn't it always been true?! For her, before her, he's just Kesar. And she's just Gulaal. And they're equal - if he cleans up the place all night while she dozes off, she's up and early next morning before he wakes, to set up the kitchen, because whatever he may say, she knows he slept hungry because of her... I like the subtlety of that, no melodrama and point made. Of course I love the way Kesar ravenous and tired stops in his step and claims no hunger - at one word from her, and I like hos simply and without mincing words she tells him she's scared to be alone... Goes a long way to talk about her frame of mind. My heart went out to her - its not the literal dark, the literal isolation which scares her - but her current state and circumstance... her life looks its darkest, and she feels the most deserted she has in forever... and there is only him, Kesar, that she can blindly hold on to, like a log afloat in a deep stormy sea and wait for the night and its gale to pass, and make it ashore by the new morning... There is so much symbolism to that simple exchange between the two, Gulaal confessing her fear, and Kesar simply there, with her. For all the fun and silly banter he has engaged in to cheer her up - which also he candidly claims, so guileless are these two! - he knows exactly what not to make a joke of... this confession of her fear! He doesn't hug or pat or cover her... he just sits like her, hungry and tired and sleeps off for the night. Of course the best dialog has to be his about the pariksha they must take together, and come through as well... Again, my slight complain, I wish there had been some progression on that scene... perhaps because we saw it a few times in the pracap and coming up, it just felt like abruptly over... like we'd been promised more than we got... or maybe that's just me. I wont take away it relevance anyway - it's you and me against the world!
And phew - done for today. I'd rate the episode a 3/5 - only for the subtle but good execution of the GK scene and because for that opening scene I don't have the heart to lower the rating anymore;everything else is just coming too late to be appreciated enough... if they drag the matters anymore, well, it only gets worse!
Kumkum Bhagya
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