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Friends, substituting for Misti as she does updates on Thursday.
So today's show continue in the same vein as yesterday where Haldi rasam was done today. Today's episode was better as they show a more fighting spirit from Dev and Radhika is now starting to wonder about her decision. It was still not entirely to my liking as they needed to concentrate on Dev and Radhika in this episode and they filled it with unnecessary scenes. Dev and Radhika's scenes were again compromised because of their artificial track.
So good parts first and of course they relate to Dev and Radhika as usual.
Liked Radhika's confused and sad expressions in the song as now she is not sure if this is the right thing. Not much to say in the song as the song was a repeat from the first wedding. That time, Dev had looked wistful at the line "ek raja ki tumko rani hona hi tha", and today Radhika was looking sad and confused at the wordings. So one circle was finished with the song for creatives.
Anyway, the news comes at the end that Dev has been involved in a bad accident. So the next scene is of her rushing to the outside of Dev's room in the hospital (wish they had spent a little bit more camera on showing her devastated reaction but again they always rush Dev and Radhika's scenes).
This was a good scene where Dev looks at Radhika with satisfaction as he knew that she would come running. Since the autocrat RP was there (he is the one who represents society's acceptance for Radhika in her mind), so she turned away as soon as she was satisfied that Dev was not injured badly and then saw him. The doctor talked about somebody's prayers helping Dev and Dev knows that it is Radhika even though the old man as usual doesn't even bother to think about that. The scene where Dev tries to peep at Radhika was good and then his walking out to find Radhika without informing RP was excellent. RP's importance to Dev is reducing and I am happy with that.
I liked Dev confronting Radhika angrily and using his accident/death to drive a point to her. He knows that it is unbearable for Radhika to think of him dying. So he used that to drill some sense into her.
So CVs finally listened to us and gave a single line to Dev that he made a mistake when he insisted on Radhika marrying Rohan and Radhika shouldn't repeat his mistake. My question to CVs who are writing these episodes: Are you always just going to have a background tune (either from CB1 or CB2) to avoid giving them lengthy dialogues with each other? Rest of the time then can be spent on glorifying Barkha again at the expense of Dev and Kanha. Radhika of course tells him that he is not in her destiny and he tells her how one cannot live without their soul. Radhika doesn't want to accept it and runs away.
Here I liked angry and impatient Dev as this is what he is. He is frustrated with Radhika's stubbornness and he tends to lose patience with her (actually at this point anybody would lose patience with her and so I am with Dev here). But again he is clueless as to why she is doing this and that is because he doesn't suspect his cunning grandfather as the manipulator behind the scene. He still thinks that Radhika is doing it on her own out of some fear of society.
But again my question is why was the scene so brief between Dev and Radhika? Why not give Dev more scenes and cut that ridiculous scene with Gopaldas, RP, Padma and the company. The only interesting part in that scene was again Padma who is now showing fake concern at Dev's disappearance. Then she goes into that "wink wink" gleeful expression and tells Dai and Barkha's mom to leave these two alone. And we are supposed to think of her as Yasoda maiya. Anyway, glad that they are showing Padma this way. Hers wasn't innocuous reaction but to me an action of a mother who is happy that Dev and Radhika are not getting married. Another good part I liked in this part was Dev's contemptuous look at Barkha and not acknowledging her concern. So if she comes between him and Radhika, she would face his wrath regardless of what she did for them in the past.
The next scene is of Radhika's breakdown in front of Kanha. Again this was a good scene as Radhika is no longer sure if she is doing the right thing. So she asked Kanha how he could let that accident happen when she had put sindoor in Dev's name on his feet for 12 years. Again an incomplete scene as it doesn't show whether she is still doing that or has stopped doing it ever since Dev's marriage to Barkha is fixed. Does she feel guilty that his accident could be a result of her not putting sindoor anymore? But as viewers, we wouldn't know because the genius CVs (responsible for the falling TRPs of the show) are not showing it to us. So they will show a ridiculous attempt at comedy but won't lengthen Radhika's or Dev's scenes if it doesn't involve Barkha.
Next scene of Dev's haldi is obviously extended because Padma and Dai are there now. Dev comes with an angry expression and sits there in anger all the time. The three manipulators ' RP, Dai and Padma are there with expressions of sadness and reluctance. Wasn't Padma smiling in the hospital and giving time to Dev and Barkha alone as if Dev is in love with Barkha? What a turncoat this Padma is. There is no way I am convinced that Padma is on Dev's side. Rohan is and will remain her priority and she will protect his interests. But I liked Dev when he didn't acknowledge Padma's blessings or looked at RP who was showing crocodile tears and then questioned Dai sarcastically on her fake sad looks. He is angry about this forced marriage and he is openly showing it to everyone.
The complaint I have about this scene is that they are deliberately turning Dev into helpless Radhika of the first track (Radhika's marriage with Rohan). Why would Dev sit for any ceremony for a wedding he is not accepting? He is not helpless and he has a trump card of childhood marriage that works for him to claim RP title. It was logical when Radhika was helpless as she had no support from anybody. Dev is an independent person and he has more advantages than Radhika. So his obligations stopping him was understandable but not Radhika's reluctance to marry him or RP's emotional blackmail at this juncture. He is far away from that guy who was beholden to this family. That's why this scene is so artificial to me. Only thing I liked was Dev's anger that he didn't bother to hide from anybody. Glad that he is starting to become indifferent towards RP and didn't even bother to look at him.
I would be brief for the final part as again Barkha is the one who drove the events and made sure that Radhika gets Haldi. Shanti did her best to make sure that Chanda gives the haldi to Barkha. In her heart she still fears Radhika and knows very well that the marriage of Radhika is not happening only because of Radhika and nobody else. Dev is crazy about her and that's why she is being so vindictive.
The only thing worth mentioning here is Radhika's anger because she is getting more and more of an indication that she made a wrong decision. I would say that rather than Barkha's actions, it is Dev's actions and events happening to him that is causing it. She probably is not putting sindoor anymore and that has caused his accident (in her mind) or that she tried to open the chunri and the branch almost fell on him. Then Dev's words that he wouldn't be able to live without her are making her unsure. Then there are her own feelings where she is not able to give him up to anybody.
Now all the rasams happened with Radhika after she entered PB and they were due to Rohan. But it made sense there because Rohan wasn't exactly driving those events. He pretended to be sick so that he can find out the truth and in the process helped Radhika fulfill her ceremonies with Dev. So Padma is the one whose actions resulted in Radhika getting Dev's room (Kanha leela). Radhika was able to feed the first bite to Dev because Rohan was testing her feelings.
Barkha doing it deliberately brings down the essence of Kanha as well as Dev. Kanha doesn't hand out things to anybody in such an underhanded manner. He tells them to fight for their rights. He didn't fight himself in the final battle in Mahabharat but acted as a mentor to Arjun who had to do the effort. So here Dev should be doing the effort and events should not be driven by Barkha. But is it happening? No, even the low TRPs haven't brought sense to CVs that viewers don't want to see an inactive Dev or helpless Radhika.
Oh, by the way psycho Rohan is back. Even though he got on my nerves by ME, but it was a welcome relief to see him because otherwise that time would have also been given to Barkha. Anyway, he is as psychotic as before and it seems that Barkha has loyal fanatic assitants same way as RP does. So there is a loyal servant who is taking care of Rohan in Barkha's absence. So Rohan is happy that he stands a chance with Radhika whom Dev is not marrying. So are we going to have a dominance of psycho scenes going forwards where majority of the scenes would be dominated by Barkha and Rohan who stalk Dev and Radhika, respectively. So will they join forces to keep Dev and Radhika separate or will Rohan be reformed? To me a reformed grey Rohan (one who still has feelings for Radhika but is not stalkish. However, has resentment towards Dev for getting everything) makes more sense from the script point of view. But then what makes sense to viewers don't make sense to CVs. That's why we get fake triangles all the time without any logical progression.
Acting wise, it was again Avinash and Rubina. I liked Avinash in the hospital scene and Haldi scene when he was angry with Radhika and then with his own family. Rubina was good in her scene with Avinash in the hospital and in the Kanha scene. Padma was good with her turncoat expressions where she showed this hesitation and sadness in blessing Dev and was beaming in the hospital. But once again, there are minimal dialogues given to Avinash and Rubina when they are by themselves. This is an emotional track that is focused on these two and yet they are not given an entire episode where they can talk meaningfully.
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