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AreYaar

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Posted: 13 years ago

LOL most of the epi played out pretty much as I expected...including what Mr. Sharma thought would make the fans very "happy"😆

Anyways I do want to list out the few interesting/amusing things about the epi:

1) Megha's entire "I've been your biwi forever" nautanki...like she just wanted to pick up from wherever the Rashmi track left off...these type of scenes always show more Aakanksha than Megha...but sadly this was a moment which required more depth from Megha, not nautanki...a little realization (if only) of what she's put Mohan through...but nope...so we move along. ...they didn't give her good dialogues either...the bit about the shoelace was so RANDOM that I was rolling my eyes😆...I swear I don't mean this in a weird way but if Ashnoor had been doing this scene, she'd have elevated it to another level...that is the connection her and Mohan share...Megha is just not in that space...she comes across as artificial and disconnected.

2) Mohan's reaction when he realizes what Megha is saying...ignoring how lamely that entire bit was written with Megha busy thoosoing her "jab humaari shaadi hogi" lines down his throat, Kunal was BRILLIANTTT👏...and even later on when Megha randomly walks away and he's watching her in part disbelief, part shock just unable to process it all...superb stuff from him.

3) The HUG...oh yes I was very overjoyed, Mr. Sharma😆...you know the fans SO well👏...obviously if you give them a hug, baaki jo down the drain storyline hai won't matter to them...we LOWE steroids😳😆

All the dumbness aside, this bit was VERY well enacted by Kunal...I did sigh for a bit to lament over what this moment COULD have been had the story played out with the sensitivity it should have had...but then I resigned myself to the inevitable...Megha toh I just can't feel anything for anymore but I did feel for Mohan in that bit...his emotions, what that moment meant to him...the way he hugs her back, the way he holds her face...about to kiss her forehead before the phone rings😆...seriously they deffo changed the ringtone to let us know how irrevocably the show has changed.

4) Mohan's voice sounded a bit POSSESSED when he says "achha laga sun ke" on Riddhima telling him her dying father is doing better now😆

5) That bit of emoting from Kunal when Jeeji/Nanhi try to tease him and Megha and say that they want to take Megha back into the house...the way he looks at Megha there...and even that last hearbreaking smile he exchanges with Megha before she goes back into the house...fantastic acting.

btw Megha for her part is in FULL ON TEENAGER mode...jaise life mein pehle kabhi pyar nahin hua, pehle kabhi shaadi nahin hui...MASTTT mood mein hai ekdum😆

6) Now on to the one bit that could have gone either way and I wasn't sure of how they'll approach it...but I found this to be the most interesting bit of the epi...the Mohan-Guru convo...cuz it sort of encapsulates a lot of reactions...Guru's first reaction of "KAUN Riddhima, KAISI Riddhima" as he bursts out laughing thinking Mohan is joking...similar to some of the audiences reaction when they first heard of this ridiculous track.

Then Guru maaroing that line about "maine kaha tha daaru peena buri baat hai"😆...such typical Guru reactions...😆...but Mohan making him realize the seriousness of what has happened and the fact that he was SOBER when he made this decision...can't blame alcohol or anything else...he went into this with a clear head...and I personally appreciate the fact that they showed him owning up to the RESPONSIBILITY of it...that shaadi is not a JOKE...yes the way this was shown in the show toh ended up being a joke only but Mohan saying that if he's married her, he has to nibhaao it...for THAT I appreciate that they kept his core traits intact atleast...cuz it isn't even about mahaanta...Mohan wasn't one to shirk any responsibility he takes on...even if it has played out in a stupid manner this time.

I liked that bit of dialogue back and forth in b/w where Guru tells him love is above all this and later on Mohan tells him responsibility is bigger than love...also that bit where Guru talks about Mohan being the kind of person who never leaves anything as unfinished business...reminded me of that vintage Mohan dialogue about how use koi kaam aadha adhura pasand nahin hai.

I liked that Mohan's focus is to tell Megha the truth but dunno how long that will last given the way Rondee showed up in the end...and the precap toh...LMFAO the most maha melodramatic saas-bahu type b.s...two "patnis" praying to bhagwaaan to keep their "pati" Mohan always khushhh🤣

My god is Rondee ki rondee shakal toh just kills any scene she shows up in😆

I want to know when Mohan is going to talk to NANHI...the Vyas family seems to be in marriage prep mode unless Mohan tells them the truth and puts a stop to all this...

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Posted: 13 years ago

First, the paisa vasool parts of your post Nurey ji...

Originally posted by: AreYaar

1) Megha's entire "I've been your biwi forever" nautanki...like she just wanted to pick up from wherever the Rashmi track left off...these type of scenes always show more Aakanksha than Megha...but sadly this was a moment which required more depth from Megha, not nautanki...a little realization (if only) of what she's put Mohan through...but nope...so we move along. ...they didn't give her good dialogues either...the bit about the shoelace was so RANDOM that I was rolling my eyes😆...I swear I don't mean this in a weird way but if Ashnoor had been doing this scene, she'd have elevated it to another level...that is the connection her and Mohan share...Megha is just not in that space...she comes across as artificial and disconnected.

...obviously if you give them a hug, baaki jo down the drain storyline hai won't matter to them...we LOWE steroids😳😆

All the dumbness aside, this bit was VERY well enacted by Kunal...I did sigh for a bit to lament over what this moment COULD have been had the story played out with the sensitivity it should have had...but then I resigned myself to the inevitable...Megha toh I just can't feel anything for anymore but I did feel for Mohan in that bit...his emotions, what that moment meant to him...the way he hugs her back, the way he holds her face...about to kiss her forehead before the phone rings😆...seriously they deffo changed the ringtone to let us know how irrevocably the show has changed.

.Guru's first reaction of "KAUN Riddhima, KAISI Riddhima" as he bursts out laughing thinking Mohan is joking...similar to some of the audiences reaction when they first heard of this ridiculous track.

Then Guru maaroing that line about "maine kaha tha daaru peena buri baat hai"😆...such typical Guru reactions...😆..

I liked that Mohan's focus is to tell Megha the truth but dunno how long that will last given the way Rondee showed up in the end...and the precap toh...LMFAO the most maha melodramatic saas-bahu type b.s...two "patnis" praying to bhagwaaan to keep their "pati" Mohan always khushhh🤣

My god is Rondee ki rondee shakal toh just kills any scene she shows up in😆

I want to know when Mohan is going to talk to NANHI...the Vyas family seems to be in marriage prep mode unless Mohan tells them the truth and puts a stop to all this...

So basically, I was ROFLing at most of those parts in bold - and at others, I was just shaking head at the irony of things. When I said the "title" was promising - with 🤓 - it was in a "wry" tone yaar, obviously!

Two things stood out for me in the entire episode.

- It breaks my heart a little each time Kunal pulls off Mohan the way he does. I can't really say how or why - but it does. I can't really get over the ambivalence of wanting to be so proud of this artist and wanting to throw something at the people who wasted such a gem of a show!

- The cynic apparently is alive and kicking! Now that she can do nothing else of her independent discretion, it seems she has taken to letting her cynicism shine in the undertones that cannot possibly be detected by the likes of the genius creatives. They're distinct and sharp - cynicism(s) - but they'd miss just about every target who stands in the "happy camp" SK was banking on.

Anyway. To Mohan. (Bhavna -you predicted so accurately. I'm insufferable after all... Taking my words back and eating them for dessert after dinner)

Kunal's done what he's been doing all these days, again. He's found that part of Mohan which will still make sense and connected himself with it. As a viewer I find myself following his cue so effortlessly - it's not even real! Somehow in those moments, like all his ace scenes recently, you're just compelled to put aside what he's done only a couple episodes ago! The majorly out of character distortion to his state of thought process. All you see there is a Mohan he has picked up from the moment he walked out of the Vyas house so defeated - who finds the whole Megha and surrounding too much of a dream! It somehow reminded me of his monologue to Guru about the farmhouse, about how Mohan Bhatnagar in the middle of it all had fooled himself to believe the dream was all real. This is like the exact opposite. The reality is so unreal and impossible to him - he DOES NOT blink!!! I thought it was SUCH a feat the way Kunal's eyes just DID NOT MOVE! I'd think it so possible that he didn't need glycerin for the tears in this scene, because just KEEPING his eyes so damn stark open would tear them up the way he did tear - one clear thing rolling down, then the next...

Actually, I'll try and go in order. There were just a zillion nuances to his part which deserve mention and I'm so likely to skip half! Like the way he just stares at her without blinking at that aji sunte ho - the disbelief was SO perfect! The way he shakes his head to himself, looks to the Vyas house, turns back to find an empty balcony of his own... and then - aah, the heartbreak for the zillionth time! - the way he goes through that motion of disappointment and resignation and the drag his life feels in that moment - the way he runs a hand through his hair partly telling himself to get a grip and partly just so spent with the exhaustively longgg day that this has been! The upheaval of it weighs him visibly... and his feeble need to be the Mohan he is, the one who just bounces back - by facing facts or ignoring them in the sight - but does!

And then just as he makes to step towards his place - there she is again! The way she rattles off, and the way Mohan just does not dare to blink - there's almost a masochistic wishfulness about the fact that he DOES NOT want the "seeming" truth/dream to disappear - when the at the very first indication of her snapping of fingers and announcing IT IS REAL - he so reflexively just STEPS back, clamps his mouth - like he'd not trust even the slightest sound to dispel this - and at the same time, even thought it's a forgotten truth atm, his marriage with Ridhima, I feel like some part of his shock - which seems suspiciously akin to even horror - is subconsciously in reaction to HOW THE TABLES HAVE NOW TURNED ON HIM! The way he just recoils, and sort of "closes" in even physically, the way his arms sort of tight grip around his own person, that self hug - it feels like such a strange version of alarmed self guard, and then the way his hand just shakes, shakes SO visibly, his fingers almost tilting towards her, like he'd ALMOST dare to touch her and see, BUT CAN'T!!! He's SO devoid of the capability of "reacting" beyond the growing and further growing disbelief and parallel comprehension that this IS true - I almost think the "happiness" that should result in such a reaction from the coming true of THE dream of his life, is amiss, not just because he's SO UTTERLY stumped - but because... somehow, the "weight" does subconsciously act on him... The weight of their altered circumstance...

And when Megha tells him she'd leave if he didn't talk - BOY OH BOY Kunal!!! - the way he relays this absolute inability to do something - like his OWN physical verbal or any such response is somehow just BEYOND his voluntary control, and yet the "struggle" to STOP her, is SO visible in his eyes, in his face!

Aah. Words can't really fill in for Kunal here. If I was honest, I forgot to feel for Mohan. I was just in sheer awe of the every nanosecond of his emoting. Like I was one dimensionally observing just that - except, I'm QUITE sure I wasn't.

Because sadly, it seems, there was also the one thing that seems to get to me more than anyone else here - apparently - or you people just do a better job at curbing it - Megha. I'm not kidding when I say I was this far from wanting to harm something physically! My CONSTANT reaction to her was 😳 😳 😳 😳 😳 😳 and more of it...

For the life of me I could NOT help but compare with the farmhouse and Rashmi parts where Megha HAD been given this part to play with sheer abandon, where she HAD portrayed the "girl" side to her - and all that while I could only think how much I had connected with it back then, and how EVIDENT and JARRING the disconnect now was! It made me redeem Ak more than I have managed in a while, because it suddenly seems to me, that the lack of a script has MUCH more to do with her disconnect than she herself! When they showed that bit where she walks away and then FOCUS on HER expressions - I mentally gagged! There was a Megha, who AMIDST ALL her frolicking and role playing as Mrs. Bhatnagar had been SO perceptive and sensitive to Mohan's SLIGHTEST changes! And there is this Megha, the one who thinks she is TRULY set to be his wife now, so OBLIVIOUS of how unusual his reaction has been? THIS GUY, who's MOST sentimental high moments have been marked by SOMEHOW invading her "physical" space - STEPS AWAY! Doesn't just step away - looks shocked, in not a way you could outrightly call "pleasant"! Can she see HIM doing a song and dance? No! Can she even see the SMILE? Can she see the mysteriously dark FEAR in his eyes? The horror? No... amazingly, she can't. The way she transitions from all those weird ass faces she makes while she's looking away from him and then suddenly goes into this sentimental high with crying and laughing and whatnot at once ... sighhh! Megha is SO DOOMED. And it does not help AT ALL - when you watch Mohan AND Megha in the SAME screenspace! While Kunal outdoes himself in the most unbelievable manner with every new level of unfathomable that the creatives hit - Ak just becomes so much more apparently off! And Megha... just puts me off. Which is basically me avoiding bad words and saying this euphemistically...

Anyway. Mohan and Kunal - in one single sentence - cause me to lose perspective of space and plot around THEM. It's just them. For those moments, I can't seem to really hold onto the nonsense this track is. There's some voodoo here - I can't think of any other reason 😆

Nurey I wish I could ask you to cut and chop the Megha bits from the entire scene and do just Mohan's part. But that is going to be both tedious and pointless... I wish I could get some filters for my own self to block out Megha. I can't say what's harder to express in words, how truly in awe Mohan puts me, or how truly off Megha does! 🤓

@Mohan Guru - aah, just word. I said on the last thread. I sort of hate the creatives ALL the more for their preferential usage of Mohan's sensibility to suit THEIR cheap gimmicks! It's what Hope said one of the days. For a guy whose broken a billion promises - the ONE he keeps is made to these nobody people. And yes marriage IS more serious technically than any other promise he's made and his solemnity to stick to it IS Mohan typical. But not funny how they choose when Mohan gets to be NOT typical and marry off Rondee :in obligation and favor" and when he gets to be logical and talk about marriage being no sham or game! I know they'll turn enough viewers on their side pulling off a mahaan Mohan after all. But the saddest part is how EVERY fundamental making him mahaan is wrong! How did he reach the hospital? How and when did he stop thinking about marriage being a LIFELONG affair WHEN he was getting married, but thinks so of it NOW... If Mohan was thinking LIKE he thinks now, he would have been SURE to not marry her - he just technically RUINED it for this girl! And the "logical" Mohan would KNOW that being mahaan in one moment is not worth becoming the villain for the rest of his life! Anywayyy... Guru talking of how he owes Megha and them rest his responsibility is equal parts ridiculous and sensible. Ridiculous, because really Guru? What about this girl he married? OFFICIALLY? (because telly warrants mandir stuff as legit without legal papers and stuff!) Sensible because YES! EXACTLY! The Mohan Bhatnagar we know WOULD have FIRST owed EVERYTHING to the people in HIS priority. Megha may have taken so much longer than needed by "creative design" to come about - but heyyy! Who ASSURED her HE WOULD MAKE IT ALL RIGHT? When you think of it in a way, how could Megha even DREAM of the fact that moments is what it would take for Mohan's claims to be whitewashed by a wedding he's compelled into?! 😲 Yes she is ridiculous and dancing around in the rain... she SHOULD worry about WHERE he is, HOW he is... if he hasn't HURT himself... but could she in her worst nightmare anticipate he would "go out and MARRY another girl" in the matter of what I suppose was mere hours? 🤓 So Guru DOES make sense... in his own way...

@ Cynic's work. Nurey think you got it all. Guru's "kaun Ridhima, kaise Ridhima" sounded ENTIRELY the cynic's doing 😆 to echo the audience as you said! The change of the ringtone - I'm starting to think it IS the cynic's doing to WARN the audience 😆 Even the Aji Sunte Ho... in fact the whole Megha goes all biwi on Mohan part seemed like the cynic's bitter-cynical goodbye to what she had once woven with such love for her audience! She TOTALLY ran it down here. Literally got Megha to repeat play herself and it made SUCH a mockery of the entire thing... in a pathetic way, seem's like a cynic's grudge...

@ Nanhi... hmm. I dunno. I can't really think anymore where NBT is concerned. Mohan was fantastic. This show has gone to the dogs. Why can I not make myself stop watching it already?! Sighhh.

Edited by without-fathom - 13 years ago

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Swetha

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Posted: 13 years ago

Me too Res..😎

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Fab post by u Anu..👏⭐️

U have pointed out all the Best and worst of today's epi.. really well..⭐️

Agree with ur post completely..!

Best part of today epi was the Precap,, for me..🤣

Jai Ho CV's..!👏⭐️

What an wonderful way to destroy such a beautiful show..!!!👏⭐️😡

I'm DEAD sure.😆. there will b a MAHA EPI by this weekend..😛 or by next weekend maximum..😛 when the truth of M's marriage with R will b out..🥳

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Posted: 13 years ago

Well, Wad do I say abt the episode'.

1) Megha is suffering from Multiple personality Disorder, in one minute she turns into a teenager and the next minute into a dukhiyari mode. The way she was uttering lines abt decoration, yeh time hain aane ka blah blah and then suddenly crying and saying not at all effective ILU' blah

2) Loved Mohan taking his steps back each time Megha trying to say something abt her so called lowwwee' The effect of " Sach tho yeh hain ki main tumse pyar karta hu megha" is still in my head and today I didn't even consider the blink n miss Ilu from Megha.

3) I have written this as a reply to Jzee how much drastic differences we can see in the characters of the same show ' copy pasting it '

4) "Compromise" That's the word I was looking for... it's a compromise for us to watch the show since the Mohan shoot out and Megha's Khoon bhari maang episode.
I really applaud KKK for his dedication to his profession and bringing out his best even in such drastically changed or compromised script...

5) Wad do I say abt Megha, the most compromised character...
Megha was a widow still mourning over her deceased husband but too strong to give out her low side in front of anyone, fighting with every small aspect as to buy her son a cricket bat or to adjust the money to compensate for groceries...

6) A woman who pushed mohan away even when he was helping her get rid of an eve teaser in the midst of the mohalla (after the shaadi ka ad in newspaper) is now decorating his house and doing rain dance and now confessing and hugging him on the road where all mohalla people can see...

7) Guru said these lines "IS baar tumhe kadvi dava aur Zeher ke beech main pharak hi nazar nahin aaya" is now telling him to break the shaadi , once who gave misaal of his amma babuji stories...

8) Now I am more worried abt Nanhi's heart break more than Megha as I found Mohan n Nanhi relationship much more worth sticking for rather than this butchered lowwwe story'

9) In the precap I donno whether I am right or wrong but I found the mangalsutra missing from Rondee's neck '..

10) I don't understand as to believe that SK is the same man who believed in the old NBT and trusted that KKK could do justice to the character. He was the one who hired SG, the first director (What's his name?) and Maan for this show and had no problems running it successfully for 5 months. And now I understand the channel is dictating the show but least he can do not to give silly and lame statements which will make us lose the respect we wanted to give u for the first 5 months of Old NBT.

11) We are not the teenagers or hormone ruled girls who would ogle at the lowwwe birds' or the dumb aunties who would be shocked and throw the aarti ki thaali down when we see Mohan getting married to Rondee. But anyways some of us won't even come under the trp counting system. Hence enjoy ur drama and be happy with ur jolly well increased 0.3 trps.

12) One last point … Is this the same person who mouthed lines like " Amar ki begunahi par yakeen… chahiye" and now "Baat nahin karni .. theek hain main jaaoon" blah blah. I seriously wonder how she was when she fell in love with Amar and all their puppy love/college days. I am tired of seeing Megha, I would rather prefer the old Mrs Vyas even when she didn't have any feelings for Mohan.

Edited by bhavi20_s - 13 years ago

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AreYaar

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Posted: 13 years ago

Originally posted by: without-fathom
Erm. reserved? Which means I'll go watch the episode then. The title sounds promising 🤓

HOW is the title sounding PROMISING??😆...It's just signifying that the epi was predictable on many levels...😆...since we'd accepted that the marriage was for real, it was expected ki kuch aisa hi dikhaayenge when Mohan comes back😆

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Aditi

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Posted: 13 years ago

i am super excited and at the moment jumping like a kid...the scene i was weeping thruout and honestly it was mohan aka kunal who was touching me to the core and megha aka akanksha seemed like more a imposition than a part of the scene...

i wonder how a mutual scene can be taken to the sky by one actor only...if KKK can do this in a serial with minimum takes and no script to prepare beforehand then wat wonders can he do in movies where he can hv indefinite takes and a bound script before signing on the dotted line...

i am currently speechless...so only this much i can write now...trying to find words to express myself more later...

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Mamta

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Posted: 13 years ago

Nice analysis Anu.. but was there anything for analysis at all... anyway I didn't like anything in the episode except Kunal... at least his character is still old Mohan Bhatnagar... varna aaj toh guru ka bhi kalyan ko gaya...

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AreYaar

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Posted: 13 years ago

Originally posted by: -Swetha-

Best part of today epi was the Precap,, for me..🤣

Jai Ho CV's..!👏⭐️

What an wonderful way to destroy such a beautiful show..!!!👏⭐️😡

I'm DEAD sure.😆. there will b a MAHA EPI by this weekend..😛 or by next weekend maximum..😛 when the truth of M's marriage with R will b out..🥳

LOL you mean for another week or so Mohan won't tell Megha the truth about his marriage to R? Haan woh toh MAHA EPI ke liye hi save karenge...DOUBLE dose of STEROIDS😎😆

Aur usse bhi agle mahaepisode mein Riddhima ka truth reveal karenge? Whether she's a psycho or if she's going to suddenly DIE and get lost from the story😆

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Aditi

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Posted: 13 years ago

anu...brilliantly written about KKK...i wonder if he knows wat he is made of...i also wonder how does it feel to be carrier of such talent and then belonging to a industry that can never do justice to him...