Crooner 1.20 : Frost - UPDATED

hey priya sweetie!!!!🤗

absolutely amazing crooning...loved it!!!! the beginning of the Crooner brilliant!!!👏👏 as usual perfect quotes and great take on the epi!!!! loved how u connected the scenes with the janmashtami celebration!!!! khushi's mixing water and milk...yes power of discrimination...doodh ka doodh aur pani ka pani!!!! awesome take on the dadi-arnav scene!!! loved ur take on nani!!!😃

Kissa Ulte Kurte Ka

thanks to arnav khushi is terrified with thoughts of suhaag raat...she is so lost in her thoughts that she ends up making mistakes at the breakfast table...NK notices that she is wearing her kurta ulta and points the same to her...unfortunately bringing everyone's attention on her!!!! khushi is totally embarassed and arnav doesn't make it easier for her...she leaves the table!!! the scene did manage to activate a lot of gutter minds!!! loved mami's..."phatee saree ka brainwa holiday par hai."😆😆😆

The Lies She Tells

Anjali is leaving for the temple...arnav offers to accompany her but she refuses and also makes excuses for not letting mami join her. she leaves the car and driver at the temple and leaves to meet someone in a restaurant. when mami realises that anjali had not returned...she gets worried and calls her but anjali doesn't take her call!!! anjali is lying big time not only to the family but also her chote...she is definitely taking risks to meet this mysterious stranger!!!! btw is it or shyam or somebody else...though i personally feel that its shyam!!!

Genda Phool

arnav leaving no chance to fluster khushi...during the janmashtami pooja preparation arnav pulls khuhsi away to remind her of the suhaag raat and asks her if she is scared...khushi is speechless and arnav is having fun troubling her!!! btw loved the gende phool ki baarish!!!! "see u tonight." poor khushi!!!!😳

Jalebi Comeback

nani requests khushi to make badam ka kheer but khushi is not herself and she ends up making lots of jalebis!!!! nani and payal are concerned as she has been behaving odd since morning...moreover they know that whenever she is upset or worried she would end up making jalebis...making jalebis is her stress buster!!!!!

Promo Time

the less said better...didn't enjoy the scene at all...mami and Nk used for promoting another show of SP!!!! blah!!!🤢

Damaadji Kahan

dadi wants to know abt the whereabouts of damaadji...she questions nani, who tries to avoid the question but dadi is wants answers...finally arnav tells dadi that shyam has been thrown out of the house by him...as shyam had hurt and cheated on his di!!!! arnav leaves not before telling dadi not to mention shyam's name and specially not in front of anjali!!!!

Dadi Vs Pota (part II)

dadi follows arnav to his room and questions abt his decision and intention in throwing shyam out!!!! her allegations brings out their dark past...the tragic night when he had lost both his parents...his father had committed suicide and was also responsible for his mom death!!! dadi tells him that his mother was weak...angering him...he tells her he is not willing to hear anything against his mother!!!! dadi's constant reference to the past irks arnav... he tells dadi that how difficult it was for them to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives and move ahead in life!!! arnav wants to forget that past and move ahead but dadi is not letting him do so!!!

nani walks in to control the situation and tells them both to stop fighting...as anjali had returned from the temple!!! she tells them that for anjali's sake they should stop arguing...anjali is happy because of the janmashtami celebrations and she doesn't want to spoil anjali's mood or make her upset!!!!

Arnav- Dadi Scene

"aaj phir ek baar aap galat paksha ka saath de rahein hain. phir ek baar aap unki raksha kar rahein hain jo galat hai aur unko doshi maan rahein hain jinki koi galti naahi hai." ok am little confused dadi has not been in touch with the family since that night...refusing to even meet them...yet she knows of anjali's marriage to shyam which happened some 3-4 yrs back!!!! her words confuse me more...who is the galat paksha???? is she already aware of the reason why shyam was thrown out??? if yes then how??? how is she so sure that shyam is not wrong???

"hum chahte hai ki aap woh galti dobara nahi dohraye jo aapne pehle bhi ki thi." arnav has made a mistake in past...when??

"aapne ateet ka picha chudakar koi bhaag nahin sakta...lekin aane waale kal ko toh sudhar hi sakte hain na??? Shyam ko iss ghar se bahar nikalne ke faisley se iss ghar ke aane waala kal zaroor prbhavit hoga." dadi's dialogues are really confusing...agreed that we cannot erase our past but doesn't mean we cannot forget it. moreover why she feels that throwing shyam out will have an adverse effect on their lives???

"mera faisla tab bhi sahi tha aur ab bhi. tad galti dad ki thi, aaj shyam ki. dadi shyam iss ghar mein kabhi wapas nahin aayega." i would definitely like to know what faisle both dadi and pota are talking abt.

why did dadi leave the ashram suddenly and return to shantivan??? why the need to come back into her grand children's lives when she had abandoned them 14 yrs back??? why such intense dislike for khushi??? why she is supporting the return of a man whom she doesn't even know??? dadi aai sawaalon ka pitara laai!!!!

dadi had called their mom a weak woman what abt her instead of staying and supporting the children she abandons them and leaves. the woman she called weak...the same woman's mother takes in the children and brings them up!!! hated it when she shows her hand to nani!!!!

precap...more lies!!!!

Of Love, Lies and War

Love: Arnav's promise of 'Suhag Raat' rasam is taking over Khushi's peace of mind. Jalebi is back...along with backward Kurta and pouring water in milk glass'...much to the satisfaction of the hubby who doesn't leave any opportunity to enhance the immature wife's nervousness. He doesn't mind putting her in a spot in front of the whole family or pulling her aside to remind her of the 'promise'. Missing Phera to solemnize their wedding is last thing in Khushi's mind now, hubby dear has made sure that SR is the only one rasam she remembers. Khushi is not uttering "DM raksha karna!" anymore as I guess the woman in her is awakened to her own feelings for her husband and her nervous anticipation of the unknown territory of their relationship. Some hilarious moments brilliantly executed by the actors with eyes and smirks doing most of the talking.

Lies: Anjali's secret rendezvous with her 'mysterious' caller continues under the pretense of visiting Mandir, now under Mano-Bond's radar. Is it her own answer to her 'Chotey aab hamare nahin rahe' or her weakness to her own feelings or manipulation by Mr Jha paving his path of re-entry into RM or is it someone from their past? Only time will tell. Whatever it is, this is going to hurt Arnav who even now thinks the world of his Di and believed her when they vowed to move on from any past that hurts them...together. Di, though, is on a quest of her own...on a path of lies or hidden truths.

War: What a change a few days make. It was Monday, when Daadi walked in RM unannounced bringing with her past and memories that the siblings have been trying move on for 14 yrs. Her cold, domineering presence starts gnawing at those old scars and make them bleed, more for Arnav whose wife she's taken a strong disliking for...reason? not disclosed. She doesn't give any explanation of her abandonment of the orphans in the past, doesn't want to know how they survived these years but expects, rather demands her 'rights' as the matriarch be restored as she had reminded him the other day "haq banta hai hamara, rishte se umar se'hum aapke Daadi hai..".

She wants the Arnav of 14 years who adored his Daadi back, forgetting that boy probably died a silent death on that day and had to grow up to keep his Di and his existence from falling apart. She questions him about his decisions: past and present, disrespects his memory of his Mom by calling her a weak "Stree", incapable of taking care of her family and children. He, who has been trying all these years to keep their past from affecting their present, a past which he wanted to discard like the surname, is made to stand face to face again by Daadi, who had probably discarded them all these years. He wants to forget the past and live in the present and she believes you cant run away from the past as it decides your future. He's trying to prevent his Di suffering the same way as his mother did in the past and she believes he's taking away the rights of Anjali's unborn child to have both the parents' love. Naani arrives to put a temporary stop to the war between two generations, their convictions and their decisions.

A Barun's episode all the way: from the flirtatious hubby armed with 'pagal hai yeh ladki' eyes ,smirks and husky whisperings; to the man fighting to keep his past from taking over his present with the raw pain evident in his eyes, controlled rage against Daadi for insulting his mother's memory, his gritty determination of protecting his sister from her husband. Eyes speak volumes though cliched can only describe the who knows how to use his most important feature.

An IPK genre episode with sunny airy morning giving in to 'frosty' blast from memory past. With no sign of respite soon.

CONGRATS Suvi and Shivani!
Well deserved and Shivani's DP needs to be inducted in 'Hall of fame'😉😆

🥳🥳Congratulations Suvi, Shivani, Shy, Shwets and Kalps🥳🥳

Along with the CVs, you are also on a roll Priya!! I loved the crooner. The poem by Tolkien is beautiful...loved it. Loved the story...I think this is by far the best crooner!!!

Brilliant episode...an episode that showed us a peek into the past that made Arnav Singh Raizada the man he is today. The world knows him as a ruthless business but deep inside lies a boy who is so pained and only yearns for love. The boy who was forced to grow up overnight and was made to take up the responsibility of his fmily, the boy who had a traumatic past but chose to walk ahead in life. We got a glimpse of the past that gives us answers to many of the decisions he has taken in his life...the guy who is over protective of his loved ones...who would go to any extent to protect them from any harm (and as you say from the frost)...who selflessly takes up all the pain without letting anybody know how much he is hurt. Arnav's father and mother committed suicide and this tragedy drove Arnav to write his own destiny. He wasnt going to accept defeat and quit like his parents...he chose a path for himself that would make him a winner. He accepted every challenge that life threw at him. He became his elder sister's protector and shielded her like any brother would. I agree with you here...it was Nani who came to siblings' rescue. A woman who had lost her own daughter but stood bravely for her grandchildren because she knew they needed her. On the other hand, Dadi chose to walk away. Yesterday, we learnt that Arnav made a decision when he was 14 years old that Dadi felt was wrong! Did she even wonder why a young teenager was forced to take such a decision? Dadi reminded him of how weak his mother was. Here I felt, whatever opinion Dadi may have of her bahu, she should not have said those words. If Arnav's mother chose to walk away from her duty then what did Dadi do? Didnt she also abandon her grandchildren when they needed her the most? She left them for 14 years without once enquiring if they were alright.

She is back today but where is the concern for her grandchildren? Any person would be curious to know all the happenings...14 years is a long time! She should have been happy that her grandson had got married! But for whatever reasons known best to her, showed no iota of happiness there. It felt like she already had an agenda in mind!! If she doesnt want to recall that fateful night because of whatever reason, then the same goes for her grandkids. If she lost her beta and bahu, the kids lost their parents. As a grandmother, I expected her to take both of them under her wings and shower them with all her love especially since she knows what Arnav and Anjali have gone through. Instead of showering her love, she once again picks on Arnav and the decisions he had taken in life. Why not question Anjali? Isnt she the elder one anyway? Why is she hell bent on reminding Arnav of his past? Dadi seems so biased here. 😕

You say Khushi will cleanse Dadi of all her sins... I got the hint when I saw Khushi pouring the water into the glass of milk. I am curious to know how this will play out. Will wait and watch 😊.

I loved the way the Radha-Krishna story was narrated and how beautifully it is connected with Arnav and Khushi! The love they have for each other has been acknowledged and accepted not only by them but also by the whole family! Two orphans, where one chose to hide the pain behind a smile and the other chose to be a loner were meant to come together to wipe out the pain in each other's lives 😊. Their jeevan ki dor only getting stronger with time😳

Anjali is on her own mission😕. Whatever she is up to, she is guilty of doing so. She hasnt taken anybody into confidence. There is a storm brewing right outside Arnav's bedroom which he is unaware of! He is going to be shattered when he finds out what his sister is doing behind his back. If Anjali had problems in accepting the decision Arnav had taken for her, she should have questioned him...she has all the right to but here she is shown to be double faced! On one hand, she wants Arnav to be by her side and cries buckets when she feels he has moved away and on the other hand she doesnt hesitate to have her own game plan in place very well knowing what she may be doing is wrong. I had said this in one of the crooners that Anjali is behaving the way she is because she has again got her perfect bubble back and she is being reassured from both the men in her life.

Other thoughts:

1. It is so heart warming to see how excited Arnav is because of his SR mission. He loves riling Khushi up and takes great pleasure when he sees her all nervous 😍. Arnav and Khushi make my dil go Awww

2. The breakfast scene was hilarious...Arnav knew the reason behind Khushi's nervous state of mind but watching the expressions of the amused family was a treat. Arnav's naughty look at Khushi's ulta suit and then exclaiming that yeh ladki kitni pagal hai was so adorable!

3. Loved Barun this week. He was fantastic in each scene. I am a very proud pankha😃 loved the way he stood up to Swati Chitnis. Infact I felt in some shots, he was some notches better! The pain and turmoil in Arnav's life was just perfectly enacted! 👏👏

4. Sanaya was not far behind as the scared and naive Khushi👏 👏she makes us understand why Arnav is head over heels in love with her. Beautiful!

5. Swati Chitnis and Jayashree T were perfect.👍🏼

6. Why is that lamp and wick show using other Star plus shows for their idiotic promotion...woh singapore mein jo mann mein aaye kare, hume kya😡.