KS creatives as we have discovered are lousy with follow through. They give us leads that go nowhere, and they are utterly miserable at solving any mysteries although they're enthu enough with laying clues and red herrings all over the place.
In the mystery genre, there are classic rules of fair-play, which means that you give the viewer/reader all the clues that will help them decipher the mystery alongside the main 'detective'. The KS team of course doesn't see the need for that – ok, fine, they're not telling us a crime story – but is it too much to expect that THEY acquaint themselves with the whole story before giving us clues? Now here's a tentative list:
Things I want to know:
- That mechanic that Jai beat up? Where did he go? What did he know? Who made him disappear? How was he connected at all with the Park Raod?
- Remember that judge? When Jai-Bani go to get a quickie divorce during the Anu pregnancy mystery and Jai blanched when he heard his name and came back saying "divorce mein der hi sahi, mai us judge ke court mein nahin jaunga"?
Was Jai tried in court for the accident? But no, Nishikant Dixit decided to let Jai be tried in "bhagwan ki adalat" – so where did this judge come from? If I remember correctly there was one other lawyer type person at a party who seemed to know all about it? How? Who were all these people?
- If ND refused Jai's cheque, where did he get all that money to donate to the hospital?
- Why was Roshni Chopra holding a cheque made out to ND? That too after so many years? And Why was SHE issuing cheques? What did she have to do with it?
- That aunt from Mount Abu who landed suddenly at Rano's wedding? Who was she? WHY WHY?
- Did Bani really take Jai's money to buy Pia's necklace?
- Who tried to scare Bani in the burning house?
- Who made Bani all those 'come to Mukesh Mills' phone calls?
- Who sent Jai those blackmailing letters?
- Who was White Gloves? Who tried to kill Bani?
- Who was the man who lured Jai to the sunsaan house? Who shot Jai? WHY?
- Who sent Bani the white saree?
- Ok, this one is really killing me – What did Bani DO for 5-6 hours for a whole week in the old haveli – Jai's mom's house?
- How many lawyers does Bani have as of this moment?
- What happened to that old job of hers – that snug Rs 25000 pm waala, 9 to 5 timings and safe desk job? And that firang boss of hers would have given her 4 lakh without a blink, na?
These are the few burning questions in my mind. Do you have any unexplained mysteries? Come on, bring 'em on – no one is answering but at least we will have asked!
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