I actually found the ep *almost* boring.😲😕 Maybe because of excessive expectations?
Was not impressed to the extent I had counted on being with Balraj's return to overt villainy. Thought he'd be striding the screenpresence scale like a charismatic colossus.😃 He didn't - not quite.
The intensity, the good acting, the terrific dialogues were *all* in place.⭐️ And yet, the blaze was not quite all I've been anticipating for ages.
Maybe a bit more time to get into character will have Raj Zutshi recapturing that magnificent vibe he created in his previous time on MEIEJ.😊
But one thing is for damn sure.
Balraj is not even a whit of replacement - even temporary - for RK and Madhu.
He was enough *before* the series brought DVD together on screen.
And now, he can complement them. He can't compensate for either one of them, and most definitely not both.
One does understand that the CVs have to manage without one lead (the safety net of VD's apparently plenty of banked scenes irregardless), but the other lead is still very much there.
And having Balraj rave about Madhu for much of the ep did not compensate for Madhu's only presence for a lengthy duration being via mention and photograph.
Bizarre that all the RK-Radha reconciliation scenes are happening in the absence of the other three Bhatias.😕 So the viewers should forget for now that those three are a very integral and valued part of Radha's life.🤢
Sincerely hoping that whatever happens of Balraj's plan to murder, Madhu's and RK's 7-ferey wedding gets done soon.😳
Do not want the stardom track commencing with Madhu an aadhhi-adhhoori wife to distract from the stardom and probable Pygmalion-Galatea track.
Let the wedding get done, the conjugal relationship firmly established, and then the focus properly on Madhu becoming a star.😊
Leaving the marriage incomplete right now raises the spectre of leaving the stardom track halfbaked midway to skip back and forth.😕
Let each track get through to its point, and *then* segue to join into the next track.😃
Been waiting for the romance and stardom tracks, and would really like to be able to enjoy each in full.😳
The romance will be an integral part throughout😳, but the stardom track needs to have the focus at least for a while (with the romance serving as backdrop rather than battling out for track primacy).😊
And an incomplete wedding is just going to leave the couple's focus - individually and together - exasperatingly splintered.😕
Edited by leelaa9 - 12 years ago