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Rabb...um, Dhikra Ve! 🤗 🤗 🤗
The so-called one-shot Take 5 has returned, due to many lovely PM's and notes, dher saara pyaar, and a couple of outright "shut-up-and-write" threats from dear friends. *cough*Savvy*cough*. 😃
Right off the bat - its hard to review a show you aren't watching on a regular basis. I'd like to say I'm still reserving judgement - but that would be a Pinocchio-ki-amma sized jhoot as I only watched the first episode.
However,they say that there be a rich minefield for snark here, so will watch. 😕 OCCASIONALLY. 😕 With trepidation. 😕 Wearing a life jacket to avoid drowning in the upcoming waterworks.
At least until the former female lead of the Voldemort of Indian TV (the-show-that-shall-not-be-named) kicks off her new show.😉
Today's Take 5 posted from the SKD (sapnon-ki-duniya for the uninitiated) house of Gopher-ve. Please wait for admission.
Go- is hiding in his bathtub, trying to escape the wrath of...
- Pher, who is on the warpath, coz her newest choli has far too much material. And her stylist messed up big time - by making a plait that actually pulled ALL the hair away from her face, instead of allowing those dreamy wisps to frame it. AMATEURS!! 😡😡😡
1. Dhikra and Dhikri , soon in Fatehpur Sikri. Or Ratnagiri - if you want to get all technical about it. Dhikra's spine finally quivers to life after this slip of a dhikri basically tells him to go fry a dhokla. Or maybe he wants to put a face to that endless kamar. Just like she desperately wants to see the face under the foliage. Star crossed lovers, indeed.
So he's decided to drop the bomb in person on her family. Coz that would really be the humane thing to do - graciously acknowledge the fawning respect accorded to the future son-in-law in a traditional Gujarati family, and then tell them to stuff his dad's proposal where the sun don't shine.
Good plan, that. 👏👏👏
2. Will you SAY something already? 😡😡 Dhikra's sidekick is frustrated, and so are we. The sphinx-like attitude is fine and dandy in front of dad, but audience maange more. We wanna see what's going on behind those beetling brows.
Turns out, he's got plans for some sort of orphanage in front of a luxury hotel. Swami-ji - we get it. You REALLY don't have to rub it in. He's the second coming of Gandhiji, Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa all rolled into one. That is, until Daddy-ji upsets his apple cart. Coz he's unwittingly doing everything he can to get his beta to reject the proposal. Or is this some sort of deep mind game he's playing with his son?
J - this be desi Tellywood, NOT an episode of 24.
3. Mommmyyy! He's a LOSER!! Kumud sobs all over her mom, and finally confesses that she's kicked him to the curb. But there's a catch, she's invited him over to explain why he kicked her to the curb, before she decided to kick him to the curb.
*Brain starts to spin*
But Ma is sensible (as Moms usually are). Bapu will listen to you, bitiya. All you need to do is tell him that your dream prince actually turned out to be a spineless earthworm. And then we can all go back to the Internet Cafe to skype with the next guy on the list. 😃
4. Gust of Wind blows, and he's here...
Say BHAT???? 😡😡😡
Ok, I know we have a strict policy of no comparison across shows here, but What The...? Are Dhikra and Dhikri going to dance to Teri Meri next, and then he forcefully marries her for 6 months???
Ok, deep breath. Thandi saans andar, and garam saans bahar.
5. Week 2 begins with a bang, as Step-Mummy-ji prepares to consume yet another sizeable chunk of the Bhansali budget on her expensive sarees. (She was out shopping today, hence no screen time) Seriously, Is there a tradition in Indian soaps that the female lead is the one most resembling a panhandler? Come aan, tells us! 😕
But credit where credit is due. Apparently His Eminence, the most revered Bhansali-ji - is treating this as though it were a 3 hour movie, not a daily show expected to last until kalyug comes to an end. For which I applaud him. Dil se. 👏
What else explains that within the space of the first week -
- Dhikra dives in lake,
- Dhikri dives in lake,
- Dhikra proposes to Dhikri (okay, his dad does),
- Dhikri falls in love with Dhikra's eyebrows,
- Dhikra rejects Dhikri,
- Dhikri julienne chops Dhikra down to about six inches with a single skype call,
- Dhikra is forced to travel to Dhikri's house, so she can deliver the ass-whupping in person.
Whew. Busy week.😲😲😲
The audience breathlessly awaits that first meeting when his eyes fall upon her ethereal loveliness, the heavens fall, and he hotfoots it back to Dubai - to shower his dad with wet sloppy kisses and express his undying gratitude.
Who knows, he may even...Crack. A. Smile. 😲
Please...for Devi Maiiya's sake - just...don't have him dance with a white towel.
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