PR Today: Comedy Circus 3: April 26, 2013 - Page 3

Pallavi my dear,

You are in for a bad shock re: your sole prediction, but I am so glad that you agree with me re: Arjun's stab at playing the Sensitive New Age Man. When he is not doing that, he is generally found with his mouth half open, like a goldfish.

I did not find anything worth making fun of today, so you are all spared another of my far from concise takes on PR, but as for your guess as to the future, your score is nil.

But you are spot on re: all you assorted peeves about the CVs, especially the curious lack of all that baby equipment for Pari being lugged across to the kholi with her. Onir has now, by not atking an auto and denying himself a vada pav, managed to boy a feeding bottle (what for?), a cake of baby soap and half a litre of milk.

- Ovi leaves, not with Manav the previous evening , but on her own the next morning, to "find the old Ovi' who was always happy and not insecure. The rain sequence between her and Arjun is very much for real. Her farewell video message to him was surprisingly well written and delivered. and the whole scene was convincing and moving.

- True to the PR rule re: babies, there is going to be another Arjun-Ovi baby on the way soon, that is a dead cert. All those claiming that the stillborn baby was not Arjun's (not that I ever understood how that would help bring their beloved amar premis together again, seeing that Onir is still among the living) because they had not shown a roll on satin sheets, will now have to eat their words, for this time it was all shown beyond any doubt, of course in a discreet fade out. Alas for the ArVi hopefuls!

- Manav looks on the verge of delivering all the slaps that Arjun had escaped at the anniversary party.

- Onir's friend, who has full faith in him - was shown making incomprehensible references to his believing that he could never be guilty of organ trafficking, You are absolutely tight, Pallavi, the CVs have clearly mixed up their cue sheets, for last I heard, he had been held guilty of baby swapping, not organ trafficking.

As for DK on Friday, I tend to see him as an oasis of quiet among the hysteria that floods PR, as I have written in one of my earlier posts on this thread. But I am with you about that frightful oyster satin with red facings dressing gown, coupled with the re-disappearance of his moustache.

Ah yes, the high point of today's episode. We did not have to see Purvi at all, and thus were spared the wigs and all the rest.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: pallavi25

Finally watched Friday's episode on Sunday night repeat...and finally got my new laptop too! So Im back 😃

PR is sinking to the depths of delinquence! Arjun was a wet rag, crying incessantly! I was expecting to see snot dripping down his nose the way he was sobbing the whole time!😆

DK the wise sage was weird as usual in his orange? 😕satin dressing gown and his lectures on the pavitra rishta of marriage...what marriage was he talking abt?

The modelling agency lady had the worst accent and said the stupidest things. How can Ovi be a supermodel? Shes way too short and doesnt have the height or figure. These Balaji ppl must live under a rock! They have no idea abt anything! 😆

And why the hell did Arjun bring Pari to the kholi without all her gear or her cradle? He didnt even supply her diaper bag or the plastic shes carried in! Not even her stroller...he knows Onir doesnt have a job, how on earth will he buy all the supplies for the baby? 😕

I have given up on Purvi, that girl/woman is demented and delusional. I really think even the CVs hate her now, they give her the worst wigs, make her spout the worst dialogs and have destroyed her character completely. Shes like a pendulum, Pari meri beti, nahin Ovi ki beti, nahin meri beti, nahin Ovi Arjun ki beti...ad infinitum. Today probably poor Pari will be shuttled back to Arjun again and then Ovi will return to Arjun to fulfil her pavitra rishta and pavitra duties of bringing up her husband's najayaz baby...😆

Everyday the CVs change tracks completely, first this way then the other way...its like Ekta changes writers every morning and the new one has no idea what they showed the day before.

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My dear Tejaswini,

I am delighted that you liked this one so much; it is a new genre for me, and I was a tad tentative about it.

Yes, all the characters, especially Arjun and Purvi, are getting to be beyond depressing. I think I wrote all these 3 posts more as a catharsis than anything else. Let us see if the future episodes provide enough material for this kind of writing,

I saw your post on DK after I read your reference to it here, and I was very pleased at the identity of our views on the funniest line that day. But I must say, my dearest girl, that I am beginning to develop a lot of sympathy for DK, and I do not at all agree with Janhvi that he is unfeeling towards hi son and the predicament he faces now.

See it this way: DK is a very withdrawn, quiet and dignified man (so long as he has his moustache, that is!😉) and he is not given to OTT behaviour ever. His son first dismays him by wanting to ditch Ovi after a public engagement, and to marry Purvi. He accepts that for the sake of his son.

Next his son abandons his home and his name and sets himself up as a car mechanic to please the mother of his beloved. He gets shot trying to rescue her. DK is stoic thru all that, and is looking forward to his son being happy in his marriage.

What happens? On his wedding day, Arjun turns up after doing a no show at the ceremony,, with Ovi in tow, and announces that he has married her because Purvi wanted him to, would not give him any time, and would not take no for an answer. DK cuts up rough then, but comes around later, partly because he has a lot of affection for Ovi.

Now, there is another first class scandal, involving his son, his child by his former (NOT ex) beloved, and this child has been fraudulently substituted for Arjun and Ovi's dead child,

What do people expect him to do- fall on Arjun's neck, weep paternal tears, and ask his son to get rid of Ovi and reinstate his old flame (of course after finding some way to ease out Onir as well)? In his place, I would have given Arjun the tongue lashing of his life.

That DK does not do that, but talks to Arjun calmly and clearly about what he has to do now, is proof of how different he is from the hysterical bunch of nitwits that populate PR. And for that I was grateful.

I hope you are keeping well and looking after yourselves properly.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Dear Friends,

You are probably as astonished by the title of this piece as by my sudden reappearance, like Lazarus from the grave. It feels rather like being buried, PR does these days, buried under a whole truckload of junk. So why have I turned up again, you might well ask.

Now in my old PR Today posts, I have, as many of you might remember, written with great warmth and affection, about Arjun Kirloskar as he was, and because of him, about Purvi as she was as well. I have rejoiced with them, worried with them, fought for them with more than half the forum, and mourned with them. But all that, alas, is long gone, and for a while, in my infrequent posts under this rubric, I raged at them for their follies, individual and joint, and at PR as a whole as it went steadily down the tubes. I am too old and too cynical to be anyone's fan, and I wrote what I felt, with no apologies for it being 'my POV absolutely'. Whose else would it be anyway?

By now, I have no energy left for raging at our amar premis, or even at PR. So I have decided to start laughing, not with PR, but at PR. And let me tell you, folks, such is the abysmal quality of the script these days that even making fun of the goings on takes a lot of effort. But it does me good, and maybe it will do some of you some good as well, so here goes.

Statutory warning: This series will be irreverent and written with tongue firmly in cheek, so all those still with stars in their eyes for the amar premis are forewarned: this is not for you. Nor do I have any intention of entering any more into long, repetitive and convoluted arguments over the merits of individual characters or their (mis)deeds. So, my dear friends, come here only if you want to join me in laughing at the comedy circus that is PR today.

I must also confess that left to myself, I would have posted these occasional takes on someone else's thread, as I did for the first two (which I am now posting separately for those who with a taste for pronounced satire). But a couple of young friends, Pallavi and Vasu, were kind enough to insist on stand alone posts. No one is immune to flattery, least of all myself, so I complied.

So now you know whom to blame for this infliction! I hasten to add that it will not be a daily infliction, which should come as some relief!😉

PR Today: Comedy Circus 3: April 26, 2013

Arjun: I learn that there is a sudden shortage of glycerine in Mumbai, and a look at PR today revealed why. The whole available stock has been used up by Arjun Kirloskar. Today, he cries from beginning to end, for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways, but boy, does he cry! The sensitive New Age man, in short.

He cries as he watches Purvi weep all over Pari and smother her with wet kisses (someone should warn the parents of the cute baby who plays Pari against the very high chances of infection to their little angel from being smooched so often by all and sundry).

He almost cries with guilt when Ovi smashes the glass and cuts her wrist. He just stops short of crying gratefully all over Soham, who, being genuinely macho, would have rebuffed him in no uncertain terms if he had tried.

Then when Purvi is about to hand Pari back to him, he crinkles his eyes in teary anguish, and actually bats his eyelashes. No girl could have done it better, and I watched fascinated.

He stops crying briefly when Purvi, with the hapless Onir in tow, descends on the Kirloskar mansion, and plays the doting aai to the hilt, and the amar premis coo jointly at their progeny, their heads inches away from each other. The one who looks ready to burst into tears then is Onir, whose fifth wheel status was never more obvious. He is pitiable as he looks on cluelessly at his wife and her former(?) lover rejoicing jointly at their child. A bizarre scene, like something out of a French farce.

When he turns up at the Dutt kholi, and hands Pari back to her asli aai, he pulls out all the stops. Pari ko tumhari zaroorat hai, he declares in a quavering bass, with a quivering face to match. He is lucky that the wind did not change at that moment, or else, as we were always told in the fairy stories, he would have been stuck with that mould of Paternal Anguish (capitals intentional) for life. Or more to the point, for the rest of PR, which is a fate (for me) too awful to contemplate.😉

Finally, as DK, after having asked his son, who is so deep in his sorrow that he prefers to mourn in the dark, whether he could live without Pari (I could have told him that he was talking thru his hat, for of course Arjun intends to haunt the kholi several times a day to commune with his Pari, at least till even Onir's unbelievable tolerance gives way and he tells Arjun to take a walk), bowls a googly at him and insists that he must bring Ovi back home, Arjun opens the waterworks and sobs aloud. I could not make out why, till it dawned on me that the very prospect was so scary that he felt like a little boy in the dark, and reacted likewise.😉

This segment also produced the single funniest line of today, when DK, trying to get his son to screw his courage to the sticking point (apologies to Lady Macbeth), intones, with great emphasis, "You are a MAN!". The humour was of course entirely unintended, but nothing less aggressively masculine than AK today would be hard to find!

Ovi: She does not treat us, a la Purvi, to any high pitched melodrama, and even her single cutting remark about the wounds her apne have caused her is delivered with dignity, for which I was grateful. She later pleased me even more by arriving ' after she has lost a very good modeling contract because she is married ' at the entirely self-centred and stunningly practical conclusion that she should never have insisted on marrying Arjun. If only this wisdom had dawned on her much, much earlier! But then there would have been no PR, would there?

But now, what with this roadblock to her renewing her career, and DK's injunction to his son ' complete with the leit motif of a pavitra rishta that has to be maintained - it does seem as though Ovi will be wending her way back to the Kirloskar household. But her having apparently freed herself at long last from her fixation on Arjun will mean that she will not go back from a position of weakness and emotional dependence.

This prospect would explain the reports of rain sequences of her and Arjun; the PR CVs like familiarity in their scripts, so ArMan scenes were recycled for ArVi, and now apparently ArVi scenes will be recycled for ArOvi.

In these eco-conscious times, such a dedication to recycling is most commendable.

Purvi: She does not disappoint us, does apni Purvi. I wrote yesterday that the truth is, for Purvi , a foreign land that she avoids entering, except in the case of force majeure. I have since modified that view; I now think that she really believes the whoppers that she lets drop with such splendid insouciance.

Today, she tells Onir with a straight face that she had saunpoed Pari to Ovi with kitne vishwas, thinking hat Ovi would love her more than her own life. If I could have phoned in, I would have interjected at that point "Yes, she did, till she found out what you had been hiding from her! And when did you 'hand over" Pari to Ovi?.

Next, she declares, with no sense of any irony, that hamara nischay to give Pari to Ovi and Arjun had been very very galat. This stirs even the slavishly obedient and devoted Onir to protest, and he reminds her that he had strongly advised against the baby swap, but tumne meri ek na suni. I felt like standing up and applauding this tentative evidence that there were some vestiges of a spine in homis oniricus after all.

But his Mishti is unfazed, and she immediately plans to retrieve the situation by getting Pari back with her, at which point Pari does turn up like a bad penny. It was noteworthy that whatever Onir was thinking about this development, he was not jumping with joy, probably totting up all the likely extra bills and contemplating his empty pockets. And not without reason, as his first job seeking effort ends in total failure.

Onir: Apart from the unexpected mutation that resulted in a tiny spur of a backbone where there was none before, the interesting thing today was the evident and growing sense of alienation in Onir as, firstly, he watches Purvi and Arjun rejoicing with their child and shutting him out, and then again when Arjun leave s Pari with Purvi, with the (unstated) prospect of endless visits by him to the Dutt home. The tone in which he utters 'Arjun?' when Purvi says that Pari in missing him, is distinctly odd.

If this sense of alienation - sharpened by his having become, professionally, a pariah, with no work and no income - gets deeper and deeper, we might see a far more interesting Onir, jealous, irritable, and demanding vis a vis his Mishti. That would do both her and us a lot of good!

Last and the best: Pari: Purvi's offhand comment, when her magical touch now fails to quieten Pari, and her lori fails to make her sleep, that she must be missing Arjun, is as illogical as it is incorrect. Arjun's interactions with the baby, before he discovered who her mother was, were distinctly tentative at best. It was Ovi who was constantly carrying her around like a mother bear with her cub, as Purvi must have seen for herself. So now what Pari is missing is Ovi, who could not only quieten her but make her smile when she picked her up at the Kirloskar residence.

Plus, I have a strong suspicion that baby Pari has already developed a taste for the good life, with soft beds and AC.😉 So she does not take kindly to the makeshift cradle (of the kind seen at construction sites with many female workers), or to the prickly, hot and humid surroundings.

Shyamala B.Cowsik

Pari, my dear girl,

I was worried about you and it was a relief when you resurfaced in good shape.

I was a bit handicapped today by having had my eyes dilated for a retina check up, but as Tejaswini wanted it, I did post my comments on today's PR, on Kools thread. Take a look at it. I loved yours, and I am delighted that you like these Comedy Circus ones.

Take care, my dear, and God bless.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: pari87

Dear Shyamala Aunty,

I read this post last week, but I haven't been very active on the forum since some circumstances back home need more attention, but I definitely would like to comment on this delightful read from you! I agree with Varsha di on the other thread that you must write more such humoristic essays on the episodes. you definitely have a gift of the gab and a very well controlled sense of humor that is not gaudy or forced, but simply the undertone one that makes you laugh at the wit involved.

I loved every line ofcourse, but my favorite was your analysis of Onir ( who is your favorite), Arjun and Purvi ( what with her hair flying off 👏). I see that you have warmed up to Ovi and I see the balanced view point that I always find rare here on the forum. there is a reason we need your take more often :)

The episodes are truly funny but this post reminds me of how to watch a show with the humor it asks for, instead of putting my effort in analysing the lame characters for some subconscious meaning behind their actions :)

you must write more often and I can guarantee that the tracks ahead will give you enough reason to write as well as give us the delight and pleasure to read your very well written take, even if with humor which is such a tie-breaker for different groups on this forum !

Today;s episode was write-worthy so finally I logged in on the computer ( I have been accessing IF on my phone just to read everybody's posts, hence I never got a chance to write my take or compliment you on this fabulous post that made me laugh so much) and finally write down on KC and to you!

Keep them coming aunty! Your take is refreshing from the usual extremities and this new dash of humor is a total delight!

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Pallavi my dear,

You are in for a bad shock re: your sole prediction, but I am so glad that you agree with me re: Arjun's stab at playing the Sensitive New Age Man. When he is not doing that, he is generally found with his mouth half open, like a goldfish.

I did not find anything worth making fun of today, so you are all spared another of my far from concise takes on PR, but as for your guess as to the future, your score is nil.

But you are spot on re: all you assorted peeves about the CVs, especially the curious lack of all that baby equipment for Pari being lugged across to the kholi with her. Onir has now, by not atking an auto and denying himself a vada pav, managed to boy a feeding bottle (what for?), a cake of baby soap and half a litre of milk.

- Ovi leaves, not with Manav the previous evening , but on her own the next morning, to "find the old Ovi' who was always happy and not insecure. The rain sequence between her and Arjun is very much for real. Her farewell video message to him was surprisingly well written and delivered. and the whole scene was convincing and moving.

- True to the PR rule re: babies, there is going to be another Arjun-Ovi baby on the way soon, that is a dead cert. All those claiming that the stillborn baby was not Arjun's (not that I ever understood how that would help bring their beloved amar premis together again, seeing that Onir is still among the living) because they had not shown a roll on satin sheets, will now have to eat their words, for this time it was all shown beyond any doubt, of course in a discreet fade out. Alas for the ArVi hopefuls!

- Manav looks on the verge of delivering all the slaps that Arjun had escaped at the anniversary party.

- Onir's friend, who has full faith in him - was shown making incomprehensible references to his believing that he could never be guilty of organ trafficking, You are absolutely tight, Pallavi, the CVs have clearly mixed up their cue sheets, for last I heard, he had been held guilty of baby swapping, not organ trafficking.

As for DK on Friday, I tend to see him as an oasis of quiet among the hysteria that floods PR, as I have written in one of my earlier posts on this thread. But I am with you about that frightful oyster satin with red facings dressing gown, coupled with the re-disappearance of his moustache.

Ah yes, the high point of today's episode. We did not have to see Purvi at all, and thus were spared the wigs and all the rest.

Shyamala Aunty

Dear Pallavi,

What a mischievous girl you are! Yes, girl, not young lady, for I am past 60, having retired after 38 years in the Indian diplomatic service, and so I am sure I could give you 20 years even if you have a grown up daughter. But if you prefer that, please drop the Aunty by all means. Even forum friends with just a two year old call me Didi, and others plain Shyamala. I am thus all things to all friends!

Ok, so it was not a prediction.

As for why Ovi let Arjun make love to her, I think it was because, as I wrote on Kools' thread,

She stays back for that one night because after listening to Arjun's desperate pleas to her to stay and his frantic explanations of how he was never unfaithful to her (technically only, but let that pass), she knows that he will make a special effort to woo her back, and she wants to be so wooed.

It is the deepest desire of her heart to have him care for her and need her for real, and perhaps she hopes, after listening to his desperation, and learning that he has given up Pari as well, that maybe, just maybe, he really wants her at long last (she thinks that he gave up Pari to persuade her to stay. I do not agree, for it was a case of force majeure. But what matters here is what Ovi believes. and not what I or we believe, even if we are right and she is wrong).

I would not fault for not having stuck to her original decision to leave with Manav. nor for having had that night with Arjun, for her reasons for doing both are the same, as per my understanding, as outlined above, and they are perfectly valid as seen thru her eyes.

When she leaves in the end, it was, I think. because she realises that while Arjun is trying the hardest he can to make things the way she would want it, it is still an act and not the real thing. She has, finally, grown up enough to understand the difference between what she wants and what she can get. and she is ready to walk out rather than settle for false coin, no matter that it is gilded.

If only she had seen things this clearly a year ago! She might have spared herself and others a great deal of unnecessary misery. But when things are fated to go one way, they go that way.

Finally, I loved that jab about the Bermuda Triangle. I once made a reference in an old, old post of mine to PR being stuck in the doldrums, but this is even better. The problem, my dear, is that they do not disappear fully, but keep reappearing at the most inopportune moments, like Banquo's ghost.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: pallavi25

Dear Shyamala,

I cannot call you aunty as I think we are quite close in age, I have a grown up daughter who graduated college and is working already.😃

Also I wasnt making any predictions but guessing that Ovi will be back with Arjun since they showed the rain promo ...

Well, so they just got together for a roll in the hay? Poor Arjun, must be lacking in something, since all the ladies are bedding and leaving him the next day! 😆

Poor poor Onir as well, if Purvi had not insisted on baby donation, today Onir would be having his medical licence and better food than vada pav plus bringing up baby with all the necessities. That nautanki madam has completely ruined his life! 😡

Feeding bottle may be needed because Purvi stopped nursing Pari so her milk dried up, it can happen.

How could Ovi sleep with Arjun after all thats happened? 🤢 Ekta's cheap tactics of making sure Ovi returns with another girl child to compete with Pari 18 yrs later! Just like in many of her other shows! But will they show Arjun-Purvi as parents of 18 yr olds? I doubt it!

And in Ovi's absence, if ArVi reunite, what will happen to Onir? Perhaps he will disappear in the Bermuda Triange of PR, the same place that all those other characters have gone...😆

DK only shows emotions where his partner's beautiful wife is concerned. Now that Archu is in a coma, hes gone into que sara sara mode!

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Pallavi my dear,

You are in for a bad shock re: your sole prediction, but I am so glad that you agree with me re: Arjun's stab at playing the Sensitive New Age Man. When he is not doing that, he is generally found with his mouth half open, like a goldfish.

I did not find anything worth making fun of today, so you are all spared another of my far from concise takes on PR, but as for your guess as to the future, your score is nil.

But you are spot on re: all you assorted peeves about the CVs, especially the curious lack of all that baby equipment for Pari being lugged across to the kholi with her. Onir has now, by not atking an auto and denying himself a vada pav, managed to boy a feeding bottle (what for?), a cake of baby soap and half a litre of milk.

- Ovi leaves, not with Manav the previous evening , but on her own the next morning, to "find the old Ovi' who was always happy and not insecure. The rain sequence between her and Arjun is very much for real. Her farewell video message to him was surprisingly well written and delivered. and the whole scene was convincing and moving.

- True to the PR rule re: babies, there is going to be another Arjun-Ovi baby on the way soon, that is a dead cert. All those claiming that the stillborn baby was not Arjun's (not that I ever understood how that would help bring their beloved amar premis together again, seeing that Onir is still among the living) because they had not shown a roll on satin sheets, will now have to eat their words, for this time it was all shown beyond any doubt, of course in a discreet fade out. Alas for the ArVi hopefuls!

- Manav looks on the verge of delivering all the slaps that Arjun had escaped at the anniversary party.

- Onir's friend, who has full faith in him - was shown making incomprehensible references to his believing that he could never be guilty of organ trafficking, You are absolutely tight, Pallavi, the CVs have clearly mixed up their cue sheets, for last I heard, he had been held guilty of baby swapping, not organ trafficking.

As for DK on Friday, I tend to see him as an oasis of quiet among the hysteria that floods PR, as I have written in one of my earlier posts on this thread. But I am with you about that frightful oyster satin with red facings dressing gown, coupled with the re-disappearance of his moustache.

Ah yes, the high point of today's episode. We did not have to see Purvi at all, and thus were spared the wigs and all the rest.

Shyamala Aunty

Dear Shyamala di,