18th May ' Great episode
The confrontation was well scripted and both actresses did extremely well, sharing equal scene space. Prats' dialogues were top notch and PG delivered them with conviction with the right expressions and feelings. Hers were clearly directed at those horrid MILs in real life, who have nothing better to do then to plot ways to destroy their son's marital relationship. Prats shows her selfless side when, rather than caring about herself, her thoughts are of her husband and stating clearly to Amma the consequences of what she is doing, and that the biggest casualty of all this will be Krishna, and the mother-son relationship. But Amma is a woman too far gone and it's probably for the best (not for Kriya though) that she continues on her chosen path of self-destruction. Maybe then, when she has hit rock bottom, will she realise that with her own hands she has ruined everything. Whether she'll wallow in self-pity or go for redemption will remain to be seen.
Ashmita was great as usual with her delivery and expressions. Amma could barely control her emotions in the presence of the much loathed DIL. Amma asked if she accepted defeat but you could tell she wants a fight and Prats of course doesn't disappoint. Probably in her sick head the victory will be even sweeter if she was challenged, and most importantly she can plan more ways to widen the gap further between Prats and Krishna.
Krishna's so funny. He thinks there's a conspiracy to destroy his dhaba. He's accusing Prats, and now the poor chef, who's genuinely trying to make improvements to the dhaba, gets added to the list. Krishna, who will you accuse next? Chandu? Tunna? Krishna, if anything it will be your attitude that will destroy the dhaba when customers refuse to come to it. As a customer, it's not the place you'd want to go to, where the owner is constantly venting out his anger and frustration on the staff and creating a bad atmosphere.
The Prats and GD scene was nice, in that it showed that Prats is sometimes very clueless in matters of the husband/wife relationship. Strange that Prats seemed to not know that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's an age old adage that practically very woman and man knows. It was a touching scene, and reminded me of the other times that GD has being there to comfort and console Prats.
What a wonderful scene between Prats and Krishna. Just goes to show how two people who started on opposite ends of the scale have come together and know what makes the other tick. Prats has clearly learnt how to read Krishna and decides that she'll play a little role reversal, and start acting and talking like Krishna. And of course it doesn't take long for our baba to melt. Loved both PG and AB here.
Now whether Amma made the fish dish, knowing full well that it was Ashtami or not, I think is a little irrelevant, as from the looks of it, things will turn out in her favour either way. To me it seemed that her original plan was to get baba to choose her dish. And Amma the crafty woman knew that only one of the dishes could be eaten today. So, what does she do? Tells baba to eat the kheer Prats has made so loving, showing her disappointment and hurt, but knowing that her baba will choose the fish instead, since he hadn't eaten it in ages.GD's explanation why Krishna could eat the fish dish and kheer was well funny - fish and milk are enemies.
I can't decipher what Amma's expression meant at the end of the episode. It seemed like she realised what she had done later and was probably worried how SS will react, but was hiding it very well. Beside, how could Amma have predicted that Prats would say it was Ashtami? Unless she was sure Prats would speak up, the plan would be a bit of a flop (apart from the satisfaction she would get when baba chose her dish over Prats kheer). Then again maybe she planned it that way. Who knows. Was it just me or did we see a slightly crafty side to Prats? Watching the way she says it, i would say she got a little satisfaction from revealing that fact. Little does she know how it will all be turned around against her.
So, what could be instore for us tomorrow? SS, true to form, going mad at Amma, and could possibly go to hit her. Krishna either way stops SS again, fulfilling his promise to not let any harm (be it physical or emotional) come to his Amma. A confrontation between SS and Krishna. Krishna states that Amma made a mistake. SS pissed at Amma and Krishna. Amma plays the helpless victim wonderfully, whilst gloating at Prats. Krishna seeing it that if Prats knew it was Ashtami, why not let Amma know before she made the dish. Predictably assumes that Prats delibrately kept her mouth shut and accusing Prats of only mentioning it after Krishna decided to go with the fish dish instead of her kheer.
Edited by sweet_bhanki - 14 years ago