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TGIF-Ve!!! 🤗 🤗🤗
A quick recap of week 2, since many of us are WONCE-A-WEEK-WONLY watchers. Also - I won't be able to post on Monday as promised, so making an early deposit into the bank with the fond hope that it will get me off the hook for next week. 😉
Full Disclosure: FF'd through 5 episodes in 15 minutes flat. So to quote a dear friend *cough* Dee*cough* - I almost certainly have no idea what I'm talking about 😛😛😛
1. MONDAY. DAAAMMMAAAD-JIII!!! Dikhra lands in Ratnagiri to make his apologies and get the be-jeezus out of there - but is instantly swallowed by the vast ocean that is Dikhri's family, never to be seen or heard from again. All that is heard is a collective burp after Dikhra was digested, and they all live happily ever after.
Kidding. 😉 Dikhri is happy that Dikhra is here to reject her in person (ladki, are you masochistic? 😡 The letter wasn't enough? ) - but has vowed not to show him her face. And now I finally understand why the hair stylist was prevailed upon to make a braid that would instantly get any schoolgirl suspended - dikhri needs those tendrils of hair to hide her face.
Swami-ji was right - everything that happens, happens for a reason. To paraphrase Lord Tennyson (while thanking the Devi Maiiya he isn't alive to take out a supaari on me for this)
Ours is not to reason why
Ours is just to watch and fry. Or stew. Or post long, unhinged rants on IF.
Moving On.
2. TUESDAY. Aap kahan hain? Dikhra is getting a crick in his neck trying to spot Dikhri. He sees plenty of the species (Dikhris), but HIS Dikhri is nowhere to be seen. Finally, he's told to go wait on the terrace - Dikhri will bring him his tea. And if he wags his tail - he might get a cookie with it too.
So he goes - and she does.
He turns around, but it's the wrong belly button. Ergo - wrong Dikhri. The jingly waist thingamajig is returned with compliments on the attempted deception, and a starkly ominous message. "Tell her...hum unse mile bina nahin jayenge."
The hero declines to call the heroine by name - referring to her as "unhe and unse". Very refreshing touch. This is TRULY a 21st century, women's lib story. 👏👏
3. WEDNESDAY. HE HAS A FACE! The door creaks open, and Belly Button glides in holding a balloon lantern. The rest of Dikhri's body follows shortly after, and she's thrilled to see that contrary to rumors - Dikhra DOES have features other than those arresting eyebrows. 🥳 A short stint of fanning him, a pretty yawn, and Dikhri is asleep - in one of the most uncomfortable positions a human body could possibly adopt. 😲
Who cares? Whattay perfect angle for Dikhra to see those tendrils of hair covering her face, just as he wakes up! Unfortunately, she awakens too, and and its back to playing hide and seek. "I-shan't-show-my-face" still leads against "I-will-see-your-face".
Current score is 2-0.
Later in the day - Dikhra wanders out without his leash or minder, and after a few flashbacks of "Maa" (Hmm, hero agonizes over wronged mother. Why does that sound kinda familiar 🤓) - he sees a drowning child and leaps in feet first to save him.
Note to director - sometimes the use of body doubles is a good thing. Like a BD who knows how to actually DIVE. Unfortunately - he's bespoiled the sacred pond by leaping in. Should he have washed his hands first? Or maybe used the hand sanitizer?
Dikhri started the day by gazing at dikhra in private- and ends it by standing up for him in front of her family. Bapu is thrilled and duct tapes their hands together. A.W.K.W.A.R.D. 😕😕😕
Moral: This is what happens when you keep things from your parents - they take every opportunity to embarrass the living daylights out of you. 😕
4. THURSDAY. Haldi Ve!! The entire female population of the household has conned Dikhra into drawing water from the well. Unfortunately, those delicate palms aren't suited to manual labor, and rope burn is inevitable.
Dikhri to the rescue with haldi paste!! She starts out being gentle, but Dikhra is a glutton for punishment, and pokes the sleeping snake with his query. "Did I hurt you as much as this hurts me?"
And that is all our vengeful Dikhri needs to slather on the haldi like someone troweling cement onto a brick wall.
Word of advice, bitwa. Next time, WAIT until you have your hand back before you open your mouth. It'll be less painful - guaranteed.
Unfortunately, Ratnagiri is a Bherry. Bherry. Accident. Prone. Village - and all visitors are advised to enter at their own risk. This time, it is Bapu who is caught in a fire.
Dikhra-man swoops to the rescue in his batmobile, cape flying behind him. He pulls Bapu out of the fire and takes him home. Dikhri rushes for the doctor, while Dikhra cures smoke inhalation after a quick skype chat with his doctor back home. And right after that he whips out his pocketknife and does a couple of impromptu surgeries too. Coz its just that easy. Call 1-800-DIAL A DOC, and cure cancer over the phone. 😎
5. FRIDAY. Do a good deed...and pay the price.
Dikhra is now trapped in Hotel California, where you can check out anytime you like, but you can NEVER leave. Bapu is unwell, and now is a BAD time to drop the bomb. Thus spake Dikhri, but she won't look at him when she delivers her message. "I-shan't-show-my-face" still leads against "I-will-see-your-face".
Current score is 3-0.
And thus ends an eventful week in Ratnagiri. As per the precap, Dikhra is ready to forfeit the game, as he's three points down with no hope of scoring. Fortunately for him, Dikhri is racing after him while holding that cumbersome lehenga up between forefingers and thumb oh-so-prettily - desperately hoping to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Will she? Until next week, phront phront...
But for now, its Friday blessed evening, the work week is done, and there's a lovely glass of Chardonnay with my name on it. 🤗 🤗🤗
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
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