I had forgotten that right in the middle of this remarriage track there were such pointless episodes too. All I remembered from my first watch was a man saying aane do as he kissed his wife. Of course I remembered haldi and a truly wonderful surprise on a starry night inside a farmhouse.
No memory however of Anjali and Shyam, which I think is a good thing. They don't need to occupy any space in my limited brain cells. I will find something more worthwhile to fixate over. And what has happened to Anjali's eyelashes this episode?
Anyway, obviously I did not remember Shyam was the one who had brought dadi. As if it was not enough that we were having to bear his nonsense we had dadi thrust upon ourselves. Though what I found intresting was that it sort of gives a reason for dadi's dislike towards Khushi. Shyam most certainly might have poisoned her dull brain already against Khushi and all that was needed was some silly misunderstanding that confused the daughter-in-law with the servant to make the woman detest Khushi vindictively. Then add in a dash of missing amma who turns out to have a familiar name and is actually a mausi. No wonder this woman makes a face at the slightest mention of Khushi.
The actress has no subtlety in acting and the same dialogue writers that give such great lines to ASR and buaji and mamiji give her such horrible ones. Maybe they secretly hate her too.
If it wasn't all so forced, melodramatic and futile in the end, it might have even shown us that son-in-law's are often blindly worshipped and daughter-in-law's equally blindly relentlessly persecuted for no fault of their own. Good thing that ASR was as strong as he was otherwise Shyam really was a master at manipulation. Specially with this faade of good hiding away all the evil underneath men like Shyam can surely charm gullible Anjalis, dadi's, even sharp buajis.
NK was cute with di. Then when is he not cute? Wish they could give him something more to do. A doctor was called who insisted Anjali needed more care. Everyone is taking too much care of her already. The doctor just gave the whole Raizada clan more reason to bore us with their incessant reminders of medicine taking time.
I am not in a forgiving mood for Garima. All her scene are bordering on being mawkishly sentimental. But I did like the fact that she confides in her husband. And when she kissed his hands in gratitude for the support I was wishing Shashi Gupta could actually start to talk and put a stop to all this. In only a few episodes his character was established so well that even though he never spoke again or for that matter did anything useful, to put it rather bluntly, and yet when I see him I see a sensible man and loving father. I think he and ASR would have got along fabulously.
The whole scene that followed is such a big joke. If it indeed is their daughters wedding would they just leave and go? Payal on phone, sudden rain, everything contrived. Badly written pieces not quite fitting in. We can make out they are trying to have the story take a certain direction, but no one seems to put any thoughts into making anything plausible anymore.
Khushi was mistaken for someone, pushed onto a ramp. She fell off the stage right into the arms of a stranger who ripped her pear dori. She would not leave him alone. He could not stop thinking of her. They fell in love. I blindly believed all this with all my heart and felt joy erupt.
And now all I do is analyze and object and hardly feel even when am wishing with all my heart that something make me want to say nice things about the episode.
An entire episode with no ASR. Wasted my time watching it. A few minutes of him in the last one. Thank devi maiyya for this respite.
Yet I get a feeling they are making him just give stock expressions. Look indulgent, raise his eyebrows.. Mock disdain towards NK.. A few english one liners to be said with lips pursed and that perfectly endearing accent.. for me something has gone missing.. the integrtity of each character is getting played with at the hands of the makers.
There was one moment that was sweet. When Khushi called him back to confirm.."Aap aayenge na?".. Yes he is unpredictable and she really wants to do something nice for him, so wants to make sure that he will come.
Ughh but I have to complain because apparently that's how my write ups are going to be now. Her smile was too artificial and his lines simply lines that ASR would say. A certain feeling is disappearing, I desperately want to clutch on to it.
I remember anticipating all sorts of things that Khushi would have planned. For now will continue to imagine the possibilities.
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