Hi Ross,
thanks for the post and your thoughts are superb especially rakesh seen in Naina and taiji cigarette smoking...
couldn't comment on any of your post this week hence will mention my POV here of the whole week.
the episodes were good excluding the editing .. i don't know why the editing is really an issue Sashi Sumeet Production must take real care in this matter.. how much ever the actors act well if the editing is not good then the scenes becomes a mess.
thats what happened in the birthday scenes , aggarwal house scenes ... but still will say the episodes were good. ( wonder if all the shows has this editing issue.. i down watch other shows hence i don't have much idea but it some one could let me know then good)
coming back to the episodes : it was a good thought of sameer to think of giving a surprise to Naina on her birthday ,,and he could have had and made her birthday special some where near by itself rather than taking her to some far away place knowing about her family and her restriction .. here i found Sameer a bit immature and impulsive.. ( but thinking over again why he did this way the only reason i could figure out was that he still doesn't have a proper guidance, thats why such a haste decision he took. if his Nanu was there then i don't think he would do this way , Nanu would have advised him the right way, and some where safely they would enjoyed hence here it shows he still lacks proper guidance
Naina to make sameer happy agreed but she has the inner fear of being caught and Ashi has displayed the emotions well, and as expected with Naina when everything turns wrong she puts the blame on others, till then she will enjoy. i still feel they must show naina accepting her mistakes and also supporting him.
what i have felt is between sameer and naina , sameer is still not open or free with naina in expressing his feelings.. ( like when naina said to sameer that swati said in the movie theatre sameer desired to share campacola with naina.. so seems munna and swati are more open and free in talking to each other than Sameer is with naina ) also in the cake scene naina applied the cake on sameers face but sameer was reluctant and once naina approved he applied ..so i feel they still they have a long way to go and sameer has to really open up to naina about his feelings and needs, then only she will understand him much better. ( might be i am wrong )
by seeing these two equation ( thats sameer and Naina ) looks like Naina will always have a upper hold in their family life ( hopefully sameer does not be a henpecked husband or Boyfriend), i want both of them to have equal rights over each other and each other to take decision together ( i hope i m making sense ), and not naina taking decision and sameer following it.
About aggarwal family no idea what to say they are always a confusion for me .. taiji and her antics.. ( she is really an antique peace) , chachaji is the best hope he remains the same always ..
Naina is really lucky to have friends like swati kamiya and a sister like preethi, (wish i had a sister like preethi )
Mamaji seemed genuine , cvs can we have a silence fit into mamas mouth for the way she talks so loudly ( OMG my ears pain ), i really hope mamaji will be able to guide sameer in a right path rather than always pampering him. he desperately needs some one to guide him in the right direction, he has still not learnt the bitterness of life i thought delhi would teach him that but seems no.. he is taking life too lightly, (as far as i know in the 90s boys or girls at this age were really matured and would know the seriousness of life.
one more thing with regards to Pooja and her husband.. he said he wants a girl child that didn't convince me cos he left his wife at her house during her pregnancy which was of not her fault and did not listen to her.. so minus marks for him
Precap: will wait for next week as i simply don't want to assume things. i don't think Naina will leave sameer or take a back step, but yes she might restrict her self in meeting him or going out, i feel so as naina was the one who first fell in love with sameer, brought sameer back from the manoose mode etc etc..also she said she cannot live wth out him ( she said this during the manoose track as well as on the birthday), hence keeping these dialogues in mind ( if the writers has not forgotten ) then she won't leave him but might keep a distance. any ways will wait and see.
Also i hope they will bring a proper closure to this track and does not drag it much as the cvs are quiet good in dragging things and then they end up with improper closure of the tracks ( e.g.. delhi track , wedding track , manoose track etc.. they started it well but ended it abruptly)
oh sorry for the long post with nonsense written.
( last weeks episode belonged to Randeep and Ashi )