The "good
guy playing yet another good guy v. reformed bad guy" scorecard
The scorecard, as updated after the episode on 24 May 2011, when the truth was revealed before
all the family members. The starting point is the time when Beeji's household
agrees with Geet's decision to give Maan an opportunity to prove himself.
The scorecard is from the point of view of Beeji's household and acquaintances. It includes their acknowledgement (or lack
thereof) of the efforts of the reformed bad guy and the good guy playing yet
another good guy. So, I have edited out some of the reformed bad guy's
actions vis-a-vis the good guy and his wife and listed them out for special
mention.
Reformed bad guy playing the good guy perceived to be the bad guy
(hereinafter referred to as "reformed bad guy") (Sum score =
+16)
- Reformed bad guy is seen flattering Lachi in a bid to obtain a fancy
meal: -1
- Reformed bad guy is found with Lachi
in the corridor: -1
- Reformed bad guy is found locked in
Geet's room with Geet: -1
- Reformed bad guy is beaten up by
mistake by Uncle Jugnu: -1
- Reformed bad guy receives an apology
(indirect??) for the mistaken beating: +1
- Reformed bad guy is found to have
broken his promise yet again of not visiting Geet's room and is assigned the
task of cleaning up the room: -1
- Reformed bad guy gets away without
having moved a single item from the room, the task set out as his punishment:
+1
- Reformed bad guy gets the
appreciation of family for his intelligence: +1
- Reformed bad guy gets the
appreciation of family for his hard work: +1
- Reformed bad guy gets the
appreciation of family for his perseverance in staying awake the whole night:
+1
- Reformed bad guy gets the
appreciation of family for his punctuality in completing the work on time: +1
- Reformed bad guy gets the
appreciation of family for his prompt morning appearance: +1
- Reformed bad guy receives an
apology from the good guy (there was not much of a question mark at the end of
the "sorry" from the good guy -- so the benefit of doubt goes to the
reformed bad guy): +1
- Reformed bad guy is identified as
the cause of the good guy's wife's happiness: +1
- Reformed bad guy is also identified
the indirect cause of Pammi's happiness: +1
- Reformed bad guy offers to help his
perceived brother-in-law and wins his appreciation: +1
- Reformed bad guy unwittingly gets a
hug from his perceived sister-in-law: +1
- Reformed bad guy gets a earful from
his perceived sister-in-law: -1
- Reformed bad guy, after he yells
back, gets a remorseful eye lock with his sister-in-law: +1
- Reformed bad guy gets a earful from
his perceived brother-in-law: -1
- Reformed bad guy gets a guilty
eyelock with his perceived sister-in-law: +1
- Reformed bad guy is taken by his
perceived sister-in-law to be a flirt and as breaking her sister's trust: -1
- Reformed bad guy conversing with the
good guy's wife is approved as normal by the aunt: +1
- Reformed bad guy gets an eye-lock
with his perceived sister-in-law during the mehndi ceremony: +1
- Reformed bad guy is caught by his
perceived sister-in-law slinking away from feeding his wife while the mehndi is being put: -1
- Reformed bad guy gets into yet
another verbal spar with his perceived sister-in-law: -1
- Reformed bad guy is understood to be
not chivalrous by Uncle Jugnu: -1
- Reformed bad guy is perceived by the
good guy's wife's SIL to be her happiness and thus the sister-in-law offers to get the
reformed bad guy to her: +1
- Reformed bad guy gets into another
sparring with his perceived SIL: -1
- Reformed bad guy, by omission,
admits that he has not kept a fast for the good guy's wife: -1
- Reformed bad guy is still blamed by
Teji and Aunt and has not earned their forgiveness yet: -1
- Reformed bad guy, when he says that
Grandma would not forget Geet's sargi, is reprimanded by Beeji and
reminded that he has committed a mistake: -1
- Reformed bad guy is permitted to eat
his meals on Karva Chauth: +1
- Reformed bad guy receives a black
mark from perceived sister-in-law for interfering in her talks with Beeji: -1
- Reformed bad guy is reprimanded by
Beeji for not doing anything to win Geet's heart, despite some time having
passed: -1
- Reformed bad guy is awestruck by his
perceived sister-in-law's beauty and stares at her: +1
- Reformed bad guy's opinion is sought
on the beauty of his perceived sister-in-law and he enjoys an eye-lock with her:
+1
- Reformed bad guy gets a black mark
from his perceived sister-in-law for staring at her: -1
- Reformed bad guy is part of the Karwa
Chauth rituals and receives the arti from the good guy's wife: +1
- Reformed bad guy's reputation is
saved by good guy's wife who invents an excuse for his absence during the
rituals: +1
- Reformed bad guy is seen by his
perceives sister-in-law during the rituals signifying that he is the man for
her: +1
- Reformed bad guy drinks a spiked
drink and finds an excuse for his behaviour during the Karwa Chauth dance
sequence: +1
- Reformed
bad guy gets an opportunity to play touch-touch with his perceived
sister-in-law with his sister-in-law first placing her hands on his chest: +1
- Reformed bad guy is questioned by
his perceived sister-in-law about how her belongings always end up with him: -1
- Reformed bad guy gets an opportunity
to compare his perceived sister-in-law's earring close-at-hand without being
labeled a lecher: +1
- Reformed bad guy is labelled as nalayak
and nikamma by Beeji whilst they decide to test him by sending
Nandini with him: -1
- Reformed bad guy's presence in the ambassador
car is cited as a reason by good guy's wife for her sister to lift her spirits:
+1
- Reformed bad guy's attempts to help
perceived sister-in-law up when she trips and falls in the woods is rebuffed by
her: -1
- Reformed bad guy gets an opportunity
to play "your hand in my hand" with his perceived sister-in-law as
they run through the woods: +1
- Reformed bad guy is chided by his
perceived sister-in-law for running ahead thoughtlessly without caring to see
if the good guy's wife was left behind: -1
- Reformed bad guy gets a discussion
with his perceived sister-in-law on direction in the woods (a la QSQT) and is
lauded for his application of mind: +1
- Reformed bad guy blames his
perceived sister-in-law for their capture by the goons: -1
- Reformed bad guy places himself
between the goon and his perceived sister-in-law to protect her from unwanted
advances: +1
- Reformed bad guy is chided by his
perceived sister-in-law for being worse than a girl in getting them out of
captivity: -1
- Reformed bad guy is perceived by his
perceived sister-in-law as someone to whom no situation (esp in relation to
good guy's wife) makes no difference: -1
- Reformed bad guy is chided by his
perceived sister-in-law for making faces (whilst attempting to free his hands):
-1
- Reformed bad guy succeeds in freeing
himself and his perceived sister-in-law: +1
- Reformed bad guy succeeds in
escaping from the clutches of the goons with his perceived sister-in-law: +1
- Reformed bad guy helps his perceived
sister-in-law after she trips yet again and is not yelled at, thereby
indicating that he is now appreciated: +1
- Reformed bad guy's minor wound is
noticed by his perceived sister-in-law: +1
- Reformed bad guy gets an opportunity
to share an eye-lock with his perceived sister-in-law as she attends to his
wounds: +1
- Reformed bad guy's wound is bound by
his perceived sister-in-law with her dupatta: +1
- Reformed bad guy's wounded hand
receives a caress from his perceived sister-in-law: +1
- Reformed bad guy thanks his
perceived sister-in-law who too ceases hostilities for the moment: +1
- Reformed bad guy is chided
positively by his perceived sister-in-law for his chivalry: +1
- Reformed bad guy is chided by
perceived sister-in-law for lack of sense of direction: -1
- Reformed bad guy gets an opportunity
to stare in awesome wonder at his perceived sister-in-law, whilst lost in the
jungle: +1
- Reformed bad guy tells his perceived
sister-in-law that he will go where ever he leads her to win brownie points: +1
- Reformed bad guy loses the toss
deliberately to win a brownie point (unknown to perceived sister-in-law) to
prove his point that he will follow her: +1
- Reformed bad guy is praised by his
perceived sister-in-law in front of the clan for taking care of her: +1
- Reformed bad guy is blessed by Beeji
for his act of taking care of the girls: +1
- Reformed bad guy is applauded and
thanked by perceived younger brother-in-law for his deeds: +1
- Reformed bad guy shares a brief
eyelock with his perceived sister-in-law as she leaves to her room to rest: +1
- Reconciliation with the reformed bad
guy is attributed as the cause of the good guy's wife's happiness by good guy's
wife's sister-in-law: +1
- Reformed bad guy's expression of
shocked dismay is noticed by Lachi when she discloses to him that a prospective
groom is coming to meet his perceived sister-in-law: -1
- Reformed
bad guy is chided humourously by his perceived younger brother-in-law for
gossiping when the family has visitors: -1
- Reformed
bad guy defames his perceived sister-in-law to the prospective groom: -1
- Reformed
bad guy receives commiserations from Uncle Jugnu who even shares his drink
with him: +1
- Reformed bad guy is caught by his
perceived sister-in-law with a drink in his hand in the morning and berated for
it: -1
- Reformed bad guy is berated by his
perceived sister-in-law for not giving happiness to good guy's wife: -1
- Reformed bad guy's perceived
sister-in-law tells her cousin sister that he was drinking alcohol in the
morning: -1
- Reformed bad guy plays Agony Uncle
to his perceived younger brother-in-law and provides relationship counselling
in return for which he earns the latter's eternal gratitude: +1
- Reformed bad guy is lauded by his perceived younger brother-in-law: +1
- Uncle Jugnu identifies reformed bad guy as an enemy to his family: -1
Good guy playing yet another good guy (Sum score = -17)
- Good guy playing yet another good guy comes in the night when reformed
bad guy is caught and is asked to go away and almost told his station in life:
-1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is perceived to be a man of ill-temper by Lucky, who is scared to question
him: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy loses his sleep for a night while cleaning the room: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy toiled the whole night single-handedly: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy does not receive thanks for his efforts, even from the reformed bad guy: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is in the bad books of Lachi for filching water from the refrigerator: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is in the bad books of Lachi for being on familiar terms with Geet memsaab:
-1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy gets Teji to Pammi and supports the ploy to get Teji him to feed Pammi: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is kept busy with menial works by Teji: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy does not get the appreciation he deserves for arranging for the sargi:
-1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is spoken down to and taunted by Lachi yet again on the morning of Karwa
Chauth: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy gets a yelling from perceived elder brother-in-law for his inability to get
the car started: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy gets sympathy from Beeji when he hurts himself: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy gets another black mark from Lachi for having to carry a first aid box to
him: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy gets into perceived brother-in-law's bad book for playing the reformed bad
guy's postman: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy gets into the good books of Uncle Jugnu for respecting "his law":
+1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy gets another black mark from Lachi for having to run around doing carrying
lunch for him: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy gets another black from Lachi for behaving like a royal and earning her a
scolding from the family: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy receives no appreciation for making his wife's first Karva Chauth special: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy saves the good guy's wife from hitting the floor: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is caught by the good guy's elder brother-in-law smiling at him and is
questioned about it: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy gets an opportunity to impress his employers with his dance skills yet
again: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is given permission to accept a ladoo from the hands of the married
daughter of his employers' household: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy's presence in the ambassador car is not appreciated as the reason for good
guy's wife's high spirits: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is questioned by his sister-in-law for his overt verbal familiarity with
the good guy's wife when he tells her to go away with reformed bad guy: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good guy
is left to fight the goons off by himself: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is remembered by his sister-in-law as fighting off the goons by himself: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy's act of talking familiarly with good guy's wife is questioned by
sister-in-law again: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is seen by his sister-in-law carrying good guy's wife in his arms: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is thanked by his sister-in-law for fighting off the goons and taking care of
good guy's wife: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is referred to as brother by his sister-in-law: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is praised by his sister-in-law in front of the clan for beating up the
goons: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is praised by Beeji, who says that it's almost as if they were related in
the last birth: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is not applauded or thanked by perceived younger brother-in-law for his
deeds (possibly because they are not on the best of terms): -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is in the bad books of Lachi for he has ensnared all the family members,
when reformed bad guy asks her for his whereabouts: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is indirectly chided by the younger brother-in-law, who ignores him when he
takes the reformed bad guy away to the visitors: -1
- Good guy
playing yet another good guy is labelled a thief for filching vegetables from
the kitchen window: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good guy is treated sympathetically by his
wife's sister-in-law who offers him vegetables: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is scolded by Lachi when he asks her for reformed bad guy's whereabouts: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy plays relationship counsellor to his sister-in-law: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is caught romancing the good guy's wife by Uncle Jugnu, who also records
the evidence: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is labelled careless by the elder brother-in-law for lacking punctuality:
-1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy gets a reprieve from Beeji who asks the elder brother-in-law to cool down: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy gets a yelling from his elder brother-in-law for his tardiness: -1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is granted leave by his elder brother-in-law to meet a sick relative: +1
- Good guy playing yet another good
guy is questioned by his elder brother-in-law about his presence in the house,
when he had sought leave citing a relative's illness: -1
- Uncle Jugnu identifies good guy
playing yet another good guy as an enemy to his family: -1
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Analysis: Well, it is clear that the good guy playing yet another good guy was unable to obtain a positive score. And, the reformed bad guy managed a positive score, thanks to his interactions with his flavour-of-the track (as Geek puts it).
Now, Geet told Nandini (and us) that the reason that good guy playing yet another good guy continued with the deception was to prove to everyone that Geet would be happy with him. In light of that, let's do a quick review of all the actions of the good guy playing yet another good guy since this track started. And, what do we find?
Well, the good guy playing yet another good guy did not do a single thing proactively to prove to his wife's clan that he is the ultimate good guy. Worse, he was not even shown to devise a plan which would help him achieve his goal.
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