~# BBGC: Episode Discussion Thread #~

In the episode of Oct 13th, they finally showed Shikha managing to tell Sarika to try and make it home early, then telling masa that she's going to a friend's house, when she actually went to a parlor and got a manicure, pedicure and her hair redone.  The only thing I'm wondering - even if nobody else sees her there, it'll be obvious where she has been once she gets home, no?

I loved how Shikha, in Sarika's name, asked cleaning crew to go and clean their puja room, pissing off Santosh and Dadisa.  No, I'm not glad that Sarika was framed, but I was glad that instead of the bahus, Santosh & Sarika will have to do this cleaning themselves   And I hope Sarika is delayed - she has to be if she is told that 4 students have been admitted to hospital, so she'll have to take Taruna as well there, and there goes her chores of preparing the pujas for Diwali.  Hey Santosh, since you believe so much in all that, clean it youself.  Dadisa, you too!!!

I wish Garima had told Santosh the truth, and just told her that neither she nor Ammu was returning.  Santosh deserves to get shocked.  I hope that Shikha discovers this secret and blows it in front of masa and dadisa, and send them into a shock.  It's much needed.  While I don't sympathize w/ Shikha for being jealous of Sarika, I do think she gets a raw deal from those 2 witches, and hope she plays her part in wrecking the house in a way that even Sarika cannot fix.

I want to be very honest..That is my point of view so I hope my words won't hurt anybody...

No, this is a fictional show, and I'm not offended.  Anybody is @ liberty to disagree w/ me on anything in this story.

In front of a neanderthal like Santosh, I'll defend anybody.  Even Shikha.  As for this family, when the menfolk of this family are such losers like Adesh & Jai, and loser women like Santosh, who don't earn a paisa very haugtily tell people to keep their money but not bother doing what they were paid to do, why should it be up to Shikha to think about the good of the family?  What Sarika does is ridiculous, driven by that other retard in her maayka - her dadi.

I dunno whether you watched early episodes of this serial.  Before Sarika's marriage, before anyone in the Poddar household even knew Sarika, Shikha was still @ the receiving end of ill treatment.  One priceless moment - she had gone out shopping and came back w/ a whole bunch of stuff, but b'cos it was a Thursday, Santosh forced her to return it.

Similarly, on the episode a few weeks ago, Shikha had invited her friends for a kitty party.  Santosh & her MIL humiliated her in front of everyone, and on top of that punished her for some days after that.  I agree that her trying to turn their anger on Sarika later was wrong, but that doesn't make what Santosh did to her right.  Neither is Shikha allowed to visit her friends, nor is she allowed to invite them over.  Sooner or later, such a totalitarian family is bound to come apart.

In fact, I'll say that Santosh has exactly the family of losers that she deserves, and it's a reflection of what a ghatiya woman she is.  One son is busy cheating on his marriage despite having a daughter from it, another is stealing money from the family business and funnelling it to his wife, a third is a good for nothing effiminate loser and the only thing he knows is to shadow his wife, who is a student.

I'm hoping that sooner rather than later, the real characterestics of Adesh & Chandan come out in front of Santosh, so that she gets a heart attack.  Even better - I'd like it if Chandan & Shikha walk out of the house.  Previously, Santosh had problems w/ her daughter Komal, and hopefully, Komal has given her the message that she's not welcome in her life.  Shikha should drive things so that everybody in this haveli disperses, and each of the couples can arrange on what rights the women have.

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I loved much of today's (10/21) episode.  Only part I didn't like was Adesh and Garima both witholding the facts of their relationship.  No problems - I just can't wait for the police people to leak to the media that Adesh has an extra marital affair - of course, the Poddars would just blame it on Sarika.

But I largely liked the episode - Chandan managed, but just barely, to deflect attention to Sarika.  But the ending was fantastic - the media people threatening to call the police, and the Poddars just leaving Sarika alone in that room.  But yeah, I can't wait for the entire Poddar family affairs to become a media circus - Chandan trying to bribe the lab (already happened), police revealing to the media the visits Adesh had from Meera and Garima (and in the process, exonerate her from Shikha's charges of not caring about Adesh), and maybe even play back the misogynic comments of the Poddar men that they must have recorded - on TV.  Most priceless was the Poddars seeing the news ask people to dial 1 to vote x, 2 to vote y and 3 to vote z

Over the weekend, I saw the Wednesday episode online.  This was the one where Sarika begs Garima to return, Meera calls Garima and taunts her, insisting that she release Adesh from the marriage, Garima going to the Poddars' home and giving Adesh the divorce notice, Shikha alleging that Sarika inspired Garima to do this, Garima clarifying that Sarika wasn't at fault but she did teach her to stand up for herself (much to the dismay of Sarika, whose case seemed to be weakened) and then telling Santosh that there is no way she can continue to live w/ him.  At the end of it, Adesh accuses her of blowing his relationship w/ Meera out of proportion, and agreeing w/ Shikha that Sarika was to blame for this.

Okay, so today, Jai's father was told by his employees that Chandan had ordered the adulteration of the masalas.  In the meantime, Chandan told his father that the adulteration was done by Shekawat.  At the end of the episode, Jai's father slaps Chandan and exposes him, but his brother then steps in b/w.