Hola Sush and gang - happy Tuesday everyone. Nice to see that most everyone had fun with the
comedy. 😊
These days I try to count my blessings with every epi while
muttering the mantra expectations are at rock bottom and this is IPL season. So deep breath -
blessings... erm, erm, let me think...aah, I got it! There were a clutch of pretty moments...
Arnav waiting impatiently for Khushi to show up, the two of them gazing at each other while
asleep, Khushi melting with love and brushing Arnav's hair back ? I know - a bunch of awesome women
I enjoy hanging out with at Sush's adda on IF. 😃
Whatever continuity existed with Thursday's big fight has
completely been erased. At least until yesterday, there was a deeply hurt Khushi who resolved not
to appear before Arnav and subject herself to any more undeserved torture. Today, we're back to
comedy - another round of Khushi's torture Arnav strategy - this time by killing him with love.
The sendup of Gopi and the other SP show whizzed right over my head. Don't know about the show
or the character and if this is the prototypical bahu on SP (at her husband's feet, in ghunghat
and with less agency than Lakshmi the goat!) am real glad to be in the dark about it.
I'm resigned to the fact that the story will be at a standstill
until the IPL is done. It essentially means comic Khushi and shirtless Barun
will be trotted out at regular intervals. I'm uneasy about this Miss B who is
showing up tom. No good can come from a character called Bubbly. It shrieks annoying zindadili and good natured
interfering. But I can see how we need temporary IPL comic relief - an NK like
distraction would not be a bad idea, so I'm trying not the prejudge the new
entrant.
My biggest peeve is that they're taking parts of the story
we've invested in and are stomping all over
it. We expected that perhaps Anjali will bring up maa ki chithi and help
Khushi understand the darkness in her pati. Nope! OK, so perhaps they're saving
it for a time when the story takes a significant turn. But, what was the point
of Anjali's recollection of the "Chottay" Chottay? Simply that he was
an ill mannered, brutish child who has grown into a fullblown adult brute? That
Anjali has managed to tame him somewhat through sheer persistence, bludgeoning
him with her sweet nature and never ending demands? So he's taken the path of
least resistance and bows to her iron will?
I thought chotte was supposed to be regular, hastah, kheltah
baccha who was hot tempered and quick to anger but one with an ability to love deeply. From the
flashback's we've seen I figured his zakham over his mom's tragic tale caused
him to grow a scab of emotional reserve; a protective wall where he let no one
but Di in thereby making him invulnerable to more crippling emotional loss. If
they don't want to tackle that backstory yet, fine. But why this trip down
memory lane that does nothing but destroy the hints of the backstory we've
lived with?
Some of the show's creative choices baffle me and I think
I'm being remarkably undemanding in my expectations during the IPL season. O
well... we live to hope another day. 😕
Tailpiece: Can the writers give Khushi her own Aman - a
faceless, formless phantom she can confide in on the phone? I'm deeply troubled by her conversations
with the goatwa. I'd prefer it if she just talked to herself instead! 😒
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