Hello!
When you see a brilliantly outstanding Sanaya Irani's 👏👏👏👏 Khushi breaking up by the minute but telling herself now hoarsely, now disbelievingly to not loose hope on her love and an equally gut in the punch Barun Sobti's 👏👏👏 Arnav/ ASR see-sawing between coming back to all the goodness and love he has ever known to falling off the edge as a person who has time and again lost all...one feels bad.
Not so much for Khushi or Arnav...but that Sanaya and Barun feature in this venture!! God bless them and hope one day they get something truly worthy of their talent.
This is a story that has flashes of brilliance only because two very talented and very easy on the eye actors enact it...dignify it...that these actors are individually very urbane, mature and open minded in reality just makes them more amiable.
For this then is a story that for most times has no clue when, where and why it is heading and is a chayageet or trailor of disjointed episodes and stories mostly linked to the item song of the season 😆😆 or the Channel's whiplash on TRPs😆😆... What started off as a complex portrayal of a man and woman both dealing with an uncomfortable past...is reduced to a showcase of a leering, smirking one toned villain and an assorted set of characters whose only purpose at large is to showcase fashion or episodes of melodrama, comic and dance relief.
But then sannu ki😃...as I am not the producer, actor or even stakeholder here...and thankfully have a remote that mutes, forwards, rewinds and changes channel as per command.
Given this premise and personal view of the serial...I am cool with it ...because real life thankfully is much larger, better and in someways grey(er) than what is passed off as simple definition of black (ASR) and white (Khushi) and the mango junta trails and travails...because while (and frankly by now as expected) this production house tries to touch upon "great" sounding moral and social issues...there is no real insight into the real issues here and frankly no attempt at even making an effort. That this is showcased as being "soch nayi" for an adult (read above 18+ age audience) audience is a joke!
Sample this:
a. Nothing shocks of a one toned Dadi: The whole world around us is fighting some or the other war launched under the guise of religion, caste, creed and sex...So I am not perturbed that Dadi is/ was in an ashram and is leading a negative Cruella De Ville banner given that any newspaper has such Dadi's all over the place.😳
The interesting part was that Dadi in her self proclaimed war against guarding and/ or avenging her grandchildren has given the most collateral damage to them.
Now what could have been "soch nayi" would be for not ASR or Khushi (an applause to both of them for in their own ways standing up to her👏👏)...but ALL (sans Mr Leering of course😆) to pack up Dadi back to the Ashram...but will we ever get it...Sannu ki!😆
b. Are we sure Garima is the full-proof bechari?: Every action has a reaction. Whether you like it or not. I don't have a problem with Garima having an affair with a married guy. No I don't. Because who the hell am I to be a moral teacher here. Neither am I shocked, because there are thousands of Garima's around us with a past.😳
What is funny is that Garima is shown ...again one note...to very conveniently don the bechari mantle and cry out of this. What if Shashi, Buaji, Payal and Khushi were not as forgiving and noble as they are. As Nani very rightly said, its not what Garima did, but the fact she hid it that has led to the fiasco at yet another daughter's wedding.
For example, lets assume its ok she got scared and didn't tell the Raizadas...but Shashi and Buaji...Payal?
No lessons were learnt from hiding Shyam's truth from the Raizadas, which almost rocked the Payal-Akash wedding...So then history repeats itself by hiding ones own affair from the Raizadas ...Garima in her own way has contributed to threatening one more wedding.
And let me not even go into the mature and cerebral debate on whether Garima has done enough to comfort the Raizadas or the "In your face" (kyunki more than a year has passed)...sorry excuse me I need to laugh here Ha Ha Ha!!!.🤣🤣...so in your face yet tremendous amount of time that Garima took to figure out that Arnav and Anjali are Malik's children...oops Ha Ha Ha ...but then I unfortunately but thankfully live in a real life when people do a background check before they wed they children into families.😃😃...so my situation is different...on that note ...Sannu Ki!😃
c. Are poor people always right?: By that logic then all the others should be criminals.😆😆 Let us ask ourselves one question. Would any of us, coolly still go ahead and marry someone (forget daughter or son) from a family who has been responsible for a parent's distress...leave alone death!
So this bravado about "if my sister has no place, then I won't join the mansion too (aka Payal) may sound great for front bencher seetis and taalis...but showcases just as much lack of maturity as just about everyone here has showcased apart from the lead pair...but then I am unfortunately not an ideal naari who sees only the naari as being right😛...so Sannu Ki!😆
d. The devil wears prada: oops sorry in this serial he is only wearing a pyjamey ka naada.😆😆...Sowwie, bad joke!... Mr Dhinka Chika alias Mr Leering and Smirking...is portrayed as a great villain. Ok no problem with that. 😃
But if the whole focus of the serial in its comic and melodramatic moments is to either make Khushi a screaming giggle headed banshee and Arnav an incomprehensible myopic lover...then do we really need Shyam?😲😆😆
Sowwie...I forgot we need him...else how can friendships (hahahahahahaahahaha) be maintained and place be made for new serials!...Now since I am not a program scheduler in Sitara Plus...Sannu Ki!😛
Each of the above is a mature issue where a lot of sensible and realistic or contemporary stories and script could be built ...but all we have is same ladka bad ladki good story...Which brings me back to the couple in question.
Just because Arnav takes some time to decipher it, does not make him bad...it makes him human. Each person's reaction to a life changing personal calamity is different...that does not make anyone better or worse, because in my part of the real world...you evaluate people on the basis of not hours and seconds but what they have consistenly done before those hours and seconds...
This is the same guy that called Shyam's bluff and stood by his woman😳, who told Dadi to go take a walk while he stays married...who was the only person who has consistently come back to and loved Khushi when everyone (including her own family in the wedding no1 fiasco) conveniently disowned her time and again.
And just because Khushi is waiting for him, it does not make her a weak abala naari...in fact it makes her a much better person who is able to see what that man has done for her and means to her. It is for the first time a strong portrayal of a woman who knows why she is in a relationship and will fight for it.😳
This is what the Barun and Sanaya are able to bring to the table...despite a thankless, cluless script, a convenient changing screenplay and an all over the place storyboard.
When you hit ground zero...you can only build something upwards, hopefully better. We've hit ground zero if you like with all the past out in its horrific detail.
Time to bring the complex mature story about two individuals who have a dark intertwined past...but who love each other, acknowledge it and stand by each other without an apology or a doubt.😳
Will we get it...yup you know my answer...Sannu Ki!!😃
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