Relieved and impressed that the MEIEJ team are managing to have the absent male lead's that many scenes in each ep.😊
The eps are good (thanks to DVD's acting and RK's dialogues) - today's ep being much better than yesterday's monologues-run.
But just getting a bit tired of two eps in a row with *everyone* talking so much and saying not that much.😕
RK's dialogues are always sharp and terrific, regardless of the sentiments they may evoke.⭐️
Loved his dialogues throughout *this* ep, and would have been much better able to bear the length if there were less general confusion permeating.😕😊
Madhu's crisp responses to RK and to her mother were excellent 😃, but apparently just a relief for her coming lecture to Sultan.
But are both leads in a special competition to mislead, with the win dependent on the maximum amount of misleading toted up rather than on the number of people misled?😕
RK is succeeding in misleading *no one* except Madhu (and maybe her mother) about his actual feelings for her.
(Okay, Madhu does know his actual feelings for her, but since she's too ethical and not crazy enough to keep him perpetually out of his senses so that he'll constantly admit his life is worthless without her, his not outright admitting to loving her while in his senses presents a major obstacle.)
Madhu is misleading *everyone* except Bittuji (direct communication) and Radha (that lady's sharp guesswork) about her feelings for RK.
Which was just fine until the 'everyone' included the ripe old cliche of the gangster just waiting and available to fall in love with the righteous girl.
Madhu didn't want to tell either RK *or* Padmini about Sultan or her compliance for RK's safety. Understood.
But she should have either told RK that she had been talking to a handicapped little boy on the phone or - preferably, in keeping with Sultan's threat - she should have told Sultan that RK had no idea he had been talking to a child.
Instead, she doesn't clear that one point from either angle with either of the two volatile men.
And very helpfully to further advance Sultan's "she's single at heart" misapprehension, she has very directly given him the impression that she is permanently estranged from her husband, can't stand RK, doesn't want to see him, and is never worried for him. Cliched?
Sultan should just call and tell her he shot RK dead and disconnect the call.
Madhu's honest reactions then may be as clearly broadcast as she and RK both individually manage only when the other is in peril.
Short of Sultan doing that or some other peril revealing Madhu's actual feelings for her husband to him, he is likely to remain under his misapprehension the better to start aspiring however much or little for Madhu in romantic fashion.
Also, could Madhu please not be given so many lectures to rattle off to the gangster. It's feeling like a combination of several mighty female leads from the saas-bahu genre.
And if you're desperately in need of money, tainted money becomes as acceptable as any other kind.
If you can quibble, your need isn't actually desperate (or you're the sort of zealously righteous lunatic no serial can ever afford to have any of its protagonists become).
Madhu is assuredly *not* the latter sort, and the former condition (it was just a dratted though very expensive windscreen) meant she could lecture and refuse to take the money.
CVs, can we please have our spirited girl back minus the onset of saas-bahu tinting? The one with "Zanjeer" dialogue and precise effective wordplay?😃
Everything is a lecture with Sultan? Why can't she be sharp and crisp with him, the way she manages so superbly with RK?😕
RK's dialogues were great as always on the wit irregardless of sense.😕😳⭐️
But with Madhu and then RK going fullthrottle on the talkathon route at the same fellow, I felt a completely non-storyline empathy for Sultan.
Watching the spate of dialogues that were almost wholly monologues (yet again) was endurable because of both the leads' charisma and stellar acting (VD's drunk acting is getting as outstanding as sober, and DD managed to make yet another unbelievably saas-bahu cliched lecture endurable only by her screenpresence).😳
But nevertheless it was giving a bit of a headache, and the Sultan character was actually having to endure it firsthand from each of them consecutively in the span of one night and probably one MEIEJverse hour.
The few actual impressive plot-and-characterization bits vis-a-vis the storyline were quite unaided by any major dialogues.
The first such instance was Radha and Bittuji hardly even waiting for RK to go up the stairs before getting together to get up to par on the most recent events.
These two are so completely focussed on their goal that nothing and no one gets to distract from it.
Bittuji would almost guaranteed have prioritized RK even if the Chief's wife were actually Bittuji's sister.
But having only a 'moohbola' sibling relationship with Madhu ensures that he would be hesitant as heck in confronting her and asking what is going on.
The drunk night, he had the advantage of knowing some of it before talking to her.
Here, he knows nothing and has no lever to make her confide in him.
Sister he may consider her, but 'bhabhiji' he calls her, and it is the latter relationship that places bounds on what he may tell or ask her.
Asking her to explain the actual reasons for her associating with another man definitely comes in that category... though I hope he stops tiptoeing and backing off, and just brings his own tactical shrewdness to the fore and gets some answers from her.
Bittuji is the only person in the current scenario that Madhu has not prevaricated with.
The second instance was RK's phoning on Padmini's cellphone when Madhu wouldn't take his call on her cellphone.
The tactical move itself and the reactions of both women before going verbal highlighted that the situation was not something to brush off in melodramatically grandiose style.
Other than that, Padmini's reactions and Madhu's listening to her mother only when her mother is *not* talking sense are old disaster points in the storyline.
They had a person on the doorstep who had kidnapped and threatened her daughter and was of homicidal proclivity, and Padmini looked as senselessly courageous as Madhu.
Reckless courage is a default mode for Madhu and RK except if the other is in danger.
But it is *not* Padmini's default mode. So why was she looking not even a whit appalled or worried at her daughter's antagonizing the dangerous fellow?
And in the precap, she sends her daughter to give the windscreen's cost-money and a bonus lecture to RK.
RK is *not* Sultan to look flummoxed by highflown speeches.
Give him a lecture when he is feeling hostile, and the response tends to be reciprocal on the hard-to-take scale.
And is Padmini deliberately being suddenly insensible?
She and RK both were unaware just what was going on with Madhu's overnight outings.
Now she knows, and RK doesn't.
RK is still the man that Padmini and both her daughters are today alive because of.
Could she please stop this CVs-ensured selective amnesia of her own, and remember that if her son-in-law had not interceded and her daughter had *died* because of her other daughter, it would not be betrayal in love but betrayal to death that she would now be dealing with?
And we might have seen an actual effective baddua - as in only from that moment and never before - to Trishna, instead of unknowingly describing a person's already-back-in-effect private life-situation, and saying it *will* happen.😕
Sultan's coming there made no sense except to serve multiple enforced plotdevices.
He got a lecture from Madhu that may send him speeding down cliche lane to reform himself professionally and as a father.
He has heard further from Madhu about RK insulting and *not* that RK did not know that he had threatened a child over Madhu's cellphone.
And he had a crash with RK's car, gave him a lift and got to hear much from RK in that drunk condition that may have made disputable amounts of sense to him until the last few statements.
At which point, cliffhanger with Sultan going for his gun, presumably to deal with what he believes to be the person who threatened to permanently and completely cripple his child. (Thanks, CVs, for having Madhu lecture instead of being pertinently factual in both of her two recent encounters with Sultan while talking about Aryan being threatened by RK.)😕
Interesting that RK told Madhu about wanting to give an appointment to Sultan, Sultan told Madhu and Padmini that destiny ensured appointments regardless of one's volition, and then Sultan commended RK on his destiny's strength.
RK not in his senses - drunk or in the waking throes of a nightmare - understands and openly acknowledges loving Madhu and considering life worthless without her.
Madhu makes it a point to make prevaricating and misleading comments about her feelings for RK to everyone but Bittuji. She may decide to include him in the list too at any point now.
CVs, we get these points about both the leads, and one may expect it all to come home to roost in stages of exponential disaster.
The male lead's redemption vis-a-vis the female lead and the couple's relationship is to happen at its own pace, and just going to settle in for it and hope both characterizations are preserved and not further massacred.
Could there now *not* be gratuitous scenes to repeatedly show us these angles without also adding on some much-awaited further development to repair the damage the 'twist' caused?😊
Edited by leelaa9 - 11 years ago
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