Originally posted by Shazzie
Verdict of today's epi - Painfully Disappointing!!
I honestly tried to see madhu from a wife's point of view. Her hubby had a most severe attack on his honour & she is asking is all fine? She is suggesting to talk to the guy who spoilt the pooja, hit her hubby, attacked her husband's father, broke her late father-in-law's pic. Call me conservative, but this part is totally unacceptable to me. Leave aside all this- sultan threatened to RK - agar badle ki aag hoti toh us aag main teri chita jal rahi hoti". He said to madhu's husband this & she is still talking normally to that guy. Forget about a friend, ANY person says such thing to husband, then What is a wife's reaction?? Would any wife think of calling the guy & speaking nicely or in normal tone??
What will be a normal reaction of any TRP audience who luv serials like DABH. sathiya & YRKKH - DIsgust & change channel!
In their conquest to promote their fav person, They are destroying the show. If this is the current track, I ll be joining you in leave MEIEJ! What they show is decided by channel/PH! What we see is decided by remote in our hands!
RIP MEIEJ! You were good while it lasted!
I too keep comparing MB content with other saas Bahu content. Infact, I have seen that sometimes I get soothened by watching Sanskaar after watching MEIEJ. As the girls in DABH, PKDHMMPP and Sanskaar ; through application of their logical mind help their families and husbands. At any point of time, I am like those girls. So I relate to them. Just that the rest of the crap other than their husbands and MILs is abhorrable and I am unable to sit through.
After I read your review, I said to myself...why not watch DABH and PKDH and get over the bad feeling. And I did see the two...drama is going on full. But as usual, Sandhya and Pankhudi are acting the way they should. Normal.
Sandhya though she stands by her husband is always ready to go against his wishes for her and take the side of her MIL so that he never gets to become the hurting son in the mother's eyes. This allows Suraj to yet again apply his sweet voice of reason to his mother and then together the man and wife set themselves on the path they decided to walk. This is how a wife should support her husband, by refusing to become a baggage and instead instil the confidence that she is worth all that support for her. She was doing the same yesterday, apalled at how the events turned out and how everyone was pouncing on him. So in the precap, she was going to do the expected of telling Suraj...I don't want to go after my dreams. Come to think of it, this is the same Sandhya, who couldn't see Suraj eye to eye for becoming the reason of End of Her Dream and Ambition. But the day she realizes, her husband is higher than all her dreams and Ambitions and in his hard work and sensible mind is the seed of all knowledge and conviction that she ever aspired of, the books become secondary to her. And in here when Suraj sees a woman, so calm and quiet and un-influenced by anyone and always believes in doing the right thing without depending on him and yet with so much full of self-respect and fire when occasion calls for it; he knows what he has to do for her. Sandhya and Suraj are really a Diya aur Baati for themselves. They never pull each other down and instead push each other to tread the difficult path as the result is worth it. I think the TRP audience has always this faith on the couple that they are able to sit through the ugly drama of the parasites around them.
I left the show at that preposterous torture of Bhabho and Meenakshi and all other scumbags of the show, but I never miss the essence that DABH of Sandhya and Suraj. It is always there.
And in PKDHMMPP, Pankhudi at the other extreme of being a Bahu of a affluent house, she has now become the right hand for her MIL and her husband. And just like them, I am totally sold out that Pankhudi needs to stay in the house and keep an eye on everything. Sometimes I feel Pankhudi is doing salary-less job at that difficult work of keeping a watch on the house like the watch-dog. If she was in UK she would have got the salary. But still ...the way her immediate family counts on her is sometimes very scary like a huge responsibility. But that's the beauty of it...it gets difficult for her like normal human beings and then things blow up as somethings do not make sense and then everyone applies their brain, and the clouds move away and sense is seen. Even this soap is soothing to see that people whom we can trust are behaving normally.
So thanks Shazzie. I tasted normality of those soap heroines, watched Dance shows of JDJ and DID Super Moms and stabilized myself. My pain is obviously a deeper one as I started with a laugh only to know it got embedded like a stab.
