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An ode to Omi? I know, I know - most of you are thinking my Abheria is reducing/the long week-end is playing havoc with my mental faculties/I've switched to the enemy camp, etc etc., but friends, forum members and fellow Abherians, please be patient and read through the post before banishing me from Abheria forever 😊
Most of us, when we write the dreaded 3-letter word Omi in our posts, add on useful emoticons like 😡, 🤢 or☢️ , to indicate our displeasure (or even stronger feelings). This post is my attempt to point out the, ahem, positive aspects of this dreaded guy's presence in the serial. Especially because, if all goes well, his track might be coming to an end 🥳 soon. We can't (or rather I couldn't) let him go without pondering over some of his "contributions" to the Abher love story.
So what has Omi (ok, ok, here goes 😡 🤢 ) done for our favourite love-birds?
1. Providing encouragement to Abeer - Whenever Abeer has been down (eg after chath being brought down), who was there for him? His dadi? His amma? Oh, no, it was Omi bhaiyya! With his own brand of psychology, he got Abeer all smiling and happy again.
2. Providing opportunity for Abeer to flex his muscles - come on, if there was no Abeer, where was the opportunity for our hero to demonstrate to his lady love that his biceps 😳 (ahem), are not just for display, but can also come in handy while protecting her. So who's responsible for our Abeer clocking up chivalry points with Leher? You guessed it right, Omi!
3. Providing food, transport and other logstics - Let's be fair here - our Lalla was never very strong in the finance department, was he? If it were up to him (as Kulcha pointed out - cruelly, but truthfully), Leher ke kismat mein there will only be samosas and tea, with the odd jalebi thrown in. On the other hand, Omi bhaiyya has been instrumental in putting together a good spread, whether it's Leher's birthday cakes and gifts or providing an a/c car (with tinted windows, for extra privacy from the prying eyes of chachaji and co.). He even supplies props for Abher's song sequences and is willing to act as photographer, helping Abher capture their romantic moments on film forever 😊. On special occasions, he even obliges with a song or two.
4. Helping Abher relationship move ahead - So let's imagine what would've happened if Omi never interfered in Abher's romance - more meetings on the chath and in college (nice - in fact a lot of us would have liked that), or if Abeer had his way, more dodgy locales like Dilkusha gardens or worse, ending up in jail (not so nice)? (As an aside, why didn't Abeer just take Leher to Shalini Palace for a first date?) Abher looking on helplessly as their families fought like cats and dogs? Enter Omi bhaiyya, and within a matter of days, the love story whizzes from chup chup ke romance to khullam khulla declarations by Abher to their respective families, to engagement, to, hold your breath, wedded bliss!
5. The pre-wedding events - Who was the helpful source of information to Lalla - informing him of the wedding date, place, time? Who ensured that Lalla would be successfully gate-crash the wedding by being nice enough to bring the most useless and sleepy lot of "security men"? Omi, of course! Remember, this is a goonda, who could've phoned up any police station for proper security (flashback to Dilkusha day). So what is it if not love for his younger brother which left the door wide open for Abeer and his bacha party? I feel that if Abeer had difficulty getting his dad's revolver, Omi could've easily supplied him with one of his rifles.
6. The wedding - When Kulcha 😡 delivered all those hard-hitting dialogues to Abeer - "how will buy Leher's mangalsutra and wedding trousseau?", Abeer could only mutter that he had nothing but love to give her. What he could have said was "don't worry chachaji, your best friend and my bhaiyya, Omi, will look after these minor details". True to form, Omi has supplied everything for the wedding on Monday, except Abeer's wedding sherwani. All Abeer has left to do are the wedding rituals - simple, isn't it? Even TN shied away from his paternal duties, but not Omi, oh, no! Omi has been there for his "chote".
Agreed, Omi had a, how shall I put it, more selfish intent/interest in helping Abeer. But if we overlook "minor" issues like his obsession with Leher and the live streaming (ok, ok, and the wall on the chath by instigating chachaji), do you not agree that Omi - far from being the dreaded, chilling goonda/bhai, is the major instrument behind Abher getting locked in holy matrimony? And on this happy occasion of Abher wedding, which he is watching from his special "seat" (no one has a seat, remember, not even the bride's and groom's parents or old ladies like dadi).
Abher and co have a lot to thank this guy for, don't you think? 😛
PS - before Omi haters start getting their pulse, BP up, let me put a caveat - the words above are meant in pure jest and are not intended to cause any ill-feeling/anger/acidity of any sort.
Most of us, when we write the dreaded 3-letter word Omi in our posts, add on useful emoticons like 😡, 🤢 or☢️ , to indicate our displeasure (or even stronger feelings). This post is my attempt to point out the, ahem, positive aspects of this dreaded guy's presence in the serial. Especially because, if all goes well, his track might be coming to an end 🥳 soon. We can't (or rather I couldn't) let him go without pondering over some of his "contributions" to the Abher love story.
So what has Omi (ok, ok, here goes 😡 🤢 ) done for our favourite love-birds?
1. Providing encouragement to Abeer - Whenever Abeer has been down (eg after chath being brought down), who was there for him? His dadi? His amma? Oh, no, it was Omi bhaiyya! With his own brand of psychology, he got Abeer all smiling and happy again.
2. Providing opportunity for Abeer to flex his muscles - come on, if there was no Abeer, where was the opportunity for our hero to demonstrate to his lady love that his biceps 😳 (ahem), are not just for display, but can also come in handy while protecting her. So who's responsible for our Abeer clocking up chivalry points with Leher? You guessed it right, Omi!
3. Providing food, transport and other logstics - Let's be fair here - our Lalla was never very strong in the finance department, was he? If it were up to him (as Kulcha pointed out - cruelly, but truthfully), Leher ke kismat mein there will only be samosas and tea, with the odd jalebi thrown in. On the other hand, Omi bhaiyya has been instrumental in putting together a good spread, whether it's Leher's birthday cakes and gifts or providing an a/c car (with tinted windows, for extra privacy from the prying eyes of chachaji and co.). He even supplies props for Abher's song sequences and is willing to act as photographer, helping Abher capture their romantic moments on film forever 😊. On special occasions, he even obliges with a song or two.
4. Helping Abher relationship move ahead - So let's imagine what would've happened if Omi never interfered in Abher's romance - more meetings on the chath and in college (nice - in fact a lot of us would have liked that), or if Abeer had his way, more dodgy locales like Dilkusha gardens or worse, ending up in jail (not so nice)? (As an aside, why didn't Abeer just take Leher to Shalini Palace for a first date?) Abher looking on helplessly as their families fought like cats and dogs? Enter Omi bhaiyya, and within a matter of days, the love story whizzes from chup chup ke romance to khullam khulla declarations by Abher to their respective families, to engagement, to, hold your breath, wedded bliss!
5. The pre-wedding events - Who was the helpful source of information to Lalla - informing him of the wedding date, place, time? Who ensured that Lalla would be successfully gate-crash the wedding by being nice enough to bring the most useless and sleepy lot of "security men"? Omi, of course! Remember, this is a goonda, who could've phoned up any police station for proper security (flashback to Dilkusha day). So what is it if not love for his younger brother which left the door wide open for Abeer and his bacha party? I feel that if Abeer had difficulty getting his dad's revolver, Omi could've easily supplied him with one of his rifles.
6. The wedding - When Kulcha 😡 delivered all those hard-hitting dialogues to Abeer - "how will buy Leher's mangalsutra and wedding trousseau?", Abeer could only mutter that he had nothing but love to give her. What he could have said was "don't worry chachaji, your best friend and my bhaiyya, Omi, will look after these minor details". True to form, Omi has supplied everything for the wedding on Monday, except Abeer's wedding sherwani. All Abeer has left to do are the wedding rituals - simple, isn't it? Even TN shied away from his paternal duties, but not Omi, oh, no! Omi has been there for his "chote".
Agreed, Omi had a, how shall I put it, more selfish intent/interest in helping Abeer. But if we overlook "minor" issues like his obsession with Leher and the live streaming (ok, ok, and the wall on the chath by instigating chachaji), do you not agree that Omi - far from being the dreaded, chilling goonda/bhai, is the major instrument behind Abher getting locked in holy matrimony? And on this happy occasion of Abher wedding, which he is watching from his special "seat" (no one has a seat, remember, not even the bride's and groom's parents or old ladies like dadi).
Abher and co have a lot to thank this guy for, don't you think? 😛
PS - before Omi haters start getting their pulse, BP up, let me put a caveat - the words above are meant in pure jest and are not intended to cause any ill-feeling/anger/acidity of any sort.
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