Episode 136 Discussion: 30th Nov 2012

Why Madhu ? Why ? Have you gone MAD ? What do you want to show ?
Episode 136  Discussion:  30th Nov 2012

Events of the episode:

1. As the tussle between RK's force feeding to Madhu and Madhu's refusal continues from yesterday, the glass bears the brunt of it and it gets broken. Poor soul. RK gets terribly upset and angry. He is unable to understand why is Madhu behaving in this manner. Suddenly he pieces it together seeing Madhu's hiding of her hand. He grabs it and sees the Mehndi. He is stupefied in disbelief. And then he loses control. He is angry and yells at her, how can she keep the vrat for him, when he didn't even wed her properly. Then why follow rituals for him that he does not believe in. She answers him back, that she believes in the Karva Chauth custom and will keep the vrat for her husband. RK is mad beyonf anything and he asks her to get out from his sight and tells her that he won't be home that night to break her fast. Madhu leaves disheartened.
2. At RK mansion, Madhu's Baya (gift from her Maayka) reaches her. Padmini has sent a lehanga through Sudhakar of the chawl. Through this Radha gets to know that Madhu has kept the fast inspite of her forbidding her.
3. She questions Madhu why she went against her wish and what is Madhu trying to show? Madhu tells her that she wants to keep the vrat for her Pati and she followed all rituals, even ate the sargi that her mother-in-law denied to her.
4. The episode ends with Madhu continuing with fast inspite of being unwell, waiting for RK to come and break her fast and RK there biding his time in the studio, not wanting to go to home.

My takes for the episode

Just for the reason, the episode was staple, I will give it a rating of B + inspite of all good drama. You know its like the oatmeal...boring but healthy and staple with full energy.

Coming to drama content of the episode, I must say it was very good. No dragging or no bhaaripan, entertaining. However, anyone doesn't have a time and no inclination to watch, you can leave the episode and you would not have missed the excitement. If people are genuinely following story line with all characters, then they are definitely going to miss, the character dynamics. For those genuine drama watchers, the episode is a must watch.

Dips Bhatia

uff...kaisa hai yeh dard Rabba !!! After a long long time after Seema Mishra's introduction, I liked Dips Bhatia with that facial expression. It reminded me of hers '"Main Aisi to Nahin" 

Clearly, she managed it very well with elan and sophistication, the bad saas-bahu, jethani-Devrani politics before all ladies there. I liked her managing the respectable man from Dada Sahab Phalke Chawl. I was wondering yesterday, who was Padmini placing the call to when Trishna said no. 

Padmini and Baya Gift

Intelligent thinking on Padmini's part on sending that respectable man to deliver her gift to Madhu. So the Baya part of ceremony is also completed. Just that did not know that Padmini's choice of Lehanga for Madhu's KC gift was so posh...backless blouse in that thin material. Wasn't it too sophisticated for Padmini's choice ?

Lets now come to Radha Bhatia

Thank God her session with Madhu was not as expected by me after watching SBB/E24 etc segments. This was way classy than my imagination. She was upset that Madhu was fasting and as usual placed her higher than anyone for Madhu. Poor lady's illusions were all thrashed by Madhu when she said...jahan vishwaas nahin hota, wahaan baat karne ka koi faayda nahin...Phir bhi...mai  kahoongi ki mai koi dikhawa nahin kar rahi and keeping the vrat for my pati. When she gives it back to Radha about Sargi...that it is an MIL's blessing which her MIL did not give and yet she took it, it was an AWW moment for me. Madhu gave her a good dose...so much that Rads actually was melting. Dips had to take her away.

And now the Jhoot moot ka pati

RK scenes were not acidic at all. I did not feel any anger. Because that was his genuine anger at mockery...a disbelief. He did not spare himself too. He was angry that Madhu was trying to keep a vrat for a man who did not even tie the mangal sootra in a proper manner. Yes, if he mocks Dips and his mother for their KC Vrat, how can he absolve himself from the same mockery for reaping the fruit of long life blessing through his wife efforts ? It was understandable. And for the first time I felt, RK was nettled. He got caught in the noose that his wife threw on him with this vrat. All along he was saying he accepts her as his wife, because he did...but now Biwi accepting him as husband and going for rituals, just for his sake and not any societal dikhawa as the newly wed before anyone including himself, totally bowled him out. He definitely was cranky. Until the fainting girl made him realize that there are lot others who do it for genuine reasons. His dilemma sitting alone at the studio was clearly between how to remain honest to himself and yet care for Madhu. He was nettled and caught in his own arguments and sophistry.

And the chaheta of the trio...Bittuji

Wow!! He was angry with Chief. Did you all see how he left RK in all disgust and anger. Truly the characters are growing now. RK belittled himself to Bittuji's Bhai and Bittuji became the saner one and higher in order and freely chose to show his anger at RK for treating his Bhabhi in that manner. In that vanity scene, RK was no Chief to him...though later he treated him as Chief again

And finally Madhu

So all Madhu lovers ? Happy ? She stood up for herself. She gave RK and Rads an APT answer, Basically silenced them. One became thoughtful, other became angry and thoughtful.

Although Madhu cried, she did not show her face to RK. I liked that about her. And I liked when she did not mince any words, and said "lekin mujhe vishwaas hai". Her words to Rads, I already have written above. Today, she acknowledged to herself that she is NOT an adhi adhoor wife, but is a full wife, whether the world believes it or not. Wasn't that something ? She is taking everyone head on with her conviction. RK kya cheez hai, woh to bull doze ho hi jaayega, Madhu ke zid ke saamne. She is ready to go to any extent for her love towards her husband. Talking on about her vishwaas...her inherent belief in RK continues, as seen in that soliloquy in front of the mirror...with her reassuring herself...with "Hai Na"

Madhu's junoon for RK

We got to see the beginnings of Madhu's junoon today for RK. When she said those lines about her being a full-wife to RK no matter what the world thinks. And for this she is following all rituals. Earlier Madhu's junoon was about her trying to take care of people going to any extent. Now this is pyaar waala junoon. In this context, RK's junoon for Madhu is yet to begin. He first needs to tell himself that he loves Madhu.

Hitherto the junoon on RK and Madhu's sides was always about protection and caring. Madhu crossed to a different side today, away from care or protection for RK. And RK felt the impact of Madhu's junooni love today... When Madhu stripped off him HIS RIGHT to CARE for HER, if he doesn't address her equation with him in a proper manner...Madhu's junoon made RK back out from his junoon to take care of her and he lashes out that he won't care for her even if she is dying of hunger for him. We notice that his anger is about how she stripped his cozy belief that he can take care of her forever without much bothering or involving things related to heart.

Reason behind RK's OUTT to Madhu in the Vanity Van - RK's Bafflement at Knowing Madhu's Karva Chauth ka Vrat

What was unthinkable and incredulous for his was ...husband maan lena hai maano...lekin to go to the extent of keeping a Karva Chauth ka Vrat for him ????. His point of argument is...since when they decided to be man and wife to each other ? Did they even talk on that point ?

Yes, Madhu is his official wife for all reasons. But even ritualistically ?!!!! 

Fine. Like him, Madhu may think...phere 4 ho ya 40, I treat this as complete marriage. But when did she tell him that ? And if she is doing a vrat for him, where is his assent ?

Its the timing again. Its like RK's batting shuru bhi nahin hui, Biwi ne clean bowled kar diya. Stumped. While RK is slowly falling in love with Madhu, he does not know that Madhu loves him. While RK knows that he treats himself as her husband, he does not know that his wife too treats herself as his wife and him as her husband. 

If you remember, in his last emotional talk with her...he was saying to her...I know you think me as bitter man incapable of loving anyone and your thinking is right. Now did anything happen between the two where MAdhu said to him, I don't think you are incapable of loving anyone? Until RK is shown a way to his heart, he is not going to get confident. I once wrote, how much RK looks for Reassurance and Trust. And so far, he has got this only from Madhu in the matters of heart. [I don't know how Bittuji and RK bonded, so I am excluding the jodi from my analysis.] That was in the hospital scene when he was trying to find out who gave blood to him and no one was telling him. Finally the "Hai Na" kind of response from Madhu wins his assent. He feels reassured that he too can be saved as he himself is capable of doing it. 

This time, in the matter of love,  he needs reassurance from her that he too can be loved. Coz, all his bad acts towards her just doesn't get wiped out in thin air. He wants to love her, Haque hai uska, but does he deserve her love ? That's his big question. He doesn't know that she loves him. But he knows they are getting attracted to each other, enjoying each other's company, taking care of each other, trusting each other...but is really the time yet to assume being in love. No. There has to be that knowing, before he can set things to right that he had done it all wrong.

Once his revenge game ended, he first took care of Shamsher's health by ordering machines. That was his human side. Then when Shamsher trying to kill him came afore, once again a human side awakened in him, making him understand a father's junooi love for his daughter. And that makes him decide to hush up the matter, as the whole drama was started by him in his revenge game against Madhu. Now what was left of that revenge drama ? His Half-marriage ? 

Without losing his rights towards Madhu as his wife, he is daily protecting the marriage in his own manner. Because one fine day, you cannot get up from bed and say Madhu, "I would free you from this contract and fake marriage because I think I want to absolve all wrongs towards you". In the beginning I thought that he would relieve her. But when Dips was introduced and his family ties deepened, my original thinking that he is like Padmini was proven right. Why he cannot free Madhu ? Because there are social repercussions. Here he is like Padmini. Its the same way Padmini thinks why Shamsher cannot kill his Son in law. He understands societal relationships too albeit the beauty and honest part of it.  If Padmini keeps a KC vrat for a person like Balraj, even RK protects his mother, takes care of her and lives with those Bhatias, even if they don't mean anything. If he married Madhu, then she is HIS wife to be taken care of BEFORE ALL. DHARM se she got half-tied to him, but KARM se he wanted to take care of her in FULL. That's his way of correcting his wrongs to her. One fine day, he hopes to win her heart.  I think so and I am not sure if RK thinks so.  But through that logic...its just that RK did not think in his dreams that "THAT FINE DAY" was Today...where Biwi was considering him her husband and keeping that Vrat for him. Its like a big puzzle to him now...where does it start ? His wife loves him or respects him as her husband ?

By Peach

RamblinReck: Stupid Stubborn Woman

Karva chauth...  What a drama it is... Fake love and fake emotions to show the world- like Dipali. Go hungry and pray for a man who doesn't deserve it- like my mother. I don't believe in these rituals. And I wont allow my wife to keep the vrat either. Ours is not a regular marriage. I am a superstar. She was an ordinary girl. But she stood up to me. She fascinated me. My name and fame didnt impress her. I married her in a fit of anger. I had given her the choice between marriage to me and her father's life. For her it was really no choice at all. I called all the shots. I set the stage for our wedding. A broken chair fueled by sharaab became the fire around which we took our pheras. Four. I allowed only four pheras. With each vow I took, I promised its exact opposite. She carries no sign of a married woman except for the mangalsutra I threw on her. She became my adhi-adhuri Biwi. I bound her to me. I allowed her no rights as my wife, while I took all rights as her husband.

So much has happened since then. Somewhere along the way I began to acknowledge my relationship to her. I have begun to care for her. I don't love her. Do I? No. But I do want her to be happy. Her happiness gives me peace of mind. Her smile gladdens my heart. Her tears leave an ache in my heart. They leave me tormented. I don't know why I feel that way. Only thing I know is I no longer like seeing tears in her eyes. I wont allow anything or anyone to hurt her. She has no one, but me, by her side. She doesn't need anyone else either. I am there for her. Whatever others may say, I trust her more than anyone else.

I know she is hiding something from me. She has a lost look on her face. A smile always on her lips. I cant understand what it is. I keep asking her and she keeps evading me. Something is going on. But what? Whatever it is, it might be good. For she is happy. And that makes me happy too. When she looks at me with those eyes, I don't understand what happens to me. I cant tear my eyes away. What are they telling me? I want to know. But I am afraid to read the emotions I see in them. What if its something I would rather not know? They draw me into them again and again!

She is doing it again. She is lost... Somewhere... Her eyes are on me. And her thoughts? Are they on me too? I ask her, but she distracts me once more. A look of pain crosses her face and she clutches her hands across her stomach. Whats happening? She is not feeling well. She is sick. Yet, she refuses to take anything. She tells me that she is fine. She is not! Does she think I can rest easy when she is clearly not well? Does she understand the restlessness I feel inside? The uneasiness? I will make her have something. Her eyes are pleading with me not to force her. But I won't relent. I need to calm my heart. I force her to have a drink, but she knocks the glass away. I am so angry. Why is she not having anything? Does she understand the agitation I feel? I shout at her. She tells me she will clean up the mess. Of course not! She would only hurt herself. I cant have that. How can she be so careless about her health? What is she thinking? Stupid stubborn woman. 

Something strikes my eyes. Mehendi. Suddenly everything is clear to me. The reason for her evasions, her sickness. I feel as if somebody has punched me in my stomach. As if all my breath has been knocked out... As if someone has got hold of my heart and is squeezing me tight. Painful. Argh... How do I describe the emotions inside me? I am angry at her for fasting for me. Me, her 4-phere husband. I am angry at myself, for what I have done. How do I describe the guilt I feel? She is doing it for me. The wonder of it... She is closing in.. Pain... Excruciating pain... I must end it. She needs to be stopped. I need to shake off these emotions. How could she fast for me? She thinks of me as her real husband! I tell her that even if she dies from hunger, I wont break her vrat. To save myself, I broke her. But why am I so upset? Why do I feel like a caged bird trying to break free? Aah...

I know her. She wouldn't have anything until I, her husband, breaks her vrat. When I close my eyes I can hear her voice asking me to wake up. Hear the determination in her voice. Hear the plea in her voice telling me not to go away. Asking me to come back to her. 

And I... I cant resist that calling...