The Past needs to be burnt for The Future to be bright
Episode 157 Discussion: 31st Dec 2012
Action and Drama building up around all the current tracks...Trishna movie launch, Padmini-Shamsher marriage, Radha and Dipali - hurts being fixed by RK in his own way. A rated episode.
Episode Review
Another drama filled episode with - Madhu finally gearing and discussing with Padmini to think about getting married to Malik
- RK subverting Deepali's blackmail to go and tell Radha everything
- Radha demanding a Rishu of Madhu like the way he had parted from her and then cowering down in realization that she will wait for the time it shall happen
- Trishna seeing her producer is none other than her father Balraj.
Madhu - Padmini Scene - Drama expected on the lines.
Padmini in denial and hence the loud drama. Nevertheless scene is not forced, but very natural. Madhu gathering all courage, expecting all resistance and denial, getting backed up by her husband over phone and does it with all determination inspite of being nervous. And Padmini, the unsuspecting mother chirps on until she realizes her daughter has an agenda to discuss. What the viewer knows for the first time is that Padmini accepted that she has feelings for Shamsher, but she would rather go on living like this, expecting all chawl people to call her Bhabhiji and yet not break the formal barriers of distance between her and Shamsher. She says its the relationship of trust, respect and purity.
Radha - Dipali and Madhu scene - Ah! The high society woman, their manners, their charms and their sugar coated warnings and reminders to each other !!!!
What can we expect when three flawed women meet and chat. That there will be drama like going on in a kitty party between socialite women. On the surface the three women will maintain decorum and social manners, but they would talk to each other in camaraderie reeking with sugar coated dialogues of sweetness which are actually snobbishm and hypocritic with threatening taunts.
Radha in her high-minded way claims aloud that her son has begun to accept her.Boasts and repeats to Madhu that her son had taken her blessing, made her eat the cake and now taking care of her health. Isn't it true of society, that a lie when said loudly 10 times it starts to seem as the truth. That is the case of Radha towards Madhu's actions towards her. Alas !!
But she wants more. She remembers that and asks herself how to get it. She sees the ass before her...her DIL Madhu. She turns to her and in quiet unyeilding tone asks Madhu that she start working on returning her son Rishu to her in ship-shape of yesteryears. God! the woman had the nerve to ask of that.
When Dipali as usual becomes the sly woman to let nothing mend between mother and son and tries to sway that Radhaji is dreaming and should resist her getting too under the sweet imaginations, Radha realizes her high-mindedness and turns to Madhu and becomes yet again the meek beggarly woman seeking alms of her son's acceptance of her from the charitable woman in front of her. Wow!!! what a precipation of her high-mindedness...She is faster than the chameleon in changing the colors. Coward that she is! Disgusting woman wallowing in her impoverished state. Never gets tired of begging for more.
Madhu, we know she is not the innocent...she who gives two hoots to what Radha might expect of her later on after she keeps her promise, is neither aghast at listening to Radha growing insane demands of her nor affected of Dipali instigating Radhaji of containing her dreams.
However, she gets affected by Dipali talking negatively of RK. She gets defensive and defends her husband quite smoothly and in stern manner. She gets her tone of taunting and caution and indirectly tells Dipali that if she has forgotten the respect RK has always shown to Dipali and never threw her out. That is enough to silence Dipali and Radha.
RK - Dipali scene. The bully gets shut-up by the Baby
As expected by the Vixen was eavesdropping in him and his wife's plans. Dipali comes and blackmails quite openly that she will go and tell Radha that something is being cooked by her son and DIL in matter of few days...so he better tell her now. Ah!!! the vixen thought that RK is still the baby who can be bullied in privacy...that he will yet again break down before her and start crying. No. The baby just dared her to go and reveal everything to Radha. Oh No!!! what is gonna tell? She doesn't know anything. What just happened...and as she turns to in disappointed thought, RK her pup, becomes the canine ready to gnarl. Ha Ha!!! yeah, he dares her again...she said that he is unluckly in love. Right? He is gonna disprove her in matter of few days. The bully is aghast. What?? So this was all the plan...to defeat her. What fun is she going to have out of it. She is not privy to the plan and on top of it everything is being planned to show her down!! Bad !!! Can things get any bleaker for her today ?? Wife tips her off and now hubby too chafing her off !!! She needs to do something !!!!
What was interesting was that RK chose to tell Madhu that Dips was in his room ...yet again to talk to him and now in her absence. Haha !!! I liked that.
Trishna- Balraj- Bittuji scene - Recognition with clarity
Trishna wants to thank her producer and agahst to find out that he is none other than her father Balraj. All flashback scenes. What is interesting to note here is that Balraj has already started to get out of Bittuji's hands. He promises them something but snakes his way out of that promise. Though he promised Bittuji not to meet the heroine of his movie, he was happy to get his way out. He is sure going to be a trouble to Bittuji and RK...big time!!
Some changes in Story Telling Technique
These days I am liking the dialogues embedded with "In dino" or "Pichle kuch dino mein" or "Us din"...
- This will help MEIEJ pick up on time story wise... After Karwa Chauth ...with these phrases in between, the timeline is being taken forward.
- and also let us get into a mind-set that RK and Madhu actually are spending time together; without any special events, and hence giving them that timeframe which makes their relationship growing. It is needed for the couple to stabilize.
Others
By Leela
I'm getting one niggling - okay, nearly petrifying actually - concern.
Does Madhu think RK only wants to get away from the star life?
Does she expect RK to have *Radha* - with or without the other three leeches - as part of RK's life even afterward?
Radha is not Padmini to adjust. She likes not just comfort but luxury. She likes playing the grand lady.
And even more than that, she likes never having to *acknowledge* just how much she owes her son - not just for providing for her second family, but also for financing the grand gestures *she* likes to make even for occassions he has no liking for. ....RK's money spent in Radha's style.....She saw that Madhu asked her son to feed her the first piece of cake, and yet in speaking of the occassion, she managed to sound as if RK did so of his own volition.
How many other things about her son are a similar tale of her self-delusion to foster her image of herself as a good mother?
I'm willing to bet that from Mohan Kundra's death onwards, every tale Radha has told Madhu about Rishabh is in the same vein as 'the first piece of cake to share his success'. And Madhu's shrewdness *is* emerging, but not in any interaction with Radha. There she is as naive and gullible as ever.
How badly will Radha end up hurting RK before Madhu stops the 'Maa-bhajan'?
Responded by SD
Leela,
Read your post re Radha-the thorn for Rishbala Rose. Your concern is genuine.
Let me tell you. I think it is a Bubble to burst soon between Madhu and Radha.
- Madhu has already a Trishna thorn to deal with which is also making RK weak as he is unable to use his acid tongue owing to him having to respect his wife's relations.
- Madhu now will develop a Radha thorn to deal with , where in here again she will herself make it weaker both for her and RK, to not use the acid tongue.
Redemption points for us:
- RK has acid tongue
- Madhu has taunting tongue
- RK can hear bad for himself, but never for his wife. He kept quiet before Trishna for his own reason of guilt driven fixing her career and that he has been the cause of Trishna's animosity towards Madhu. A day will come when, if RK hears Trishna lashing just Madhu, he will not be able to keep quiet.
- Madhu can hear bad for herself, but never for her husband.
Catalytic actions :
There should be an undercurrent antagonistic fatal interventions to disrupt Rishbala life together.
- When in Nafrat stage, Radha was the catalyst to bring them together. Now when the love birds want to fly away, she will become the catalyst to fail their plan of going away.
- Trishna is already being the catalyst for Balraj entry and all that production paraphernalia.
I always keep my patience around the dramatic elements needed to run the story. So as long as they keep justifying the twists, I am okay with these pains induced. Pains means antagonism introduced towards protagonist efforts.
Why it is so convincing is because, Rishbala characters are flawed and not perfect. They have individual weakness inspite of larger goodness in them and also their love story as a plot requirement is flawed with the sacrifice and insecurity sword hanging over them.
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