Episode 159 Discussion: 2nd Jan 2013

When Slap grows heavier than the Prank.

Daamad ne Saasuma se mazaak kiya to Saasuma ne Daamaad ko thappad mara!

Episode 159 Discussion: 2nd Jan 2013

Events of the Episode

1. Padmini and Shamsher's love for each other comes out in the open as each of them reveal their true states of overwhelming emotion felt for each other when they hear that the other is extremely hurt.
2. The prank had been played by RK on Padmini and Shamsher as a hoax accident call placed to either. Both the daughters are witness to this drama. Padmini slaps RK at the prank played on them.
3. RK does not mind it, apologizes to the entire family for the prank played by him, and especially to Padmini. Then he goes on to explain that it was necessary for him to play it otherwise, his sasurjee and saasuma would never have accepted their feelings and regard for each other. He asks them to think over it and give a meaning to their relationship.
4. Trishna is upset that her her mother has been distressed. She asks RK to stop interfering in her parents lives. RK asks her to keep herself away as well as she need not interfere or influence her parents lives and it is their decision to marry or not.
5. Padmini and Shamsher do a lot of soul searching in the night as they think over the incident and how it brought forth all their hidden emotions for each other.
6. At night Madhu and RK, equally disturbed and happy at days events, agree that they caused distress to Madhu's parents, but also see the hope that they will come around in due time. They seek solace in each other's company to get the draught of happiness being supportive to each other. In the process RK takes down two of the pillows from their Deewar.

Episode Review

Wow ! I had a hearty laughter at the drama today. I know @real; other viewers sitting with me would have been irritated at my laughing at the Malik ... Padmini ...Malik ...Padmini yells...the closeness and then the thappad...It was supposed to be a serious drama and I was laughing. 

Anyways, they tried to make the episode a masaaledaar one. And the dramatics used that entertained me were:

1. the dead cat aka the scarf around the neck is back. Costume changes.
2. Trishna got spat at. Forgive my language! but ek bigda hua doosri bigdi hui ki acchi class le li. Didn't you all enjoy ?
3. They gave a Rishbala hug for viewers...I did not care much for this one
4. Radha the Gate-keeper  :) She was doing her honest duty there. Feeling sleepy and yet keeping her watch.
5. the two dogs being sent to the kennel.

Will give a B+

Now serious analysis

The Prank played by Rishabh Kundra - The planner and Executor for his Sasurjee-Saasuma Love Realization

Loved the drama. Needed drama. The whole family got played upon by RK. Each of the two daughters accompanying the parent to witness the drama of love coming out in the open. RK was lucky to have Trishna sitting at home when he played the prank. The prank was answered by a slap by Padmini. Very normal reaction there. And RK apologizes profusely to Padmini for his prank. What was more interesting is RK then finishing his part of the drama to make his saasuma and sasurjee realize that he did what they should have done long time back. He unabashedly tells them that "had not I played the prank you would never have told each other what conspired today, what we spoke to you about today."  He makes Shamsher answer his close looped questions which is pretty much like...oh! so why do you then crucify me for speaking out the truth. Both Padmini and Shamsher could not say anything.

The other dramas interesting to watch around the scene were 

• how both the daughters were surprised to see so much of overwhelming concern and love between their mother and father. They were taken aback at Padmini holding Shamsher quite closely and saying...I would have died had something happened to you...haha!!! the girls were like two kids...where did it come from ?

• How RK was being pleaded by his Biwi and Sasurjee to keep quiet and he vehemently saying no...that today, the moment is not to stop it. All ganged up there. Loved it.

• And how Trishna got verbal slap from RK. Oh! I loved it for the fact that ek bigda hua doosri bigdi hui ki acchi class le li. Didn't you all enjoy ? Loha hi loha ko kaata hai types. Do badtameez asking each other to stay away  from their parents. 

"Dil todna aur dil dukhane ki baaten tumhaare moonh se acchi nahin lagti. Tum in sab cheezon se doo raho to hi accha hai"

If this is going to be the jeeja-saali relationship between RK and Trishna, I am gonna enjoy it.  LOL!!

Roma's apt and interiors and the scenes

And finally they showed us how Roma's apt looks like. We got to see the interiors. Not bad!! Right ?? Nowadays the clunk from CVs is paying up...Used the flat to have Shamsher sit there  on the chabootra (I could not see of which tree it was) right in front of Roma's chawl apt. So that a little more of Padmini and Shamsher is seen by us. 

I won't blame Trishna's behaviour back in chawl. She is just being a possessive child, who doesn't want anything to happen to her mother, as she cannot lose her. So anything that makes her happy is fine by her, if that means bad mouthing her prank playing daamad or her muted second daughter. Whatever I am enjoying Trishna and her tantrums against RK and Madhu.

 CVs please show some entertaining drama between Trishna and RK in the upcoming marriage ceremony sequences. If the two bigde hue take each other's class, it would look to me as at least some barriers being closed between the two and she too becomes part of RK's family. Trishna is being unnecessarily kept away from the family drama.

Faisle ki ghadi aa gayi (The moment has come to decide)

Padmini and Shamsher now neither seem to be embarrassed nor hesitant. They know. But for both of them its the time...the time is pressing upon them to decide. And more so on Padmini as Shamsher is going to be with her no matter what she decides. This was the Aww moment for me when it suddenly dawns on Padmini looking at Shamsher outside the window, him getting upto to come after her when the window pane hits her and how he stops himself.

The precap scene

Radha the Gate-keeper  :) She was doing her honest duty there. Feeling sleepy and yet keeping her watch. Madhu blurted out that RK got slapped. From the precap scene, I could see that Padmini and Radhaji both were coming out of the temple together. So this means...Radhaji has a part to play in convincing Padmini... have to wait and watch.

And finally the couple in Love

This was not at all forced to me. Each of them were seriously thinking of the day's events. And RK wanted to share his feelings with his wife.  Starts chatting and she too responds. He is happy for the efforts made and believes that they will have success. And the talk just leads them on to empathize again about their relationship. The way they forget the rest of the drama and are again lost in each other, is what made it special for me...its like the goner moment.  Its like now you cannot stop the two love birds. And gone are two dogs in between the two. The dogs might be wailing aloud!!!  

The legal implications need to be clarified

Now I have the LOGICAL QUESTION that CVs have not taken pains to show it to me that their ORCHESTRATOR (RK) has thought about seeking legal clarities on Padmini's old marriage dissolution.

Its fine that Shridevi knows about it...but what about rest of Indian junta ? 

They might all be thinking how can Padmini marry Shamsher by remaining married to Balraj ? So who will BELL THE CAT now ? Someone needs to ASK this question ALOUD and all the viewers need to be answered .

Others take

By Zorica over RK the Planner and Executor

RK marked the beginning of episode: shock therapy!

Good acting RK, Padmini, Malik, but the scenography is more like a theater. I know it's RK idea to control the conditions in which the unfolding drama, but it bothered me. He did not want to be in a public place - I think that because of slap was expecting. LOL!

RK marked the end of the episode: gentle therapy!

Gentle and caring, as only he knows how to be! 

By Ananya

Brilliant is the word.

I am enjoying this 'Padmini-Ek Ishq Ek Junoon'  from the past few episodes. At least, Padmini's character seems to make lot more sense to me than Madhu's. 

It was heart touching to see the two souls who had suppressed their feelings for each other for the past 20 years, reach out to each other with volcano of emotions erupting in each at the thought of other being in peril. What tugged at my heart was the fact that, the two were completely lost in each other. In that moment, nothing else mattered to them. It didn't matter that their daughters were around witnessing them. All they cared about was that the other was safe. The terror in their eyes, for the other being in mortal peril, the sense of relief to see each other unharmed, and once that appeased a sudden realization, that in that one moment their nameless relationship might have reached a stage from where there is no looking back. All the plethora of emotions was very very well done. Kuods to the actors here. 

I dont ever remember any  CVs portraying the love story of supporting characters so beautifully.

Trishna's reaction was what I expected. If Madhu was not ready to accept this thought immediately, it would be unfair of us viewers to demand that Trishna should have reacted differently and supported the marriage. At that particualar instant, all she could see was this plan of RK's has caused a lot of distress to her parents. It is understandable. 

Now the much hyped slap, I am simply amazed by RK. It just shows the lengths he could go for the sake of his loved ones. He truly sees a mother in Padmini and hence had no qualms in getting slapped by her. Same goes with Padmini. She is not a person who would go around slapping people unless she exerts rights on them.(Quite unlike madhu, who did not hesitate in slapping RK in front of his whole crew)

The best scene has to be the chawl scene, where Padmini asks to be left alone. Through her eyes, she pleads Malik to understand and he does. What more understanding can we demand from two people in love? And then again, when they look at each other through the window, padmini hurts and in an instant Maliks wants to run to her, but still gathers the courage to hold himself.

I loved how RK said that he understands the importance of a husband-wife relationship, and hence wants them to get married. Loved how he silenced Trishna, asked her to keep quiet when it comes to matters of heart. It was very wise of him to put those two questions in front of mailk-padmini, answers to which he already knew. All he wanted was padmini to listen to those answers from malik. (RK will always come up with new ways to make me fall more for him..)

Now coming to madhu, she disappointed me today. Both in studio scene and with Radha scene. I expected her to support her husband, not with his plan, but with his intention behind it. How can she manage to be quiet throughout the entire scene is beyond me, especially when Trishna accuses RK of interfering in her parents' personal matter. She should have defended her husband there. Instead, what she does, goes home and cries on Radha's shoulder that her mom slapped her husband. Why? What purpose does that serve? We were not even shown properly how Radha reacts to it, and to be frank I dont care. But madhu has to learn to keep the matters between her and RK to herself, especially matters as sensitive as this.

I would like to end this very long post on the happy thoughts of the romantic elements in today's episode. Loved how RK hugged her in the studio. Finally he rested his head on hers during a hug. Loved how  RK said, 'galti karne ki mafi hoti hai, par koshish na karne ki mafi nai hoti'. Very true, and applicable to all aspects of one's life..

Pillows going down, him asking her to rest her head on his hand, all of it was beyond cute.

By Myself - Why the need for Madhu to inform Radhaji that Padmini slapped RK

@Ananya, Liked your post. Every word of it.

That does not mean that I did not like all the other reviews. I did. Its just that Ananya's narrative was flowing with her emotion of elation. 

Zoya,

You have been upset with Madhu for being indiscrete and telling Rads that Padmini slapped RK. Thing is...Its not character Madhu's fault.

If you remember, Madhu is discrete when she wants to. She chooses to tell what she wants to Rads. She doesn't tell everything. Its like ...Madhu shows the facts of the matter as a painting and presents it to Radha. She did not tell what was the fight about when Rads saw RK angry with Madhu at the dining table. She told all was well between her and RK upon returning from the farmhouse.

So its not just Madhu who uses discretion of informing per her mind. It is CVs through her. Remember this is Madhubala: Ek Ishq Ek Junoon. Its Madhu who has to drive the story. So she acts with CVs mind. All the other characters become catalysts to her created drama with her main antagonist being Rishabh Kundra. This is needed to always keep the tension between Mads and RK, otherwise the Ishq and Junoon will not come. For the junoon to show up, the conflict through Madhu at times and through RK at other times has to be there.

Anyways cutting short my ramble...what I am saying is that

today MAdhu informed Rads that Padmini slapped RK. It means that there is a purpose behind it. The CVs have planned something. Going my Madhu's character, she is being truthful to her saasuma. Because Padmini should not have slapped her Damaad. Now the viewers, RK, Padmini and Mads understand it...but the voice of tradition also need to be pacified. Right ? So CVs are making it look moralizing and sanctioning through Madhu that yes, the storytellers know that Padmini committed an offence and hence the panic stricken face from Shamsher, Trishna and Madhu. But who cares in reality. :)) As long as RK the hero is happy with the result, no one needs to bother what Mads or Rads thinks. We know the drama is going to be resolved tomorrow, hopefully with Rads as the older woman explaining Padmini that its okay to remarry ..as she too had remarried.

Now coming to Why they showed RK going all cold in his first response to Padmini's slap. That again is UN RKish. We just have to ignore that because CVs were trying to raise the emotional quotient of the scene by making us believe ...OHH!!!!!!!!! RK Pit gaya...AB use Gussa Aayega ...types.

Because of these impoverished clunks today to create drama, I wanted to give a B rating, but then gave it B+ because I didn't want to make it bad for the beautiful other moments of today's episode.

By Savz_uniqueblis  on TRISHNA

trishna is spolied brat but she is always treated like stranger to family, not included in family drama/decisions. pads-shammu n madhu seems more like family n trishna an outsider. seems she became like tat becos of neglected. she lost her own mother. her biological father is not nice to her. she didn't get mom-dad love frm pads-shammu so seems more taken care by roma, so she always feels tat she didn't get any love same like rk. rk n trishna in same boat. rk got madhu n trishna still not lucky. they can show nice story of trishna if cvs plans it, but trishna n ballu meeting many times,is it hinting any track btwn them. lets see .

By Soundarya and responded by myself

Originally posted by Soundarya22

A few points that struck me, they could be repetitive so pls bear with me:

• When RK and Madhu walk into their house, and they see Radhaji..RK tells her he's going upstairs. His face is not at all annoyed on seeing Radhaji, in fact, I thought he sort of indicated to Madhu to tell her what had happened..[SD] Agree. I felt the same. It was like he indicated to Madhu that you tell her why we are so late.
• Trishna's reaction was expected...it was the same first reaction that all of them had on hearing the proposal. Of course, her blaming madhu blindly  was unwarranted. She may come around given that there's been news about them dancing at the mehndi. 
• Will Trishna accept the offer just to get rid of Balraj? It is uncharacteristic of her, just when she should be telling people about his presence, she keeps quiet. Esp when this whole marriage thing coming up, how can paddy marry when she hasn't divorced Balraj, and he is back in the same city!! But this is the typical soap silent chaos  created just so that there can be a dramatic revelation two weeks later.[SD]: To me her keeping quiet now makes perfect sense. why ? No matter what Balraj should not see Padmini. Isn't it the survival reason why Shamsher staged the drama of her being killed. Else Balraj would never have stopped hunting them down. So she had split second decision to make ...by agreeing to do the cinema, she will have Balraj leave before either of them see each other. Now if there was  no Padmini-Shamsher marriage drama going on, logically she should be disclosing that Balraj is back in town. But she may again decide to let it slide as the marriage will not happen if the Balraj news is out. But yes, why No ONE is asking, how can Padmini marry a Shamsher without divorcing Balraj. Fine by law their marriage is non-functional...but how about ritualistic removal of her mangalsutra and sindhoor that Padmini is wearing in the name of Balraj. Shouldn't the woman at least look devoid with all marriage symbols from her previous marriage ? Questions galore my mind. But then I am willing to wait.
• The pillow removal scene was 3 seconds more than what they showed in the pre-cap!!! But then, I guess it was needed to show their increasing comfort with each other. If madhu was upset with the prank RK pulled, he wanted to show her he meant it in good faith, didn't mean to hurt anybody with it. And he wanted her to believe him, that's why he reached out and she understood. It was lovely...the silent understanding they have, the communication they have portrayed so beautifully.[SD]: Agree. Also did you notice the editing bloopers. MB's hand was already spread out for the entire length post pillow removal. And yet the last scene is shown as of she is giving out her hand now...

On an aside...I have already started writing to Colors to get them married quickly, how long will they love like this? It's terrifying to see the number of pillows remaining

[SD]: Good.