Events of the Episode
- Bittuji narrates the day's events to Radhaji at the dining table. RK snoops on them, interrupts, sends Bittuji away, pulls chair for his mother. When his mother asks to eat, he reminded of Madhu's memories around the table, leaves saying he is not hungry and had just come to pull the chair for her.
- Dips shamelessly walks into RK's room in her night gown. She calls Madhu as the dog whose tail cannot be straightened. She is upset that Madhu has given head massage to RK. RK gives his regular OUTT to Dips. As she starts walking out, RK calls her back and elicits a promise from her to service him upon his request without worrying the compromising situation it may pose on her marital status. Dips readily agrees too happy that RK atleast wants to do something with her.
- Trishna and Madhu coax Padmini to break her hunger strike. A normal cute scene between mother and daughters.
- RK and bittuji are waiting for the shoot to start. Madhu limps in, and walks straight to the heroine, ignoring RK. RK all concerned for his limping ex-wife.
- Heroine gets up from her chair, offers another chair to Madhu and asks her to sit. Madhu does not understand what's going on.
- RK walks to Madhu and the heroine. Heroine offers her chair to RK and asks him to sit with his wife and chat. Madhu looks on surprised at what story he told the heroine. RK says he doesn't want to disturb them and he leaves.
- Action shot- Saans mein saans (romantic song). RK looks on at Madhu with interest as if to attract her, while shooting with his herpoine. Madhu watches him, acts indifferent to him and his looks towards her and has tea.
- The director is not happy with shots and calls his technicians to fix the fan. Shooting is stalled.
- RK cooks up Level 2 assault on Madhu for Challenge Day-2 game. Plan - Have Madhu send off the Heroine under mishguided information from a random man that shooting is cancelled for the rest of the day.
- Director calls for shots ready & unfortunately Heroine is not there. Madhu upset for causing shoot cancellation. RK then brokers a deal with Director that Madhu can be made to act like the "duplicate" for the heroine.Episode ends.
Episode Reviews
By Myself
Hmm...My take. Turned out to be detailed as I cursorily glanced over reviews and some upsets peeps felt...which made me want to explain everything.
Bittuji - Radhaji talking and RK snooping on them.
While everyone is upset that why Bittuji and Radhaji seem to me talking in areas where RK is lurking around. Problem is not them, problem is RK himself. The house -mistress and the secretary, IMO have been talking in the same manner as before. Just that RK in his insecurity and loneliness has become more snoopy. Plus the dialogue writer/creative team need a situation where they can still have RK BBB'ng someone. Earlier, we were shown him BBB'ng Bhatias, his mother and sometimes Madhu. Now all that has changed. The Bhatias do not interest him. He has mended his relationship with his mother. And he has no more his Biwi. Who is left ? No one. Now here in his insecurity plays its part. From his household only two people protested against his treatment towards Madhu. Those were Radhaji and Bittuji. Since he is preoccupied with Madhu, he keeps thinking that the other two are also preoccupied by Madhu and hence his need to jump on them before he actually knows what they are talking about. His BBBing has lost lot of its charm, but still has the acidity and now added with bitterness at himself. This is bound to happen in his current state of mind.
Mother-Son /Radhaji and RK relationship
When Madhu was there, all Rads was yearning for was her son calling her Maa. Now that has happened and when her Bahu Madhu is not there...everytime RK calls Maa, we see that she is no longer happy as she keeps remembering what the person did to the one who gave her happiness abt the same. If she had not been scheming against RK, I would have liked to see her true facade with RK. Because she is scheming, she is very much okay giving pretentious look to her son about the relationship they have. RK does realize that his mother is not at all happy with him. I am tempted to think, how does he want to address this problem with his mother when he continues to respect her. While I give him time to come out of his preoccupied thoughts around Madhu, but it is also true, that he needs to show us what he planned to do with his mother after mending relationship with her and yet disappointing her faith in him and still calling her Maa...and saying like that "Main sirf aapke liye chair kheenchne aaya tha".
Padmini and her daughters Trishna and Madhu
Scene was so cute. Once in a while, these scenes are likeable. Glycerine has been renamed Dynamite. The garish pink nail color on Padmini's nails though was not looking good.
Dewar-Bhaabhi/RK-Dipali scene
Tumhaari nazar mein girke, apni nazar mein bahut upar uth jaaongi. How pathetic and how deperate of Dips. But seems there's clue for viewers. Because the dialogue writer will not write such a line if it had no meaning involved. If it was meant for our LOL, it did not evoke any such comic thought even as RK was leading her on with his 'playing with her lock of hair' ; and her sounding so begging for even a 'one second of his grace bestowed on her'. So I will take that dialogue as Ominous.
Madhu and Shraddha the new Heroine - Apology
I was expecting Shradda to apologize to Madhu for her rude behaviour to Madhu. I knew RK would manipulate the entire situation in such a way that he gets to do what he wants to do with Madhu with the rest of his crew respecting her as his. Its part of his power play when Madhu feels the hurt that others respect her because of him and not her efforts and its also part of his twisted pleasure that he has with his crew for giving him over importance and not supporting good people like Madhu. At the bottom of his heart, RK somewhere still likes courageous and kind people around him. So he gives indirect thappad to everyone (the crew especially) that they don't stand around numb and dumb and have to do things by taking initative. This I am talking from my work experience, where I have felt frustrated with my juniors for their lack of compassion within the team for not helping their team member for a work that I assigned, and to establish the same, I become a lashing boss for not being helpful. I mean I like when my juniors break my rule for proving something better than what I envisaged. Its a tough fight, tough call, but I like the team dynamics involved.
The song shooting and the director's covered anger
The director was clearly seeing that RK was not doing the scene correctly with all his attention diverted to someone else. And maybe the director knew that RK was looking at his Ex-Wife Madhu. Instead of yelling at RK, he was yelling giving the excuse that fan was not working. IMO, the entire crew knew what was happening. But no one had the guts to blurt it out. or did I read the scene completely wrong...whatever...the pretence at fixing the fan goes on.
The CVs CONTRIVED execution of RK's kameenipanti (Making Madhu Duplicate for his Heroine)
Meanwhile RK the kameena has to play his game. Yes, today the first time used a soliloquy technique for RK where he seems to be talking aloud. The execution part of it was all clunkily handled. Fine he sends off Bittuji away, but if we are shown a soliloquy, then why not show it completely ? Why leave it half-way with them not showing is how he managed to have a man come and tell Madhu about shooting cancellation.
Bittuji Vs Madhu reacting to the shoot disruption and level of involvement in it.
Bittuji was quick to understand what RK was playing on. Years of experience. But Madhu was the bali ka bakra. She did not know at all that RK can do such things. For her everything was happening at real at face value. Her boss on the set was the Director and she took it so personally as a novice on the floor. She felt the onus of shoot cancellation on her shoulders and she was ready to pay the penalty. Serves her right to have listened to a random man. How do you learn such things in life ? Again work experience. We learn only through our mistakes. I felt bad for Madhu. She had to keep the job and at that point, there was no RK on her mind, but the fact that she caused a disruption to shoot with misguided information.
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Overall liked the episode. Especially RK looking on Madhu while shooting with his heroine. Half the time, we can clearly see he is having fun with entire shooting. When Madhu was happily married to him and he looked forward to going home to her to have fun with her, all his shoots were so sincere. And now ...he just wastes time of the crew. Not seeing an RK here, seeing an Actor who does not have a grounded personal life.
By Kritika
>>>>Again he steps in with a plan which he knew the director will take...and gave her no option to opt out.. because she was responsible for the day's loss... giving her the guilt feeling.. After watching that last scene... I felt RK's character would make a SUPERB director in the show... He knows exactly what to say to convince people( a charmer he is), knows how to get the people to do what he wants them to do..by hook or by crook... makes a brilliant executor of all his PLANS...
Responded by SD
[SD]: totall agree with you. And that's the reason. He gets away with his tantrums and yet producers and directors and crew let him have his tantrums. Its as if he knows what his fans would like of him and its also that he knows where he has to draw the line. He is just a difficult person, but highly creative and a performer always. No one ...not even Kuku Bhatia can deny that that is a very good performer. He is therefore an RK, RK Sir, Hero, Chief and not Rishabh Kundra to people around him. He built a BRAND for himself and He lives upto that BRAND name...a Bratty BBBing Image with looks and debonair charm. That's what all his posters are about.
@Soundarya
>>> Madhu is now forced to duplicate for her and wear a revealing gown and, btw just a reminder her saree blouses were generally way more revealing than the gown. It's the concept I guess...
Responded by SD
[SD]: Me too. Thinking the same. I guess concept vs reality hits the middle aged like us rather than all. Anyways. I have to say, I would love to see DD in gowns and all. Her back this way was looking much more beautiful than the suggestive revealing of almost nothing blouses. Btw do you remember, in Women's era or some other magazine of 80's there was this cartoon of that woman character where her blouses were always made fun of as having to use a material worth of a handkerchief. Later on when I grew up, Mom told me that for the most revealing or deep necked blouses, the cloth needed is max.
Continuing on DD...In all the three soaps that she has done including this, she never could fully play the outgoing modern girl. As Muskaan Chaddha, she was a doctor, but was raised by conservative punjabi parents and so has to adhere to their standards, though by far, that's her only modern role, inclusive of the escapades she has with Rahul in DMG.
@amrithas
Responded by SD
Though as independent observer, I shall say that a gown looks good without a scarf of stole when in the party/conversation etc. A scarf or stole is good only as outside accessory for gown or when we feel extremely cold. But yes, I get it that for Madhu it is difficult. But what about her revealing (backless) blouses ????
>>>VD looked yummy in the orange jacket, so much so that I even enjoyed the dance rehearsal with the heroine. His eyes were on Madhu, mine on him all the while. That hair blowing, the orange jacket and the song sequence would have been all better, if there was a dream sequence btw the lead pair!
[SD]: Agree.
Originally posted by Soundarya22
@bold - True, there was something about them, they looked very much like husband and wife, completely in sync, and such a perfect, good looking couple..nazar lag gayi
. Though there was no touch between them.
. Though there was no touch between them.
something about the physical space between them I think. Do the creatives really think so much, and insert these nuances or are we reading too much ??
Responded by SD
They have to. And therefore they do so many scenes and takes for just a 20 minute episode. That's what the editing and creative team is about along with cinematography team. Its all about framing. Frame and content and how it looks good. Dialogues, screenplay, lighting, colors, visuals...all create drama and mental imagery. There is the obvious through drama and there is the subtlety with imagery. That is where grip and thrill comes and inspite of a seemingly villainish or grey male lead, we are able to take him.
@all (future track)
Talked with Zoya. Her mother told her that ...revenge drama was expected of RK. But what she also sees is RK did lot of other good things for Madhu's family, reconciled with his mother and did not do anything physically with Madhu. She also feels that spurning Madhu's love is going to kick him bad.
I asked her to check with her mom, what she feels about Dips.
Listening to what Zoya's mother feels about RK and then what I myself feel about Radhaji's feelings, I think RK is all set to lose the 3 day challenge to Madhu. Then Madhu as against frame of mind of not losing, will fill her mind with winning the rest of 27 days of the challenge. In all of this as RK loses in to what his mother wants of him, regret losing Madhu's love in acceptance of it, then the way, they can give a lift to falling RK with what he does to Dips. Because time has come for RK to scheme against Dips. He splashed water so openly on her in her room, showing physical aggression for the 1st time abd yet Dips did not learn anything and came to his room in night gown. And biggest clue is Dips called Madhu a dog...as in Kutte ki poonch kabhi seedhi nahin hoti. RK has so far given it all back to Dips when she insulted Madhu. I think that therefore, this excessive shamelessness of Dips and insulting of Madhu (ignoring his command) will make him vindictive against her into scheming something for her.
Originally posted by himbin
There is no doubt that R.K gets affected by Madhu...by her indifference and by her memories.
Then is it not very smart of him to make madhu act opposite him as a body double or
in future may be as his heroine...this way he can hide his true feelings of concern,love,
affections,and tenderness towards her in between action and pack ups there by safe guarding his ego without having to run the risk of it getting punctured...This also gives him the added advantage of humiliating madhu again and again...MB would have to go through this process of feeling his Love and responding to it but,only to have to break this dream with a shout of 'Cut it' from the director...she would be living his betrayal again and again...For R.K, if Madhu is not breaking she is not moving on in her life either...What a painful and heart-wrenchingly addictive this story is going to be...
R.K is already addicted to his need to gain control of Madhubala...I first noticed this trait in him during that Party night...even mentioned somewhere in the ED thread back then...That night When MB comes out...lights focus on her face..the look on her face was that of a frightened lamb,knowing well that she is the scape-goat,getting down the stairs as if she was going to her slaughter place...vulnerable to the extent of hoping compassion from her executioner,relying on him to protect her...that vulnerability in Madhu's eyes gave R.K immense satisfaction...the satisfaction of having gained control on his wild horse...and hence reaches out to her and presents her proudly to his guests just like a horseman prides over his prized,possessed and controlled wild horse...but,its astonishing to see and realize that things haven't changed much in this aspect since that day...his inflated ego and need of control still rule over his heart...With his every failure to break Madhu R.K's determination,fixation and madness to succeed in it seems to be multiplying...Its pity to see that however strong his Love has grown towards MB it still seems to be falling short in front of his madness of 'breaking madhu'
Responded by SD
Hima,
Like your note. After a long long long time. Nice to see you.
However..sorry... would like to mention that I disagree with your very first line. Rest of everything gels for me.
>>>There is no doubt that R.K gets affected by Madhu...by her indifference and by her memories.
RK does not get affected by Madhu as that means he will get weakened. RK is always attracted to Madhu and this is tormenting him as he does not want to remember her or be still attracted to her. His attraction for her is what is killing him...making him act that stupid and that is the reason he wants to drive her away from him.
@Controlling...totally agree. Along with above, which is compelling need to repel her, this controlling of her becomes his compelling need to keep her close to him. Basically he is his own enemy. His bad side ...the ego making him do those compelling things.
As for Madhu, she gets affected by him and it then becomes her weakness. So currently we see her in a state of mind where she is teaching herself to not get affected by his verbal rants or physical acts. She was clearly getting affected by his dance with the heroine, but then felt great to show him that she is not looking at him. This act of hers appealed to him greatly...pleasing his controlling mind.
Responded by himbin
Shri,
Yeah...its been a while...but,always feels good to share thoughts in this thread.
I understand when you say R.K is attracted but,not affected by MB...He doesn't seem to be affected by MB's pain at least emotional pain...may be that's because it contradicts his sole purpose of emotionally torturing MB to the extent of breaking her.Hence he is very brutal and to me even comes across as sadistic.His zeal,resolve to win over MB doesn't give him scope to empathize her.Madhu is his enemy,his opponent...and this part of him is overiding the part which probably cares,feels,pines for her...Of course,this,we will know for sure only in the coming episodes...Its R.K's junoon to bend MB now...hope one day it would be his junoon for her Love...
Originally posted by Gurtiluv
@Shri
does he not get affected when Madhu is injured physically! He went up to her and couldnt control is emotions isnt that being weakened? He did not want to show her that her pain hurts him too? He doesnt get affected by her emotional pain. I would say her indifference did bother him in thursday's epiosde as he couldnt digest the fact that she was indifferent to him dancing with another woman.
Responded by SD
Sona,
@bold. Both Madhu and RK will always care for each other. But here the problem between them is not about each taking care of the other. Problem is RK's acknowledging love for her. It is the matter of love that is becoming an issue, which now is taking the shape of trying to be indifferent to love.
What were they doing in Vanity Van with the massage memories. He was killing the memories and she showed stoically she will not get affected by his instigation.
What happened outside the vanity was something that always ties them to each other becoming their weakness to each other. RK (as confessed to Madhu) schemed against Madhu when he saw her caring side of saving his life. Who can guarantee that Madhu will not use this knowledge about RK that he cannot see her in pain or being hurt by someone else other than him.
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looks like madhu has become rk's heroin...or is it heroine?
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