The reliving and letting go of good and bad memories by the Ex-Husband and Ex-Biwi
Events of the Episode
- Madhu goes to the Vanity van to meet RK as per heroine boss' order. RK is actually waiting for her. Madhu is determined not to fight with RK even if he instigates her.
- RK asks her to give a head massage. Madhu in order to show him as not getting affected by him and just acting as his hair-dresser, goes out to get oil.
- When she brings it back, she spills some oil on the lower step of the vanity van. She calls out for Spot Dada (bhai) to come and clean it and forgetfully also says that "if not cleaned RK will"... this is completed by RK.."not like it..." He goes on to taunt her that she is so hurt and broken and yet she has not stopped caring for others including for enemies like him.
- She gets ready to give him head massage. In the process her dupatta is stuck to his chair, she removes it...a scene that brings discomfort to both. The song "Bin tere" starts to play. As she massages him, she goes back into her memories of her previous time when she gave him the massage. He too remembers it and stiffens. After a while he stops her.
- As she begins to leave, he gives her back another memory of theirs of the back massage which happened in their hate phase. As he tries to instigate her into fighting, Madhu decides to ignore him and leave.
- On her way out, Madhu slips over the oily step and trips on to the ground, twisting her leg. She cries in pain. RK hearing her cry, panics and gets out, sees Madhu on the ground. He picks up her hurt foot and starts massaging it. As she cries in pain, he asks if its hurting her. The tenderness in his eyes for her, stops Madhu in her track and she keeps looking at him wondering at his concern.
- Soon Madhu tries to extricate herself from his hold and gets up. RK leans by the side of the vanity van and sees Madhu struggling to get up. Inspite of her protests, he picks her up and asks the crew around to get a chair for her.
- When he deposits her on the chair, he leans closer to her and tells her that the fight is off until her foot hurt goes away as he likes to fight her being in equal capacity. And he also tells her that no one except him has the right to hurt or defeat her. Madhu keeps on looking at him.
- Bittuji offers Madhu that he shall drop her at home. She refuses and takes auto to home. Madhu reaches home and Trishna and he mom are worried about her hurt foot. Trishna applies ointment on Madhu's ankle sprain. Madhu doesn't tell them what caused the hurt.
- RK, Bittuji are going back home. Along the way as RK keeps remembering the day with Madhu and her fall, he regrets that he had been the cause of her hurt. He asks Bittuji and his driver Rajesh to take a taxi and he himself drives away alone to some place.
- At the chawl, Padmini asks Madhu to leave the job as working for RK has caused that physical hurt. She becomes apprehensive of more hurts to come her daughter's way. Madhu refuses.
Episode Reviews
By Myself
Khel Khel Mein everything became serious for the two. Super serious. How ? Because its not about the hate for each other. Its about the love for each other that turned it bad for them. I felt the pain that both were undergoing. Today it was about RK(the one who loves her) and Madhu.
For me...I have never much delved deep into Why RK spurned Madhu's love and instead made it a revenge game. Infact I am more like Madhu, who recognized what made RK reject her, his Ego, his Ahankaar, seeing that massive size poster of his. And from the very beginning I am saying that getting cheated doesn't hurt her as much as him not loving her hurts her. It baffles her to no end how could his ego could have won over her love. When she had come to her senses and as he was not in physical proximity to her, she could never question him about that. She was tad too late in coming out of her shock and was unable to give a proper verbal closure to her questions when RK right in front of her was doing all that un-wedding drama. When she realized it later at the chawl, she was late and all that tangible reality left on her hands was that he led her on, cheated her. Yes, there are certain things we cannot tell everyone...those matters of heart are best kept as secret. This she had to accept and decided to move on as that is the answer to any kind of cheating in the world.
Two days of holding her head high as the Hair Dresser before RK the Superstar actually did Madhu a lot of good. She indeed could see that she was moving on. Where it went seemingly wrong or seemingly right for her was when RK called her to vanity van today. Going to that Vanity Van was really a mammoth moment for her, as she was in a dilemma in which capacity she was going to meet him, as the Hair dresser or as his Ex-Wife. She really needed that courage. Once she met him and as she came out of that meeting, everything had changed for Madhu. Everything. The man gave her a BIG GAPING CLUE what she means to him. He made HER HIS Permanent Mark.. He said directly to her with a wink just for her eyes, but holding her in his gaze, leaning over her so closely over her chair, in a caging manner before everyone else that, "Only he has the right to hurt her and defeat her, no one else has". What should a woman do now. Feel elated, Feel tormented or Feel great ?
If Madhu is a vengeful person looking for revenge, she shall realize that She is RK's weakness and she can make RK her fiddlestick.
If Madhu is a person trying to get far far away from RK, the she shall feel tormented that this man is never going to leave her alone. But seriously its been just 4 days. And without a proper closure between herself and RK, how can her heart just forget what she feels for him, even now. Its not the time yet for her to feel tormented.
If Madhu believed that RK loves her and that it is his big fat ego that will not accept that and instead tries to destroy what they can have, then just for her own conviction, she shall feel elated.
The way Madhu gave those expressions to RK as he winked and stated his equation with her, his ordinance for her, she was just looking at him, a pensive face trying to absorb what he did where her body(governed by her mind) was still showing resistance but her eyes and heart very much okay with what he was doing to her. She was as usual trying to read his eyes, but since she knows he is such a good actor that she is now in self-doubt and hence inspite of reading what his eyes expressed, reserving the knowledge for recapitulation at later stage.
It can be clearly said that, it is this moment that tells Madhu that as ordinary girl she might have moved on, but as the woman who loved RK to no end, gets all her latent anger back. The anger, the realization that he loves her as much as she loves him, just that he will never tell her. How pathetic and lonesome feeling is that. She knows it, but cannot talk about it to anybody, neither her family, her friends, even to her conscious mind. She can be with only her heart and this hurt when she projects on RK, she becomes the adamant Madhu who is the one who cluelessly gets affected by him. It is for her now how she can get it back to normalcy. I guess she will now fight with him equally as ego clash, as RK wanted that from her. Right ? He doesn't say he loves her or cares for her, but he says, no one can hurt you other than me. No one can defeat you other than me. She holds the key to him. So its all upto her if she wants to be vengeful or loving as always or get tormented by him.
The way she stood up for herself against her mother and said she will stand up against RK, it was anger and frustration expressed. But truth is she has to do what makes her feel good and not what hurts her more. Anyways for me MAdhu has been one character whose expressions and actions come as a surprise as she doesn't show them at all. She is not an easily read face like RK thinks.
Now coming to RK...the game changer. Why when his challenge and torment game was going on so smoothly, he had to ruin it all by calling Madhu to his vanity van ? Did it start after what he felt when her hair dryer was broke ? Because that is when he planned further torture. If Madhu was in a dilemma of how to meet RK, even RK was in a dilemma how to meet her, as a Superstar or as her Ex-Husband. Well ...something happened between the two...as each depended on the other to give a cue to him/her to get out of the dilemma, and they mutually decide that they will act Superstar and Hair-dresser, but they are going to be the Ex-Husband and Ex-Wife. It comes out so naturally and acceptable to both of them. I am not sure why they were testing out each other or actually not clawing each other, but just living their waning relationship.
He might have asked her to give a head massage expecting that her hate and disgust for him, will make her refuse him. But she is okay to give him the massage as she wants to tell her mind that he is no more capable of affecting her. This surprises RK and he has to play along. Inpite of being taunting to her every second, as she keeps genuinely showing to him that she wants to be rid of him and so will do everything he asks of her without reacting in any anger, it touches him, warms up his heart. And may be a tad relieved or tad hurt that she is moving in a direction she actually should move on. So he stops her from further massage and goes on to do the rest...the reminder of another back-massage act, which was a scene between the two when hate was there. It clicks for him. Madhu does get out of her emotions and understands his instigation to her to fight with him and just leaves the place without any fight.
However, destiny, fate has always something else set for them. Madhu has to fall and the apple cart of determination for the genuine couple trying to separate, all toppled into thin air. The man cannot hide his concern and the woman could not cajole herself to take his help (it would have been okay to accept his help if she just wanted to move on...as she could still be indifferent, like he and she showed their indifference to the head massage, even if it was a pretension). The fall, the concern, the affectation at his care, everything ruins for both of them...and for a while, RK just leaves every plan/facade of his to air and shows himself to her and tells her what he feels for her. It is upto Madhu how she takes it...RK knows that. But he is like, that shall be dealt later, but first let me take care of myself. So that's what happened. He drove of all alone.
In all of this, he knows that he wants to protect Madhu from himself, from his viciousness. He actually wants Madhu to be far far away from him so that she can never get hurt from him or his love. Methinks, he feels that his love for her is destructive and so he is okay is she is just away from him. He has not planned much as to what else can happen tomorrow to their relationship, but his good part (I call it the RK part) today reached out to her and showed a little bit of his side to her and actually delivered that part of him to her and he himself is apprehensively waiting to see what Madhu would do to it.
In all of today's episode, there was no Rishabh. There was only RK; his stronger self acting and presenting. He acted on spur as he is that much in love with Madhu and he wanted to his best for Madhu to get rid of him and his memories and yet he was not helped; and when not helped, just bared himself to her. Come on now, after this scene today, who will deny that the crew there do not recognize them. Almost everyone knew that Superstar and the Hair-dresser were just fighting it out, but the real fight was all between the Ex Husband and Ex-Wife.
Precap - I hate it because Dips is there. Wish I could shoot her down. Wish I could cut her to 100 pieces the way I felt cut when I read the written update. It made me pukish and so revolted that I felt like boycotting MEIEJ for today and tomorrow. Then I felt, I will be the loser...so better I watch it. Methinks, RK is planning an act with Dips to give another riddance of memories for Madhu. He is just trying to make it quick for her to forget him. We have to see if fate/destiny will not again betray his efforts and he ends up delivering another piece of him to Madhu. Because giving piece by piece to Madhu, he is strengthening her to fight his bad side...but this is MEIEJ...so we never know the thriller portion.
By zoya_naziya
IMO,this whole drama has once again boiled down to a battle of egos more than anything else.
RK's ego is known by all and sundry. But Madhu's stubbornness ,ego is cloaked under the garb of moving on in life and facing the demons heads-on rather than cowering. Even in the beginning of the show, it was this stubbornness and ego that made her take on the superstar, cloaked under the garb of being righteous and providing so-called justice to some spineless sadakchaap ladka!!!
I felt it quit evident in the RK-Madhu scene at the entrance of the vanity and during the dinner-table Padmini scene. Is she actually just being strong and not cowering in front of her enemy and moving on or is it more than that? I have always found Madhu's character to be on the lighter side of the grey spectrum but it's portrayed so subtly and chocolate wrapped that people tend to miss it unlike RK's who is on the darker side of grey and very clearly portrayed. After today's episode, I don't really find myself rooting for Madhu...Ok... May be am jumping the bandwagon early... kal kisne dekha...i might come back in support of Madhu...
Yeh dono pagal ladey ya marey, am not going to side with anyone and become a pagal along with them...
RK: At the moment he is the most confused banda on the show... He is sandwiched!!! CV's ka yeh twist ne uske dimaag ko pehle se bhi zyada twist kar diya hai!!! You might find this thought of mine crazy... but today I thought he called her to do the champi coz y'day she was jhadofying the word "Mamooli" too much!!! But then he got so affected by her touch making both of them weak and vulnerable... He quickly came out of it and reminded both of them of the massage during the early days of their marriage, reminding himself and her of his bad-boy image, and helping her gain back the much needed strength to come out of her vulnerability in his very own twisted way...
Bittuji: His self-talk almost sounded like an omen for me... Hope am proven wrong...
ETA: Everytime, I hear this Hauslon se veer hoon song, i tend to go into a comedy mood... Sorry if it actually offends anyone
By Kritika (vkk2429)
Originally posted by vkk2429
The only scene that caught my attention today was
Madhu's last scene with padmini today..
She is never so stern/aggressive with her mom..But today she was... and did not want to BACK OUT of her decision even though she probably knew that her mom was right. Even the other day (tuesday) when radha came to do the pep-talk... Madhu did not respond to her the way she usually does and did not accept anything what she suggesting...It was only later on that she made the decision by HERSELF (even though a lot of people in this thread say is a stupid one)... She is still an emotional person but her decisions now are not made keeping someone else in mind(in the case of mukund or radha/trishna during the love confession) or her decisions are not made because someone is encouraging her to do so...
They are her OWN decisions made for HERSELF and therefore does not want to BACK DOWN. So this is more for herself that she is doing rather than for proving
RK wrong or making someone else happy.
ok enough of this bashan about madhu's attitude change.. probably even madhu would not have given it so much thought. I am really addicted to MEIEJ...
By SD
Krithika,
Word it. Agree on everything you said there. Actually as a psychological bounceback, every cheated person loses confidence and hence to get back their confidence, nothing will make them feel better than them participating in their decision. So even if someone advises them, they need to enter into an argument with it and then decide what they would like to do.
Yes this time, Madhu is ALL ABOUT PROVING to HERSELF, RK and The WORLD the WAY SHE WANTS THEM to PERCEIVE HER.
By Kodai
Shri,
Loved Loved Loved your review today !!! Again, reading your take on the episode adds a whole new dimension to the show - in a way, it makes me hooked to this show, try as I might in staying unaffected - again the pain is very much real to me.
You nailed it when you said that Madhu was ok with whatever he did today, she put a semblance of physical resistance, but no extreme reaction. I found it so endearing the way she caressed his hair, there was no anger/irritation but it had tenderness as if for the love that had been - to me the episode brought the purity of the love that they shared, as if the betrayal could not taint the beauty of the moments spent together.
Also, when Rk shows concern for her in his voice, it's as if she would did not break with his insults again totally melted with a little tenderness from him.
Madhu-Padmini interaction was good- it just shows that Madhu can show her steely resolve to everyone including her mom.
By SD
Thank you Kodai.
@ bold 1.
100% true. Pure moments of love felt stay with us for eternity. And for positive minds and also by power of love, those moments of love are always worth it. Like a draught of ambrosia. Even if betrayal happens in relationships, one tends to move forwards with good memories because they are source of energy and we feel good about it. Eventually relationships with that background reform into new equations between the same people.
@ bold 2
Madhu now atleast knows that her man loves her in a twisted manner and her anger will be unleashed in full for his drama...just that viewers may not see Madhu acknowledging this yet. The only ack I got from her, towards her knowing truth was the way she took her internal anger on her mother. Actually speaking Madhu is bodily expressing out a lot of her pain and anger. She is walking fast, she is tripping, she is holding herself high with RK inspite of being nervous, and with her mother, with whom Madhu is so close, very rightfully she is taking her anger, be it tightly gripping her wrists (in the saree/mangalsutra putting away scene) or showing her open anger. The only two people she is actually being on same wavelength is Trishna and Bittuji. because both of them are very afraid of her and also concerned for her and for not a minute doubting her confidence. because when you are low in dumps, it only matters who is giving you space and not imposing on you. Madhu's recuperation is psychologically being shown so correctly that I am impressed. Soon RK will come under her umbrella of anger.
By Soundarya (towards Kodai's post on the bolded portions)
@bold - i agree. That scene actually was quite beautiful, with both of them lost in their own world of memories. That's just it. Even in hate, indifference, fake love whatever, their world is their own, as a couple, they have always been like that. And to think we were all so nervous about it!
There was something about Madhu giving it back to her mom, that I am not able to put my finger on. It will come to me I suppose. Again, something about this fight / challenge being in its own rarefied level, just between her and RK. Noone is allowed to enter it, even out of concern for her. It's almost like the Ganpati time when she dared him to pick up the idol, and take it out. She kept on daring him, he kept on accepting her dares . Now it's the reverse case.
i don't know if I'm expressing myself clearly. Somebody help.
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Originally posted by undisclosed
what did rk think he was going to be doing while madhu was scratching his head???
Syl,
Well !! today I shall take it not as RK and Madhu individually fooling each other or themselves, the person who was standing behind the two was Destiny. He failed both of them at what they were really good and adept at fighting. He just made it a little more futile for them...all efforts are futile and yet so much burden on the heart to prove to each other, to themselves and to the world, that indeed they will succeed in moving on.
Originally posted by undisclosed
rk and madhu are as confusing as this sign
. I chose to be quiet...until Zoya asked me the same thing...Shri...what is this redemption...and I was like okay...its just not me 
