Episode 152 Discussion: 24th Dec 2012

Time to let go ! Seems that's the theme of the episode today. Seems that's the theme of the RK's 5th Anniversary Party in Film World being hosted by RK at Nataraj Studios Venue. All have assembled there except, the Kuku/Sikky duo and Trishna/Roma.

Episode 152  Discussion: 24th Dec 2012

Events of the Episode

• Balraj gets to know that Madhu is RK's wife. RK cancels all deal-making with Balraj for Trishna's sake, frustrated with Balraj's crazy antics throughout the day. 
• Back home, Madhu recooks Sarson ka saag and makki ki roti for RK. Radhaji is glued to her side as Madhu keeps cooking and ranting about her earlier attempt being frustrated. So finally Madhu is able to serve her husband ..."apna haath ka pakaya hua khaana". RK and Madhu have pleasant time together eating the food, chatting about Balraj's disgusting behaviour, Madhu thanking RK for patching up Padmini   and Shamsher.
• When Madhu chats on that she did not get a good vibe upon seeing Balraj, RK interrupts hers and asks what she thought of him when she saw him for the first time. Madhu says, "Attitude, Ghamandi..." and RK again interrupts her and tells how he in contrast, he was even incapable of thinking anything about Madhu and was just lost in her eyes. She asks him to stop complimenting her and start eating. RK asks her also to eat along with him. She does and by the end of the meal is anxious to hear what RK has to say about her food and RK in his typical unconventional style does say that food was really tasty. 
• RK reminds Madhu again about them leaving everything. Madhu told RK, he need not worry her being a princess and after all aisho-araam. She tells him, she is an ordinary girl capable of all cooking and house-keeping.
• Next morning, RK gets ready early to go to studio. Radhaji tells Madhu that it is RK's 5th anniversary in film industry. Madhu asks Radha to join the party held at Nataraj Studios to celebrate the same.  Madhu asks Radhaji..."Did you even assert your right with your son ?" Dipali tries to stop Madhu from taking Radhaji to the studio citing that RK would get mad. Madhu doesn't listen to her. 
• All three of them reach Studio. RK is frustrated to see Madhu with Radha, and gets mad at seeing Dipali too. There Balraj comes to meet RK at his residence, but guards tell him that he is at the studio. Balraj goes there to meet him.

Episode Review

Time to let go ! Seems that's the theme of the episode today. Seems that's the theme of the 5th Anniversary Party being hosted by RK at Nataraj Studios Venue. All have assembled there except, the Kuku/Sikky duo and Trishna/Roma.

I liked Zutshi's acting very much today. Enjoyed watching his face and histrionics. Zutshi is going to give a tough competition on VD. I was hardly watching VD perform RK's role, I was just watching Balraj as played by Zutshi.  He is nincompoop for sure, but I am just loving him ! 

Things that made me ponder.

• The Mysterious Letter - Kuch to baat hai RK - Is it something do your with your father and his dreams ? Or it about your retirement speech from the Film Industry ?

• And just like that closure, he sees Madhu with Radhaji and Dipali walking towards him. While his mother Radhaji is nervous but supported by Madhu, Dipali is all nervous but without any support.

• Will he able to talk about his retirement speech in Dipali's presence now ? 

Personally I felt RK less affected by his mother's presence on the set than him seeing Dipali at the set. So yes, there is still this demon that needs to squashed by him. Will RK be successful in doing that tomorrow ? He needs to if he really wants to close, mend, and fix things before leaving everything and going away with Madhu.

Strangely the "Let's fix our families/hurts before we fix ourselves" though continuing, seems will hit a roadblock by forces that RK might not have reckoned.

Highlights of the episode:

1. Balraj knows that Madhu is RK's wife. RK cancels all deal-making with Balraj for Trishna's sake. So then how is he going to help Trishna ?
2. Finally Madhu is able to serve her husband ..."apna haath ka pakaya hua khaana"
3. Finally Madhu's thoughts were not filled with Radhaji in presence of RK and neither when she was standing besides her when cooking. Instead she is lost in thinking about her husband.
4. Finally Madhu told RK, he need not worry her being a princess and after all aisho-araam. She tells him, she is an ordinary girl capable of all cooking and house-keeping.
5. Finally Madhu asked Radhaji..."Did you even assert your right with your son ?"Shame on Rads, to be reminded of that and yet she was nervous. Chalo atleast I will take the dialogue as Madhu atleast showing Rads in her own un-offending manner, that as a mother you need to assert yourself if you want love from your son.
6. And Balraj - Padmini - hawa ka jhonka mein ek mazhaar dikhtha hai. They might not be an RK or Madhu, but cannot fail to see that both Balraj and Padmini sensed each other even after 20 years. That's something to recknon with. Did Balraj ever love Padmini ? Will we get to know why Padmini used to keep that Karva Chouth ka Vrat ? Will we know why Shamsher and Padmini never chose to marry by themselves ?

Lot of drama building up. But our protagonists...and their many plans.

Man Proposes and God Disposes.

As RK seems so much in hurry to leave everything behind, forces against him are gearing up with fury to stop him like there is no tomorrow.

As Balraj sets his foot into film industry, forces unknown to him are gripping him into encountering his past.

As Madhu tries everything to make hunky dory for herself and her loved ones, vibes are not coming right.

Where is this headed ? No rating. 

Just watch if you want to. Or ignore if you want to. 

Serial hai. Aaj miss ho gaya to koi baat nahin, kal phir dekh lena! Party/jashn to abhi jam hi rahee hai. Shuru hona baaki hai !

By Zoya

Ziddi Biwi ne finally apne haath ka khana khilwa hi diya RK ko:) 

I am actually so happy with Madhu today. Way to go girl.

1) She was with Rads in the kitchen making sarso ka saag but thinking about RK.

2)She was quite happily talking about their future together(sabse door) with RK.

3)She asked Rads has she ever tried patching up with RK very subtly, yet effectively.

4)She gave a befitting reply to Dipz...

RK was quite reconciled to the fact that Madhu brought along Rads but he was quite badly affected by seeing Dipali... Let go of the Dipali hurt, Rishabh... She ain't worth it and you want to start a new life, so burn all the remains of your so-called first love...

RK told Madhu how he was lost in her eyes the first time he saw her but this girl never took it for real.

So we have the mystery of the paper RK has in his hand and

Ballu seems to very adamant about striking a deal with RK(even after RK's denial ) that he landed at the 5th anniversary party of his.

Precap: Padmini and Ballu's ishq-wala love with Pads having an uneasy feeling about Ballu's presence and Ballu too quite shocked.

Episode 151 Discussion: 21st Dec 2012

Sarson ka saag with Paneer - Tera Mujhse Hai Pahle Ka Naata Koi

Episode 151  Discussion: 21st Dec 2012

Events of the Episode

1. Padmini returns to Shamsher's house. Shamsher tells Padmini that he can't the pain anymore of his broken family and he dies each time he remembers Madhu's unforgiving eyes that have no pride left in them for him.
2. Padmini goes to RK Mansion and entreats Madhu that she should forgive Shamsher like she herself has forgiven Shamsher after RK coming and explaining to her that she was wrong in leaving Shamsher when all he had done was to protect Madhu...with ofcourse a misconception that Madhu was unhappy in RK's care.
3. Madhu is surprised that RK has orchestrated something and she didn't have any inkling about it. But she has a dilemma about how to forgive Shamsher when he has tried to Kill RK three times. 
4. RK asks Padmini and Madhu to come along with him. He drives them to the Chawl and while dropping them RK asks Madhu to forgive Shamsher and make up with him. He then leaves for the studio.
5. Madhu forgives Shamsher...an endearing scene with her helping him fixing the broken frame of hers and Trishna's pic and finally hugging him.
6. Meanwhile at the studio, while RK is shooting Balraj barges into the studio with ambulance siren making noise. Not only that he disrupts RK's shooting. The director is angry at the disturbance. RK is angry too and asks Balraj to leave. Bittuji takes Balraj to RK's vanity van , asks him to wait there and gives him the newspaper to read.
7. Balraj starts reading daily forecast, and finds that it is written that he is going to encounter his past. There alongside, Madhu is entering the studio. Here Balraj sniffs the Sarson ka saag curry cooked by Madhu for RK and starts eating it. The taste reminds him somewhat of Padmini. There upon knowing that RK's shot is going on, Madhu decides to wait for RK in the vanity van. When she enters the vanity van, she sees Balraj done with all food, which makes her terribly upset and angry. Episode ends.

Episode Take.

Can it become anymore farcical ?  LOL!!!

Yet another attempt to feed her husband fails !!  :)))))

In the soap calender, I am not sure, how old Madhu and RK's marriage is, but at real since I started watching the show, it is now 4 months old. And till date, I saw her feeding only Daliya and Dal-chawal to her husband.

All I have to say is that today's episode was far more qualitative in drama than yesterday. Will give a B+

Yesterday it was pure clunk ... Pure Contrived Clunk ...to introduce Balraj Singh Chaudhary. It was madness unleashed with all kind of clunk symbolism to tug at viewer heart...the tool of sensationalism used and making everything contrived from scene to scene.

However today, in contrast, each scenes were logical build-up from Wednesday episode. If we forget yesterday's episode, today could also have been the introduction to BSC Madness for both RK and Madhu...plus so much of other drama happening simultaneously. Post RK's meet, Padmini taking her mini-steps to patch up, then Shamsher opening up his heart's wish to Padmini, and Padmini coming to Madhu and requesting her to forgive her father even from a wife's point of view, then RK finishing what he had set out to do...releasing his wife's pent up emotions for her father by asking her to forgive him from her heart, then Madhu forgiving Shamsher under the pretext of fixing the threesome...their family of 3's ...Father and Daughters. A perfect circle of human and relational understanding...juxtaposed and helped by each other as family members should be helped. 

Must say Trishna set the ball rolling to the extent of calling BSC back into their lives...that's the preparation or Catalysis she caused from Monday to Friday this week.

And of all the clunk symbolism shown from last two three days...today's practical scene of Balraj meeting with his past through reading the daily forecast from a daily newspaper was more convincing and realistic to me. Its like...I am having this deja vu...why do I get reminded of my past, who is this who seems so much out of my past. And the fear on his face, how can his past come back to face him was so much to watch for.

Tera Mujhse Hai Pahle Ka Naata Koi!!!

Originally posted by pippa

For the first time I actually enjoyed the chawl scene...the silent forgiveness and acceptance was beautifully done.

Now the grouse.

Why does DD look as though she's walked in from the sun? Her face is never made up, her hair is never combed. Her clothes are fine but the effect is negated thanks to her unkempt appearance. All the other women in the show are always in tip top condition..hair in place, check. Make up on, check.

Grouse 2:

Balraj is nothing but a comic caricature now. Nobody would have dared to talk to him as dismissively as Bittuji did today and live to see another day. So, it begs the question...is Balraj needy? He doesn't seem to mind being pushed around  , dismissed and even told to shut up! Unless, it's all an act on his part and the real demon will burst out soon.

Pippa,

Agree. 

@grouse 1

Priyachand started an andolan against Madhu/DD looks/makeup/hair-style and that Kaftan types Dupatta. Post is over main forum.

@grouse 2

And Balraj...I called him a nincompoop yesterday, because that is how he came across to me in the police custody cell along with RK and now. It seems ...in Mutihari jungle, back at his home-territory, he seems to be a terror...but in Mumbai Mahanagari, he seems fish out of water, so anyone can shoo him away. Though...even in the jail and later today at the studio, we see the man as observant of everything... he seems to be getting everything...Bittuji character (wafadaar), RK's weakness for a certain woman in his life etc.

So beneath the nincompoop visage, he certainly comes across greater nuisance. He was reminding me of Laloo Prasad Yadav sitting at the Republic Day Parade grounds when the National Anthem was being played and the TV broadcasters focussed on him for the major part of that anthem live capture.

But then I don't doubt Zutshi or Balraj character...I doubt the ability of the story writers to make it convincing story for Balraj. If I get to say...its so easy...the guy is just mad and unpredictable...so spread mayhem...in as much as a riotous as it can get. Then out of that riot and mess, only Balraj can see a pattern.

By Zoya

Madhu ki ek pita se patch-up and doosre se mulaqaat...

It was quite a good episode with the theme of mending relations being back..

Malik sharing that he wants his chota-sa parivaar back to Padmini and she in turn trying to bring Madhu and Malik closer... Initially hesitant at first, Madhu finally relents with RK's perfect reasoning... The patch-up scene was neatly done with no OTT drama, no words spoken but letting the heart-felt emotions take center stage..

Has Radha forgiven Malik ?(Not that I care, but this question came to my mind when I saw her welcoming Pads)

For the first time, I saw some director showing his displeasure to RK at the time of Balraj loud, and crazy interruption of the shoot.

Balraj eats Madhu's hand-made sarson ka saag and remembers his biwi no. 2... I know he loved his biwi ka haath ka khana but he remembers it even after 20 or more years... Did he love her back then in the ishq-wala sense?(Can someone answer this)

RK never gets to eat his biwi's haath ka khana... Poor Madhu, uski phooti kismat!!!! The only thing/ matter in which RK becomes her priority is in making food and feeding him and RK is missing out on this...

By Tanu

For me the highlight of the show today was Padmini and Malik. They say so little… yet mean so much.  Padmini is back to where she belongs. The conversation started off as if everything was normal. Return of normalcy was so important for both of them, their family. Malik's 'Thank You' was heartfelt. I liked what was spoken today with regard to Padmini and Malik… simply because it implied a deeper bond than the children that bond them together. 'Mera ek chota parivar hai jissi bikarne se bachaliya apne'.  A relationship which doesn't have a name, yet so profund… their home is incomplete without the other. As trivial as it sounds, they have a background music now.

Finally, Malik had a chance to let out the pain he has been silently suffering because he didn't have someone to share it with… It came so naturally infront of Padmini…. The feeling of having failed his daughter by breaking her trust and heart. The way he mentioned the look in Madhu's eyes… it was evident that they will never allow him peace.  He still didn't ask to be forgiven… just like the way he didn't ask for forgiveness from Padmini… He let them know he was sorry, but it was their right to forgive him or not and he is willing to accept it.

Coming to my most favourite scene of the day… Padmini's conversation with Madhu. I said that before, the CVs nailed with the lines they gave Padmini. Padmini was there for Malik, and Malik alone. The way she conveyed Malik's pain, his repentance, her own confusion with how to deal with the situation and her sheer desperation to find solace for Malik was heartwarming. Somewhere in between she let out how she leaving Malik(not his home, but him!) was not an solution. I wanted to see the woman in Padmini stand up for Malik and wow that was some treat. Bring on Ballu, Padmini is well over him… it be just a closure now… A well deserved one.  

Coming to Madhu, I wont say if she is right or Wrong, but it was sad to see that she needed Padmini and RK to remind her of what Malik has done. I am sad because as RK said, she not only chose to forgive him but fell in love too... didn't Malik deserve that chance is all that makes me sad. I agree that when RK asked her to come along, Malik was one of the people who held her back… but wish she had acted on it herself rather than having to be physically dropped off at the chawl with a belief that she will patch up with her father. My only disappointment is that it should have been voluntary.  The scene between Malik and Madhu was beautifully done… the understanding when they worked to fix the frame and the hug… no words exchanged… just allowing themselves to feel the peace finally.

Loved RK for what he did today for Madhu, Padmini and Malik. I always kept saying that RK and Madhu have to set right their past before making a new beginning and Kudos to RK for initiating it and ensuring the Maliks are reunited.

Now coming to Ballu… is this guy plain CRAZY? An obsessed fan of Superstar RK? Or has a hidden agenda? The guy scares me… I guess he is there for that. I was pondering about yday's episode and I realised Ballu had done the same thing with RK, what RK had done to Madhu a long time ago. Ballu had locked the doors not to allow RK out just like Madhu was stuck in the studio on the night of her engagement. Today he barged into the sets just like RK had barged into the Maliks. Mere coincidence ya much more?

Once again, Thank you CVs for this episode, It is much appreciated!  

By Hima

Dil ka rishta rakhna hain tabhi aasuoan ka rishata hoga...nahi to rone nahi doonga...

RK even in persuasion can not loose his touch of demanding and slight threatening...Every

dialogue is twisted to suit his unique personality...well done writers...by the way Is this how he first discovered that Madhubala RK se dil se connect hogayi...like when he saw her flooding tears, lying next to him thinking of all that he went through...chawl scene was done really beautifully...very touching...Loved it...Also liked RK's 'you should not only forgive him but,should hug and thank too'...'forgiveness' for trying to kill his daughters abuser (that's what Mallik thought) and thanks for loving her to the extent of even killing to protect her...

RK won another fan...he made a place in his sasur BSC's paagal heart ...Balraj was wishing for a son like him...now had to watch Ballu's love for RK ...how would RK escape from this madman's trap ...he seems to be stalking him everywhere...By the way what is it with the shooting scenes...before when the track was between RK and Madhu, the scenes used to be between the hero and heroine and dialogues on the line of Ishq,junoon and all... now, they are conveniently between Mother and Son and all about a mother/parent giving birth and also thinking of killing and son however he is,is still the son ... But,I like it, how they blend in cinema and real life (though its still reel life for us) 

Just like RK, even Balraj seems to have got intrigued/attracted by that fury glare of Madhubala...These three seem to have that magnetic effect on each other...Spotting that fury in her eyes was enough for Balraj's instincts to doubt a connection between him and Madhu...overall a nice episode with a touching father,daughter union and relief in shamsher when he sees Padmini back in the house was heart warming ... 

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2)Why is Ballu hanging around Bollywood? What happened to his old business? He almost seems to have toned down in terms of his cruelty...wondering if this is aN act and to what end?

Puja,

Movie financing is not a bad idea. Lot of money like flows into film industry like this. As in one of my friend, who were traditionally into paper business, decided to diversify their business into getting into power sector and movie financing. On the movie financing, they did not want their names to be flashed out or come out in open...they managed it through a syndicate. I mean when I remember my friend, I am always amazed where did he get the crazy idea to get into that business...with so much risk involved. He was proud to tell me that he got more that his expected return.  Its like who cares which movie you are producing, just see which pockets of audience it would cater and just target that as your business venture.

Come to think of it I would rather have Trishna become a regional movie star than a Bollywood movie star. So many TV stars star in regional films. Look at Gurmeet, Shweta Tiwari and others...and the famous Ravi Jhankal. Trishna cannot just become a Bollywood star. But then she has a powerful relative in RK. Nepotism speaks.