Kadak episode!

2nd December

After the brainless comedy of the last two days, a good episode. There was logic to everything - a rarity in MJHT, including even Dodo today and how he stuck to AS. AS scene was actually sit-through-able today as there was no romance!

MN - misunderstanding again, underplayed by both actors and therefore the seriousness came across much more than their normal shouting matches. Liked the little touches - Suhani keeping her wits about her and moving close to Nupur so that Adhiraj couldn't figure out that Mayank was talking to Nups and not to her, and replying to Mayank's question to Nupur, again for A's benefit. Pity Mayank didn't figure that one out - thought he was supposed to be intelligent. They are really portraying his character in the love department a little strangely and irrationally - addendum below.

SG acting again as referees - wonder what's going to happen when Samrat discovers Gunjan's lie - but looking at them today and their talk to MN respectively, again I feel Samrat will land up listening to Gunjan eventually - there will be more hurt than anger. They are both far more cool headed than MN, the interesting part will be that every time they have broken their friendship, it has been Gunjan's doing, this time Samrat is the one who will be hurt and might distance himself from her - at least temporarily.

As for precap and Gunjan ticking off Mayank - woohoo!!! Go Gunjan! Yes, someone has definitely been reading all our discussions on Gunjan and her character development! And loved Samrat at the end - Miss-Understanding! Looking forward to tomorrow's episode to watch the new improved Gunjan! I thought Samrat was the only one who could tackle an angry Mayank, the rest, including Nups, were all scared of his temper, but looks like Gunjan is getting there as well. How much confidence Samrat has given her! Now this is character development! Samrat developing maturity and Gunjan developing confidence!

addendum - after many days, had a thought on MN. Yet another misunderstanding - true. But is this finally a turning point? Coincidence - the project misunderstanding was exactly one year ago. The big difference this time - Mayank was a loner then, confided in no one but his mom. Now he talks to Samrat very freely, and definitely has a lot of respect for Gunjan. In that sense, he is coming out of his isolation to having regular friends whose opinion he actually respects and does listen to, to some extent at least. Will this be an opportunity to bring out the real reason WHY is he always so quick to distrust Nupur i.e. something in his past ... maybe abandonment by his father/ early death of his father/ problems between his parents leading to separation, which leads to an innate distrust of love as an emotion, and the irrational commitment phobia he showed earlier, when he didn't want to acknowledge his relationship with Nupur, and now, his promptness to jumping to conclusions, showing his own insecurity about his relationship and her commitment to it. Is this a reflection of what happened between his parents, and therefore not really as irrational as it seems?

Guess we will have to wait and watch. His arrogance and ego has not really changed very much, but it has softened slightly. If we look back at the phone call between Samrat and Mayank after the bus scene, Samrat says - you should thank me for my plan, Mayank doesn't say thanks, instead, he says, you should thank me that I stayed back, otherwise your gf wouldn't be with you, but would be wiping her sister's tears. Yes, arrogance still there, but toning down ever so slightly. So he still has a long way to go. Maybe it is his defensiveness and his own internal insecurity that manifests as his arrogance, a chip on the shoulder kind of thing. Wonder if the cv's will take this up at all - otherwise the MN story really has nowhere to go. SG still has a lot of meat - sister, then mom dad ... parents are still the mystery element, and they come separately, not together, so that track can be stretched for months. But Mayank's mom loves Nupur, no problems there, it's only the mystery dad and his role in shaping Mayank's character that has any unknowns left in it.

If cv's take it up at all that is - they might prefer to keep things the way they are - one nautanki couple, one emotional couple and one ...??? WHAT to label AS? So far Adhiraj's character is half baked in the extreme - does he have a hidden agenda in pursuing Nupur or is he really being good obedient son and following the arranged match set up for him? And why does he hate Samrat so much? No, lots of unexplained stuff there as well. Wonder what path will be taken next.