saas-jamai vs basketball bluster

10th December

Okay, today MN were seriously boring! For once we had a decent college track of match rivalries and we have a saas bahu - ok, saas jamai episode right in the middle???!!! And is Nupur a compulsive liar or what?!

General description of MN scenes today - lifted from Tu Tu Main Main with running around looking for random mice of two-legged and four legged variety.

Back to basketball - Sam-raj scene - no eyelocks, but good old fashioned fighting! Hehe, I must have some hidden violent tendencies :) I rather liked! And am so glad good old benji followed Samrat rather than Adha-raj ... And really Adharaj - excluding your team member from the huddle?! and you say you're a national level bb player? No wonder India isn't doing too well at national level basketball!

Princi scene - good! Once in a while, Princi lands up and acts like a principal! Good decision - ban both the boys for behaving like brats in the middle of a match. Ermm, being just slightly biased, I still think it's Adha-raj's fault - as can be seen in his pulling down a winning team! They were winning before he came in, weren't they? So if they lose - kiski galti??? If the shoe fits ...
Though - just wondering - can the princi call his players for a private guftagu right in the middle of a match?

GunSu scene - so my guess was right and the girls are going to manao their respective bullheaded boyfriends ... cute scene, the way Suhani stumbles over explanations and gunjan says - I never asked you anything!

Must say, creatives have handled the bb match track rather well - they've made it interesting and pretty crisp. Am actually looking forward to more matches - probably helps that Mohit and the others actually do play bb ( am I right?) so they look good playing.

Am also looking forward to the SG and AS talks tomorrow - both girls in scolding mode?! And both boys putty in hands of respective girlfriends?! Should be fun!

Last MN scene - did I miss something or did Mayank not mention anything about Nupur being a (ahem) 'special friend'? In other words, is satyavadi harishchandra back or is the two legged mouse still around? His apology was nice - simple, direct - I found the kneeling on the ground a little OTT though. Rati is getting very filmy! Or maybe she was always that but I found it cuter earlier! And where oh where did he produce extra large Ramayan at a moment's notice? I'm beginning to think Mayank doesn't study at Excel but at Hogwarts. Bui forgave him very readily, I must say. Maybe because he didn't mention anything about himself and Nupur - whereas in Samrat's case, she has seen him multiple times flirting with Gunjan, and for an old-fashioned woman like her, that's the major problem!

addendum on Bui vs Mayank/Samrat
Bui liked Mayank in Morena as a person. Plus she had from her end done all the background checks on Bablu, so she had no objection to bablu roaming around with Nupur in garden and khet or wherever - as far as she was concerned, he was a good guy from good family, so he was allowed some liberties. And mayank's apology was frank and sincere. In spite of that, her forgiveness was a bit quick, but well, okay - the main thing was that as a person, her impression of him was good.

But the biggest point is that Mayank has so far NOT told her the complete truth - the real reason he came to Morena was Nupur. Wise on his part - taking it in stages - first clear his bad impression, then win her over further so that when she thinks well of him as Mayank, then he can break the news of their being a couple. Which actually proves Gunjan's POV - sometimes it is better not to tell the whole truth, but to wait for the right time.

Why Bui hasn't forgiven Samrat - first impression was not good, especially for a religious lady, he upset the aarti thali - Mayank gave her a Ramayana and added a lecture from it as well for good measure! Secondly, the egg pastries - again against her religious sentiments.
Biggest point where Samrat failed - Bui saw Samrat flirting with Gunjan multiple times - added to the already bad impression Samrat had made on her, and her own traditional values - if she liked a boy for her daughters, he was welcome to spend private time with them, but if she hadn't vetted the boy first, no way. Double standards, but that's the way many old women are. And correct from her own POV - she's just being protective about her girls - the only thing is, she's not giving them the respect of thinking that they could choose a good guy on their own, and accepting that if Gunjan was not objecting to Samrat's closeness, it was because she didn't mind it. Which is what Bauji did see, I think - or rather he saw that Gunjan was happy when he first came, and that she was very upset when Samrat was told to leave - so he has respected his daughter's feelings, and also her decision. Besides he was able to make a more balanced decision on Samrat because he didn't have any bad first impression of him at all.