SGP and Maryada

Two shows currently holding my interest ... and of course Saregamapa is getting good as it nears the finale ...

SGP - very good episode on Friday, 10th Dec. First the Panna Raunaq inlaws scene - Panna getting more and more confident, Raunaq more insecure, Father trying to keep the balance, mother being as obnoxious and double faced as ever ... both father and Raunaq are not happy with what mother says, and leave the table ... What I liked was that Panna is not being obsequious any more, and handling home and job without much help from anyone is starting to get to her - she's trying, but she's losing her calm, and soon it seems she will reach the stage of saying, if I don't do anything at home, why can't anybody else either.
Ishaan Suhana Sona Disha - today the scene was all four in varying combinations and they were all excellent - to the point that one felt like shaking them all! Sona was very obvious about her joy at being on Ishaan's scooter, but what about Ishaan? After claiming he loves Suhana so much and knows her so well, can he really not understand why her face is getting smaller and smaller as Sona gets closer and closer to him? Disha was sweet - she knew Suhana was upset - but is she also in on the plan?
Suhana was excellent - I don't care much for her character, too childish for me, but now as she shows signs of growth, she is excelling ...
The last scene - a worried Ishaan comes back and starts shouting at her, she shouts back, Sona interrupts and she tells Sona to shut up ... Sona leaves in tears, Ishaan shouts at her more for upsetting Sona and that makes her lose it even more, without even knowing why she is losing it so badly ... Ragini excelled there in her acting, her emotions ...you could see her struggle, the woman coming out of the child ... she never wanted to marry Ishan, even now she would scoff at the thought that she loves him ... but she's possessive, he's her husband, he is hers ... is it just possessiveness, or something more ... yet ...

The only problem - well, two, actually - Ishan is not really the kind of guy who could make a woman dreamy-eyed. He's just your average Mr. Nice Guy. And for Suhana to fall head over heels in love with him is gonna take some doing. Also, Suhana Ishan chemistry is not there at all ... don't know whether it will grow, but so far, nothing. And they're not showing anything either, no awareness, no nothing - a lot of chemistry on screen is made up of the frills - the eyelocks, bg music, but there is usually an awareness of closeness which differentiates friendship from love. And so far nothing of the sort has been shown between IS. Although Ishaan is supposed to have fallen in love with Suhana, he's doing an excellent act of being a completely clueless husband as of now. So the love bit is not very convincing as of now.
Anyway, the love story is the least important part of SGP ...

Maryada - again, the same. For the first time today, when AdiPriya are cooing together, I felt a lack of chemistry - the couple was more interesting when they were apart. The other stories in Maryada are actually much more compelling. But then, the conflicts in the AdiPriya story have barely started, there will be far more after marriage, so one can wait for this one to take off more. And the episode was a bit predictable - of course we know Priya is not going to see SSP before the marriage, so they might as well skip straight to the wedding, instead of these multiple hit and misses. Also, today, I did feel that the actress Nidhi is a bit weak. Don't know if she will be able to carry off the complicated story that Maryada will definitely become.

Miss SG, Monaya and their chemistry still!