29/5 - 263 ... And the Tubelight flickers brightly

Tuesday 29th May

 

Should I start with the bloopers of the day? ;)

- Didn’t the guard see that the lock was open? Or did he get in from another door? Or did MR and PS Bond manage to lock the door behind them?

- Why didn’t the guard just switch on the light, rather than use a flashlight?

- MR and PS Bond left all the videos lying around next to the player? So won’t anyone suspect the next morning that there was a break in? or don’t they care?

- Which generation vcd player was that? Or rather, which century? I should have mentioned this yesterday itself …

- Why didn’t they use the gate to leave? And how DID they leave?

Finally Mami and Khushi start thinking about the ransom demand … or lack thereof. And Mami’s detective novel reading comes in handy … to raise Khushi’s suspicions finally about Shyam. And she checks his phone. And finds that he made a Rs 5 lakh withdrawal recently ... what for?

That was one conphuuused dhobi! :))

Gotta check what Mami and Khushi have been eating recently, which got their brains moving so swiftly. Not the same diet as the rest of the family for sure. :))

One mandatory Arnav scene, where he hallucinates about Khushi … and has major regret-laden fb’s. So his RTRW started? And did that last dress of Khushi’s even have pompoms on the sleeves? Vaise, his tubelight has started flickering too ... literally as well! :))

Mami had a few one-liners again … coming in the update. 

Laxmi to the rescue … she lost weight! 

And Khushi finally goes against the grain of all serials, and actually overhears something useful … so she will follow Shyam to the hideout … and get caught … and rescue Arnav … and get rescued herself … we have a busy night ahead … 

Oh there was a Payash scene in there somewhere, where they actually looked animated for once :)

*edited*
Have pointed out the bloopers already, so no more blooper talks from me :))
 

Episode continues from yesterday as Mami and Khushi watch 4 MIB trail Arnav, one taps him on the shoulder, and they leave with him through the Exit … with few stops and starts … why is he leaving the airport?

Would like to know what the men said for Arnav to leave so peacefully … and why they didn’t arouse any curiosity at all in the airport … they looked very suspicious indeed! Where was airport security in all this? 

Guard finally wakes up, so Khushi ejects the tape quickly, both women escape, Khushi runs back to get the tape, another near miss with the guard … this part was a bit stretched … and Mami and Khushi finally make their escape.

Back home, the next one-liner from Mami  …‘pairwa dard kar gaya … action scenes karte karte …’

And the next piece of the puzzle clicks into place … Khushi realizes Arnav has been kidnapped … but where is the ransom demand?

Sweet!!! Mami rushes to get her bank account details and jewelry, ready to pay for ransom …

But Khushi reminds her that there has been no ransom demand yet … so the men wanted Arnav, not money, they didn’t let him board the flight and took him out of the airport, which means he’s still in India, and probably in Delhi itself … more and more pieces joining together … and Mami puts her finger on the crucial question … what is the motive? If it’s not money?

Khushi determines to get to the bottom of this … and find out more about the kidnapping …

And finally Arnav makes an appearance … haggard, disheveled, tied up to a most uncomfortable looking chair … poor man, has he been in that chair for the last week? And in that sorry state, he reaches out to the best thing in his life … his wife … caring, concerned, tears in her eyes, so worried for him … a small smile touches his face, he reaches out, but can’t touch her, even though she’s within touching distance … he’s held back by the ropes binding him, the ropes of deceit, lies, ego, anger … 

‘Khushi? Are you really there? I thought it’s a dream …’

And she reaches out to caress his face lovingly, she can’t break those ties, but she’s there for him always with her love, her care … he turns his face into her hand gratefully, his smile peaceful … because she’s there. 

But she’s incurably truthful even in his dreams … ‘it is only a dream …’ and she disappears … 

And he’s shocked, left looking around for her … where did she go? He needs her … but she was only a dream …

And he looks at his hand, holding a little pink pompom … and remembers taking it off her sleeve when he took his ticket out of her hand … she begged him ‘don’t go …’ but he didn’t listen to her … his eyes close in anguish … why didn’t he listen to her?!

And he remembers the way she took care of him when his sugar levels dipped and he fainted … staying up the whole night … for him … holding his hands when he would have fallen …

And what did he do? Smashed their picture …. Shattered their chances of a perfect life together … hurt her at every opportunity … never listened to her … why did he do that? To her … to himself … and to them …

Regret, guilt, recrimination … the first shaky steps on the RTRW … memories of what she did for him … and what he did to her … 

Payash were bland as always … slightly better than usual, but ArHi don’t give anyone else much of a chance to grab any eyeballs … Payal much more animated than ever before, Akash trying to do an ASR … not quite there, mate!

Mami and dhobi … poor dhobi subjected to Mami’s interrogation … man was petrified! Khushi tries to interrupt …

‘Do not interruption in inbheshtigations …’ and dhoabi is allowed to ‘takliya …’ 

And Mami gives Khushi an important lesson in kidnapping and detectivegiri … ‘no ransom demand yet, so the kidnappers don’t want money. So what do they want? There has to be a motive. So keep eyes and ears open … and anyone could be a suspect … the most important thing is to find a motive, find a ‘why’, a motive, a reason, someone to benefit … then the ‘who’ will fall into place … it could be anyone … ay bhi, o bhi, dho bi …’

And Khushi’s eyes falls serendipitously on Shyam climbing the stairs … would he have a motive for making Arnav disappear? Arnav knows his truth about Anjali, Shyam also knows that Khushi has told Arnav her side of the Shyam engagement story … he would be scared of the truth coming out ...

So Khushi disappears to start some more investigations … and finds Shyam’s phone lying unattended … which has a mysterious message from a bank that he withdrew 5 lakhs recently … for what?

My question … first, where did Shyam get that money? He was struggling to pay 75,000 for a watch, and 40,000 for his card bill … did he receive an advance payment for services rendered?

More and more I suspect that Shyam is not the mastermind, only a pawn, or go-between. Which would explain why he has done nothing about the will yet, except to keep it safe. He only needs it once the actual mastermind has done what he wants to do with Arnav, either make him disappear permanently, or kill him. 

Klutzy Khushi as usual can’t leave a room without knocking something over, Shyam is suspicious … and Laxmi redeems herself somewhat by allaying his suspicions … helped of course by an alert Khushi … 

Khushi stops to thank Laxmi, instead of fleeing for her life … and overhears a conversation that Shyam did not want overheard … an angry Shyam ... 'I’ve told you not to call here at this time! And how can you be so careless? Don’t let that man out of our clutches …'

And Shyam tells his caller to bring the unknown person at 8 pm to their ‘place’ …What for? 

And Khushi wonders . who is he going to meet? Who’s he talking about ‘pakad ke rakhna’ … and what place?

Is Shyam planning to hand over Arnav finally to the mastermind in return for some promised money? 

Precap – Khushi runnin’, runnin’ …