4/5 - Epi 245 ... Obliviate!!! - edited again :)

Friday 4th May

Am really at a loss for words to write about today ...
except to say that the writer of this episode should be shot ... then hung, drawn and quartered ... then banned from ever writing a single word again ...
And the episode can well be obliterated from the annals of IPPKND ... as Harry Potter would say - Obliviate!!! 

The only comment I have to make is that Sanaya did the first half of the episode in her sleep, or when she was exhausted ... I could see the difference in her acting in the last part in the turquoise suit, when she was much more refreshed. Especially the part when Khushi was writing her will ... the only slightly tolerable part of the episode.

Bubbly needs psychiatric help ... so does the writer of her track ... oh I forgot, I had him shot, hung, drawn and quartered already. If the cv's have any sense, they will fire their writer and screenplay writers immediately ... their writing is grossly amateurish and their idea of comedy is horrendously unfunny.

I thought it was Sanaya who was traveling ... why were the rest of the cast on holiday? Including Barun ... didn't he have far less screen space today even in the GH scenes? Or maybe he was completely unremarkable ... I really didn't notice him, except for that permanently befuddled look on his face - quite understandable, actually! Ah, correction ... I noticed the white shirt ... :)
Completely fail to understand why the scenes were Khushi-centric - or rather, Sanka Devi-centric, when the actress was away half the week!

Really hope the cv's pull the track back to the drama mode soon ... I am this close to giving up on the show!!!

*edited*
Trying to make some sense of the episode on re-watch - don't know whether it's flogging a dead horse. First of all, the basic premise is so completely brainless, I want to fire the writer who even thought of it - and that too, right after Khushi extolled the virtues of her husband to her mother, and ended by saying he was the best husband in the world - in a tone that said she knew he was, just not when she was the wife.
So Khushi realized her husband has a heart of gold, and determines again to find out the reason for her shotgun wedding ... so far so good ... I would say, very good.

Then she goes to bed, said best husband goes to bed on a guilt trip, and puts off the AC when he sees her shivering. And that starts Sanka Devi's confusion - what is wrong with him? And the confusion continues - why is he being so uncharacteristically sweet?

Now how and where did that confusion that Arnav is being sweet, translate into the conviction that he was out to kill her because of kundali dosh? Oh, I forgot - that convenient conversation with Lavanya about getting rid of someone in 36 hours. And her confusion as to the reason for the wedding. Just trying to see how the dots connected ;)
(By the way, did that Kundali Kamlesh pay to be taken on the show?)
So we got the ridiculous episode on Thursday about Arnav's 101 attempts to kill his wife - all in her imagination ... and today, a continuation to the absurd. While Arnav adds to the confusion by playing house-house with Buaji - setting up her washing line with a noose, then a screwdriver ... both excellent murder weapons ... she screams her head off at Arnav with screwdriver, leading to a mild 'what the ...' expression from him ... really, Arnav?!
Khushi's one-liner was cute - name like a cannon, and all he can find is a screwdriver?! =))

And Khushi back to frying jalebis with a vengeance ... and she has lost it completely ... aided by Kundali Kamlesh ready with her Shok Sabha ... and my *head desk* starts ...
Hari Prakash crying was funny, actually ... the rest was stupid ... including Khushi crying at her own funeral ... and that reporter gave me a headache with his shouting ...
More OTT screaming from Khushi ... more *head desk* from me ...

Bubbly enters ... Payal gives her Mami's new phone to safeguard ... more *head desk*

Arnav worried about Khushi - she didn't eat dinner properly, takes a glass of milk for her ... 'tum theek ho? should I call the doctor?' ... poor guy is actually worried ... for her sanity, I think ... More OTT from Khushi ... more *head desk* from me  ... she actually covers her own face in her sleep and wakes up screaming - that was the limit ... I wanted to ffwd, except I couldn't, 'cos I was watching on tv ... and I wanted to smother someone too - the guy who wrote this crap and actually thought it was funny ...x(

So Khushi gets up in the morning after a sleepless night, and decides to commit suicide, rather than wait for Arnav to kill her.

And Bubbly has broken Mami's phone rather thoroughly ... if a phone broke into pieces after dropping on the floor from five feet height, it needs to be recalled ... Payal gets the blame, Akash nobly withholds scolding her ... and Payal cries silently ... *head desk* ... my poor head today!
Is Payal the heroine of the show, btw? She's definitely the saas-bahu type - cries silently after all the atyachaar ...

And Khushi decides to write her will ... even though she has nothing much to leave, but still she needs to leave something for everyone, be it ever so small, because it's the thought that counts, and they are all in her thoughts ...
Her first thought for Anjali and her baby, and their health ...
next for Lakshmi, who has been her silent confidante since marriage ...
next for Nani, a gift connected to Lucknow ... the link that always made Nani love her more ...

And then she comes to her own family -
Money for Buaji because she needs it ... Buaji took her and Payal into her home, even when so financially strained ...
Only love for Amma Babuji, because that's all she's ever given them, and that's all she has for them ... always ... from an orphan girl who they took to their hearts so completely ...
Salman Khan she keeps for herself, though :) ...
Nothing for Akash, but she clubs Akash and Payal together now in her mind, and she claims the right to give their children their pet names, which are so typically 'Khushi' - food oriented :) ... that they will remain as her memory for them ...
And then she looks at the stars hanging on her bed ...
I think she will leave the stars for Arnav, with the hope he can find his mother in them, the way she finds hers ... thinking of his happiness even though she thinks he's the one trying to kill her. Or she will hope to become a star and look down on him and safeguard his happiness in every way she can ...

On cue, Arnav enters ... again worried - Khushi tum theek toh ho?
Is that all he can ask? Seriously, Arnav! *head desk*
But although Buaji and Garima accept Khushi's beahviour as her usual madness, Arnav is the only one getting really worried ... the only one to sense that there is something wrong here ... 

And she decides to cook for everyone for the last time ... to Buaji's complete bafflement ... and calls Payal to make her bequest ... keep my blue suit, name your kids Alu and Puri ... ok, ghar ka naam, not official names, I thought she'd lost it there again! And her confession - I read your diary, and I lit those crackers ... and I love you very much ...

Even the smallest serious scene, and Sanaya makes an impact ... why then the overdose of horrendous comedy??? Why this Kolaveri Di??? *head desk* again!!!

If someone is in the mood to make a petition to fire the writer Weird Raj and the screenplay writer and the director and the dialogue writer for this episode, I'm in!!!

*edited again*

After a good night's sleep, Sandy's usual sensible post, and Aaru's and other posts :)

Do I blame Khushi for being at the end of her tether? I don't actually. She's seen the cruel side of Arnav too many times to count ... every time he softens towards her, he follows it up with a rebound increase in nastiness ... take Diwali, take the farak padta hai, take the Payash wedding, and take the recent Heer Ranjha ... she has no clue where she actually stands with him. Does he love her or hate her?
His words in the post HR fight - I married you to save a life ... In the wake of La's phone call and Kundali Kamlesh, her thoughts - was it to save La's life?
He has time and patience for everyone else, he helps to sort out even the marriage of an unknown girl, Preetika, he believes in being a good husband and good son-in-law, he's been nothing but nice to her family ... it's only her face he doesn't want to see (after the Shyam's card on wrapping paper) ...only her that he doesn't seem to care about hurting.

Logically, she can't think of Shyam as the reason ... he should be angry with her entire family for hiding Shyam's truth, not just her, ... he should be angry with Shyam himself and have thrown him out of the house if he was so angry about his betrayal ...

She has seen the good side of the man ... she knows there is a reason behind the hasty marriage ... and she overhears him saying he is going to get rid of someone ... speaking to his ex-girlfriend of all people ... and she doesn't know the reason behind their breakup - BUT she does know the breakup was very friendly and amicable ... not bitter in the least.
And suddenly he's being ultra-sweet to her, while brandishing knives, screwdrivers, noose, rat poison ... every time she sees him, he has a potential murder weapon in his hand ... and now she actually can think of a reason why he might have married her. For someone who believes in astrology and horoscopes and jaadu tona, this is not really so strange ... in fact, if I remember right, Aishwarya Bacchan was rumoured to have been made to marry a tree before she married Abhishek because she had the same kundali dosh ... and isn't this was the 'manglik' dosh is all about?

So Khushi's fear is really not without foundation ... she has been correct in always trying to find the reason for her marriage ... now she has finally found one believable reason. She's found a reason why he would have married her, despite not wanting to in the slightest, why he broke up his engagement to La when she had been accepted by his family, and La didn't hold a grudge against him for that, why he still believes in marriage, only not to her ... even hurting Di would fit, because Di wanted him to marry La and was hurt when he broke the engagement ... the talk about saving a life fits too ...

So what went wrong?
The execution ... for me. They made what could have been a very serious track into complete OTT comedy.

Then I read some more posts here and thought again ... was that done intentionally?
We all know Sanaya is a fabulous actress, and although she does comedy very well, her biggest strength is in emotional scenes. If she has played this seriously, we would all have sympathized with her completely ... one of the comments here was that Khushi's thoughts of suicide would have been understandable immediately post-marriage when she was abandoned by everyone - family, in-laws, everyone. Up to Tuesday, we wept for Khushi. If they had kept the suicide track serious, it might have influenced susceptible youngsters into thinking Khushi really had no other way out ... and by extension, thinking that girls like her are in the same boat. As it was, in that one scene where she is shown writing her will, and then speaking to Payal, she moved me so much I almost forgot about the entire OTT drama that had come before.
By keeping it funny, they stopped the suicide drama from being taken seriously ... much like they did in the Payash fake suicide scene.

So on second (and third) thoughts, I will forgive the cv's for this one ... if that was indeed the thought in their mind, ... and if they make the final confrontation more serious and not comedic ...