Watched Spectre over the weekend ... Daniel Craig is not my favorite James Bond, and the movie was high on emotional quotient, surprising for a Bond movie, and much lower than expected on stunts, high tech gadgets and exciting chase scenes. The climax was straight out of Bollywood, with the beautiful love interest strapped to a chair, triggered to the bomb, and James Bond had to rescue her in three minutes and get out of the building before the bomb went off!
Started watching a new show ... Pyaar Ko Ho Jaane Do ... Iqbal Khan and Mona Singh. Apparently it's a finite show, it started off as very stereotyped, and the only thing that made it watchable was the actors ... IK is really good, Mona Singh is OTT in many scenes, and is typical Ekta mahaan bahu, again whenever the character is interesting, I find myself wondering how Sanaya would have played her ... and so far nobody else has come up to scratch.
The rest of the family is enjoyable... not stereotyped, and that is refreshing ... Niti and her loving husband, and her two 'vampires' who drive her mad ... Trisha, who wants to be involved in the family business, despite being a girl, and Sid, who doesn't want to be in it, despite being the only son ... unfortunately they have sidetracked that plot in favour of Trisha's love affair with Bilal, a Muslim boy, and the ensuing conflicts, which will presumably tie in with the main conflict between Ishaan and Preet ... how he hates India because Indian spies killed his parents, while Preet hates Pakistan, because Pakistani terrorists destroyed her family. Ever since the revelation that Ishaan is not what he seems, the show has picked up pace and is more interesting. And because it's finite, one hopes the story and the characters will not be butchered.
Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani has gone down the tubes ... so the Rana's first wife is back, but in the meantime he has fallen for the second wife ... and since the second wife is the heroine, of course he will dump his first wife at some point ... because second wife is so much better, and he is in love with her now ... despite being madly in love with the memory of first wife for the last six years. So a month long marriage is enough to wipe out the memories of his first marriage ... doesn't say much for Ranaji or his vows. And Gayatri is expected to 'fight' for her love ... because she is his true love. Never mind that he took saat pheras with first wife, so she is still his legally wedded wife. *head desk* So according to the IF junta, Sula should step back gracefully despite being Ranaji's first wife, because he has now fallen for a younger, more beautiful version. I much prefer ranaji's stand ... that he has to find out whether this lady is really is first wife or not ... because if she is, his first duty is to her ... notwithstanding 'true love' for Gayatri.
Reminds me of the movie 'Basera' and the conflicts there ... how much better done that was! Of course when the first wife came back, she was accepted very much as the lawful wife, and the onus was on everyone as to how to hide the second marriage. And how gracefully the first wife, when she realised the entire situation, pretended she was mad again, and quietly went back to the asylum. Those were real conflicts, shown in a realistic way ... Here, because DD is heroine, she has to be the lawful queen ... so of course the first queen will be shown either negative or an imposter ... or she will bow out gracefully ... which so far she doesn't show signs of wanting to do. So she turn into a vamp at some point. I thought the show was about how a trader's daughter learned to become a wise gracious queen ... they already lost the plot in three months!
Started watching a new show ... Pyaar Ko Ho Jaane Do ... Iqbal Khan and Mona Singh. Apparently it's a finite show, it started off as very stereotyped, and the only thing that made it watchable was the actors ... IK is really good, Mona Singh is OTT in many scenes, and is typical Ekta mahaan bahu, again whenever the character is interesting, I find myself wondering how Sanaya would have played her ... and so far nobody else has come up to scratch.
The rest of the family is enjoyable... not stereotyped, and that is refreshing ... Niti and her loving husband, and her two 'vampires' who drive her mad ... Trisha, who wants to be involved in the family business, despite being a girl, and Sid, who doesn't want to be in it, despite being the only son ... unfortunately they have sidetracked that plot in favour of Trisha's love affair with Bilal, a Muslim boy, and the ensuing conflicts, which will presumably tie in with the main conflict between Ishaan and Preet ... how he hates India because Indian spies killed his parents, while Preet hates Pakistan, because Pakistani terrorists destroyed her family. Ever since the revelation that Ishaan is not what he seems, the show has picked up pace and is more interesting. And because it's finite, one hopes the story and the characters will not be butchered.
Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani has gone down the tubes ... so the Rana's first wife is back, but in the meantime he has fallen for the second wife ... and since the second wife is the heroine, of course he will dump his first wife at some point ... because second wife is so much better, and he is in love with her now ... despite being madly in love with the memory of first wife for the last six years. So a month long marriage is enough to wipe out the memories of his first marriage ... doesn't say much for Ranaji or his vows. And Gayatri is expected to 'fight' for her love ... because she is his true love. Never mind that he took saat pheras with first wife, so she is still his legally wedded wife. *head desk* So according to the IF junta, Sula should step back gracefully despite being Ranaji's first wife, because he has now fallen for a younger, more beautiful version. I much prefer ranaji's stand ... that he has to find out whether this lady is really is first wife or not ... because if she is, his first duty is to her ... notwithstanding 'true love' for Gayatri.
Reminds me of the movie 'Basera' and the conflicts there ... how much better done that was! Of course when the first wife came back, she was accepted very much as the lawful wife, and the onus was on everyone as to how to hide the second marriage. And how gracefully the first wife, when she realised the entire situation, pretended she was mad again, and quietly went back to the asylum. Those were real conflicts, shown in a realistic way ... Here, because DD is heroine, she has to be the lawful queen ... so of course the first queen will be shown either negative or an imposter ... or she will bow out gracefully ... which so far she doesn't show signs of wanting to do. So she turn into a vamp at some point. I thought the show was about how a trader's daughter learned to become a wise gracious queen ... they already lost the plot in three months!
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