TV This Fortnight - 1st - 15th June

1st - 15th June

Veera ... current track very loosely inspired by the movie Dushman ... a man kills another man in a drunken driving accident, and is sentenced to go to his village and support the dead man's widow and family. He is hated by one and all at first, and then slowly redeems himself and undergoes true penitence and reformation as he realises what his one unthinking act did, and how it destroyed so many lives. In the movie, he doesn't fall in love with the widow, he falls in love with another girl in the village ...
Lots of differences, of course, the only similarity being the hero being responsible for the death of the husband, and taking over the family's responsibilities in penitence.

Badalte Rishton ki Dastaan ...
Latest news ... Abhaas Mehta has put in his papers :(
http://www.tellychakkar.com/news/abhaas-mehta-set-quit-zee-tvs-dastaan
Show is going well, but Uma says it is under the scanner. Such a pity that the truly different shows don't get good TRPs ... no wonder makers are scared to experiment.

Qabool Hai

Madhubala ... is anyone still watching? Shaadi track here too ... for TRPs?

Na Bole Tum ... both Megha and Mohan know Addu is not the real Addu ... I didn't watch for a bit, can anyone fill me in how they found out? And is Munna back to being villain?
The scene where Mohan is told about Nanhi being in love with Beera, and he imagines her as the child Nanhi telling him she is in love, was really cute ... I think every dad sees his daughter that way, as a little girl, never really grown up, and to see another man wanting to take her away gets him boiling! Megha's nervousness about telling Mohan the truth about Nanhi's love, Nanhi's own nervousness ... all were hilarious!

Saraswatichandra ... Watched the so-called HOT scene in Saraswatichandra ... making a mountain out of a molehill!!! This seemed like a poor imitation of the Devdas-Paro scene of SLB's Devdas and they didn't even show anything much. I actually thought I had missed something! And Kumud's reactions the next morning were totally out of the 1950's ...
The Arhi farmhouse scene was far, FAR hottter, and way more aesthetically shot ... and the Samrat-Gunjan morning after scene and the Arhi morning after scene were WAY better!!!

EDIT ... Happy Second Anniversary to IPKKND ... wish the show was still on air to celebrate this milestone ...
And lots of love to all the gals here, all of us came together in mutual love and fascination for  this unique show and even more unique couple.  
Arnav Khushi ... Hamesha

TV This Fortnight - 1st April - 15th April

If there are more comments, then will make it post for the week

Veera ... Ranvi is seriously far too naive for a 13 year old! He's learned about the freedom struggle in school, doesn't he know about the border between India and Pakistan?
Loved the whole scenario of the shoot ... did the team actually go to the border or nearby, for the shoot? Visually very well done ... the actors must really have done a lot of running! And the defusing of the tension between the soldiers was also nice ... though were the soldiers really all waiting for the officers to come and give the command for the kid to be extracted from No Man's Land?
And will the errant couple who tried to kidnap Ranvi be caught? Judging by the way this show really does close all loops in the script, I would hope so.
But it is high time Nihal told Ratan whatever truth he knows about Sampooran ... keeping it a secret almost resulted in a big tragedy this time.

Said it before, saying it again ... the actors are great in this show! Ratan is superb, so are the kids.

Madhubala

Na Bole Tum 

Qabool Hai 

Saraswatichandra ... the main problem with this show is the time warp between a modern guy from Dubai and the transplantation into a remote village ... where you have a modern educated computer literate girl battling backward norms and orthodox beliefs and rituals. The transition makes my head spin ... The only thing believable is the romance ... because it is between two fairly similar individuals, and the girl is as educated as the boy. Gautam Rode is good, Jenni is okay, getting better. My problem is, I can't enjoy love stories any more, unless they have Sanaya.   So a time pass watch for me, for the costumes and the locales. 

Badalte Rishton Ki Dastaan ... thought I would watch this, but the father-in-law is black as any saas, and even more autocratic. Also appears to be from the Dark Ages.

TV This Week/Fortnight ... 4th - 17th March

Post for the week ... will join the discussions later if I can :)

Veera

Saraswatichandra

Madhubala

Qabool Hai

Others

Team Sarun posted video interview with Akshay Dogra ... will post it later. 

TV This Week ... 23rd Feb to 3rd March

Yeh lo ... new post for the week ... starting on Saturday itself!!! The bak bak gang seems to be back in full force :)))

Veera

Qabool Hai

Madhubala

IPKKND

Na Bole Tum ... Opti is threatening to re-start watching it. I too gave up ... don't like the Nanhi-Beera track at all.

Balika Vadhu - Anyone watching the Jagya Ganga track?

Adding Saraswatichandra, as it starts on Monday.

Team Sarun Visit to Mumbai - Meeting with Barun 
http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=3453722 
Everyone who meets Barun in person says he's better looking in real life than on screen ... cannot understand how that can be, because the guy is pretty darn hot on screen itself!!! If only he would get rid of the fungus on his face!!! And again, everyone talks about how nice and down to earth he is in real life. Sweet!!!
Enjoyed the post ... hope they will update the video also. Also LOVED the snippets about Sanaya - she packed their gifts for both of them on the UK trip, and has 'her own method of packing' ... am guessing that will be a crazy one, just like her. And nice to know that he does miss IPKKND ... first time really that I got a sense of that ... so thanks, Team Sarun!
Wish they had managed to meet with Sanaya too ... actually, there's nothing much more she would have said that she hasn't already ... so it was nice to hear so many snippets from the other cast members as well.