"bhai... khushi ji thoda pagal hai na? ekdam alag hain..." khushi ji is a bit mad isn't she... she's absolutely different, said akash with a bemused look as the two cousins walked into rm after a successful mission to save akash and payal's love.
khushi was exactly that and therefore totally valuable, especially in the context of indian tv where girls are constantly being told to be the same, the same and more of the same.
but that wasn't the reason a man in brown looked sort of lost, a gleam in his eyes as he said, "haan pagal toh hai..." yeah, mad she is. a graze in his voice, especially on that "haan!"
oh the tender tender look. khadoos has no idea how that pagal-ness is completely taking over his every feeling.
cut to gh, and a girl is doing a pretty convincing jija ji act. the specs look large and awkward, the voice is halting and gentle, there's utter confusion in the eyes... and payal is blushing practically at this. because that indeed is how her... akash ji is... say it softly, sigh.
that love between two sisters. it all started there, didn't it? that very first episode... a young woman most perturbed by the thoughtless act of her sister's to be in laws, and out to change things around.
jiji means the world to khushi, she will do anything for her. actually, payal too... she is completely doting of her sanka sister and protective. that night when khushi finally returned home, though her own wedding lay in a shambles, payal stood by khushi, refusing to blame her for anything. intelligent and strong enough to know that perhaps it was better not to marry such a spineless man. she told khushi, abhishek ji knew.
deepali portrayed a deep and lovely girl who always stood by what she felt was right and had a special place in her heart for the little girl who came home one day and became her playmate, her sis.
a sense of full circle as we sat in the room with the two watching them fool around. from jiji's wedding to jiji's wedding again.
khushi is delighted. and of course, delight brings on a special dose of madness and so the out of blue the jija ji act. hidden behind the big specs and the act is all her love, her joy, perhaps even her relief, because she has seen her sister balk at any talk of marriage and maybe even somewhere blamed herself for not reaching in time that night...
payal is smart, she worries about her paramour's family accepting her. in a totally trusting voice, khushi says, arnav ji has said he'll take care of things.
"khushi, arnav ji bilkul waise nahin hai na.. jaise humne socha tha..." payal says, arnav ji isn't at all the way we thought he was.
a play of emotions on khushi's face, suddenly vulnerable. perhaps too much has happened between them and the hurt is deep, but then she smiles and tells one of her little lies, for her jiji's happiness and peace of mind... no he is nothing like that.a feeling of family as two brothers do a bear hug, a solid jhappi, in the hallway of rm while the sisters hug on that bed of theirs in gh.
just a couple of steps into rm and all hell is waiting to break loose. mami is holding court as prospective daughter in law's parents beam at her while the girl simpers. mama ji sits a little away.
how gleefully manorama calls out to her son, her mr india, to come and see his bride to be. miss india (of some colony or the other). the always amiable akash, who never ever says anything to his mother... or anyone, suddenly starts acting completely unlike himself."main yeh shadi nahin karoonga!" i shall not marry... good boy says grimly.
bad boy looked on keenly.
akash's rebellion... like a chapter in itself. an insight into pyaar itself perhaps in that very stance of his. pyaar does make us do things we never ever would otherwise. it made akash stand up straight, look his mum in the eyes and say "no", loud and clear.
hello hi bye bye... said manorama. possibly the most killing use of that favourite phrase... akash was pretty magnificent. not as gussa as the one true gussa man, but angry enough, young enough, and totally smitten man.
he refused to marry the girl his mother had invited home. this being a scene around mami, i guess had to be campy. there sat the young girl all giggly and overdressed between her proud parents, while mami beamed and cooed in loud turquoise and kilos of gold.
the whole family was soon there. the young girl's father admonished manorama. akash was resolved. arnav sigh looked surprised, but happy... and he watched his mami. he coudl sense managing would be needed. mama ji also did an about turn and supported akash bitwa. nani ji beamed at teh thought of payal being akash's wife and scolded mami, you don't even know the sort of person your son likes... di grinned and stroked akash's cheek.
mami swung her hips angrily, her lips shimmied. but not a scratch on akash's resolve.
authoritative akash now,"main sirf aur sirf payal ji se shadi karoonga. and that's final." i shall marry only payal and that's final.
mama ji looked proud of his son.
bad boy was struck by this new facet of his cousin.
does love do this to us? it can... sigh, it can.
but mami ji was having none of it. the lady has managed everything with her melodrama and canniness and a fair bit of crassness all her life.
she would not let that khoon bhari tang get her poor bitwa. she decided to bring hell to that girl's life and made a phone call.
oh so much storm and thunder all around. lovely.
as the bolts landed on payal and she wept and called akash to say, they really must forget each other, khushi lost it...
two little whirlwinds seem to whizz away through the episode. mami... khushi. each balancing the other. almost in harmony.
hah, that man. arnav singh raizada, muttered a furious khushi... pehle kahte hain ki sab kuch sambhalenge... aur ab? ye? first he says he'll take care of things, now? this? angry cute and trusting girl... call the man. rave at him.
"aap kya kar rahe hain... aap aap ko pata bhi hai ki kya ho raha hai? aap kuch kar kyun nahin raha hain???"
what are you doing... do you do you even know what's going on? why aren't you doing anything? she went at him straight.
what the f... said the eloquent one and disconnected the call.
raging and undeterred, khushi stormed out of the house to meet him. yes, at night, she'll be back in an hour... she the "lakshminagar ki baan" as per bua ji, who is totally perplexed by the "ganga jamna" tears covered payal too.
and in no time, she was there where so many things transpire. the poolside. she had walked into the house and not bothered with any niceties, going straight to where she was told arnav ji would be found.
he sat working, she stomped up to him.
"khushi?" he looked up.
a gorgeous sequence followed with dialogues and expressions that had most of us laughing and happy.
there was no talk of love between the two, no emotion charged fight, no almost kiss, no falling, no catching, practically no undercurrents.
but that chemistry.
i noticed just how much of that was there between them. funny dialogues, repartee, great comedy... but always that sexiness somewhere there. the body language between them sparkles with something. as if they are in some sort of constant tango... so much vibe and rhythm. the jhalli girl in classic khushi attire with gota and bad hairstyle and the suave man in smart well cut clothes, just to see them in the same frame brings on acidity.
she raved.
"relax... calm down..." did he say that. aargh.
clearly when it comes to shatir mami, nautanki is failing... strategy boy's input is needed.
"gehri saans lo..." take a deep breath he advises. note, he is not yelling. that funny sort of feeling for this spitfire girl... i think this huge love she has for her fam always touches him. that's one place where they are identical.
"shh... maine kaha hai na main baat karoonga..." i have said i'll speak. so tender. why why why?
maybe because she is looking so distraught. maybe because he plans to kill the onlooker, as in me.
"main baat kar loonga..." i'll speak.
she is not convinced. she knows he and mami will cross swords and then he'll lose his cool. she knows her candidate well. his gussa is at his nose practically.
poor man, tries to hold down his temper, "main kah raha hoon na, main baat kar loonga..."
"ek kaam karte hain..." let's do something, she cuts in, "hum abhyaas karte hain..." let's practise, she's looking sanka devi.
"what?" deadly look.
"haan, aap sochiye ki hum mami ji hain aur aap hume manao!" commands the goddess, think i am mami and you appease me.
what the f, says man.
she clears her throat, narrows her eyes and goes hello hi bye bye...priceless look on lg's face.
while madness and mirth rise by the pool, fury courses in a room in rm, akash is angry.
at the poolside, khushi points out her plan has worked before, so he must listen to her... what is he going to say to mami ji.
sure enough, tycoon reels off survey figures re love and marriage. i giggle thinking this is what i wrote in 133.
"aap aise kahenge?" horrified sanka devi asks, you'll speak like this!
survey? percent?
"aap thode bhavna ke saath kahiye na..." say it with some feelings, please...
"maine kaha na... main apne tarike se kar raha hoon... bhavna ko beech mein kyun laa rahi ho..." i said i'll say it in my way, he avers, why are you dragging bhavna into this. clearly he has no clue what bhavna is, he thinks it's a person.
pretty hackneyed joke, but smooth to and fro... that chemistry at work.
"feel..." she's trying to explain.
"feelings..." curtly, and devastatingly he.
"haan, wahi... feelings ke saath kahiye na," yes, that... say it with feelings.
he is about to erupt.
deadly khushi does the most flaky, couples are made in heaven bit.
asr gobsmacked.
"aur yeh sab main kahoonga?" and all this i will say? clearly the incongruity of it has completely escaped kkg in her desperation to get things going.
"mami ji se?" to mami ji? he knows what cuts ice with his favourite relative.
"bilkul!" absolutely.
"aur iss filmi lecture ke baad bhi woh mani nahin toh?" and what if after this movie type lecture she doesn't give in?
well if she doesn't, advises chief planner, then turn lightly thus and say, "kuch kuch hota hai, mami ji..."
khushi in her world all smug and happy... asr's expression changes...
what a sequence.
"aap nahin samjhengi..." something happens, mami ji, you won't understand, goofy dreamy look on kkg's visage on that filmi dialogue from a very filmi hindi film.
camera pulls focus... asr in sharp lines... i need to say the next two words for him...
"what crap."
the new assertive akash is leaving... the fam runs after him. that music in the background, where is it from.
end note
somewhere in the middle a hiss was heard. poor bua ji has a cold but you know syam babua has given her that medicine, that special marham, that cures everything. really? and where has khushi heard someone say exactly that? quite smoothly alongside is building the shyam's revelation story. nice detail that prayer book in bua ji's hands.
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