Thursday, August 28, 2014

KUMKUM BHAGYA - EPISODE 98 - AUGUST 28, 2014 - As the Wedding Drama gets closer

KKBhagya Moments - Dil ki Awaaz Suno. Abhi listening and heeding to it.

Pragya Teacher Moments - Jab Zimmedaari Uthaii hai to Nibhaani padegi. Abhi wanting to be a good boy and becomes obediant.

Abhi Vanity Moments - Tumne mujhe Pretty Kaha. Main to hoon hi Pretty!

Blouse ka Khulna Drama - Kheenchna drama + all the above moments.

KKB Best Moment - Chaachi frustrated walking away from Purab!! Totally loved that look on her face. *Star*

KKB obvious Moments - Pragya lecturing Purab for inquiring about Bulbul. Bulbul blocking Purab's call for having called her.

Constipated Moments - Purab's face until he overhears Tanu and Aliya's privy conversation. *LOL*
Diahorrea Moments - Purab calling Bulbul after overhearing Tanu and Aliya's privy conversation. *ROFL*

Senseless Moment - Purvi and her Blue Chattri - Random Senseless Promotion of New Zee Show.

Sad face Whiney Moments - Pragya, Sarla and Beeji and the sad music for no reason. Anyways, seems they are being royally ignored. or they are maintaining low profile.

Sad Sad "Dekha nahin jaata" Bore Moments - Bulbul and her crying for being forced to lose her love.

Daasi Moment - Overdone teasing.
Tanu Moment - Overdone envying.

In the Sky Moment - Aliya - I will plan something for tomorrow morning for Behenji to get ousted. It will be my gift for you and Bhai and honeymoon gift for myself. - Bidaayi karvaaayegi ya Ouster Plan *D'oh*

Heartless Moment - Abhi celebrating his soon to be "Phere ke baad Bidayi" in Guftagu huggy moment with Pragya.  Band bhi kar yaar! pata hai Bidaayi honi hai *D'oh*

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

KUMKUM BHAGYA - EPISODE 97 - AUGUST 27, 2014 - Absorbing the ugliness like the Hyacinth

Finally I see a silver lining in this cloudy drama of thick misunderstanding laden clouds.

Purab and Pragya. Affected much by being sacrificial cows and goats.

Purab sacrificing himself for Bulbul's happiness is affected that he cannot do justice to the woman he is going to marry. That he cannot even think of kissing is bothering him so much. Shows how sensitive he is to the situation.

Pragya sacrificed herself for her mother's happiness and still continuing to sacrifice herself for her happiness. Silly it seems that she is going uphill when there is no hope of reaching the summit and she has to fall down the precipice

However there is a silver lining for us to see whats between the thick clouds. Pragya has for another time accepted how bad she feels about the whole thing just for herself. "Apne aap ko kya samjhaoongi."   This doesn't make her robotic sacrificial, but that she had built up certain expectations out of this marriage. And with all sandwiching, she had not been able to explain to herself what she can understand all of it that happened to her, her repetitive breaking of marriage opportunities.

This sort of explains why she is behaving dumb and numb. She has become numb in her extreme state of frustration where she had been forced to show fortitude for her mother.  We do know that she married sincerely, but seems, she had filled up some hopes from her marriage, which she is unable to let go.

For a moment, it was flabbergasting to hear her say to Abhi, "I want to do something good for you, because you kept my mother's happiness." How could she say that to someone who played with her and her family, cheated her and her family.  There is no way we cannot think of this gesture as obtuse.

However, her pleading thought provoking taunts to Abhi and Tanu, seem to show; what is that she truly wants. She is wishing that people who have misunderstood, to be able to know the true from false. She is wishing that from Abhi and his sister Aliya. She is extremely disappointed of their inability to see truth, to filter real from unreal.

Then, is this what Pragya wants? To identify truth, to understand it?
Kaash ki aapko asli ya nakli ka farak pata hota.
Aur aapki best friend yeh sochti hain ki main paise ki lalchee hoon.

Those are anti climaxes one is seeking of this drama since that misunderstanding drama began. It could be anyone's wish for it to happen, to develop brains. However, it seems an impossible feat.

However, the emphasis does seem to be put on everyone who is under misunderstanding, to open their inner eye and see the truth. It is being applied to Abhi, Aliya and Bulbul, all living under an illusion about their planning.

KUMKUM BHAGYA - EPISODE 95&96 - AUGUST 25th & 26th 2014

Episode 95 - August 25th 2014

Disgusting that both the sisters Bulbul and Pragya throw Puneet under the bus just so that the Abhi-Tanu relationship does not come out.

Three more slaps!! My virtual slaps to the entire Arora family which drags this MU drama. Repressive Drama!!!

Unbelievable that one can have Allah Waariyaan Eye Locks and Cosying up over a Cockroach.  Duh!!!

God!! the Allah Waariyaan song is losing its magic with these illogical and insipid Abhigya encounters and Eyelocks.

Abhi moments - Pragya scolds him for Tanu Charades right in front of her family. Aliya consoles him. So the women want him to stick to MU like Fevicol ki Majboot Jodi.

Face palm!!!


Episode 96 - August 26th 2014

Bulbul - can this girl ever let others speak. She is a duplicate copy of Abhi. If he does not let others speak, this girl too does not listen and think first. She does something only to regret. She is in LaLa Land thinking that everything wiill be alright of Aliya and Purab get married. And Pragya is about to say something, she breaks her in the middle reminding Pragya that she should keep quiet.

Pragya - How ridiculous it is of Pragya to allow Bulbul to have Purab married to Aliya, when she knows her marriage would not stand a chance? How is she even planning to make everything right?

Bulbul accident and Purab excitement and Hospital Drama - MU elements galore and yet Abhi indulges in comic relief rather than piecing it why Bulbul and Purab are spotted together and how did Bulbul meet with accident and how come the three are together. Abhi takes it all as Purab's love and affection for Pragya and her family, contrasting it with his neglect for Aliya.


Hospital Comic Drama - Abhigya and Purab-Bulbul - Talking Back Repartees and Hugging. Shows the relational status. No hard feelings. Enjoyable drama regardless of the characters.


Jewellery Shop Drama - Aliya, Tanu and Abhi Mangalsutra shopping. Bhagya does his charm. Makes Abhi remember his mangalsutra moments with Pragya in the gold shop earlier where he handed over the fallen chain back to her, and then he tied it around her neck too in marriage. He remembers Daadi's words that it becomes unbreakable fevicol ki jodi, he dismisses the idea saying "Chashmish & Me". Poor Tanu on the other hand has a fit of disappointment with the mangalsutra that she liked for herself being dropped by Abhi and it falls down all broken!!!

Mehra Mansion Drama - Dadi is excited and is giving orders to everyone to have the wedding preparations done. Abhi warns Pragya. "Look at her excited face full of joy. I live to see ecstatic like that. And if anything happens to take it away, I will not spare anyone."


Warning Much !!!! Whatever!!!




Friday, August 22, 2014

KUMKUM BHAGYA - EPISODE 94 - AUGUST 22, 2014 -Hitting New Lows

The intentions and premise of beating up the kiddo is so wrong that the trio is concocting stories about changing clothes or peeping etc. Obviously no one has intelligence to ask how Abhi knows what was happening, how did he find the kiddo redhanded, from outside the room or inside the room. Ofcourse everything is assumptions. But in their heart, the trio and duos know they did wrong to the kid. That is the bottomline.

Pragya being unsuspecting of Abhi as she has seen his chivalrous attitude in restaurant and that he cannot hurt her family members unduly, it is still unacceptable for the audience to take her dumbness. First she has to know by this time that the trio scheme anything abt her. Why accept a short dress in the previous episodes. Doesnt she have brain/spine to go and confirm with Daadi. Likewise, can she not confirm on how the scenario played our for the peeping Tom to be caught red-handed.

The drama that is playing out is, Take Pragya to the extreme side of trusting Abhi and Take Abhi to the extreme side of hurting her family. Bottomline is...Enuf already..."Girl get out from "plotting-mix" as fast as you can. Open your eyes and play smart. Eitherways your truth is going to be exposed once the Purab-Aliya wedding is accomplished." And her sitting quiet, not doing anything on this matter is what drives you so mad. "How are you even planning to handle the post marriage fiasco for your so called ill mother?"

This is the reason...this extreme frustration about soap heroine's actions circles back to need for expose through sticking to truth. Pragya has beautiful chance to expose Abhi with Tanu with her Get out Jail Free card and she is squandering it away. And since viewers banked upon Abhi's good character inspite of him not using his brain, his beating up for wrong reasons (first time, unlike what he did with Suresh or Purab) through concocted story, is unpalatable.

One would have thought at least one protagonist would save us from agony. Unfortunately both are going to increase our agony. 1) by doing wrong 2) other by keeping quiet.

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

KumKum Bhagya : Enuf Already. Abhi Grow Brains. Pragya Grow Spine. To stand up for Yourselves

Enuf Already. Abhi Grow Brains. Pragya Grow Spine. To stand up for Yourselves
Enuf Already. Can we grow beyond Dumb and Dumber Drama
Enuf Already. Can we have the three Stooges, Abhi, Aliya and Tanu shown backstage?

:( have to wait for 200 episodes. Already going mad with posting this much. Why dont I just concentrate on my work. Wish I had never laid eyes on the IF article on KKB 360 degree promotion results in terms of TRP. Ever since...I just fell in love with all characters. All of them are so blended in. I love all the characters including the vamps.

At this point, I would also love to watch Akash and Rachna story. Comeone just for Abhigya's Bhagya, we need not have Rachna and Suresh neglected. Yeah we have seen Rachna all standing up for her self-esteem. But She DID make a point in her neighbourhood and now in college about being a single mother. What's wrong to get back to a reformed husband. Akash in present shape does not look bad at all. Everyday I keep a hope for Rachna story...it keeps taking time...But I keep my hope.

Anyways, promise viewers and readers, when it is an ugly twist with illogical ramp up, I will bid bye like I am habitual about. I just cannot take ugly twists. I need only one cycle of Climax and Anti-climax. After that I make peace with the show into not watching out with heart but watching it like junk.

200 episodes will be 10 months. Hmmm! I may have to just wait until 120th episode for the pristine developments. LOL

I am now actually looking forward to the drama that exposes Aliya's real face to Abhi.  The seed was planted by Tanu in Aug 19th; Episode 91; in Aliya's mind. As shown in the precap. Aliya is getting highly insecure. Now the point of Bhagya will be where Abhi will stick to marriage just to correct the wrong started by Aliya. This is what I feel about Puliya wedding. Tanu needed a reception and an accident to be get emotionally distant from Abhi. Seems Aliya too is going to have a Sangeet and an accident to get at some place lower in value than she has today in Abhi's eyes.

Point is I am more tempted to believe in Abhi's goodness; which is not just my assessment, but also as assessed by Pragya about him. She had said to him, Aap bahut galat kar rahen hain...sabse zyaada aapko hi dard hoga.  What made Pragya see it, I dont know. But if our soap heroine has seen it, I would rather believe it and think that our soap hero is going to develop inner eyes and see something not right heart-wise with Aliya. That does not mean that he is not gonna support Aliya. 

I guess he might become a wall between Aliya and Pragya and her family. Will he?!!!  Who knows, Aliya's insecurity will also be upon the fact that Purab caught her red handed and she would think, before Purab exposes her, "let me slander him". Don't know why I feel, Purab might be trapped into leaving the marriage by Aliya herself, just so that Aliya can avenge herself on Pragya.

Abhi's fault is the biggest of all. Far exceeding Aliya's or Tanu's.  That is why I feel, Abhi will need moral support and that shall be provided by Pragya. In Episode 91 on 19th August 2014, there was a foreboding already on that matter. Aliya and Pragya stupidly went for the dress drama. Aliya on some excuse made Pragya believe her and Pragya on some pretext went to accomplish the challenge of wearing the short dress. As expected, Daadi was angry, Pragya saved by Abhi and yet when everything is out, Daadi looks at him accusatorily and warns him of his hand in the matter. Abhi seriously thinks...So whoever is responsible, I am the one who is going to get punished.

Today, this looks funny and is comic relief. Tomorrow, this is not going to be funny anymore and we would all start looking for tragic relief for few laughs. Abhi not only blamed by elders, he himself is going to come hard on himself. In that situation, where he would isolate himself, when unasked; Pragya comes to support him (understanding his situation), their love is going to be strengthened.  Under  what circumstances, we do not know. If they are in love, they can go on being separated by circumstances for a while. What is the Bhagya's role here? we have to see.

Likewise, about how Abhi can hurt Pragya?

Episode 91 on 19th August 2014 was a very cute and enjoyable episode. Full of fun and laughter.
But the underscoring highlight was Abhi's playing with Pragya through arousing jealous feelings.

Hmmm!!! Since when this is becoming fun for him?  Happy that the teacher chashmish who always mocks or ridicules him for being brainless or his appearance or his singing style, has actually feelings for him??????
FB to Drunken Spree...Why would a drunk Abhi feel bad that Pragya was singling out his kisses to Tanu?  So he was not feeling bad for her saying it out, he was feeling for the fact that he cared for her feelings... thinking that Pragya might be feeling bad that he wont kiss her ever? Hmmm!!!

Presently Pragya trusts Abhi for his transparency and his consistent behavior. She cannot stand Tanu, in a rational sense that happy marriage semblance does not need a third wheel between spouses. But there is an irrational side of her that does not want Tanu anywhere near her husband. This side is a strong sense of personal dignity that Pragya has for herself. She did not accept Suresh when she found out he loves Bulbul. Broke the engagement. Now Bhagyavash, she is married to Abhi and is his wife. And as wife, she cannot see Tanu usurping her right. Like she said "Hisaab ki pakki hoon main".   Because, in her personal accounts, Abhi has given her every reason why he would like to torture her and she accepted it to save her mommy and sister. Very concerned but selfish reasons. But the balance she has is rescue for torture. Now the other side of her marriage, if there was no MU, she has a problem in the form of Tanu. And she has already started dealing with her 1) by negating her at face value as outsider 2) by showing disapproval of her presence to her husband where it matters to her, his family and her family.

So basically Pragya has reigned in her marriage.
She just needs to find love in the marriage. And sooner than later she is gonna find it from Abhi.
So what can hurt her is when 
  1. Abhi goes back to Tanu for some lame reason
  2. Abhi to demean her sense of dignity in some way. Probably doubt her love for him...
  3. Abhi to lessen attention on her...cant say how it would even happen, but even one instance of neglect from Abhi is gonna hurt Pragya especially after they may have acked their love for each other.
All this is gonna happen, if they start communicating less and less, in a degree noticeable in contrast to present times communicating with each other.


Why was Abhi hitting Puneet? I mean Puneet didn't say anything vulgar or wrong sounding. He just said that Tannu's friend told me that Tannu was calling me to this room.

Thats the point.

To his green eyes, Tanu was dancing very closely with Puneet. And to his green eyes, a guy coming running after Tanu is all committing an outrageous act. Who is even kidding!! Possessive much just for what he thinks he is.  One truth of character played out there. His EGO gets HURT everytime SOMEONE NEGLECTS HIM or goes against his word. EGO what it was...spilling everywhere. He came back to Tanu into that room...because per his green eyes, Tanu was making him jealous and hence that sorry. I am least bothered with his making up with Tanu scene...because yesterday itself, I was not 100% sold on his anger on Tanu. That scene just put me into haze, then why he is playing around with Pragya.

Now all of this just points to one thing. He needs big time fan following. Pragya is giving him too much attention, hence his softness.  I made one post earlier...Abhi and his wont for Adulation. That is what it is.

All short tempered people don't go hitting around people. Short-temper is not a big character flaw. Short temperence becomes dangerous when mixed with brainless reaction.  Ofcourse this is a perfect contrast to the sane and brainy heroine...yet someone is bound to get hurt at some point.

What it also serves as dramatic infusion, is that pain needs to get added for the heroine for having to be sacrificial when she deserves really something better. So what they are also showing is that Bhagya has not at all been rosy, though she does not expect much and tries to adjust with the minimum she gets.

This is going in the direction of Elinor of Sense and Sensibility where Edward really does not much deserve Elinor truthfully. This is also going in the direction of Tamil Movie make of S&S adaptation Kandukondain Kandukondain. Tabu plays the role of Elinor. And there we have Ajit kumar as Edward, but he is so much more improved than Edward and would resemble Abhi as he dreams of becoming a Film director which he becomes.  KK was much more beautifully rendered. The way Tabu weeps towards the end, it becomes such a poetic justice. She earns her merit, her worth fighting tooth an nail in those tears, how someone she loved may have presumed her to be unlucky. Well its not the case, but she makes her point.  And this I am going to wish to see from Pragya, asking her mother, Abhi why they forced her into a marriage.  This is what Abhi drama today raises an expectation from Pragya today and hence that need for half of KKB crowd asking her to pack up her bags and leave.

Well Abhi has two nearly good yellings from Pragya. Its upto him again to open his brains. Add the drunken bit of confession, he should grow antennae. But who cares if he doesnt grow. We are not even bothered on that point.  We are bothered on him hitting people and his tremendous ego.
1) Pragya says "Yes I love Purab" - probably on reception night. Abhi counters her saying you are lying. You are not capable of loving anyone.
2) Pragya says "No I dont love Purab" when Purab and Aliya's marriage is fixed and they have argument when she asks him to have it cancelled. Abhi counters her saying, "yeah why would you love him".

Add the drunken bit. "You are wrong in understanding. ...I am not the girl that Purab loves". - well lets forget that as it was just something one can ignore or not ignore. Choice.

Basically Abhi has "apni moohn miyaan mithhu" syndrome. He loves what he says, thinks and feels. He expects a following of the same chain of thought. Abhi has terrible ego. Ego that a DoubleBattery types Suresh is talking sense. That Chashmish gives him her piece of mind. That Purab could dare to go against a commitment made to him. That Tanu refused him for marriage. That Tanu doubted him about his goodness&protective care. Each of his anger and bullying is about someone hurting his ego.  However, was that not exactly the reason why Daadi got him married to Pragya? She wanted him to be grounded. These ugly consequences of his ego need to get spilled for more drama to occur. But everytime it happens, he would need a reprimand.

Hence our reaction. As audience, we only put our hope in Pragya to get this righted.
Will Pragya do what we expect of her?

At this pace of her goodness, gullibility and being a sacrificial lamb in present mode that has caught the fancy of Arora sisters, I doubt it. The writers are making the soap heroine fall for the hero. To add a heart-break. God! if this is the route it will take, I will bid bye. I watch soaps to have fun. But I never take crap, especially from the protagonists. Yes. Ugh Ugh Ugh, when a Soap Heroine cannot defend her innocent Brother beaten up in such a morally disparaging manner. That leads us to assess why Pragya is all smiles in the new August 19th promo. Didn't she have a heartbreak with Suresh, why she believes people so easily?!!!!! I am seriously not watching unless one or other something redeeming happens. And this girl seriously needs to grow spine.

To quote one of my friends words. She watches the show and writes over India Forums. Her Profile name is Lkb79.
"She's way too trusting to any guy who pays her even the tiniest regard. That is one of her weaknesses, like ego is Abhi's. Perhaps one day we will understand why she has this issue but for now it's consistent to her character. Our only hope is Pragya grows a spine in time of the reveal/wedding. She's been foolish in many ways but she has been fairly good about standing up to Abhi and company within the confines of her own foolishness to carry on this time-limited charade. Somehow I don't think she will take it well when the sibling duo gang up on her, should Purab flee or not show up. But then again, I believed she would stand up for her brother and she doesn't. Instead she believes her husband who has misled her at every turn. It's too frustrating when soaps geared toward women don't have consistently strong female characters. "

KUMKUM BHAGYA - EPISODE 93 - AUGUST 21, 2014 - And the Revenge Madness continues

To hell with Bhagya and Beating up People

The SBB/SBS segments were much better to watch for the dances. Over the episode, there was nothing romantic, except for Aliya's dance, which really was good. Everything else is CRAP with the vamps trying to dish out new plans to humiliate Pragya's family. Enuf already !!!! Getting tired of it.

Precap for tomorrow: Abhi beating up Puneet. Puneet is all teary.

What happened was; Aliya and Tanu wanted to get Puneet meet Tanu in a room and have something nasty end result...but unfortunately Abhi messed up by going to meet Tanu in the room. He makes up with Tanu for his rude behaviour earlier...they hug and kiss, which Puneet sees from keyhole outside. In shock he slides down the floor, making Abhi aware of someone at the door. He asks what are you doing here? Puneet says, I was asked to come here by Tanu;s friend to meet Tanu.

Precap: Well ! you have a jealous and angry Abhi beating up the guy black and blue at having dared to call upon his GF Tanu and he is ready to blurt that out...only to stop himself nick of the moment. 

Why God knows!!! Hell with Bhagya and trying to torment Pragya and Pragya's family. I did not like this side of Abhi beating up guys without thinking even once. First he did that with Suresh, then Purab and now Puneet. Does he have any brain left?? I am fuming mad!!

God!! did the guy apologize to Suresh ever ? And now ruining Purab's life. This guy really deserves public humiliation for what he does to people. I now completely wish Purab absconding from wedding. The brainless brother and sister so deserve it. And Pragya just needs to get out packing from that mad couple of bro and sister.

I couldnt watch the last part. Not that Abhi was making up with Tanu. More for the fact that Puneet was any moment going to see them. That gave out such a clandestine and dirty feel...one wouldn't want to be in that place.
And that Abhi guy, instead of feeling caught, is so supremely enjoying himself to the jealous BF. Is it the time? Does it make him any responsible brother of him? So what he remembered in the nick of the time!!! What is wrong is him impulsive, spontaneous reaction. Being honest and transparent is fine, but to lose your senses to your sensibilities!!!

What I didnt like was the clandestine dirty feel when Puneet was about to see who was kissing whom. That's where Pragya's need to save him gets justified when she went against her and Suresh's principle.

And what I totally abhorred was Abhi beating up the guy. I would have forgiven him, if this was his first. But now the list is getting bigger. Suresh, Purab and Puneet. Who is next?

If I were in Pragya's place I would have asked Abhi not to forget that if she saved him for her family's sake, she is gonna expose him too for her family's sake and he better behave.
Enuf already with Pragya giving those stupid damning sad looks everytime she stands with Bulbul and she looks at Purab. Enuf lady, you are the eldest one and instead of showing courage to your younger sister, you end up being piteous looking yourself. To hell with this marriage, as if Pragya is starting to lose what she is made of.

I am going to be okay tomorrow, if and only if, Pragya does something to defend her brother. If she cannot, thumbs down to the drama. Thumbs Down & Angry me.

Its not Abhi bashing. Its what the writers want everyone to feel. High point of drama. Engaging interest through infusion of derision for indecent and violent act.
They have heightened the derision through two elements. 1) doing bad 2) Augmenting bad by being blind and turning violent. Both Intentions and Actions are sinful.

Ofcourse the nick of the moment recall of sense is gonna be a saviour, yet what about the emotional damage and damage already rendered to another man. Not everyone is hardened Suresh or loving Puran. The boy in question is young innocent mind, too impressionable at this age. The woman in me feels bad for the boy being beaten up. Here was Pragya and her uncle thinking of Puneets career and here he is scarred.

Ofcourse I agree with his father and Abhigya24 for pointing out that Puneet should have stuck to catering...but the young always gets the chance of charitable forgiveness in the name of lesson. Its the older man who makes it all the more disgusting. And against all this, Pragya &Co. should actually think, if they can keep visiting like this. Well Aliya achieved what she wanted to.

My anger is also directed at the writers, who bring out this high point of drama, but never fix it. I am just giving out a reaction to action infused. Obviously I have to return to TV tomorrow to see the man kicked in conscience and to see if the soap heroine stands up for her brother.

And a reply from Lkb79 , another KKB viewer like me.
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I agree, she(Pragya)  better stick up for her brother or the character will lessen in my eyes. Also her brother better not forget what he saw. I hope even Daadi finds out someday and gives Abhi the lesson of his life.
I can't believe Abhi was so dumb as to fraternize with Tanu in his house during an event. I can't believe he'd trust her over some innocent guy.

I know this MU is an excuse but it's not an excuse for being dumb, idiotic and violent. Hurting Pragya is one thing, hurting her family like he is is another.

And Shri, great point. Puneet isn't Suresh who has his principles. He isn't Purab who has a decades old relationship with Abhi. He's not Akash who actually did something wrong. He's a young man who was supposed to have an incredible night for his career and who thought he was about to have and incredible night for his heart.

I can't even imagine how he feels, especially after seeing the two kiss. That's a whole other blow to him. Will he mention it to Pragya? Will she tell him to be part of the secret? How will he take his sister being insulted? How will the rest of the family feel about their son being beat up?

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Expecting relief tomorrow.

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http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4139209&PID=112145237&#p112145237
Originally posted by mysterygurl1427

I read some saying that Puneet shoulda stuck to his catering job, but he is a young mind that will slip. He is at his sister's in law's house where a beautiful super model whom he has a crush on is present. His mind got distracted when she danced with him, stupid Aliya took advantage of a poor innocent young teenager's heart..Ouch
Hell if a grown adult like Abhi can slip and kiss his gf then Puneet is a lot younger to him after all. 



Today's drama over Sangeet was continuation of what I had felt yesterday. God!! I am so happy I did not fall for that Abhi angry moments with Tanu and instead to chose to ask myself, why he is doing two timer with Pragya with those funny banters!!!

So true of what I saw seething through the funny red-day drama.  Read here for previous episode review


Wednesday, August 20, 2014

KUMKUM BHAGYA - EPISODE 92 - AUGUST 20, 2014 - The Comedy of Sticking Kisses

The Comedy of Sticking Kisses - Pappiyan Chipkana
Rockstar se Roadstar Poster Ban Diya

I felt the drama intense. It was a nice mix, like normally it happens over marriages. Those concerned are worried, those not much worried having fun, and some keeping an eye to control issues and sometimes joy just takes a fun ride to have an accident with angst, spilling tears. 

Felt like real life marriage participation, where 

  1. Daadis, guests all laughing at Abhigya and having fun at their expense. 
  2. Bulbul and Sarla worried for Mamaji's catering. They should be. 
  3. Bulbul and Purab keeping an eye on Aaliya.
  4. Purab's Chaachi keeping an eye on Purab and Bulbul.
  5. Sarla keeping an eye on Abhi and Tanu
  6. Daadi's blessing Abhi as usual for Abhigya as couple.

Between all this, the most stressed were everyone except Pragya. Other than an accidental kiss drama and having to handle Tanu's jealousy, nothing else was different for her. And unless like other events she was taking it normally...change being ...everyone else had some kind of emotional worry at the back of their mind.

So Abhi is really conflicted since the Police case rescuing by Pragya. He is not just unhappy that Pragya has so much attitude to refuse his Thank you, he is unhappy that Tanu was not with him. And he is actually angry with Tanu so much that he called her a Baaharwaali. Then why with so much going inside him, Abhi is still able to add light moments with Pragya. I guess, then I have to stamp it in my mind, that Abhi has a single track mind when it comes to his anger. He can be angry with only person at a time. He could not be angry with Purab or suspect of some scheming when he found him in restaurant and let it be. Likewise, he is going through Sangeet moments normally as goes with his besharam attitude, but he was truly angry with Tanu. He seemed hurt for a certain image of Tanu he had in his mind, dwindle into something he was disappointed at himself and their relationship.

The other important face change clue and serious enough for me to get bothered was, how lovingly he looked at his Daadi when she said to keep the Abhigya relationship go on as it is. I guess, he is baffled at Daasi calling Pragya a Savitri and that turned out true, then baffled at Daadi bringing out Pragya's characteristics that she fell for her initially and vouching her happiness, how she has not been belied. So he is like, "Do I believe Aliya and myself or do I believe Daasi and Daadi about what I have seen?"

More than the comedy of kisses, I felt disturbed at what was going on in their minds for Abhi, Tanu, Aaliya, Bulbul and Purab.  

Pragya totally unaware of all kind of conflicts and plotting, does not even care to think of them and very sweetly, is responsive through her logic and level headedness, answering aptly to all, be it Tanu or be it Abhi or be it her well-wishers.

What an episode, where Pragya has created drama around her where she remains poised along with Daadis and rest everyone are so worried about many many things. :)

What would make Abhi feel betrayed by Pragya? He has trust issues even now. So how is it even gonna change? I do believe, his anger would resurface, but at what and at whom, I am not so sure. His ego, yes. Ego at being proven wrong. However, the dramatic revelation is not going to be unravelling. It might just be made more tortuous and arduous.  Imp thing for me is, I am just clueless how Aliya and Abhi will react to Purab running away from marriage, how Daadi will react. 

Based on today's episode, Abhi is not all that dumb. He does remember people's words and feelings expressed. He is able to draw a certain conclusion over Tanu based on what he expected and what his Daadi looks for in his "wife". He is able to excite Pragya through her outrageous feelings for Tanu's unrighteous conduct of hanging out with a married man. He is able to know his own state that he gets cluelessly lost in Pragya's eyes and that he hears song from there.

Wont's he be able to relate that Pragya was actually asking him to question himself, that Purab turning away from wedding could be a possibility ? I believe, the next stage of conflict to be set in his mind, is between him and Aliya.  He would need to see Aliya like he is seeing Tanu now.  My guess (which most of the times are wrong anyways) is that, Abhi will get unhinged from Aliya love that only makes him blind.  But then he has to deal the societal consequences of a failed wedding. He would need to handle Aliya, his Daadi, his reputation. A lot is at stake. And HE would need some kind of moral support to deal with all this.  He does need to be supported by Pragya at this time.

The real emotional break will happen, when Abhi hurts Pragya emotionally (in an unintentional manner ofcourse), and the real physical separation will happen when Sarla gets to know the reality of the marriage.

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[QUOTE=-Tia-]Shri, nice analysis. I think Abhi is able to still have fun fights with Pragya because that's his favourite thing to do. He truly cherishes being around her. That's his stress reliever too.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Lkb79]Nice summary Shri. New angle to consider - Pragya as the calm eye of a storm around her. 

I really love that moment you mentioned - Abhi's face when Daadi was talking to him. He softened up a bit when normally he would have had some sarcastic thought in his mind. I also noticed similar treatment towards Pragya's family lately. He was never cold to them, but he is actually warmer and easier with them now. I loved his panic at being caught when he told Tanu to let go. The writers have done a good job in enacting some subtle changes that signal his shift in attitude as he grows more confused. 

Abhi really is a spectacular, well written, well acted character. So is Pragya for that matter. But today was Abhi's day. 
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

KumKum Bhagya : Pragya's Dressing

I just wanted to say about Pragya's dressing or blouses.
I actually find her long sleeves very high fashion with those crew cut blouses of her reception and Aliya's engagement.  Point of interest is that, you have to see that Engagement blue was nicely embroidered in front with round cut in the back. So that's not the typical covered or Simplistic behanjee dressing. In the reception, as the blouse was self-colored with saree and that too the beige shade which comes under elegant coloring of Gharana styling, the covered blouse actually gives her regal look.

Infact, the Sangeet Saree is far too simple to my taste. But then it is Sangeet and it doesnt matter. Just like Mehndi dress.

Now other things we need to keep in mind. Sriti Jha (also extended into Pragya character) is very lean. Her hands are so lean that they look bony rather than round with flesh. TRP audience giving female crowd sitting in Indian living rooms wont like that lean look. A very lean hand either shows being underweight or shows vampy characteristics of weight maintaining female leads.  One needs to sympathize with their needs.

Coming to her Anarkalis of same type with diff colors. This is neither Sriti nor Pragya characteristic. No girl wears same types in diff colors. This is simply a Indian Soap heroine Costume. All soaps follow this kind of thing more or less. There was Geet...OMG...all same with diff colors so much that DD used to make fun of her own dresses.

And finally...me...why I have come to defend on dressing of the soap heroine of KKB, when I should  not be getting into these matters based on past experiences...Because, I am a saree buff. I prefer the handloom varieties, cottons and silks...not the designer ones. Yet I do study the designs...and where I do not like the wear, then I do an assessment based on the fabric used. So ultimately for me the fabric's texture and richness matters along with what exclusivity it is bringing on the table (as in over one who wears it). And I see Sriti and Pragya making an awesome representation and statement. And one should be happy, that she is going for the designer wear and not the handloom one. Infact if you see Sriti's photos, you will see her more in native varieties of Batiks, Balucheris, Sambalpuris when she dons the sarees. And the traditional varieties wont take a designer blouse like the designer ones accomodate.

Pragya's sarees at her previous two engagements, were shown of very mediocre quality. Infact, they are mediocre style. And yet Pragya looked beautiful in those color combinations. Blouses were neatly done there as the blouses where what made her elegant in those mediocre looking sarees. And now see her transformation into rich and elegant looking sarees.

Sorry did not want to offend anyone. But I wanted to rescue myself. The heroine's dressing pleases me. Its so soothing to look at her, so simple that is pleasure watching her. feel bad I dont add TRP. If I was in India, I would have watched her regularly. :)

Responded by Tia
Originally posted by -Tia-

As for as Pragya's sarees and make up go, I just wish that they dressed her up according to her education/profession. A college prof. is more likely to wear cotton, delicate embroidery, handloom and tasteful stuff than the gaudy sarees and anarkalis (I know Pragya's are still simple going by the TV soap heroine stds). Sriti looks beautiful nevertheless but I think they could add a lot more elegance to Pragya with a sophisticated yet simple taste in clothing, which still wouldn't appeal to flashy people like Tannu and Aaliyah.

That again is a compromise made for the sake of TRP audience. They are bridging the actual character requirement with what TRP audience keeps demanding. So we get a hybrid.

The blouse combination given to Pragya is deliberated to bring about the respectability and exclusivity of the character from others. She comes out strikingly different in each of her saree ensembles.They made her wear backless blouse from her family choice itself before being asked to wear what the Mehras are giving her to wear.

As far as the dressing when she actually worked, she needed to be wearing sarees (sometimes and not always); by her Arora Punjabi background, they made the character not choose gaudy colors and go for elegant pastels. The white, the yellows, the purples..all her kurtas had the cotton as base but anarkali as the style. It was still showing her personality, that the woman was taking of her personality statement. You could easily find those varieties in Tata Westend stores. :)

Then coming to marriage and being newly married with that chuda still on, from a punjabi background, she is minimally adhering to tradition to show brights, other non-cotton material with good amount of vermilion...not as much a Bihari or Bengali bride would have out on. :)

Making a statement or getting a lable is normal. For ex: when I wear sarees, the cotton ones, they say I look like an activist. And I dont mind it. because I mean business. When I wear handloom ones for occassions, my own relatives get baffled as to what I wore can be called rich of something strange. haha!! Patola comes out best minus the zari work...and that is like a dampner for people who want it easy and understandable conventional dressing. The whole point of dressing for an intellectually elevated mind is their confidence of how to drive away people from their vicinity based on their choice of dressing. Something that is not so easily likeable and yet it gives you the necessary peace of mind. Suresh's dressing is made extra wierd with his midwaist trousers. But the guy exudes so much of confidence in his face that you automatically look at him for what he is and not what he wore. And at no point, we can say that they are not paying any attention. They pay attention to the point of keeping the unwanted attention off them. 

KumKum Bhagya: Pragya - Encouraging the Banter

Encouraging The Banter

The point of Pragya going beyond her staring scolding reprimanding eyes and opening her verbal reprimands in frustration is what makes the banter so funny.
Her sister Bulbul, or her mother, or Purvi can all equally fluster her with their over-activity respectively. They do hug her, torment her with silly questions and concerns she just feels as irritated with them as Abhi is when in the cases such as where his laptop got wet etc.

But Pragya getting picqued is very unique in her relationship with Abhi. She reacts easily just to put an end to his never ending schemes on her. She thinks he has unending stamina to torment her, so gets ready with solving his issues and attitude before he becomes unamanageable.  She treats him like a grown up boy, a male figure that was absent in her life.  A brother in her life would have made her known to boys incessant need to trouble whom they like. She has a Mama and a cousin brother, who are all too nice around her and obedient to her.

But Abhi kind of interaction is competitive to her. Its not about the big problems of their marriage. Its more about

Messing the room with clothes dropped here and there
Eating junk food at odd times
Being pranking and talkative all the time

He might remind her of her sister Bulbul. But the major difference is Bulbul adores her, but Abhi's aim is to torture her and yet...there's no getting away from him because of the silly habits he has that bother her more than his aim of torturing her.

Love the times she had smiles creeping on her face because of his silly acts.
When she duped him into making a mess of his favourite sherwaani
when she feels from his voice how he is stuck with his T
And most importantly, she seems to like his besharmi, openness and pranking 
1) for the fact that his daadi and her daadi loves him, so values their opinion, thinking he might have something that she needs to find and hence all the more interested interaction
2) for the fact that she wants to keep this marriage for her mother's sake and hence her need to keep him engaged one way or another. She is consciously trying to create a habit about her to him. Abhi has noticed it already, and Pragya has already blurted that out in her inebriated state, that he is gonna miss her once she leaves. It sure means to say, that she is leaving enough tokens of her presence around him.
3) for the fact, that he is definitely interesting when it comes to outwit him. Saying to his face that "did you leave your mind at Tanu's place?" is definitely satisfying to her. And the more he answers her the better for her, as she feels mentally engaged.


Responded by Tia
Shri, I just have one thing to add to what you said. Pragya is liberating with Abhi. The free spirit in him is rejuvenating her. Like in today's scene, he just pulled off her dupatta that she wrapped around her and they had this little game of running in and out of the room. And then later, she ran to the closet while he chased her. Abhi lives in the moment and she is living along with him while all the darkness/issues of her life take a break.

KUMKUM BHAGYA - EPISODE 91 - AUGUST 19, 2014

A very cute and enjoyable episode. Full of fun and laughter. Watch it for the pull-push of Abhigya.
But the underscoring highlight was Abhi's playing with Pragya through arousing jealous feelings.

Hmmm!!! Since when this is becoming fun for him?  Happy that the teacher chashmish who always mocks or ridicules him for being brainless or his appearance or his singing style, has actually feelings for him??????

Something that we may have not talked in full.

FB to Drunken Spree...Why would a drunk Abhi feel bad that Pragya was singling out his kisses to Tanu? So he was not feeling bad for her saying it out, he was feeling for the fact that he cared for her feelings... thinking that Pragya might be feeling bad that he wont kiss her ever?

Hmmm!!!

Responded by Tia
Abhi has had feelings for Pragya even before marriage. Remember the mangasutra scene where he picks it up for her. After that, he is driving home and thinks why he feels "bechaini" whenever he meets her and why he meets her all the time. So, there has been an underlying emotion he has had for her and now it's shaping and coloring itself at any given instance!

@Shri,
It's this episode- no. 36

Watch around 8-8 and half mins.


Abhi will need moral support and that shall be provided by Pragya.

In this episode, there was a foreboding already on that matter. Aliya and Pragya stupidly went for the dress drama. Aliya on some excuse made Pragya believe her and Pragya on some pretext went to accomplish the challenge of wearing the short dress. As expected, Daadi was angry, Pragya saved by Abhi and yet when everything is out, Daadi looks at him accusatorily and warns him of his hand in the matter. Abhi seriously thinks...So whoever is responsible, I am the one who is going to get punished.

Today, this looks funny and is comic relief.
Tomorrow, this is not going to be funny anymore and we would all start looking for tragic relief for few laughs.

Abhi not only blamed by elders, he himself is going to come hard on himself.

In that situation, where he would isolate himself, when unasked; Pragya comes to support him (understanding his situation), their love is going to be strengthened.  Under  what circumstances, we do not know. If they are in love, they can go on being separated by circumstances for a while. What is the Bhagya's role here? we have to see.

Likewise, about how Abhi can hurt Pragya?

Presently Pragya trusts Abhi for his transparency and his consistent behavior. She cannot stand Tanu, in a rational sense that happy marriage semblance does not need a third wheel between spouses. But there is an irrational side of her that does not want Tanu anywhere near her husband. This side is a strong sense of personal dignity that Pragya has for herself. She did not accept Suresh when she found out he loves Bulbul. Broke the engagement. Now Bhagyavash, she is married to Abhi and is his wife. And as wife, she cannot see Tanu usurping her right. Like she said "Hisaab ki pakki hoon main".   Because, in her personal accounts, Abhi has given her every reason why he would like to torture her and she accepted it to save her mommy and sister. Very concerned but selfish reasons. But the balance she has is rescue for torture. Now the other side of her marriage, if there was no MU, she has a problem in the form of Tanu. And she has already started dealing with her 1) by negating her at face value as outsider 2) by showing disapproval of her presence to her husband where it matters to her, his family and her family.

So basically Pragya has reigned in her marriage.
She just needs to find love in the marriage. And sooner than later she is gonna find it from Abhi.

So what can hurt her is when

  1. Abhi goes back to Tanu for some lame reason
  2. Abhi to demean her sense of dignity in some way. Probably doubt her love for him...
  3. Abhi to lessen attention on her...cant say how it would even happen, but even one instance of neglect from Abhi is gonna hurt Pragya especially after they may have acked their love for each other.

All this is gonna happen, if they start communicating less and less, in a degree noticeable in contrast to present times communicating with each other.

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KUMKUM BHAGYA - EPISODE 90 - AUGUST 18, 2014; Meri Biwi Hai, Phir Bhi Thanks

Yeh Meri Biwi Hai ...Phir Bhi Thanks

Originally posted by -Tia-

And why did he claim "meri biwi" clear and aloud in front of that imposter? Because he will not tolerate something obnoxious said about any woman remotely related to him.  Apart from doing it for his Daadi and her mother, he does know somewhere deep down his heart that this is the woman he wants to take home to, at the end of the day.
But he is not going to give her false hopes until he really believes in those emotions and knows that's the right thing to do.

True. Agree with you.  

Let me add my bit too, to continue. 

While watching the scene, I felt that Abhi was forced to hit reality, hit the ground. His marriage to Pragya is all a revenge lesson from his point of view where the trouble-maker and gold-digger Pragya was supposed to get tortured, humiliated and insulted all the time.

Alas!! the problem in having this wish executed gets encompassingly difficult for Abhi and it only adds to his conflicted emotions on what he is as person himself. This is completely devoid of what he feels or should feels for Pragya. This conflict is about his character and his emotions that are taking a toll on him.

His desire of having Pragya tortured, insulted rests on his wish that only and only Pragya should bear that punishment and no one else get affected even remotely by the hurt he intends to give Pragya. For him he and the world are one side and there is only adversary for him that deserves all bad and that is Pragya. Is it for REAL then that such isolation of actions and consequences can be achieved ? NO.

And that is what happened once again today. Today, it was not Pragya's mother or Abhi's grandmother, who were exposed to the consequences of their marriage. Today, the couple themselves were exposed, if they want to keep semblance of marriage or let it be. When Pragya saved Abhi from getting arrested, Pragya had the threat of Tanu's relationship with Abhi getting exposed which was going to affect both her family and Abhi's grandmother. But today, in no manner, the families were affected. However what was subjected to ridicule was Abhi's character. Is he really a  casting couch principle follower? 

I watched the scene and felt it, how Abhi felt disturbed by a disruption to supposedly fun, jovial atmosphere he was having with a person he is starting to enjoy. If that disruption did not vex him enough, the man was insulting not only to a woman, he was more insulting to Abhi as a person with a lewd idea of Abhi as a person. And that angered Abhi ! He was wrathful. He just wanted to get himself cleansed and he said...this is my wife...Well on surface it does have a respectful and protective gesture for Pragya, but it has also protected his personality. He proved to the man that he is not what he thinks of ...as a man of loose morals. And to show his funny side, he even goes ahead and says, he meets up with men as well.

What I saw in that scene, an echoing dramatic effect of "Yeh meri Biwi Hai"...an echoing hardhitting reality for Pragya and Abhi. While Pragya is grateful that atleast for semblance sake, Abhi said that, which is what she wants at all these times, in her present state of reality, for Abhi it was redemptive of himself by purging all the bad things he has been doing lately to Pragya and how each time it is coming to hit upon him. If he had kept quiet today, not only his ego would have been hurt for his image as perceived by others, he would have been more hurt at himself, forced to sit quiet, when all his inner self actually rebels against any such basal activity.

Now that anger unleashed, he cancels the ordered food and wants to walk out from there in the heat of the moment. And our Pragya, true to her nature of always showing sense and decorum, her grateful attitude to the moment, makes her express her Thank You. Ofcourse! this increases anger levels for Abhi and he gets to release his pent up frustration with her. In his anger and annoyance, he takes out the frustration at the hurt inflicted by Pragya in the morning. Why save him and why not accept his Thank You, because for all it matters to him, the gold-digger saved him for his and her family needs. When and where did the gold-digger get better sense than him to prevail in an otherwise advantageous situation? And if he could keep all that aside, and he wanted to convey his gratitude, why did she not accept it?  He uses the SAME WORDS to drive his point of how he was hurt by her words. If she called him Ravan in the morning, he goes to say I too don't consider you my wife. Truth. But a truth for both that is like a poison that inflicts a writhing pain. I am sure he knew exactly that she would see that he was not doing it for families.

And then follows a balm to his pain.

Pragya's "Phir bhi Thanks".

She is calm, not showing an inch of hurt at the truth he hurled at her, takes it as reality and yet is noble not to crib at the loss of her right, but is just grateful for a small cover of kindness, a shelter provided to her in her situation. And she was resolute enough to show her self-respect, her dignity and showed him that she will not demand for what is not hers, but if he did something good for her, she will definitely express her gratitude to him. She will not be shy of that.

That is where the episode ended. We are not sure of tomorrow, how the scene will continue. But today that ending scene was a balm to Abhi's hurt pride. Pragya rose above their relationship, their marriage and showed him equal respect as a person. And that is what Abhi needed in that moment at the restaurant when he was enjoying his evening with a person he was liking which got ruined by another person, he could only abhor. It was all worth it.  Something he wanted so much for himself since the morning.

:)

I wonder if writers put so much depth into the dialogue writing. But I guess the story direction, the dialogue and the acting by the crew adds the right chemistry to the scene and such dramatic emotion becomes possible.

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KUMKUM BHAGYA - EPISODE 88 - AUGUST 14, 2014; The PeaceMakers and MoonCatchers

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It was cute, funny and hilarious episode.
Peace Pls Peace Pls... Hilarious.

Next Morning was even better. Both not at all SHY as to how they were huddled together, all that mattered to them was... how annoyed they were to find each other in close proximity. Angry Abhi!! LOLLOL

And when Pragya so naturally deduces how they ended up there, Abhi just runs away from there. God! he just acts truant and bully with Pragya and yet it is Pragya who gets to lecture him, scold him for his silly acts and get him scolded further from Daadi too.  Though he tries to do all bad things to her, she ends up punishing him more.

Honestly, this episode was so good. Best because Daadi got to see them sleeping like that, so trustingly, as she always desires them to. Best because Pragya now very transparently showed Abhi, how much closer she has become to Daadi. She has actually expressed her anger at Abhi and complained about him to Daadi, right before him. This is them like being her kids and if Abhi has his brain working, should read something in there. But since Abhi works with only his heart, he already knows, he cannot fool Daadi if matter pertains to Pragya.

I am so pleased at the night after. I do miss the drunk couple and their crazy acts, but next morning, they actually fight like husband and wife...well they always fight like that, dunno how Pragya gets to be so naturally his wife...without shyness, scolding him etc. Its very clear she treats him more as a kid, but does she even realize how wifey she gets with him, total owning him as her husband?.. even if to protect him and his antics to keep semblance of marriage before Daadi and her family.  She is always racing ahead of him in her mind when he talks and his assumed rattling and prattle just annoys her stupefying her at his velocity of assumed understanding and allegations. She never gets fully angry with him, and just gets irritated with him. Teacher and Errant and Truant Student

I cannot tell, where they both are going with this, but they should see themselves like Daadi had seen them. They are totally into each other. More so because, their hearts recognize the other's innocence and they do think like each other, even if is to irritate each other or love their family members and also respect those who deserve respect.

Abhi was just himself, drunk or no drunk. But a Drunk Pragya was so cute. Her next morning avatar and her exhausted face at her husband's non-stop ranting was again to die for LOLLOL She cannot bear him. This one is so so different from the drunk one. And yet, how could Abhi act the same with both Pragyas in the same manner. He could lose himself to Serious Pragya with Allah Waariyas just as he cannot lose himself to Drunk Pragya with her Cute expressions with no Allah Waariyas...but just seeing an Innocent reminder of her. He acts all rough intentionally with serious Pragya, thinking she can handle him and he acts rough out of frustration with a drunk Pragya. The way these two people behave with each other in their senses and without senses, its like two people who have been married for years. 

Cut to Police coming scene, both husband and wife in their separate realms of thinking, very individualistic, and yet the body language is again like a couple handling the problem together. The wailing siren affects the wife first. The lie that the wife speaks of, is caught by husband. This is going to be a repeat of Police Station Hug drama they did before. But this again highlights, their telepathic understanding of each other. They have flashes of what the other thinks sometimes and sometimes, they just infer what other means without much prodding.  

The couple is behaving very spontaneously with each other. The script writing so far is admirable in the sense, we really do not know much whats going on between the two, that they seem so naturally settled in every way no matter how much dysfunctional their marriage is. Like her regular informing him, that she is going to sleep in balcony (without any sad-face) and his regular retort, "yeah I see it, getting habituated (without any sorry-face). Its weird with no hurt or nagging angst and yet what is noticeable is their acknowledgement to the other, if the other did mean to talk to him/her.

Whats clear to me from these drunk episodes is that it is very clearly etched in their minds that their marriage is temporary arrangement. Pragya cares for marriage only to the extent of keeping her mother happy and rest of it just bores her as it is acting for her. Abhi cares for Pragya (not marriage) only for her his Daadi and Pragya's familya while her company seems abnoxious to him because he is under the supreme influence of negative publicity of Pragya by Aliya and Tanu.

So Pragya cares for her marriage to Abhi and will protect him, take care of him and his loved ones as long as the marriage keeps her bound.
And Abhi cares for Pragya in a way he just cannot understand. He says Daadi Daadi and yet even though how unconnected he feels to Pragya, there is always something about Pragya and something in her eyes that make him take care of her even if he is being ridiculously mischievous with her. I feel he keeps pranking with her and harrasing her, just to remind himself that he needs to ditch her.

And honestly none of these acts about each other impress the other to fall in love actually. Which is so baffling for me to understand. For I just see a couple, where destiny or Bhagya keeps throwing them in each other's company more and more, no matter how contrived or ridiculous it gets and destiny or Bhagya has the last laugh by seeing its work about what a situation it has created. Because it sees the couple act like it wants them to. A husband taking care of his wife and a wife taking care of her husband without being shy, just being very natural as they are about themselves. They might not have had a sweet word between each other, they might not be married in true spirit, but one married in all honesty and other marrying in all dishonesty, whatever they do, they honour each others needs in their room and outside their room.

Another scene of theirs that was so loving for me to watch was...that scene where Pragya follows him with her umbrella covering Abhi, asking for details, even as she was the one who gave the hints of accident to Police. Abhi is not at all angry with Pragya and instead he shows a complaining admonishment at her neglect of having failed to notice his physical bruise in the accident. Lo! when did he even give her the right to prod into his matters. She was barging into his matters by her own enterprise. But when he feels she did not barge in enough, he complains like a typical husband. And Pragya, not annoyed, but so concerned for him runs after him, gets sad, Abhi just turns around and becomes soft and says..."what is it now? (reads her concern) and says I will take care of the problem". Now why would he even care to answer her concern and say I will take care. But he does. Again so to speak, both the wife and husband have acts very unnaturally...this time not for Daadi and not for Maa. They acted who they were. Eldest born, caretaking Family members by habit. They are used to running around their family members to get them out of trouble, show concern and be nice. And this what both did with their prodding, asking and answering to each other.

Their traits of care and responsibility is what binds them today in an otherwise non-existent marriage. And that drunken drama was also the same. Care and Responsibility reflected throughout, even to the extent of what action of theirs is going to make the other better...like Abhi getting drunk to match her drunkenness...as then he wont get exhausted and frustrated...and Abhi getting the moon because Pragya needs light. Anything for you, because you are my care.

I just dont know what I am even driving at...but these episodes through 4th August to 14th August just bring out the Kundli (horoscopic) compatibility rather than romantic compatibility..and which is like Zindagi rangeen aur suhaani hai...a rollercoaster ride, an enjoyable ride if you have an equal and trusting partner with you.

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KumKum Bhagya : Sriti Jha as the Female Lead Actor

Playing the part of an Inebriated Pragya

She is reminding me of Meena Kumari in Saheb Biwi Aur Ghulam. :)
Very neat acting of being in inebriated and emotionally painful state. Her sarcasm, fun and sadness at her situation keeps coming back to her every minute and she displays all emotions regularly in every fit of hers.

Basically in all of drunkenness, she is taking her pain out and showing everyone the mirror, including her state of mocking marriage and what it would mean to her family.

KumKum Bhagya - Literary Inspirations

I was disussing KKB with my friend on Sunday. And you know what I was saying? They say that it is loosely based on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. But Jane Austen never adds misunderstanding. She adds difference in wisdom of worldly ways, like for for ex: how Abhi and Pragya are created.

But what actually feel is that KKB is based on two of Shakespearean plays. 
1) Comedy of Errors 
2) Much Ado about Nothing

Just like Comedy of Errors, error after error gets Abhigya married to each other. And funny part is Due to Bulbul Pragya's earlier two weddings get broken and third one gets fixed and done. As if Bulbul was one taking Pragya to Abhi.

And just like Much Ado about Nothing, there is misunderstanding as Silly as Nothing and it creates a pair and almost destroys another one.  It creates Abhigya like Benedick and Beatrice's unlikely pair who are strong individuals who do not believe in sentimental love. And the established pair of Claudio and Hero gets undone who love each other so much (sentimentally). In the end BB get CH together...

I guess, finally it will become Shakespeare's "All Wells that Ends Well"

Hahah LOL LOL LOL LOL

KumKum Bhagya : Abhi and his Wont to Adulation

He is a Rockstar. Has a huge fan-following across all generations of people. Old to Young.  He has got accustomed to admiration, adoration and adulation.  It has become his wont to see all these things everywhere around him. Even his close family adores him, if not showing admiration or adulation. People like Taiji and Mitali adulate him for their own selfish reasons.
And here begins his tryst with his Pragya. Someone who is least bothered to attend to him, forget admiring him for starters that he is so habituated to. Pragya ignores him without hurting his ego. Which is loveable. It does not breed any animosity between them. Pragya keeps her self-respect and self-interest alive through her inattentive persona to Abhi. But has she really been inattentive to him?

Today's drunk episode with Pragya taking up all bits and pieces of her husband's vanity and displaying it to the fullest and loudest may have been an angst and frustration release for Pragya, a hilarious episode for the viewers, but certainly it was not cute display for Abhi. He felt mocked, he felt snubbed by Pragya with his Rockstar persona dismissed as Funny. And this was not funny at all to Abhi.

I saw Abhi first looking for attention and admiration from Pragya in the Reception beginning scene when both get ready in their room. Abhi all dressed, notices Pragya dressing up. He wants her to react, say something, but Nope, Pragya does not even bother to look up and is fiddling with her getting ready. If that scene is disturbed with her attention to details of his collar and asking him to correct something and him again falsely assuming that she is admiring him, it is again corrected to the fact that he does register why she called him a cartoon. But then back on staircase, while he again for second time admires her get-up and change to the other saree, the tiny detail that she listened to him, heeded him, he in the same manner, wants her to look at him and show something that she likes his avatar. Nope Pragya does not even entertain him a bit.

Now in Mehndi ceremony, she again called his songs as without sur and Taal. And in her capacity she sang something which Abhi actually liked. Cut to drunkenness of Pragya and all that is pent up within her coming out, we now have Pragya ridiculing him what can hurt Abhi most. Pragya dismisses his face saying, its not worth commenting.
She ridicules his style and accessories, the earrings, the rings on his fingers, the wristbands, the lockets, the hair-style.
Finally she ridicules even his bread and butter earning occupation with mocking his work, the way he croons and the way he asks his fans to follow him.

Ofcourse all of this is very cute when a cutefaced Pragya says it. Even Abhi cannot get mad at her. Its obvious she is not his fan and hence cannot like him or understand his style. He can understand where she comes from. But keeping all that logic apart, we do see a bit of Abhi, with his heart not liking the fact that Pragya does not even think it worth to look at him. And this she is not even saying to him to spite him. It is coming out naturally in response to his tackling her. He himself is being responsible for her revelations on him of what she thinks of him. I feel bad for him that, once the reality comes out, its going to be a 360 degrees pain for him, for making a mocking of marriage for Pragya, because then it would dawn on him, that he gave enough reason for Pragya to ignore and be indifferent to him with resolution, when atleast in her subconscious she found him funny with his wierd style and uninteresting face, enough to mock him, to dismiss him.

Though it is wonderful to see an Abhi who dismisses Pragya for being a Chashmish and ordinary, and yet admiring her beautiful eyes so much so that he gets lost in adulating those eyes as mesmerisings and magical, provoked enough to call her hynotist,  admiring her occasional display or perkiness in witty comebacks, admiring her slender figure, admiring her singing skills, admiring her gorgeous look when she dresses up for the occassion, we can also feel the pain for him about his simultaneous need to denounce the next moment of his realization owing to his misunderstanding and also fired by her ignoring him completely. It has not become an overt display yet, but I am already guessing Abhi's hurt face when Pragya would not bother to acknowledge him more than is needed to keep the semblance of their relationship.

All this is just revealing Abhi's wont to adulation around him. 

He would need to come out of that shell to be really admired by Pragya. For a change, he needs to be a fan. She would not care for his occupational perks, not care for his style, not for his looks. But she would still take care of him for all his tiniest details just like she is doing today. But that day is not far off when she would fall for him when she sees not just admiration for her but a streak of madness about her from him. But what is going to make it endearing for her is the pain of separation from him, as she would have fallen in love with his company so much. There is no doubt both are going to support each other, but his return to her is what would make her believe in love again and how much she is capable of loving him. 

Haha! one could write all this just going by the comment we hear in today's episode..."Aapka chehra he toh...kuch bolne laayak hi nahin!!!" [Episode on 11th August 2014]

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@mina, @Tia,
Wonderful to read the continuations on this topic. :) Agree

Though, I must say that Pragya's kind of going to get baffled at her own feelings once she discovers how much Abhi means to her. Her definition of love is very inadequate or rather too practical and boring to begin with. To not to see into each other, but to see in the same direction, with like-mindness is actually a lot of progression with sense, which gives an all round satisfaction of accomplishments along the journey, but it cannot be denied that seeing into each other and discovering ourselves being lost in there, is another kind of emotional excitement which would take of heart's longing. I cant wait for Pragya's definition of love to change and accommodate looking into each other's eyes too.  Because though she undermines the importance of it, Pragya likes that kind of falling in love.

KumKum Bhagya - Character Analysis - Purab

In Conversation with Tia @ IndiaForums.

Originally posted by -Tia-

Yeah it doesn't make sense for Purab to run away... but I think at the last moment he just feels he can't take it!!
Purab's character has been indecisive though right? He could never tell BB about Aaliyah, or Aaliyah about BB or Abhi about not wanting Aaliyah, wanting BB... so not too surprising he can do something like that!

Thanks for the article. Thats pretty bad !!

And Bulbul's situation is also not too good, if she is stuck with a vacillating guy. One has to decide and stick to the decision made. If he committed to Aliya first before meeting Bulbul, he needs to clear up the mess for everyone and not run away from the situation by not revealing anything and just bottling up.

How long will he create misunderstandings for others. In all of this mess, both Bulbul and Pragya are stuck badly and worse is with Pragya's situation. Hope Sarla takes away her two daughters from this mess and wedding, saying to all they dont deserve any more humiliation.

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That was in Mid August sentiment.

Come end of August especially after Puneet beating up drama on 22nd August , we start to believe; that its actually best for Purab to do what has to do - ABSCOND.

He agreed to marry against all his wishes and just for his love Bulbul's sake, a girl like Aliya. But if Bulbul's wishes of seeing her sister settled is not going to work, how does it matter to him to even going ahead with marriage to Aliya.

Aliya so deserves to be left at altar for even thinking that she can force people to marry.

KUMKUM BHAGYA - EPISODE 84 - AUGUST 8, 2014 - Unhinged Pragya

Unhinged Pragya : 8th August 2014

Excellent episode. We can always enjoy this. There is both comedy and pain in the situation. And both from Pragya's point of view. 

Her critical practical side comes out unhinged, recklessly and she starts lashing out truth at what is silly like the Ghosla hair-style from behind, like the short dress for Mehndi ceremony, like what she thinks of unnecessary presence of outsider Tanu, at the mess created by Aaliya for her selfish sake by getting two people wrongfully married, then speaking about her unhappiness with her mother, where she starts crying with emotion and finally the opening her heart to Daadi through her baby-faced expressions about all that wrong happened and how Abhi maintains pretensions. Her unhinged heart-out talks strike the right chord with viewers, her family and Daadi.

How Abhi feels all about this, we still are not aware. We only know that he wanted his misunderstood truth about Pragya should come out, whereas frustratingly, the real truth is coming out about how Pragya feels about this marriage and what she thinks of all of them, with the difference being when normal she takes their torture with fortitude, but when drunk, she is showing her fear and unhappiness about how everything is wrong.

Whether Abhi liked her this way or still remains frustrated, but when we see Pragya like this, without hope and totally unhinged from being responsible, our heart goes out to Pragya like Daadi and we also say to Abhi, "Bahut Masoom hai yeh...Very innocent she is and if anything untoward she did, forgive her as she has done it unintentionally."

What really surprised me was that, while Pragya had lot of complaints for Aaliya and Tanu, she had not much complaint about Abhi for him being responsible for her situation, she saw him only as her torturer and also as another victim of this unwanted marriage like her. Pragya's clarity surprised me. And what further surprised me was, though she was afraid of Abhishek later torturing her in their room, she could take Daadi's cajoling and Abhi's baby talk to convince her to come to their room. 
She really likes Abhi doing things for her the way she would love it to happen, like read her books, take care that her feet are not hurt, take care of her dupatta.  Somehow, between all that unhappiness, while she trusts and cares for Daadi most, it seems she also knows that after Daadi, it is Abhi who can be trusted and depended upon. Reason being his equal love to his family and Daadi foremost; just like hers what she has for her family. So she easily agrees to go with him and also feels extremely happy cosying upto him. 

I am sure Pragya does not know this yet, but she does like wierd husband's wierd habits. She likes her husband or rather Abhishek, for unhinging her which allows her to express freely, perhaps better than what her loved family of mother, sister and Beeji allow her to.

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