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

Yeh Meri Biwi Hai ...Phir Bhi Thanks

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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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