Myra, you are finally back with titles and starting the thread.đđ
Ok, watched the episode. Got your "Abcd" title as according to baby bear, Astha belongs in a kindergarten. Though it is Shlokie who is learning the "Abcd" of love from Astha.
Barring psycho, it was a good episode.
Until then: the song dedicated to Astha
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2EO3Nw4m0&feature=player_detailpage[/YOUTUBE]
Comments:
Shlok's Endearments & Chipkali's Another Murder Attempt
The first part of the scene seemed like there was no continuity. Astha was behaving as if she had not been irritated with Aditi's behavior at all. I would have expected a little bit of reservation from her even if she is not the person who hold grudges. She was passing time because Shlokie, who was so traumatized with Chipkali's psychotic behavior the previous night, had lost trust in Astha's protection. So he for his safety locked up the room while taking the bath. Shlokie is quite a wise person this way. So Miss Honey pounds on the door as she got tired of showing fake smiles and laughter to the psycho guest of baba. Shlokie comes out in his usual grumpy style which is now Shlokie's way of expressing affection to Astha. Astha as usual falls on him and then starts their morning love talk. After Astha tells him that his day does not start without balancing her, he calls her cheap and shameless - his new endearments for her, and then smiles once she is gone. So while after Holi, he used to be uncomfortable listening to Astha's expressive ways, now he is getting used to them and is beginning to enjoy them too. This was probably was one of his first genuine smile of pure enjoyment after a long time. Astha too was pleased as punch because she got the love words she wanted to hear from him.
Meanwhile, psycho Chipkali founds a place where riders get lost on a regular basis (a place for murderers to bring their intended victims) and luckily it is close to Shlokie's site where he is going to start his new venture. Baby bear agrees readily because he decides that this way he would not have to tolerate Chipkali for the day because Astha - his assistant would do the honors of spending the day with the pyschotic one.
Anjali & Sojal Talk - Step I of How to Fulfill Sahib's Demand for the Heir
Poor Sojal who is not allowed to eat the food of her choice or to go on a trip of her own with Varad, was enjoying reading a magazine when Anjali walked in to start the process of "Fulfilling Sahib's demand". Sojal was apprehensive but then got pleased that she is getting the importance of elder DIL (Daughter in law) by being ordered to produce the first heir of the family. Of course, since Sojal is not the brightest cookie in the world, she forgot that a male partner is needed for this purpose. Anjali who was herself unsuccessful with Varad, reminds Sojal that Varad is needed for this project because she was fearful that Sojal being the dull one might go to the family garderner for this project. Poor Sojal was crestfallen because she did not realize that the first requirement for the male heir was to have blue blood of Agnihotris.
Baba's Pride & the Baccha's Red File
Suresh is now missing in action ever since Shlokie scared the daylights out of Suresh after the Avdhoot's arrest event. He has instead sent his half brother Anand as a substitute. Anand brings Shlok's red and blue files to Niranjan for inspection. It is revealed that Vinayak does free lance work in Shlok's office. Ok...so he is not a complete free loader...Anyway, Vinayak had checked Shlok's files, but Anand the wise one decided that baba should take a look too because it related to his special baccha. Baba took a look at the blue file and then beamed with pride because he was lucky to have a heir who was just like him or even better than him in business. He just needs to be molded to be like him at home too and then his work would be done. Well...I guess, baba better not see his chosen babu Astha's home made videos...He is going to get a heart attack at the spot. Anyway, in his trust of baccha, baba does not look at the red file and instead sends it to Vinayak for inspection. Wonder what is in the red file?
Note: Niranjan's manipulative music was playing when he was praising Shlok and talking about his trust on him or that he was like him. So baba does not really believe this? He is trying to convince outsiders about this.
Jyoti - the Wounded Bird & Sid, the Good Samaritan - Making of a New Functional Relationship
So Jyoti finally decides that she would not stay with a stranger. She opens the door to find a little girl who apparently has been recruited to bring food for Jyoti. So Sid gets food from neighbors whose kids he teaches free of charge. Jyoti relaxes slightly when she realizes that Sid is considered the good guy around the neighborhood. Meanwhile, Sid also returns and gives a funny name to Jyoti (did not understand the significance of the name). He also dismays her when he tells her casually that the food brought by the little girl is going to help her with her gas problems. This is one practical guy - does he know that Jyoti is pregnant as pregnant women have those issues.
Meanwhile, the two rats are in panic mode - one contacting Jyoti's friends to know her whereabouts and the other lamenting that probably Jyoti has gone to another city and would be intraceable because they cannot complain to police. If Jyoti has so many friends, why is nobody aware that she is this miserable. So like a true abuser, Abhay cut off all Jyoti's contacts and imprisoned her in his house. He wants to do that again because he has no power unless Jyoti is in his power.
Avdhoot/Kalindi & Ajju Scenes
Kalindi is getting an intuition about Astha being in danger. Despite Avdhoot's assurances, she ends up praying along with Ajju. Even then she is not calmed until Avdhoot decides to call Astha. He is happy to know that Shlok is taking Astha for sight seeing. Of course poor guy does not know about psychotic one as their companian. Kalindi of course is still feeling restless because she feels danger sorrounding Astha. If only Kalindi would know about Aditi, she would personally escort Aditi to the nearest jail. She would not give a hoot if Niranjan's bosom buddy Ajinkya is offended and breaks off his friendship with evil daddy.
Astha & Shlok - Lover's Point & the Completion of Another Circle
In the car, Astha is enjoying herself. She is wearing a churidaar (her dress prior to marriage) and is busy taking videos of Shlokie who was not irritated this time. The frequency with which she is recording indicates that something unintentional would be recorded on the video camera. In the car, she gets a call from Avdhoot/Kalindi (indicated later but not shown) and Shlok from dear baba who is keeping tabs on his favorite baccha. He expressed approval that baccha finished the business work and was now taking the bahu and the psycho to the horse riding place.
Chipkali was pleased that Shlokie had no intention of coming to the horse riding event. But Shlokie bear prompty changed his mind when Astha requested him to stay few times. They again have their second love talk when Astha asks him to go for horseriding on the same horse as she was scared of horses. Shlokie called her a kindergarten kid who wanted to treat the horse ride like a bike ride. Astha of course turned it into a romance scene where Prithviraj Chauhan - the King had eloped on a white horse with his love interest - Princess Sanyogita, because her father was against the alliance. Except that in this case, Avdhoot would be dancing with joy and it would be Kalindi who would be sending the armed troops to chase Shlokie.
While Chipkali was scouting for a problem horse, Astha leaves her as soon as she spots the cheesy "Lover Point" observation site. She then calls Shlok enthusiastically that embarrasses poor Shlokie. Well cannot blame him as this cheesy display would embarrass a respected business who is intent on keeping an image. He eventually goes there to warn Astha not to embarrass him any further. Astha's response is to shout at the loudest that she loved him - the Shlokie bear. So everything Shlok did to Astha is coming back full circle. The difference is that he did in fakeness to trap her and she is doing it out of genuine love to give him peace. Shlok first reaction is always shock followed by anger at any of Astha antics. He grumbles the second time when she repeats it and then he starts smiling when she does it third time. So this was the first stage of this new antic that probably reminded him of his fake act that he had done months ago when he had shouted this to Astha in front of his friend the Sun God. He reacted with anger and tried to leave especially when Astha told him to repeat it too. She was challenging him to either say Swati's name or her name, because she wants to know if he has moved on...
Shlokie bear as usual decided to run away until Astha make a joke of eloping with him on a white horse. Then he scoffed at her request to accompany her on the horse. When she joked that she might die, he grew sombre. So there is fear of losing Astha. Astha then hopped on the white horse which was supposed to be meant for trained riders.
Of course, I had to shut out the logic that a place where already a rider had gone missing, is so inapt that they would not enquire from a person if they are already trained. The groomsman too Chipkali's word that Astha was her sister who was proficient in horseriding.
Ignoring the typical non-logic of serials where murderous vamps are so influential, Astha's horse goes out of control at a novice riding him and Shlokie follows on another horse to save his honey pot once again. Meanwhile, CVs decide to pacify viewers that psycho is not really after Shlokie's virtue. She just wants to kill his soul by killing his true love Astha. Well if that was the case, why was Aditi wearing all that pink stuff the previous night? Maybe the TRPs have given sense to CVs that such tactics are not working..
Overall, it was a nice episode especially where it just focused on Shlok and Astha and other interesting characters.
Edited by Angie12 - 12 years ago