Sundara Mana Madhye Bharli - Colours Marathi - Page 101

I was wrong. Rupali's house has a secret room now. Why wouldn't Daulat suspect Rupali, who was ready to resign from her job in solidarity with Latika?

Latika called from a pay phone, and Rupali immediately knew that it was Lati calling. How? Whose mobile phone does Rupali have, if she's sure that only Latika would call that number?

Abhimanyu was out of character, refusing to acknowledge that Abhilasha's interest in Tulasa Ātyā is suspicious. He wasn't gullible before, and the writers shouldn't change that!

I liked how Lati grabbed Abhya's hand, and grabbed his arm, to walk with him. He had started a silly fight with her, demanding her support to uproot their families, but she's determined to comfort him with some public displays of affection.

I wonder if Tulasa was on speaking terms with Abhya before he asked her to lie for him. Abhya's choosing to marry Lati a second time would have displeased Tulasa. It's strange that he's calling her Akkā instead of Ātyā.

Abhilasha used an English nonsense-word today: "sponsorers." How long before she says "irregardless" while "conversating?"

So, Sarjerav's political connections will be attending Taramati's memorial! I thought they were avoiding him, what with Daulat losing the race and going to jail for kidnapping and forcibly marrying Nandini, not to mention the murder case and land-stealing lawsuit. I guess I can suspend disbelief to enjoy Taramati's resurrection causing a scandal. However, the show hasn't established new antagonists yet, so I suspect that they're still not wrapping up the crime spree of Daulat and Sarjerav.

Daulat named his Māmā: Jiten Jadhav. Maybe he'll finally show up for Taramati.

In one episode, Abhimanyu and Latika agree that they won't visit Taramati because they're sure to be followed. The next episode begins with Latika meeting Taramati face-to-face. Whatever.

LOL at Daulat reading the poster and not noticing any of the spelling mistakes until he reached "paṭāñjanāta!" These days, one can't be sure how many mistakes are fictional, attributable to the characters, and how many are the producers' own. "phulānī" instead of "phulāṃnī," "pujile" instead of "pūjile," "maraṇānī" instead of "maraṇāne" ... and that's just the large font size from the Nimbalkar "parīvāra" instead of "parivāra!"

"Bomb phuṭaṇāra," Abhimanyu says when M. K. asks him what will happen at the śokasabhā. What happened to Abhimanyu's suspicion that his phone is tapped?

On second thought, it might be best if outside law enforcement shows up, expecting terrorism from Abhimanyu, and gets the benefit of Taramati's resurrection.

Who took Taramati's place? A neighbour of Rupali, who doesn't ask questions?

What use is a double-length episode if the time is wasted on nonsense talk? Instead of debating Daulat's guilt, the characters should have stated the fact that Sarjerav, the person who pledged to supervise Daulat while he's out on bail, is unable to perform that function, being under arrest himself. That alone is reason to take Daulat into custody.

It shouldn't even be necessary to say that Daulat appears to have fled while out on bail - a crime in itself! The police station is not a court where one could make the case that bail was wrongly granted for non-bailable offences, let alone talk about evidence and witnesses!

The show should move on as quickly as possible to the new story of Latika campaigning for election to Sarjerav's empty seat. Instead, the creatives have been hinting that Abhimanyu will be the candidate, and they're still swatting away the payoff from Indu's murder. Daulat could go off-screen for a week and return for a fresh start ... the police are still working for Sarjerav who is a political outcast ...

Taramati soliloquized that she must wear her maṅgaḷasūtra for society's sake - but if being set on fire by her husband isn't enough reason to repudiate it, here's another idea. After the police inspector testified that he found the maṅgaḷasūtra at the scene of the (attempted) murder and submitted it as evidence to the court, how can Taramati wear the evidence before Abhimanyu is set free and before the real attemptors of murder are tried and sentenced, exhaust their appeals, and go to the gallows?

Murder is here, there, everywhere on the show now. Kamini said that Abhilasha will be murdered if Abhimanyu sees a video - probably of her taking the diary from Daulat. Kamini also swore on her mother's life that Hema is innocent - a premonition that the never-seen Mrs. Gunjal will also die, right?

Hema is back, suddenly looking 7+ months pregnant ... never mind that she has only been in jail for a couple of months, and Ashutosh would never have ... Writers, whatever you're self-medicating, it's not helping!

It's so disappointing that Ashutosh's marriage to Hema is back to the same old "You will have to get along" platitude. Why shouldn't Hema visit her mother, instead of staying in the house where she has fits and cramps at the mere sight of her husband? It's nice that Pramitee Narke still has a job and her face is healthy again, but her excellent Hema-bemoans-persecution acting has been the stuff of hundreds of episodes already. Move on!

Too much suspension of disbelief is required for this storyline. When did Kamini become smart enough to blackmail anyone, or to plan any scheme more devious than tripping somebody with her foot? Why doesn't Ashutosh say that he never had marital relations with Hema, as he used to say? Has Hema never seen a woman in her fourth month of pregnancy before, the way she's heaving her belly and huffing down the steps one-by-one? Next month, she'll get around by wheelbarrow, and the month after that, they'll lift her by crane ...

"Kāya ho? Tikaḍaṃ turuṅgāta toṇḍa kāḷaṃ karaṇāra āhe kā mī?" Hema asks. Well, in the real world, female prisoners are vulnerable to exploitation by their male custodians. If a subject is too dark to address responsibly on a family drama, fine, but don't mock it like this!

Abhilasha regarding Daulat: "Hyācaṃ kāya karū mī?" The writers must feel the same way.

Daulat, without any weapon, goes up to an able-bodied man and teenager, walks them to his car, and kidnaps them. They must know what he did to Taramati, who used to live with them for months at a time, but the man shakes Daulat's hand and the boy is smiling. Not only do they not jump him while he's driving, they allow him to tie them up and gag them all by himself. Are we to believe that Taramati got the news in court and didn't immediately inform everyone? She was standing apart to take Daulat's call, we didn't see her reporting the call so that Daulat could be tracked by GPS, and she returned home all by herself to an ambush.

Viewers deserve a payoff and a new direction for the protagonists, not crime after crime that goes unpunished!

I understand that the story has to move through dialogue, but it shouldn't be at the expense of character integrity!

Taramati is from a poor family and has a B.A. in Geography. How is it possible for her to think naïvely, "I am fine with my household, so let the bank go out of business!" A few days ago, she stupidly put Kalpya and Mukya in charge of the dairy instead of hiring someone with experience. How long before that business runs into the ground? On the other hand, the bank has Sajjan and other competent staff running it smoothly. When the farmers get back their lands, the legal expenses for Sarjerav and Daulat are paid, and Taramati has no dairy and no bank for income, will her household still be fine?

Speaking of Taramati's household, are those security guards still bound and gagged in a closet, or do they get meals and bathroom breaks? Taramati is tongue-tied because her brother and nephew are hostages, but what's stopping the guards from going to the police or the news media to complain about the crimes that Daulat (single-handedly ) committed against them personally?

I didn't expect Taramati to be so callous about the bank staff losing their jobs either. Does the fictional version of Makhmalabad even have another bank where people can keep their money? Probably not, or the Jahagirdar and Dhumal families would keep their savings and safety deposits there instead. If Taramati doesn't want to own the bank, she could sell it, but keep it open!

Instead of writing that Sajjan complains to Latika, who goes to talk to Taramati and quickly changes her mind, why didn't the makers give Taramati the idea to hire Latika as her representative to make those pesky decisions about the bank, and the dairy too? Sajjan having to answer to Latika would be a refreshing change, don't you think?

In other news, the farmer character who is so tall that everyone else's face is in the bottom half of the shot ... Abhimanyu calls him "Lambū!" I never had a problem with Surekha calling Latika "Gabaḍulle!" but outsiders saying "Ḍholī" all the time makes it seem that the village is full of spiteful people.

Does Abhilasha's "50/50 partnership" idea for the township make sense to anyone? I would have understood if she had said that each farmer would have a share in the ownership of the township, proportional to the area of land contributed by that farmer, but what she said is that the farmers would retain ownership of their individual lands and she would contribute infrastructure. What happens to the infrastructure as soon as a farmer decides to sell a chunk of land for any other purpose? Do they demolish that part of the township? And how is the township supposed to be profitable without selling homes to outsiders? Is it a rental operation now?

Latika's objection, that Abhilasha should pay the farmers for the value of their land, as well as profits from the township whenever it's built and sold, is also nonsensical. When Abhimanyu negotiated a partnership with M. K. for his academy, it made sense that he was paid Rs. 20 lakh for his (and Latika's) plan and his sports expertise that would make the project profitable, while retaining ownership of his land valued at Rs. 60 lakh (for which Hambirrav took only Rs. 40 lakh as a favour to Latika's husband). There was probably a clause in the agreement that if Abhimanyu wants to sell his land in the future, he or his buyer must buy out M. K.'s ownership of the improvements on that land. (Yes, I'm making this up, and anyone who knows land title and real estate law, please correct me.) The farmers don't have any plan or expertise, so why do they deserve to collect profits from the sale (or rental) of improvements after receiving the full value of their land?

Abhimanyu, since you think it's a "laī bhārī idea," maybe you can "vyavasthita explain kara" to the viewers so that "tyāṃnā clarity yeīla." There are perfectly good Marathi words like kalpanā, samazāvūna ṭāka, and phāyadā spaṣṭapaṇe disela, but maybe peppering the dialogues with English is an intentional distraction.

Signs that the writers and post-production team are losing interest in their work ...

Sunday's episode is made double-length by tacking on scenes from Monday's episode, which wrecks the continuity.

Ashutosh and Latika are at a streetside temple, and yet the shot of the mūrti is of Pārśva Padmāvatī from the hilltop temple.

As for the storyline, it's not suspenseful at all, just depressingly stupid. Taramati knows that her brother and nephew have been kept starving since yesterday, and she has no reason to believe that Daulat would let them go if she cooperated with him. Why hasn't she called the police in her brother's village to come over and pick up Daulat who is staying in her house? Taramati knows that Abhimanyu was tortured in jail, so why wouldn't she think that other police could do something similar to get Daulat to talk? No, she would rather argue with him about his political future!

What do the creatives think viewers want to see? A recycled plot from a few months ago, with Kamini stealing property papers for Daulat? Or a recovering alcoholic having liquor forcibly poured down his throat? Did they get such a positive response to a woman being set on fire and a man being tortured in jail?

The violence on this show used to be moderate and incidental, such as Hema pushing a woman to knock Sakhu down the hill. Even when Daulat tried to break Abhimanyu's legs or attacked him during the race, the purpose was to show the protagonists working together to overcome. When we saw Indumati's death-throes as the inhaler that could have saved her life was kept out of reach, I thought it was a good artistic choice as long as there was a payoff and a new direction for the story. We never got a payoff, and since then, it has been one character after another getting violated, as if that in itself is entertainment.

Scenes of Latika and Abhimanyu in a lush green park for romance were a relief from the otherwise cynical writing. As always, it was disappointing that we weren't allowed to hear what Abhimanyu sang. But imagine if every episode was half-filled with characters just being happy together. Instead of being in front of us only to feel threatened and swear revenge, they could take steps towards their positive goals and remind us of why we're supposed to cheer for them, not against Daulat.