WU 5th April - The Shape of my Heart

I know that spades are the swords of a soldier, I know that clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art, But that's not the shape of my heart

Sting, Ten Summoner's tales

In Bhopal, the irrepressible Indian sun shines cheerfully on Daddaji's haveli. Prince Lamba Achamba (aka BBP), our desi-vised international man of mystery, after a joyous cellphone conversation with his Pachmarhi Princess (Puja ), turns around only to be confronted by his very own domestic Dr. Evil - Mrs. Rangoli Psycho Pandey ' propping up one of the haveli's tall entrance doors.

Gritted teeth and mocking smile intact, despite a bullet shrapnel laden shoulder😕, she asks a startled and watchful BBP whom he was planning on meeting up with. He mocks her, saying that if he said anything, she would set about kidnapping the person. She grabs his arm and says she would not let go of him that easily and drags him with her into her boudoir😲. There, she pushes him against a wall (manhandles him) and threatens that she is onto his little Machiavellian ploys. She is sure that he has had her injured on purpose to corral her in the haveli. BBP smoothly dismisses her suspicions. Rangoli demands that she now accompany him like a shadow on his soirees, so that he could better protect her. BBP declines, saying he is not a commando. She then asks him point blank if he is involved with someone else. He mocks right back at her ' so what if he was? She was never interested before, why now? Did his increasing political capital from an unknown youth leader to a potential CM make her nervous that she was losing ownership? Four years back she had been dismissive of him. The situation quickly devolves into an ugly marital tiff. Rangoli (we need the Nutcracker playing in the background, not these rattly kinds of BG music) throws him back onto the bed, crawls over him (sorry Brija brigade) and says she owned him, whether he was CM or PM and would gouge out the eyes of any other person who dared to stake a claim on him. BBP extricates himself from the python's coils saying that if she lost her arrogance, everything would be ok (huh, what was that again? our hamari Puja? 😡). He also says that she was free from that day on to do whatever she wished. Psycho Pandey hisses on the bed.

At mammaji's house mama-mamiji are having a marital tiff. Mammiji resents the fact that the Tiwaris would be camping out at their residence yet again. Mammaji tries to placate his wife saying that it would only be for a few days and that they were sure to move into a government residence or a rented house. Even when mamaji tries to shut his wife up because the Tiwari siblings would overhear (which of course they did), mammi retorts that it would be for the best. Arti and Pooja are listening in on the entire showdown from the bedroom. Arti (the latest recruit to the anti-Brija movement) tells Pooja - this was why she didn't think that they could live in Bhopal. It was a place with harsh people and values that were alien to theirs (madam that is what desivaasis call a "koopmanduk"). She would ask her father to stop the transfer ' if they lived here they would lose themselves. OK country bumpkins do exist!

At the haveli dining table, Bungoli meet for an early lunch. Rangoli does a bharathiya-naari act and pretends to serve BBP. Tongue in cheek BBP says he is happy to see this avatar of hers. She spills curry onto his thigh and apologizes profusely as if it was an accident. He leaves to clean his clothes and she quickly takes a look at his phone. Rangoli sees Bhavana's number and suspects that she might be the person BBP was chatting with. BBP returns, sees the cellphone backlight on and thinks to himself - Rangoli took the bait (shabash mere Raja) - she would now spend her time chasing Bhavana. When BBP finishes up, Rangoli tells him to change his clothes. When he leaves to do so, Rangoli (whose mind is definitely the devil's workshop on a speedball), replaces the box of tissues in BBP's car. Inside the tissue box is a cellphone that has been left switched on; it will act as a bug and help Rangoli listen in on BBP's conversations.

In his vehicle, BBP, by happenstance, picks up the tissue box and finds the cellphone. He promptly calls Rangoli and asks her to stop her childishness and even offers to give her the name of a detective agency that Daddaji has often used. He then throws down a gauntlet with his words - he asks that she stop trying to catch a tiger with a mouse trap. BBP, you idiot, stop playing these games with this ghoul 😡😡.

BBP stands under a leafy bower, entreating Puja (who is busy languishing in her little cousin's bedroom) to meet with him. When Puja says that Arti "tyrant" Tiwari has forbidden her to leave the house, he continues to plead. (What happened to that noontime tryst?) Couldn't Brij see his Pooja for just 5 minutes today, he beseeches so charmingly (***sigh***😍). He knows she will not let him down. Pooja is now in a anxiety driven emotional fix.

In the haveli, Rangoli is watching her own personal BBP-Discovery channel - reruns from the spy tapes of Episode 100 (some moments of which are irrevocably burnt into our memory 😃). She puzzles over the snip of Bhavana and BBP wondering if she has been thrown off track.

Precap: We are in for a Brijalicious moment (a forehead meets a pair of lips!)...but wait, Psycho Pandey alights from a car just outside the door from which BBP and Pooja are about to leave. In the nick of time, BBP spots her......Brija Brigade - it is "operation tadappo" till tomorrow!

🤢aaakh i cant watch it then..i hv 2 wait till night...bcs my lil cousins r behind me...they will b like wht the hell ios tht woman doin ...some kinda bed dance?🥱🤢..and seriously what the hell?...why do thy hv 2 show those scenes on TV...p0oor Rahul singh😕...

Thnx @durum!

Originally posted by: alphabeta_22

🤢aaakh i cant watch it then..i hv 2 wait till night...bcs my lil cousins r behind me...they will b like wht the hell ios tht woman doin ...some kinda bed dance?🥱🤢..and seriously what the hell?...why do thy hv 2 show those scenes on TV...p0oor Rahul singh😕...

anywys...sorry comntinue...😊

Originally posted by: bumtrinket

Thnx @durum!

The whole time Rangoli had Brij cornered and was crawling over him, I thought she was going loot his izzat today. And from the look on his face, he was half afraid of it too. 🤣

It's actually interesting how Brij is totally uninterested in bedding his wife. I get the feeling from the way Rangoli first propositioned him that he always used to be which is why Rangoli tried to get him into bed in the first place and thus dominate him the way she used to. But the only one Brij wants to touch these days is baby Pooja as we saw in the precap ☺️

And such an abrupt volte face is going to raise the suspicions of any wife, much less one as paranoid and insane as Rangoli. I still wonder if she slept with someone else? And that's why Daddaji allowed her to leave - because it was simply not possible to keep her in Bhopal any longer without it causing major problems. Maybe Sangram SIngh's son? They must have introduced that plotline for some reason.

Since we're talking about touching and stuff - I find it interesting that Brij is now beginning to apply pressure on Pooja. He needs to see her and she must come no matter what her problems. He no longer waits for her to make the first move and instead puts his arms around her and even presses a real kiss on her. On the forehead but it's a long way from the Brij who would be startled when she threw her arms around him.

We already know from Rangoli that Brij is a passionate lover. And I feel baby Pooja is going to find out too - and she won't know what hit her. 😆😒

Originally posted by: divani

🤢 rangoli makes me sick 😡 i wish aarti did mary dat mota we wouldnd have another Brija breaker 😈

Thks durum...what a fab update...your command over the Queens language is too good...your writeups remind me of a dear friend of mine whom I made here in IF years back and lost touch now😭 ...thks once again..👏

🤣this is my reaction after watching brij rangoli scene.we expect a close romantic birja scene but cv's give us this surrrprise 😈.is there any precap today i didnt watch the last part yet.rahul singh look quite uncomfortable in doing this scene and nigar looks very comfortable as she specialise in doing such scenes.

so brij want to meet pooja we all want but i will not accept any attempt of being tooo closeee with pooja before telling her the truth abt his marriage😒

Originally posted by: bumtrinket

Thnx @durum!

The whole time Rangoli had Brij cornered and was crawling over him, I thought she was going loot his izzat today. And from the look on his face, he was half afraid of it too. 🤣

It's actually interesting how Brij is totally uninterested in bedding his wife. I get the feeling from the way Rangoli first propositioned him that he always used to be which is why Rangoli tried to get him into bed in the first place and thus dominate him the way she used to. But the only one Brij wants to touch these days is baby Pooja as we saw in the precap ☺️

And such an abrupt volte face is going to raise the suspicions of any wife, much less one as paranoid and insane as Rangoli. I still wonder if she slept with someone else? And that's why Daddaji allowed her to leave - because it was simply not possible to keep her in Bhopal any longer without it causing major problems. Maybe Sangram SIngh's son? They must have introduced that plotline for some reason.

Since we're talking about touching and stuff - I find it interesting that Brij is now beginning to apply pressure on Pooja. He needs to see her and she must come no matter what her problems. He no longer waits for her to make the first move and instead puts his arms around her and even presses a real kiss on her. On the forehead but it's a long way from the Brij who would be startled when she threw her arms around him.

We already know from Rangoli that Brij is a passionate lover. And I feel baby Pooja is going to find out too - and she won't know what hit her. 😆😒

Hmm...like I have said before, it looks like Rangoli has a classic femme-dom syndrome in bed - and that needs its own niche of submissive bed partners - I cant see BBP adopting that persona. I am sure he must have tried at the beginning and given up when he realized that his wife needed other challenges on that front.

What I find interesting is that after all the prey-predator insanity that he experiences at the haveli, he immediately needs Pooja to release the pressure of his stress. It is sort of analogous to the scene when he returns to the haveli and ends up on the couch - his angst is driven out as soon as he sees Puja on the small screen....just now BRIJA our adam and eve have now tangibly spotted the apple hanging around in paradise...