@Tusu and Janu: You're welcome for your thanks for the pictures! 😊
I also thought the part with Balram and Chitra was very forced and unfunny! And this is coming from someone who laughs at a lot of things that others don't! This part didn't get even a teeny-weeny giggle out of me, and I think that says a lot about how stupid and absolutely unfunny it was!
I know that expecting logic from Swastik Productions/RK writers is essentially like expecting to obtain blood from a stone, but I still prefer my humour infused with logic, thank you very much! And logic is what would actually have made such a situation absolutely hilarious and helpful in the story, whereas what they actually showed wasn't really helpful either.
Surprisingly, it is actually clever of the writers to have had Krishna send Chitra with a pretend story about not showing her face to anyone, so that no one at Radha's home (apart from Radha) would know what she actually looked like and thus Ayan would think Chitra was actually Krishna in disguise and not suspect Govind. For this, writers, you can have a small clap. 👏
And then the bit with Balram getting Krishna/Govind in trouble with the silk "from Kurukshetra" but then sorting it all out was hilarious 🤣 and did actually serve in moving the story forward, because the brothers managed to make out that Govind was a big famous businessman and thus make Vrishbhan and Kirtida trust him more. So far, so good. 👍🏼
But then after that is when it all started going downhill, yet again!
In the forest when Balram asked Krishna what he had learnt from his "silk from Kurukshetra" prank, Krishna said that he had learnt that he should tell Balram things rather than hiding them from him, otherwise Balram will go mad and spoil his plans. And Balram agreed to this. Cool - too bad Krishna didn't actually take his own advice!
Instead of just asking Balram to hang out with Chitra and freaking him out (for supposed comic effect!), Krishna should have actually explained to Balram why it was important that he (Balram) go to speak with Chitra. I think this part would have much better and funnier if after Balram's initial freak-out, Krishna had actually explained to Balram that he (Krishna) needed Balram to hang out with Chitra so that Ayan would see them and think that Chitra was Krishna, thus leaving Krishna free to get on with making Radha's birthday gift without any possible interference from Ayan. This way, Krishna would be doing what he just said he should actually do (i.e. tell Balram things)! And after knowing why it was important that he interact with Chitra, Balram could have hesitatingly agreed to do it even though he was still uncomfortable; but this could potentially be much funnier than what they actually showed because he could be shown to be fully trying to psych himself up for his very important Ayan-distracting job despite his discomfort. 😆
Then when he went to talk with Chitra, it would have been so much better if she was in on this plan properly and actually spoke to Balram normally (unlike the stupid, unfunny teasing that they showed!) and was trying to put him at ease, so that it would look to anyone watching (Ayan etc) as if Balram was interacting very comfortably with Chitra/"fake Krishna in disguise". I don't know if Ayan and others know that Balram is uncomfortable interacting with girls by himself like that, but regardless of whether they know or not, surely it would make much more sense for anyone watching to see Balram interacting with Chitra as comfortably as possible, in order for them to potentially believe that he was actually talking with his brother in the guise of a girl rather than an actual girl that he doesn't know. I guess the actual point of Radha being there was to make it look to Ayan like Balram, Chitra, and Radha were all talking/planning together (which is what Ayan said), but her teasing Balram repeatedly like that was just plain irritating and unfunny! 😡 I also get the point of the whole "Balram gave Chitra a gift" thing being simply to serve as a way for getting Ayan to tell Radha that he was going to give her a big gift, but again, I think it could have been done much better!
I think it would have been funnier and have served the story/purpose of this Balram-Chitra meeting if they had had Balram come in to the garden area trying to pysch himself up for his important Ayan-distracting job (possible funniness) but then see Chitra and freak out a little. Then Chitra could have tried to calm him down nicely and reassure him that everything will be ok (more possible actual funniness) before Ayan and Radha turned up. Then Balram and Chitra could have seen Ayan there and purposefully started their gift nautanki, or even just continued speaking normally about anything (like Chitra still trying to make Balram comfortable), and thus Ayan would have seen them interacting relatively normally and further assumed that Chitra is Krishna in disguise (like he did in the show, but without Radha's silly teasing being involved). Then when Ayan came to ask what was going on, Chitra's fictitious "Balram ji gave me a gift and you haven't even gotten your wife anything for her birthday" could have come out as a way to get Ayan to reveal that he did in fact have a big surprise for Radha's birthday. And if they did have Radha tease Balram once after all that then it actually would have been bearable and ok.
So I think they could have used elements of what they actually had in the show, but in a much better, more logical, more respectful, more helpful, less irritating, and much more funny way! ⭐️ And it actually wouldn't have taken much more time than what the actual sequence took - in fact, I think this would have been a more efficient use of the time.
If I can think of things like this, why can't the writers? This is supposed to be what they do day in, day out for a living! But instead they insist on being as silly as possible, and rely on making fun of Balram for laughs, which is actually incredibly unfunny and insulting (to everyone - Balram the character, Basant as the actor, Shri Balram as the divine being the character is based on, the other involved characters and any divine/revered beings they are based on, and the audience)! 👎🏼
Basant is so good at comedy - why don't they have more of Balram actually being funny himself rather than being made fun of? Or he could give back some of the teasing a bit more, like he did with Krishna when Ugrapad was crushing on Achyuta. I think he could very well tease Radha back, because he is a brother figure to her. That could actually be funny - Balram teasing Radha about Krishna a little bit (not to the point of overuse, though!). 😆
And speaking of overuse: Vasundhara Kaul (Rohini) is now working in "Ram Siya Ke Luv Kush", so we are probably not going to see her back in RK for a bit. I don't like that Rohini is missing because it would be really nice to see some nice mum-son scenes with her and Balram, but at the same time I am glad that at least we won't have any more scenes of Rohini beating up Balram (hence the overuse reference)!
Edited by A-A-S - 5 years ago
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