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Hindi TV Serial – 12/24 Karol Bagh – Abhi tries to hit Bhalla with a knife, and then the police take him away
On May 13, 2010 in 12/24 Karol Bagh, Drama, Family, Hindi Serial, Marriage, Masala, Middle Class, Romance, TV
This was probably what Simi was most afraid about, about the fact that he can get very angry, and was also possessive about Simi. And so when Simi told Abhi about Bhalla’s letter to her, he got very angry. He was angry at Simi for not telling her about the letter, and was even more angry at Bhalla for his crude letter and for making a pass at Simi. He jumped out of the house and was soon after Bhalla, and started chasing him. Soon, there was a situation where Bhalla had a knife with him, but Abhi managed to take the knife and pointed it at Bhalla’s throat when Bhalla’s mother was pleading with Abhi not to do anything. Simi soon arrived and was trying to stop Abhi, and then the police arrived and took Simi away.
In other stuff, Neetu is coming closer to Omi realizing that at heart he is a very good man. They talk a bit nice to each other and then get ready to leave to 12/24 Karol Bagh for the matarani ki chowki, and finally the relation between Neetu and her family improves. She learns about what all has gone on in the house and how Simi and Abhi did what they can to prevent the house from going to Bhalla, and then finally realizes that Simi is the good one in all this. They also get to know that Abhi is in jail, and is not likely to be there in the chowki unless somebody bails him out.
In the chowki, people have started arriving, and there is a call for the 2 son-in-laws, and while Omi is easily found, the other son-in-law Abhi is not present. Omi has tried to get his elder brother Nakul to bail out Abhi, but Nakul refuses to Omi and Omi had come back disappointed. Simi and Mili try to do a lot of pleading to bail out Abhi, but they are unable to convince the police to release Abhi, and then Bhalla arrives with his lawyer and tells the police to not release Abhi at all because he tried to kill Bhalla, and has serious charges against him.
However, in the end, Abhi does make it to the chowki, so one wonders as to who managed to bail him out of the police station, was it Nakul ?
Hindi TV Serial – Pavitra Rishta Written Update – Rasika playing games using Vandu as a shield, and Varsha in trouble
On May 11, 2010 in Drama, Family, Hindi Serial, Marriage, Masala, Middle Class, Pavitra Rishta, Revenge, Romance, Saas-Bahu, TV, Zee
How many coincidences can there be ? It would seem that there are no other families in the whole of Maharashtra society except these 4 families, the family of Manav, the family of Archana and Varsha, the family of Sathish, and the family of Ajit (and Rasika). They are all getting heavily inter-related; with the marriage between Vandu and Ajit putting Ajit and Rasika in a much stronger position. And the marriage of Varsha with Sathish caused issues, since it turns out that Varsha’s former boss (and the person with whom she had an affair) Ashwin is also Sathish’s brother-in-law and his wife Urmila (Ashwin’s wife and Sathish’s wife) is a very nice lady, somebody to whom Sathish is very attached.
Now, when Varsha’s family and Manav find out that about Ashwin, they are very worried about whether the truth will be revealed, especially about whether Ashwin will do something to spoil the marriage (or the duo of Ajit and his mother Rasika). However the marriage happens peacefully, but Varsha is always worried, especially now that Ashwin is in the same house, and he does refer to this many times when he finds Varsha all alone or when he sometimes gives a call. And all this while neither Sathish or Urmila know about this, and nobody is telling Sathish about this affair of Varsha (which will prove to be a mistake).
Now, Rasika is applying the pressure on Vandu by insisting that her mother, Savita tai go to Sathish’s house and tell the truth about Varsha’s past affair with Ashwin, but Savita is in no mood to do something like this since she no longer feels that bitter towards Archana’s family; and in fact exposure to Archana has changed her opinion of Archana (she no longer feels that the separation of Archana and Manav is a good thing).
Hindi TV Serial – Pavitra Rishta Written Update – Manav playing the role of a good son-in-law
On April 19, 2010 in Character, Drama, Family, Hindi Serial, Marriage, Middle Class, Pavitra Rishta, Romance, TV, Video, Zee
The time has come very close for the wedding of Satish and Varsha. It had earlier been thought that both Archana and Maanav will go to Sulochna Tai’s house some days before the wedding, but Archana refuses, since she says that she needs to support the house and Savita tai. So, it gets decided that Maanav will go to the Karanjkar house and provide the required help. In the meantime, Rasika and Ajit get busy in their nefarious planning and decide that for the time being, they will send Vandu home (claiming that since she has not been home after the marriage, it is a good thing for her to do). Archana is suspicious that both of them are upto no good, and they must be planning something more to spoil things, and tells the same to Sulochana. They both worry about whether they will know the secret of Varsha’s relationship with her ex-boss, but then decide that Satish is a good person.
In the meantime, Manav is playing the role of the dutiful son-in-law, and wins the heart of everybody in his in-law’s house (even though it is very close to the signing of the divorce papers); to the extent that Sulochana would have wished that the relationship did not end. At the same time, Savita tai is starting to recognize the worth of Archana, but she also looks the soon-to-be-born baby as the last sign of her dead son Sachin, and will not stop the divorce of Archana and Manav.
A horrific event happens when Manohar and Manav go to the bank to withdraw money. While Manav goes to get some food to give to a beggar boy, Manohar goes to get the money from the bank. Unknown to him, he is being tailed by a thief, who along with another then steal all the money. Manav then borrows the money from a guy named Girish, and gives that money to Manohar.
Jyoti – Time to make up your mind, strong woman or weak one.
On January 29, 2010 in Ads, Drama, Family, Hindi Serial, Jyoti, Marriage, Middle Class, NDTV Imagine, TV
The makers of NDTV Imagine’s Jyoti ought to make up their mind and that too pretty quickly. It seems that the powers that be are undecided about the way they want to position their lead character-Jyoti. It seems they want to project her as a strong independent woman who has a mind of her own and yet for some inexplicable reason they are forever limiting her horizon. Initially when the show was in its nascent stage, Jyoti was projected as the sole bread earner of her family and as such she was fiercely independent, self reliant, practical and dutiful.
Jyoti was conscious of the burden (she never termed it that) of managing a family consisting of an invalid father, an ageing grand mother, an unemployed slightly flighty younger brother and two unmarried sisters. But this did not stop her from dreaming of her own house, her own family, her private love nest (while she was romancing Brij). While in most other serials it is sacrilege to harbour personal dreams and ambitions; Jyoti had no such hang ups or pretensions. She was not selfish just because she had her private dream goals and aspirations. Just as we were getting ready to applaud a very ‘real’ character, the makers changed their positioning of Jyoti.
