Khel maat khelo, Daina…
Over the past seven (or so) weeks I’ve been going on and on about everything that’s wrong with Bunty I Love You but this episode has given me everything I wanted, needed, and asked for! Woh kya hai? Taharo batata hoon, itni bhi jaldi kya hai, abhi to mulaqat hui hai.
Mein aap kay saath itna kuch share karna chahata hoon ki mujhe pata nahi mein kahan say shurwat karoon lekin kahin say to shuru karna paday ga…
So, let’s start with Dania. From last week’s promo I actually thought that Dania’s slow spiral towards dementia and death had begun but boy was I mistaken. I knew our gurl had one last fight in her!
This woman has been through so many games that her life’s become exactly that: one big khel. Kahan woh satarana-saal ki ladki, nadaan, bholi, masoom, kahan yeh unaatis-salana jawan-jahan bewa who’s become every shade the traumatizer she once encountered in Patel.
Right from the beginning – the moment Bunty came running down those stairs – the story, acting, direction, and most IMPORTANTLY camerawork, the four essentials to a good episode, all came together in an climactic synthesis I have yet to see after episode seven. Dania and Bunty’s brief interlude at the foot of those stairs, framed by a mammoth chandelier, was second only to Dania’s restraint and Bunty’s surprise. This coupled with an effective use of the background score/OST made for one of the most potent scenes I’ve in this series to date. NO JOKES.
It is the music that leads us into the next sequence and what a sequence it was! Patel and Dania were sizzling together. There is undoubtedly good chemistry here – between Mr. and Mrs. Patel – that no amount of professionalism can beget. I have said this numerous times before and I will say it (yet) again, Patel has the best dialogues in this series. Case in point the scene in question! Afraid of doozakh’s perpetual fires, Patel beseeches Dania to give up what she can’t have: Bunty ko Beenish kay pass jaanay do Dania. Yet his pleas fall on deaf ears.
Inasmuch as Patel is a voice of reason, he is also part of Dania’s demons which continue to haunt her, and perhaps, will continue to for a very long time.
Speaking of demons the next segment was eerily familiar (and no it wasn’t a sense of dejavu!). What is it with recording people accepting money with the Patels? First Amir, then Mehvish, and now Abdul Samad. Next up… kaun? Abdul Samad and Ms. Patel are in cahoots trying to deceive Boy Wonder, which nets the former a nifty 25 lakhs and freedom. What about Zain you ask? He’s 50 lakhs richer too. It’s Bunty who’s raking up that bill!
Watch out B, your head’s on the chopping block.
As for the boy who sparked a war for vengeance (no, I’m not talking about Helen of Troy!), Beenish was bang on the mark, he’s our bird in a gilded cage! Not only that he’s just not the kind of guy you’d want to stake your life on. In what I can only call a twist-before-a-twist in this kahani Bunty is left alone with a defined sense of suspicion if not loss. Again, the OST was well-placed exactly at the moment Beenish proposes they kill each other in true love’s glory.
Think watered down Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare this ain’t, my lovelies!
The most pleasant surprise for me was Beenish who I now know can act reasonably well what with faking her own death and all. Although, she still have a long way to go. Beenish’s death shocks Bunty into pre-mature bheehoshi syndrome, when he comes to it’s plastered all over the news. Wah bahi Dania ki bahut pohonch hai! But our boy isn’t without an ally – an unlikely one no doubt – in his brother.
With Bunty momentarily bed-ridden, Beenish and Abdul Samad on the run, Zain paid off, where exactly is this story headed? Bunty’s being kicked out, where else…?
Then, why the shenanigans, Ms. D?!
On a somewhat similar note, my constant complaining about cliffhangers has been answered! HUM TV finally leaves us with some sort of a cliffhanger. Yay!
Bunty I Love You, in all it’s filmi andaaz has given me a perfect Sunday evening treat! I have no qualms admitting that I absolutely LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this episode.
Until next week,
Rab Rakha aur Shaba Khair
RB (Tweet me!)
