Zain & Aaliya ● Ep 8

Source: Beintehaa/Colors TV

In which we return to our unhinged ways and talk about everything from the quality of Bollywood dancing to poisoning-via-fish in Tere Bin, current K-drama watches, some of my depression watches over the last two weeks, and my not-all-that-triumphant toe-dipping in the pool of Tellywood once again. *pulls toes back and grimaces*

Hello Phati Sari how is it going in the land down under? I saw your response about watching Bridgerton season 2 and now I really need to know your opinion on Kathony! Personally, they managed to rewire my brain chemistry in a way that only Khushi and Arnav had been able to do until now and I think it has something to do with how expressive Arnav and Anthony are in their love for their lovely wives! Thanks and have a good day :)

Hello!

It's going pretty well, thanks!! I'm glad you found season 2 so enjoyable, and that you like Kathony almost as much as Arnav and Khushi!!

I liked season 2 a lot more than I liked the second book in the series: the adaption felt like it had more depth (though I guess one could argue it had more unnecessary drama!). Kathony were cute to watch but I definitely enjoyed Daphne and Simon's story more. For me, the draw in season 2 was seeing bits of my culture reflected in a completely new (to me) setting and, relatedly, seeing well established tellywood tropes pop up in an unexpected medium.

I like what the TV adaptation seems to be doing: turning the frankly unsurprising and mediocre source material into something a wider audience can appreciate. It's not perfect, and sometimes it's not even good, but I like what it's trying to do.

Idk why anyone is surprised Mayri is doing well. People cling to romance, and unfortunately, toxic couples are stanned the most. It’s true in anime, tellywood, Hollywood, and pretty much every other big media dynasty.

If we’re specifically talking about pakistan, people lost it when the ending to Gul e Rana was changed so that Sajal didn’t end up with toxic ass Feroze in that drama. People seriously wanted her with a dude who was high key implied to have raped her. Actually, nearly every FK drama fits this narrative. Tere Bin is another shining example of what you said — as long as there’s a love story, the problems are forgiven (will never forget the diatribes people wrote excusing Murtasim’s rape before that was retconned into it being mutual).

And as I said earlier, this problem isn’t unique to pakistan, but you can’t entirely blame the audience for wanting to see hope in even the most hopeless situations. It’s how most of us are living our day to day lives, yo.

okay but is the Mayri couple actually TOXIC though?? this word is used loosely for literally anything that isn't immediately perceived as a healthy, green flag-y representation of a character/relationship. whereas the actual implications of the word need to be a little more drastic than a young, teenage couple that got married way before their age having a child. is it wrong? yeah, it's a solid topic to discuss. is it TOXIC? ummmm...no? I don't think so?

the thing in, not just Pakistan, but a functioning patriarchal society is that toxicity in marriages is not seen as anything worth breaking the relationship off. the sanctity of marriage >>>>> everything. literally ALL the problems and all forms of abuse are seen as minor "inconveniences" when happening within the relationship of marriage. and it will take a LOT of generational unlearning for people to realize that marriage as a relationship can never be more important than the individual safety of a person, physical and mental. in Pakistan toh some scholars have twisted the whole meaning of marriage from being a partnership to being a master-slave relationship by completely misinterpreting the teachings of the Prophet and the religion. because agaiinnn the country where this religion originated from and the country that is STILL the most powerful center of it IS a patriarchal society. yeah, the Prophet prohibited the burying of newborn girls but over the 14+ centuries since His time, the men of that nation have found new ways to smother and suffocate women to death without directly getting their hands dirty. if this is up your alley then look for the sources of the teachings that have shaped the mindset of our nation regarding specific gender issues and you'll get your answer ke chal kya raha hain yahan pe.

i am not trying to take this answer to another tangent. it's just that when you realize what specific mindset led to the angry outbursts at the ending of Gul e Rana or the passionate defense of Murtasim's rape comes from..they become very understandable. i don't have to support them but being part of the same society and living with these people, i get why it happens. it's great that social media now has the power to change such otherwise normally accepted wrong behavior like it did in the case of Tere Bin but it will take a LOT of time for the on-ground reality to change. iss generation mein toh hone se raha.

100% agree with your last point of audience wanting to get some respite from their already exhausting daily lives. if a fiction drama, under the wrappings of all the torture and melodrama, can give them a glimmer of hope to cling to for like 2 months in a year toh I see nothing wrong in it. at the end of the day the audience is the most blameless of the lot. they only react to what they are given. none of the audience went out on the streets DEMANDING they be given only a certain kind of fictional entertainment. the makers brought us here slowly and steadily over the course of last decade. ab audience pe kya blame daalna? grab the collars of the makers who hare raking in crores by making this kind of content.

“agar aap mujhe nahi milti toh bhi puri zindagi mujhe aapka intezaar rehta” ........asad........!!

(translation: even if i had never met you, i know that i would have spent my whole life waiting for you)

Sometimes I think I must’ve found you, perhaps, because of a sincere prayer from a pure heart.

Ashar, Humsafar

Shaurya is left speechless upon seeing Anokhi!

Wedding functions are starting, please watch Shaurya Aur Anohki ki Kahani on Starplus and Hotstar Mon-Sat at 7 p.m.

"This is your cabin. My cabin is here, in front of yours."

Nia Sharma

the different moods in a conversation ft. suvan. pt 2

𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦, 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴𝘦. 💕

Zain x Aaliya ● Ep 13

Source: Beintehaa/Colors TV

Is it me, or do you nope out of shows which deliberately introduce contrived drama into the story with an intent to drag the track? I can't seem to enjoy any itv hindi shows and keep going back to kdrama time and again. All of them seem to show that evil always wins and good people suffer all their life. As though life wasn't bad enough, even fiction which is supposed to be an escape from reality seems to drill in the fact that good never wins and evil survives all the time. Its frustrating.

Oh definitely; I don't think I've watched a single tellywood show start to finish. They all lapse into random bs tracks and fizzle out and finally get cancelled.

Jodha Akbar | Episode 104

“Tum jo kiye ho woh madad nahin hai. Yeh galat hai! Yeh madad nahin hai yeh..yeh kuch aur hai! Koi boss apne karamchaari ke khatri 5 crore ka ghar nahin khareedat hai. Koi dost apne dost ki khatir 5 crore ka ghar nahin khareedat hai! Insaan 5 crore ka ghar tab khareedat hai jab woh kisi se pr-”

“Jab uska apna koi maqsad hota hai.”