The most bizarre of things can happen in Hindi serials – like accidentally getting shut in suitcases. Then there is the accidental wedding. He cuts his finger and the blood ‘accidently’ falls into the parting of her hair – ergo they are married. She slips and somehow the sindoor lands up in her hair after somehow miraculously touching his fingers. We all know how it goes. And now we have the latest version of this in the TV series Thapki Pyar Ki. This time it is he who slips but again, by some miracle the vermilion again ends up in the parting of her hair. Sigh!
He slips on some water, his finger falls into some vermillion and then lands up on her forehead – as though he was being driven by some invisible force. And the guy then says, very peevishly, that the floor should not get wet.
What did I just see – or not see?
Or maybe they were being sarcastic?
Originality, logic, the laws of physics and even plain common sense all died a collective death.
Newton, Einstein, Curie, Hawking would be turning in their respective graves, said the tweeple.
Some reactions were rather more extreme than others.
People were wondering about the state of society if this is the sort of programming that passes muster; that people continue to lap up.
…For the actors who had to actually act out this ridiculous scene.
How did they agree to do this? How did they not dissolve into laughter? Where is their Oscar? People on Twitter had some valid questions.
This is next level ‘ek chutki sindoor’, said the tweeple.
Just as well that finger did not land up in the eyes, or the nose or… people worry about these things.
Do they really expect us to swallow this?
…Or any respect for the viewing public? No to both, it would seem
They clearly don’t mind insulting people’s intelligence. They don’t think that people will reprimand them for producing drivel. Unfortunately they are right because we don’t see anyone boycotting such preposterous and implausible content.
This! It was only last year...
This scene from a Marathi show involves a glass of juice and a treadmill – but the same old done-to-death accidental maang-bharoing and marriage by miracle. Sigh! Originality and logic go here to die.
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