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Plenty happened in serials while you were not watching. Udaan has returned, Archana's mouth is back, another Amanat marriage is troubled, ...

Plenty happened in serials while you were not watching. Udaan has returned, Archana8217;s mouth is back, another Amanat marriage is troubled, Sudha is loving Karan Saaya and the number of characters called Priya, Pooja or Rahul appears to have increased. A closer look at some shows: Gumraah Star Plus: Neena Gupta displays parts of her physique to reveal she is not merely the frump wrapped in a saree called Priya Saans, STAR P.

Her character, Radha, is single and a true professional whereas Priya play-works the way children do house-house. Radha8217;s a lawyer not shy of wearing short, tight dresses, backless tops or kicking A. She treats her male colleague like an ass who should be kicked. Radha is, currently, defending a woman accused of murdering her mother and daughter how delectable. If there is one thing Neena G knows, it is acting. However, the tempo, the quality of the performances by co-stars and the storyline must pick up. Otherwise, Gumraah is simply another vehicle for the talentedactress.

Gupta is also Mohini in Neeyat Zee. Mohini8217;s truly diabolical: she has just engineered an accident in which her husband and son are seriously injured while her daughter Shefali is receiving an award for best actress. You can tell Mohini, also an actress, hates her children as much as Priya loves hers.

Then, a woman is brutally shot by a gang of men. Neeyat is brutalised, amateur dramatics; it8217;s a Hindi film compressed into the small box. Rather appropriate seeing it8217;s about Bollywood. And the female characters are so horrid, to call them bitches, is a kindness.

Notice how the cellphone has become the most handy, pivotal television character. Shefali is able to prevent Devi dragging Mohini to the hospital only because both are cell-mates. Without the instrument, the serial would have taken an entirely different turn. Such unpaid promos must be helping the cell business to boom like canons in World War One.

The only person who can rival Mohini for vileness and vanity is Me, Myself, Main STARPlus. Shekhar Suman, screen idol a man deeply and devotedly in love. With himself. If Mohini engineered an accident, Shekhar has done what he can to ruin his wife8217;s film. What compels filmi wives and husbands in TV serials to be utterly hateful to one another? Is this a cynical comment on the film under? world? It8217;s not new to see Shekhar baring his teeth; but it is novel to see him baring them like fangs. And he bares them rather well.

Abhimaan DD1 highlights the seamier side of public life and the underhand connections between 3 Ps: politicians, police, press. Recommended viewing if only for its star cast: Kanwaljeet, Divya Seth, Govind Namdeo, Sachin Khedekar, Arundhati, Mohan Bhandari, amongst others. Like Suman in Main, here Kanwaljeet is very different from his other TV characters Priya8217;s Gautam in Saans STAR P and as of last week, husband to his new wife in the comedy Family No.1. Sony.

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He plays a ruthless politician aren8217;t they all? protecting his spoilt, lawless son from the policebecause he has killed a local politician leading his daughter and a local newspaper editor to gang up and expose the SP8217;s involvement in the crime/cover-up which causes the SP8217;s suspension!!! Unusually strong, restrained performances from the team. The serial8217;s problem aha is that its vast canvas and accomplished cast are bursting out of the half-hour strait-jacket. They8217;re begging for space give me more!. Abhimaan deserves a 45-50 minute slot.

Kanyadaan Sony, sees Kiron Kher as the mother of two daughters the legit Kavita and the illegit Raksha. Raksha has only recently joined the family fortunes and seems to have ruined them already. Her mother isn8217;t pleased to see her because she reflects badly on her past. Her present relations with her husband are, meanwhile, deteriorating faster than Indo-Pak relations. Husband, visbly upset, gives his wife long, reproachful looks and silent hate mail to Raksha who cosies up to him in office but his heart of stone isn8217;t melted by her tears though it mighteventually be worn down by them.

Kavita is engaged to a perfectly wonderful rich boy. His mom hates her, grandmom adores. Kavita is experiencing a dress code problem: she arrives at mom-in-law8217;s important lunch engagement looking like I8217;m a Barbie girl in a Grown Up World, much to the horror of everyone.

Marriage. As mentioned, Kanwaljeet and his three kids finally wed his wife and her three brats Family No.1, Sony. He rides a mock horse and the pandit conducts another wedding on the cellphone. See? Another cell moment brought to you by ???. Family No.1 is as funny as they get: only Gubbare is superior.

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Marriage: in Raahein Zee, Govind weds the girl he doesn8217;t love. The one he does love suffers heart break, her father a heart attack though not for the same reason and Govind8217;s mother heart burn, Govind8217;s wife heart ache when they see her talking to Govind after the wedding. It8217;s all so sad: on the other hand, love which is such a wimp doesn8217;t deserve to succeed: Govind is so limp he couldaudition for a wet blanket. Shefali Chhaya, Achint Kaur and Suchitra Pillai in lead roles, hold the show together. In Waaris Zee8230;But let8217;s save a few goodies for next week groan?.

The gentleman who reads out the sponsors of Truck Dhin Dhin DD1, is looking for a slow motion machine. On account of his tongue running off with the advertisers names faster than the speed of light/sight and sound put together. Help.