Madhubala...Ek Junoon indeed

Madhubala, the name as enchantingly and mysteriously beautiful, as it is reminiscently dramatic. Colors could not have given a better title to a serial which has such a lot of drama. I was captured by it, initially by the way they had put the efforts in updating the Titles before every telecast. But of course, afterwards, the enigmatic RK beckoned and I could not resist.

Madhubala and RK, a truly dramatic love story, but still, worth a try, for the hopeless romantics. Beware, initial episodes, may just prick the conscience of the feminists and the realists, the loopholes and the sometimes too slow story telling also might turn you off.

But then there are moments, dialogues which would appease the hearts of the blatantly corny people. “RK and Madhu, Ek tha Tiger and uski Tigerni.” As he once quoted, the battle was on, between the Sher and The Sherni, and the world need not interrupt them. Madhu, as she herself is fond of saying ‘Honslon Se Veer Hoon, Sankaton mein dheer hoon, Dushmano ki peer hoon, Apni Maa ke Sahare, Mein yunhi Balbir hoon’ The only woman who had dared to frown upon Rishabh Kundra, the Dream man of every woman above 8 and under 80, instead of fawning all over him...And so He has to conquer her...but it is actually ironical, that when he almost sees his win, he is ruffled...Of course he won’t like to admit it, he would like to stick to those four days of jail, those slaps which renewed their bond...but it is not so, is it...it runs a lot deeper...And this is what bothers him, the way she runs deep inside him, like a fire in his veins and yet she is so calm…does not even look like she is creating a havoc inside him...

RK, the ultimate star of the fiction B-Town in this Tinsel Town’s Serial, is always on stage...reciting dialogues, giving filmy touches to everything..it is almost like a teenage girl, who is lost in a world of her own...because she fears the reality...RK is the same...he so dislikes the reality that he always seems to stay in that world...a world which adores him...a world where he is second to nobody...a world which raves about him and craves him as nowhere else... he carries this world along with him..Even when he is amongst the people who are sure to give him a reality shock and bring him down to the world where he is unloved, and neglected...and it is actually amazing that he has chosen the best candidate of that world...a world which wants to remain oblivious to him…and then wants full attention to him...Ironic isn't it...??

So we have these, as they say, star crossed lovers, bound in the marriage solemnized by four pheras (though in Gujaratis, 4 pheras are enough, apparently in the Kundra and Malik Family it should have been 7), the almost-half of the vows that RK made to Madhu while taking them, and the other one-less-than half that Madhu is fulfilling towards RK. Especially, now, after the dramatic shoot out of RK and Madhu going bare feet to Bappa’s Mandir for her hubby dearest and finally a dramatic resuscitation of RK, we are in for some real treat. The eternal push and pull between the Crucifier and the Tormentor, the pain and the panacea, the believer and the manipulator, is now going to be full-on. Don’t miss it. This is a visual bonanza on Television.

Srushti Thula

Photo credit: Colors TV