[1]Har cheez ka season hota hai aur yeh season chudailon ka hai. First came that chudail on Bigg Boss (Colors), Imam Siddiqui, who scared everyone by appearing nangu-pangu for no apparent reason. Next up, was a killer chudail in Aamir Khan’s Talaash, and now there is a daily serial hinged on the kali kartoot of a chudail.
Sony TV, which has built its brand on catching criminals and fighting crime, has decided to take a leap of faith and investigate the other realm, the world of aatmas and bhoot-pret.
Anamika, Sony’s new serial, is set in Chandigarh and is about two bachpan ke friends, Jeet and Rano. Jeet is a state-level boxer with Olympic gold dreams who lives in a mansion with Bebe, his Facebook obsessed dadi, his stern businessman daddy, perpetually cooking mommy and one brother with a dimwit wife. Oh, there’s also their Pekingese dog Chikoo who likes to dress up formally, bow-tie, tails and all.
Jeet and his family take care of Rano, her mommy and little sister since her father died. Jeet and Rano ki buddy-buddy banter ke peeche there’s true love that we see and Rano sees, but Jeet doesn’t. One more person sees this, Anamika.
Since a strange foggy night on a sunsaan road when Jeet went looking for a lady in distress, Ms Bhatakti Aatma has developed soft-soft feelings for Jeet and doesn’t take kindly to Rano and Jeet getting friendly. Most of her outings — in backless blouses and shimmering saris — are planned to be seen and chased by Jeet. If, instead, she finds Jeet chasing Rano, we hear strange hissing. We know that that’s just the pret aatma revving up for an attack on Rano.
Now mostly I’m not in favour of chudail ladies making sukhi parivaars dukhi. But the amount this Rano shrieks and the annoying nataks she does, I’m really looking forward to the chudail shutting her up. In fact, if this Rano keeps up her annoying behaviour, woh din dur nahin jab not just Jeet’s gharwalle, but every aam saas will seriously consider the option of having a chudail as her bahu. I mean, look at the advantages: Chudail bahus don’t eat anything except, perhaps, the occasional Cream of Chamgadar Soup; she can get from point A to point B in a blink, without any cost or the hassle of tickets, security, window seats; she can eavesdrop on any conversation, and the kala-jaadu options on your enemies are unlimited; chudail bahu won’t age and if she has the hots for your son, she will try and be an adarsh, if often adrishya, bahu.
Now tell me, which saas won’t want a bahu who doesn’t like to talk much, isn’t too keen on controlling which colour cushions, curtains you get for the living room, and often, at night, turns into a cool mist and wafts in and out of the house.
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[1] http://archive.asianage.com/t13jpg-831