I don’t watch Indian shows. I lack the patience for the same dragged story lines that are repackaged over and over again in soaps. But I love Nia Sharma, she is my girl crush. And I would have to be blind to not love Ravi. It’s great to watch them together in fear factor India. So I decided to watch Jamai Raja. I mean what was the harm in checking out a show that had two of my favorites?
WHAT A BIG *%&$ MISTAKE! 😫
Now I don’t sleep at night 😵. Because unlike American shows and Korean shows that I watch, Indian shows go on for years. So the binge watching never ends. For one week, this is how I have been living my life, I go to work and the second I come home I start watching Jamai Raja. I stay up until 4 or 5 am because I can’t put it down (not because I can’t sleep. I like sleeping on time. I am so sleep deprived at this point that I want to cry). Then I wake up at 7 again to go to work. Weekends have been nothing but this show. I don’t want to leave my screen. My eyes are glued to it.
This show is ruining me. I can see all the stereotypical Indian drama tropes that I usually hate. So I tell myself, don’t do this to yourself. Look, this is not actually worth the dark circles under your bloodshot eyes. You are better than this. But I look at Sid and Roshni, and I am like AHH! 😍
Suddenly, I don’t want to see any other couples. I think I am extremely picky about my ships and this show is ruining my 3 other ships that were hard to come upon to begin with. Indian shows, why do you have to be so dramatic and intense? How am I supposed to take other couples and their pathetic loves seriously when you actually mean it when you say “___ is my life. I can’t live without ___.” Or when the character says he can’t breathe because he has been separated from his beloved and you know he means it. The way Sid and Roshni love each other makes me so happy and sad. I am laughing one second and crying the next. It’s an ugly cycle.
So Sid divorces Roshni despite loving her more than his dear life because of a deal he made with his evil mother. What are soaps without evil mothers? I have seen this story about 100 times since 1995. But did that matter? Nooo! I cried so much! My hot, cute couple was going to get back together, instead they got a divorce. I expected two dozen (annoying) intense episodes of nothing but heartbreak and melodrama..and sad songs.(I love sad hindi songs...did I mention that?) But what happens instead? His hilarious grandmother hires Roshni as her personal caretaker and Roshni comes looking out of the world gorgeous to torture the poor man who just broke her heart.
So instead of miserable, asshole Sid, I get miserable but funny, and irresistible Sid.
Sid: dimaag ki dahi kare rahe ho bhagwan!! Yeh Roshni net wali sari pehenke mere paas aa jaati hai. Mere maa mujhe iss ke paas nahi rehne deti. Mujhse isse door nahi raha jaata. Meri waat lagi pari hai!! Main hi milta hoon sab logon main?
I am sorry. I have never seen this level of delicious sexual frustration before. In fics yes, but that is different.
The way Sid looks at Roshni... seriously...wow! Every scene you just know that he is madly in love with her. I can feel his insane attraction toward her. I miss that so much. I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw this level of intensity in a couple. I am literally sitting here and trying to think of all the shows I have ever watched.
I hate everything right now. I needed to rant. I have been driving the people in my life crazy and at this point they all think I am insane. Which I am. Sleep deprivation will do that to you. I can’t keep my eyes open, but back to the show...