Smell your own coffee ... Karan!

Coffee with Karan S5 E1 review

Karan, wake up and smell your own coffee...please...!

It is getting cold, stale and dull!

It's time when gen next, the likes of Alia, Arjun, Ranveer and Shraddha would prefer a chai ka tappri and not hide their true selves behind layers of expensive velvet.

They are the ones who don't shy away from posting a pic just awake from sleep... they need no candyfloss...

If they are dating, they are dating! They don't consider it gossip any more...

So Karan what we want to see is the real Alia, the real Arjun, the real Shraddha that they are all the times...and they don't mind it...

As for SRK we have never known his true self...there is always a facade...and this comes from a true fan, Yours Humbly...!

It is that facade that came glaring in the first episode when SRK was oscillating between being a protective father to Alia and being the Charming Star SRK who the females love (proclaimed repeatedly by himself)...

The high point was when Karan praised SRK for FAN...how gratifying is that...
SRK tried competing like a newbie...he didn't have to... we your true fans love you for what you are...stop trying too hard... we love your brash witty charisma...don't try to ape who idolise you ...

Coz if you are trying to ape the new gen, know that they are what they are...

SRK has told Karan that Alia is too good too fast... To which Alia was surely a bit uneasy and had no qualms in hiding her response but the editing table did the job...

According to SRK she hasn't got Adaygi as yet... which put in simple words by himself later, was to overact...

SRK, you guys were lucky to get away with adaygi, coz we the consumers were fed with nothing else and were too blind to see beyond... (we, to some extent are the reason for downfall of your box office collections which you yourself confessed on the show) We pampered you then...

The gen next has very less time, a very competitive spirit and they know their craft well like Alia does and if they don't know it they learn fast like Ranveer did... So it's not too good too fast... its simply that they know they won't have so many  chances like you'll did...

Karan I still would watch KWK for a few more episodes, maybe the brew gets better... as for the first one, it was a complete down slider...

And please why cant you accept a successful, talented actress Like Alia being single...

No fodder for TRP...

As for now I am "demotional" emotional but detached...???

                                         by Nozzer Pardiwala

From Turkey... with Love ... Fatmagul

Last week of June ... and somewhere ... this name FATMAGUL flirtingly feathered my ears... it was probably a Television commercial or a radio ad ... I don't recollect ... but something resonated ...

30th June ... We came back from work and I announced to my family ... FATMAGUL is starting tonight ... for my family it wasn't a surprise coz I am totally filmy and a television buff... 

Episode after episode ... Fatmagul has become a part of our Family ... Kerim ... Mustafa ... Muqadas... Rehmi are all a part of our lives now. Meryem - Ebe Nine and her herbal concoctions  ... everytime she would say ' Abhi chai banake laati hu... tumhe acha lagega..." we too are ready with our glass of herbal tea ... without milk ... Turkish style.

Having watched so much of television, one thing that confuses me is... HOW on earth can a television serial of this magnitude be so grounded, so natural, so true to its story ... and so very relatable. 

Technically it is ten notches higher than perfect ... the camera work is an integral part of the story ... and by now we already know that for a particular scene how the camera would move... like everytime someone moves out of the room ... mostly it's a mirror image... everytime an establishing room shot is taken ... it is a top corner angle. 

The production is high class .... and if they are showing you a bungalow ... it's a bungalow and not a card board set ... If it's a car scene ... it is a car scene ... and not some novice chroma screen goofa ...

The best part about the characters is that even the supposedly bad guys have their weak humanly moments and the good guys too have their grey shades ... every one including Reşat Yaşaran, Selim, Munir, Vural, Erdoğan and Mustafa are so real characters... so when they are reigning their cruelty ... you hate them... and when in their weak moments ... they repent ... you don't go ... "They deserve it." ... you feel their guilt. 

Muqadas is one lovable sweet heart ... you actually don't know ... should you hate her or.... should you like her ... coz that's what her character is. 

Rehmi is an angel ... 

Meryem ... the matured, wise, motherly figure ... who not only helps FATMAGUL to overcome her and handle her past but also is carrying the burden of a past that she has just revealed to Kerim ... so when he sulks and is angry with her ...  she lets him be for a while .... and at the same time her mellow motherly feelings reach out to FATMAGUL and confess ... " Main use aise nahin dekh sakti ..." She is so real ... you need to see her impromptu interactions with Muqadas Madam ... and you shall know what acting is ...

But the heart of FATMAGUL is FATMAGUL and KAREM'S Love Story .... and the heart beat is ... FATMAGUL ... 

The subtle transition of a small village girl of Turkey to a girl who has faced it all and come a long way to recognize her real love ... she is fem extraordinaire ... you cannot but LOVE her for she is a woman not just of substance but with dignity and infinite love ... which she would pour out to Karem eventually ... we know ... but it"s not going to be easy for them ... coz she has and he has ... shadows of their past to fight and they both are together at it ... 

Karem with his Turkish countryside charm ... is not the typical hero ... flawless ... but he is in all respect ... a man who stood by FATMAGUL''s side and proclaimed loud and clear ... " Main tumhara saath kabhi nahin chodunga" and he doesn't and neither does she ... their Romance is lingering ... divine ... true .... and has passed through immense pain which they both have overcome and finally ... the three words ... I LOVE YOU... FATMAGUL confesses ... while he pretends to be sleeping after a tough night of cold and bad health ... The sunlight peeps through and kisses his face while she blushes and coyly runs away into her room ... only to dress up in a vibrant red colored top ... in which she looks astonishingly beautiful ...

He calls her up and tells her to say it again ... and she sheepishly ... says it and cuts the phone ... I LOVE YOU ...

FATMAGUL, technically, emotionally, artistically is a marvel and I so much wish and yearn to watch it every day like my daily dose ... the best part is I can comfortably watch it with my wife and two sons, who equally love it and eagerly wait for it... So on Sundays, we all are actually a little gloomy coz that's when sunshine called FATMAGUL wouldn't be beaming through our television sets.  

  

Almost an hour of episode and not a minute of drag ... that's the power of a well written ... content driven ...work of art ... FATMAGUL. 

Thank you ZINDAGI for bringing FATMAGUL into our lives all the way from TURKEY ... with LOVE. 

Nozzer Pardiwala and Family 
















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