Maya Sarabhai vs Shaktiman
Fourth episode story
Maya (Ratna Pathak Shah) looks at Jasmine's pregnancy report. She is disgusted with Rosesh (Rajesh Khattar) and asks him how he could do it. Rosesh begins to tell her it was easy. When he is about to explain how the two of them made love, Indravadhan stops him. Maya makes fun of Jasmine as she calls everything that starts from 'S' with an 'H' - Sofa is hofa, William Shakespeare is William bhai Hakespeare, Sahil Sarabhai is Hahil Harabhai. Jasmine's incorrect grammar causes a few laughs and Maya requests her not to speak in English.
Turns out Jasmine played a trick on Maya by faking pregnancy. This makes Maya heave a sigh of relief. Jasmine tells her she had a bet with Rosesh that her pregnancy news would make her agree to their match.
At the dinner table, the Sarabhai family is together. Monisha is seen taking the size of a naked statue to stitch clothes for it. Maya tells her she likes it as it is. Sahil tells his mom Arnab carries a cell phone with him to school. Maya is surprised as the phone is too cheap for her convenience. She scolds Monisha for giving him such a "middle class" phone. It is soon learnt it was Indravadhan (Satish Shah) who had given the phone to Arnab, not Monisha. Also, Indravadhan had been giving Arnab money to buy from the canteen. This helps him throw away the "baingan bharta" sandwich given by Monisha to avoid wastage.
Everybody Loves Rosech
At first glance, Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai looked like any assembly-line Indian sitcom. It featured a mother-in-law warring with a daughter-in-law, canned laughter, a jarring background score, too many audio clips acting as verbal rimshots, with voices saying things like “Oh my my!” to underscore one-liners. But then that booming voice belonged to Usha Uthup, the coolest singer ever, and it saying “Oh my” instead of, say, “Oye hoye”. This show always stood out from the lowest-common-denominator TV landscape.
Over a dozen years since the show last aired, Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai Take 2 is back on Hotstar, with new episodes every Monday. Many, including my parents and I, are elated. I believe what makes this show special is that it is a comedy of manners. The narrative framework—mother and father living across from son and daughter-in-law, resulting in snark and silliness—may resemble, say, Everybody Loves Raymond, but this show, where women find themselves possessed and grown men sell off their sneakers to buy chaat, has never been about plot. It is, instead, about sophistication. About the idea of elitism, about public perception and posturing, about the deeply Indian struggle to shake off the onerous “middle-class” tag—while showing, always, that the characters comfortable with being themselves have the best time, not to mention the loudest laugh.
Condescending matriarch Maya Sarabhai is unbearably haughty, yet cool and clever enough to charm us all. Indravadan, her genial husband, plays dumb but knows he must balance Maya out and level the playing field. Monisha, the terrifically tight-fisted daughter-in-law, finds herself ridiculed from every angle yet stubbornly holds her own. Sahil, her husband, is the frequently confounded straight guy. And then there’s Rosesh, Maya’s mother-worshipping younger son, a peculiarly named poet who uses too much onomatopoeia in poems about subjects like his mother’s purse.
Creators Deven Bhojani and Aatish Kapadia hand these characters to an absurdly strong cast, headlined by Ratna Pathak Shah, one of the finest actresses in the country, and legendary funnyman Satish Shah, who do a smashing job as the parents. Rupali Ganguly is delightful as the scene-stealing Monisha, and Rajesh Kumar’s Rosesh is impossible to forget. Equally memorable are Indravadan’s hard-of-hearing cousin Madhusudan (Arvind Vaidya), and the Sarabhai family’s son-in-law Dushyant, played by Bhojani himself, a spectacularly oblivious young man who behaves like a tech-support helpline. In a new scene, we see Dushyant mourn for a dead toaster, which struck me as daft till I realized I’d do the same for my iPad. All this farce comes from truth—and from family.
It is a self-assured comedy that does its own thing, uses English that may (mistakenly) be considered too highbrow for our television, and marches to its own goofy tune. It’s hard not to hum along. There’s nuance everywhere—Maya’s obvious affection for Indravadan (and sometimes even for Monisha) shines through in her Lockhorns-style barbs; Monisha and Rosesh share what might be the best devar-bhabhi relationship on TV, with a fondness that overcomes familial allegiances—and marvellous lines in every other scene. That classic quote where Maya accused Monisha of asking for free coriander even at the supermarket, for example, or a new one from Episode 2 where Maya, with unerring accuracy, singles out Monisha as the kind of woman who would send the cheesiest “good morning” forwards on WhatsApp.
WhatsApp didn’t exist when we first met the Sarabhais in 2004. Ratings dwindled next to Star One’s numerous reality shows, and the plug was pulled relatively soon. However, after many a listicle and tremendous cult adoration, it has been reinstated on popular demand. The two episodes out so far aren’t great: a child who promises to grate on the nerves has been added to the mix, the storyline—involving the clan teetering precariously on a bus at the edge of a cliff, à la the end of The Italian Job—is tedious, and nobody seems to have told the make-up folk that programmes are now broadcast in HD, making this show (and faces therein) appear very dated indeed.
Yet the cast is back, the bonhomie remains, and the show feels less artificially assembled than anything else on Indian TV. This bunch appears genuinely fond of one another—or so I stubbornly choose to believe. Watching this Take 2 incarnation is a bit like watching Friends after Season 5; you can predict the jokes (and Chandler isn’t funny any more, if you’re being honest) but you watch because you’ve already been won over, more cheerleader than critic.
I smiled nostalgically at the new stuff, with one big laugh courtesy of Dushyant. His number is saved as “I’ll Explain” on Indravadan’s phone, due to his all-consuming need to elaborate on how stuff-works—something that has, in the past, made him pretend Rosesh was a refrigerator—and he calls up at an ungodly hour to warn his father-in-law about buying a certain German brand of ballistic missile submarine.
As one may reasonably expect, there is little danger of a south Bombay man—whose biggest issues are evading glassfuls of milk and his son’s nutty poems—actually shopping for the aforementioned submarine, but that’s not the point. The point is that this family, one which sarcastically discusses its own show recap during a post-dinner board game, is back on our screens. This is a big win for the Indian consumer. And despite undeniable rust, there is definite warmth and trust. Ooh, that rhymes. Rosesh, a poet who approves of any and every rhyme, might even say “Whoopee”.
This article is from livemint
Can Rosech marry Jasmine now?
The Sarabhais reach Matkadhar Baba’s samadhi and what follows is a chain of crazy things! Whoopie, Rosesh can now finally marry Jasmine but will Maya let him? Watch the full episode of Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai Take 2, only on Hotstar
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Sarabhai vs Sarabhai
Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai - Take 2 brings television's favourite family back!
Maya, Monisha, Indu, Sahil, Rosesh - be part of their lives once again.
Watch the first episode of Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai Take 2 on Premium at 6 PM on May 15 and for Free at 6 AM, from May 16. New episode out every Tuesday!
Roshesh finds his Love
The popular family of Sarabhai is back and everything is pretty much the same in the new season of the show Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai. Roshesh (Rajesh Kumar) continues to recite irritatingly weird poems, Monisha (Rupali Ganguly) is still the monstrously middle-class and Maya Sarabhai, aka Ratna Pathak Shah, snobbish.
But Maya looks like she is in for another dose of middle-class bad English in the first episode released on Tuesday, with a more weirder version of Monisha set to arrive as her second daughter-in-law.
Roshesh finds his love, Jasmine, who is a theatre actress and “singress”. We also get to know that he will soon be the hero in a popular serial, Bahu Macchar, Beta Khacchar.The episode opens with the family stuck in a bus hanging over a cliff. They have a tough time figuring out ways to get out of the mess.
Though it is not a laugh riot. Sarabhai is still the sweet comedy that we know. The 25 minute-long episode has been written smartly to include new-age sensitivities and lifestyle changes. It also has references to some interesting facts, like tweeting about emergency situations and “samosa wale Guruji”.
We just can’t wait for the next episode.
Watch the first episode of Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai here.
Sarabhai vs Sarabhai is all set for a comeback later this month and the producers have now released the title track of the show.
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Rosesh is a duffer...
"Rosesh is a duffer... and if you take that out of him, the character will lose its essence. This season he has finally found a girl - Jasmine."
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Jivit Shradhanjali
Meri moma Maya Sarabhai, yaani ishwar ki di hui badhaai
Ishwar ki samjhaai hui sachaai, ki duniya maaya se hi bani banaai
Sab kuch hai maaya, yeh sofa yeh kaaya
Ishwar ne table-cloth bhi hai maaya se banaaya
Rista bhi maaya, raasta bhi maaya, lunch dinner aur breakfast bhi maaya
Maya to sophistication ka pratik hai, thodi contemporary thodi antique hai
Maya to hai mamta ka chhaya, sara pyaar aata always via maaya
Maaya hai jeevan ki preyasi, Maya hai jaise dining table ki kursi
Maaya hi dudh, Maya hi lassi, phir kaise kahu ki maaya chal basi?
Sarabhai vs Sarabhai will air from May 16, 2017
The Indian Television has en-number of shows. But one show that created not just episodes but memories for a lifetime was Sarabhai vs Sarabhai. The show, which aired first in 2004 and ended in 2006, is now back to enthral the audience, in the form of a web series.
Though the date was not out, it was known earlier that the show was to be aired in May. And now here's some good news. A little birdie revealed that the show is all set to kickstart on May 16, 2017. Not just that, the home channel too revealed the date in the form of an advertisement. We spoke to the maker of the show JD Majethia who neither confirmed or denoed the news. "Well, I haven't received any confirmation from the home channel's end as of now but you can definitely consider it to be the tentative date."
Directed by J.D. Majethia and produced by Aatish Kapadia, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai stars Ratna Pathak Shah, Satish Shah, Sumeet Raghavan, Rupali Ganguly, Rajesh Kumar, Deven Bhojani, Arvind Vaidya among others. Interestingly, on the first day of the shoot, makers of Sarabhai vs Sarabhai 2 had conducted a Facebook Live in which they introduced their set, the characters and also mentioned that the show has taken a leap of seven years. A character in the form of Sahil and Monisha's son has marked his entry in the new season. The first look and the on-location shoot of Sarabhai vs Sarabhai 2 have already excited the audience and they can barely wait to see their favourite serial. While there is still time for the new season to go on air, a new promo of the cast was unveiled on the web a month ago, and it made us literally roll on the floor, laughing! In the new promo, Maya Sarabhai was seen discussing with her family about the title of the show.
We absolutely loved the promo. With just three weeks more to go, the countdown begins!
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