Jonjal

Jonjal... is the word for garbage in bengali, what we proud bengalis term as bangla. By habit, we are porud of three things... robindrosongeet (songs of tagore), rosogolla(the sweet) and saurav ganguly. Everytime we come across these three things, we blurt out... 'byapok' maane, i mean it means GREAT.in 25 years of my life, I have never understood what is so byapok about these three things, atleast staying in Kannada land. But one thing I can vouch about us is our sense of humor and the ability to laugh at ourselves. we might be eccentric,obnoxious and pathetically accented in our spoken English. So what if we have a BIG 'O' in everything we speak and intend to be 'shobjantas' (know - it - all) on every topic under sun, moon, starts, planets, we still are better than the K serials. They only confuse you and I am a latest victim. And the sadist I am, would make whoever reads it a victim also... read through... Kyonki saas bhi kabi bahu thi ...Before I go on with this review let me tell you that I got paid to watch this serial. By my Ma...You, please don't try it. I am a late entrant into Virani family and most of u would alredy have tasted the dhoklas of this pariwar. This is the story of a maze of a family. We'll start by organizing a sort of family tree structure. Pardon me, but I'm just no good at names so you'll have to bear with the pronouns. So, there's this young man who got married to a young girl his mother disaproves of. So understandably, all the mother does is nag her and plot against her. Now this alone could make the whole serial, but appreciate that the mother is a part of a larger structure. She has a husband and two brothers-in law who have their own respective wives. One of these wives is an absolute disgrace to the Gujju community with her deliberate and artificial, poor quality Gujju accent. The other one didn't quite figure much in the episode I saw. All of them launch a combined attack against the original mom's son's wife (remember??). Add into this a generous helping of friends of the son, a grandfather (was he there??) and a few extras here and there. Problems fall onto this family as if it were the last on earth and in the middle of all this they find time to call each other names, fight and make life miserable for each other. I hope I have confused you amply and convinced you never to watch this serial. It's a byapok ordeal.