Kairi-Rishta Khatta Meetha

Back to kitchen politics!

The show revolves around Imarti Devi, a lady who rules her family with an iron hand, absolute dictator style with her having the final say in all matters. She is terror personified for her two bahus against whom she is always ready with an artillery of snide and sarcastic remarks that she uses at the first given oppurtunity. The two bahus have little choice, but to live in constant fear of provoking their mother-in-law and facing her wrath. While the bitterness is towards the bahus, Imarti’s love is reserved for her youngest son Anuj. But all hell breaks loose, when he goes against his mother’s wishes and admits his love for a girl in their neighbourhood. On a parallel track, Ambi is a simple middle class girl, who’s trying to save her sister’s daughter from the cruel treatment being meted out to her by her neice’s new step-mom. While Hema Singh as Imarti does absolute justice to the character and her ‘Ambe’ is enough to strike fear in the hearts of her bahus, the same old kitchen politics of the saas bahu track is hardly appealing. Also the constant bickering between Imarti and the people living downstairs gets a bit too much to deal in the name of entertainment. Jay is strictly okay in his cutesy act, and both Deepti and Roshni as the bahus are just passable. But it’s Preeti Chaudhary as Ambi, whose track is something that you look forward to and the actor is impressive too. It will be interesting to see when Ambi crosses paths with Imarti, but till then it lacks that wow factor that’ll keep you glued to the show. Entertainment comes in medium doses in this family-bonder, but since it relies heavily on the saas bahu nok-jhok that we’ve seen ample times already, it gets very predictable.