Bhandham......Ultimate Garbage

The title will fetch me a couple of curses and may even think am a cold blooded creep....Well am not talking about the next of kin. This is my 2 cents on the never-ending San Media online's daily soap Bhandham. Ssshhabbbbaaaaaaaaaa....what a story line - the way this serial is progressing is a clear indication that the director is completely lost. He is struggling hard to put all the loose ends that he left in the beginning, together and in the process causing acute damage. The plot of this magnum opus would (not sure though) have been the most gripping plot when my grand mother was schooling - it's completely out of place for the current age packed with science and technology advancements.

An excerpt from the serial....
A psycho is caught for all his misdeeds and is in the prison. How he gets there is another big joke...but let me stay focused. A monk, supposedly his god father/mentor appears in the prison and gives our psycho some weeds (mooligai in Tamil) and when the specimen (psycho) eats it he dies :-). The police department is so shaken by his death that they completely forget to interrogate the death. Logical flaw, but is still tolerable compared to the other atrocities in the serial. All procedures are completed which exclude an autopsy and the body is in the mortuary. When the brilliant police team is awaiting the psycho’s relatives to claim the body, the psycho's preacher makes an entry in the mortuary and squeezes an extract on the corpses face...boom the psycho is back to life………………this is just a glimpse. If one chooses to devote 30 minutes of your precious time everyday between 12 and 12:30 EST you can treat yourself for more of this massacre.

Agreed, all mega serials have to have a lady character as their centre of focus even to be considered for marketing. But this one has surpassed all the other serials on the air. It is too female oriented that sometimes it gives you a feel that the director has added some male characters just to balance a marriage and a household. All males including the cops have been pitiably characterized that none of them have a say in any of the key decisions. They are either insensible/impotent or at best their lady’s servants. Even to consummate his relationship with his wife, the hero is at the mercy of a woman (wife's sister), seeking advice. That’s the state of our guys in this serial!!

The director definitely deserves a pat on his back for having chosen the best cast for all his characters - that’s it. Nothing more than that....All the cast, right from the centre of focus Ms.Rindhiya, Ms.Devi priya, Mr.Afsar, Mrs. Nalini, Mr.Deepak, Ms.Shilpa, Mrs.Yuvashree, Mrs. Shanthi Williams and many more, have an excellent potential and the director has been brilliant in extracting what exactly is required from each of them for the role. No overdose even from his "1 episode wonders"...everyone have been trained to give their best in the right quantity which is a commendable effort. The title song of the serial is stupendous...so soothing and I don’t mind listening to the whole song everyday though it effectively eats up 35% of the serial time!! On a lighter note, the title song is the savior to the half hr torment.

It’s sad to see that this heavy-handed venture has locked up all the great stars and we don’t get to see them doing justice elsewhere. Am curious if the director has any intention of getting his tour de force to a completion in the near future! I have been watching this serial right from day 1 and that is the only reason am still sticking on to this. He started well, half way lost track and it’s all haywire now.

Can something be done at this stage to salvage the situation - The damage done to the action is so irreparable that the worst nightmare would be the director's efforts to recoup the same. Hope he tries and winds up his master piece at the earliest so that we can be relieved of the torture.