Yudh week 4: Big B tries to kill his clown, Yudh's wife is shot, still no Nawazuddin

Genius, they say, lies in the details. So this week, while watching Yudh, I decided to look not just at the big picture, but also the nitty gritty that may have escaped casual viewers. So Yudh’s current wife is lying under a thick duvet, sulking. When Yudh turns his head, she pops a mithai into her mouth and gobbles up the entire thing. Should she be doing this? Going by the fact that she’s shaped like a rasgulla herself? I think not. [caption id=“attachment_1656095” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Amitabh Bachchan in a screen shot from Yudh.[/caption] Also, why does Yudh wear a shawl while everyone else is in cotton kurtas? These thermal questions trouble me and maybe they changed the way I see the show, because this week, Yudh seemed significantly more entertaining. It was certainly more eventful than it’s been so far. There’s grumpiness in between Yudh and his wife, as I mentioned earlier, and so Yudh’s wife takes a flight to the Naxal-infested mining town where their son Rishi is presently living. In the Indian heartland, Rishi’s own heart is beating a little faster as a romance blossoms with the only attractive person on the show – the sultry Naxalite, who is also the only female member of the Maoist team. Except his mother is shot at just as she reaches town, which is by far the most extreme way of ensuring girlfriend and mother don’t meet. Yudh’s wife is rushed to the one hospital in town. Only one person can save her — her step-daughter Taruni. Taruni, as we know, is both an intuitive CEO as well as a surgeon who goes ahead and operates on Yudh’s wife even though she doesn’t know how to conduct the operation that Yudh’s wife needs. But then, what else can you do when there’s only one doctor in the entire town? I’m hoping that Taruni, just to show her generosity of spirit, also stapled Yudh’s wife’s stomach. At this point, Rishi finds out that his Naxal inamorata is as much of a Naxalite as Bipasha Basu is a method actor. She is actually an undercover government agent who is trying to catch Naxal masterminds. This is why her eyebrows are tweezed and eyes are kohled. It all makes sense now. He goes to pay her a visit in the jungle in the middle of the Naxal camp (because that’s what mining tycoons do when they have free time). What he doesn’t realise is that he’s led the army/ cops straight to the camp. The Naxalites are obliterated. His lady love goes missing. When Rishi goes to her boss’ house to find her, Rishi is informed that she’s been blown into 100 pieces. Except she’s actually hiding behind the curtain. Why? Because she no longer wants to go out with him and it’s easier to hide behind a curtain and pretend you’re dead than break up with someone. No one likes confrontation after all. Rishi, now a broken hearted, has more trouble coming his way. The news channels start showing a video of him leading soldiers or cops (it’s not clear what they are, but they all wear fatigues) into the Maoist camp. Daddy Yudh gets very angry, which is perhaps understandable. When you send a son to manage a business, you don’t expect him to abandon ship and turn into a platoon commander. More to the point, Yudh is one of those Gandhian paragons of virtue who wants to befriend people, not attack them. He sacks Rishi. Then the apple of Daddy-Yudh’s-eye, Taruni, quits because she’s had enough of the heartland. Also, her adoptive father is heading up an investigation against Yudh’s company, which adds a whole new dimension to the concept of “daddy issues”. Now Yudh has no top-level management. This is worse than the state Infosys is in. Meanwhile, Mona’s sister bludgeons her very unwashed-looking husband to death. Mona takes the fall for it. Mona’s half-girlfriend weeps. It’s all very emotional (not). Yudh’s right-hand man Anand, who seems to be decidedly incompetent on this score, looks on sadly. And now for the best part: The dwarf clown — who is visible and audible only to Yudh — appears and the two of them have one of their chats. Considering what he’s got for family, you can’t blame Yudh for making imaginary friends or trying to kill them. Yes, Yudh tries to kill the clown. But then the clown takes out a bottle of rosewater. He squirts it on a ball of damp cottonwool. He starts taking off his makeup. And voila, it’s Nawazuddin Siddiqui! He’s been there all along! What good makeup. The final episode of the week ends on a close-up shot of Siddiqui’s face, half-covered in facepaint. Or does it? Sadly, this is a figment of my imagination. However, since I’ve suffered another four hours of Yudh waiting for Siddiqui to show up, I figured I could make him the clown to my Amitabh Bachchan. The promos for next week insist that Siddiqui does actually make an appearance on the show. He appears to be throwing a temper tantrum with Yudh and then using a machine gun. We live in hope.