Dreams vs Reality

Gunjan - an idealist and yet a realist ... she lives by her ideals, yet is realistic enough to know that her relationship with Samrat will need a name at some point. An achiever for sure - whatever she has taken up, she has achieved and well, be it her academic achievements, her singing in the TP, the RJ hunt, the play where she stayed in the background for the music, but danced and spoke on stage as the narrator as well ... A bit of a pessimist - her first reaction to something new, something outside her comfort zone is - no, I can't do it. Yet when she makes up her mind, takes up the challenge, she does always achieve what she aims for. Until now ...

Samrat - a dreamer, the eternal optimist - he's not shown to have many dreams in life, he doesn't dream of making money, of success, of fame ... his dreams are centered in the present, in basketball, bikes ... and now, Gunjan, and only Gunjan. The harshest blow life dealt him was his lack of family ... plenty of everything else, all material things, never made up for that one overpowering lack in his life, until Gunjan came along, and now all his dreams are centered around her. But the eternal dreamer and optimist that he is, he refuses to look to the future, to look ahead ... Gunjan is with him now, and that's all he cares about. Until now ...


What role will Neil play in their story? Neil appears to be a fascinating combination of a dreamer and a realist ... an achiever who has transformed his dreams into reality ... or made a start, by achieving material success, fame and popularity very young. From being one of the crowd in Morena, as lost in the crowd as Gunjan was, he's broken free, and moved head and shoulders above the rest. And now he wants to fufil another dream, achieve another goal ... Gunjan.
But he has changed from the lost-in-the-crowd dreamer, maybe he was as much an idealist as Gunjan once, but he definitely isn't now - he's a hard-headed realist, who knows that ideals and sentiment don't count for much in the real world. He wants Gunjan - but does he want her to change to what he has become, because he believes that it's the only way to success? Or does he just want her to succeed, because she is the only one who encouraged him to succeed?

Will he succeed in changing Gunjan? Will he manage to change Samrat?
Till yesterday, watching Gunjan so obviously uncomfortable in this new role, I almost wanted her to give up, to walk out, to tell Neil she can't do this, she can't change herself for anyone else ... be it her sister, Samrat or Neil ...

but today, I wonder ... if she walks out, what will change? Neither she nor Samrat ... not that comfortable and unreal limbo that they are living in, fooling themselves that their love is everything for today and forever ... the limbo that Mayur seemed to have been in too, till they too had that wake-up call...
So no ... Gunjan and Samrat both have to change ... to change their dreams, to focus on reality, to face the fact that life is ever-changing, circumstances are ever-changing ... the only thing which is constant is change itself ... and if they want their togetherness to be constant, then other changes will have to occur ...

And Neil will be the catalyst in this change ... and will undergo some changing dreams himself ... as he sees the ideal of the girl he has carried in his heart change shape into another dream, one which this time is out of his reach.