Or is it round three ... or four ... or five? But it was the turnaround today ... a serious, tense episode, with the hallmarks of Sanaya at her best ... RIP, clown Khushi, and may you never return - this determined, hurt, yet fighting Khushi is the one I was waiting for since the first week!
The first four encounters with Arnav left Khushi wrong footed, hurt, humiliated ... and silenced. Arnav's superior power, both of muscle and money, overrode her every time. Power corrupts, they say, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And here his power and money has turned Arnav into a Beast, devoid of even basic humanity. Yes, he has a tormented past ... but in his quest to rout his demons and avenge his wrongs, he has gone the other extreme, and forgotten all the basic values which distinguish man from beast. A man's experiences in life can change him for better or for worse ... here, they seem to have changed him for the worst.
A shred of the old Arnav remains, in the way he listens to his sister, in the way he tolerates an annoying aunt just because she once helped him in his time of need, in the respect he gives his family - or those members of his family that we have so far seen. But his attitude to anyone he deems inferior stinks, to put it mildly ... he will not tolerate anyone trying to take advantage of him ... even if that taking advantage exists only in his own mind. Maybe he was taken advantage of once, equally cruelly, maybe that is what turned him from boy to Beast. But he turnes that cruelty now onto others ... especially onto anyone who dares to challenge him.
Which shows his essential insecurity, a hidden fear that one day all this can be taken away from him ... as he snatched power for himself, humiliated someone who had humiliated him, so the table could turn again one day. So the almost obsessive need to prove himself every single day, to every single person, silence every single voice of dissent, however small or pitiful it might be.
Is that why he is so cruel to Khushi? Because he sees in her, a shadow of the Arnav he once was - a person with ideals and convictions ... only she has the strength to cling to him regardless of all his attempts to break her. So he will try again and again ... because there cannot be anyone he can't break ... the fear is that if he can't break someone, they could turn around and break him one day.
Or is it that he recognises, unconsciously, reluctantly, that he might not be able to break Khushi? That her convictions are stronger than his, and that her God is indeed stronger than Power and Wealth, whom he has made his gods.
Or is it that he envies her? Envies her courage ... she has nothing, yet she is unafraid to challenge him at every step. Maybe he wishes he had had that courage to challenge those who turned him out of his house ... wishes that he had raised his voice then ... but he didn't.
So he makes her stay, challenges her again ... in a way that she will not refuse ... does he already know her so well? Or again, is it a challenge to himself? To prove that he has killed the old Arnav completely, and nothing remains.
Or maybe ... just maybe ... he wishes the old Arnav would come back.
Episode - Confrontation, K wants to leave, A tells her to go ahead, but then tells her to wait and listen to what he has to say. The fall from his office ... the Beast in full swing ...
Akash Payal scene ... hackneyed, been there, done that ... *rofl* ... this will be a sweet, uneventful love story.
Bimbo duo give K her termination letter, she relives all the humiliation she and her family have been put through by Arnav through no fault of her own, including her banishment to Delhi and the subsequent insults by Arnav again. And she says ... not again.
And finally the challenge. Stay 15 days or pay the company one lakh.
And no one will chuck her out before fifteen days, or his name is not ASR.
*ahem* slight problem here ... his name is actually not ASR.
And Sanaya reminds me yet again why I like her acting so much. And I must admit, BS was not bad either.
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Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
The first four encounters with Arnav left Khushi wrong footed, hurt, humiliated ... and silenced. Arnav's superior power, both of muscle and money, overrode her every time. Power corrupts, they say, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And here his power and money has turned Arnav into a Beast, devoid of even basic humanity. Yes, he has a tormented past ... but in his quest to rout his demons and avenge his wrongs, he has gone the other extreme, and forgotten all the basic values which distinguish man from beast. A man's experiences in life can change him for better or for worse ... here, they seem to have changed him for the worst.
A shred of the old Arnav remains, in the way he listens to his sister, in the way he tolerates an annoying aunt just because she once helped him in his time of need, in the respect he gives his family - or those members of his family that we have so far seen. But his attitude to anyone he deems inferior stinks, to put it mildly ... he will not tolerate anyone trying to take advantage of him ... even if that taking advantage exists only in his own mind. Maybe he was taken advantage of once, equally cruelly, maybe that is what turned him from boy to Beast. But he turnes that cruelty now onto others ... especially onto anyone who dares to challenge him.
Which shows his essential insecurity, a hidden fear that one day all this can be taken away from him ... as he snatched power for himself, humiliated someone who had humiliated him, so the table could turn again one day. So the almost obsessive need to prove himself every single day, to every single person, silence every single voice of dissent, however small or pitiful it might be.
Is that why he is so cruel to Khushi? Because he sees in her, a shadow of the Arnav he once was - a person with ideals and convictions ... only she has the strength to cling to him regardless of all his attempts to break her. So he will try again and again ... because there cannot be anyone he can't break ... the fear is that if he can't break someone, they could turn around and break him one day.
Or is it that he recognises, unconsciously, reluctantly, that he might not be able to break Khushi? That her convictions are stronger than his, and that her God is indeed stronger than Power and Wealth, whom he has made his gods.
Or is it that he envies her? Envies her courage ... she has nothing, yet she is unafraid to challenge him at every step. Maybe he wishes he had had that courage to challenge those who turned him out of his house ... wishes that he had raised his voice then ... but he didn't.
So he makes her stay, challenges her again ... in a way that she will not refuse ... does he already know her so well? Or again, is it a challenge to himself? To prove that he has killed the old Arnav completely, and nothing remains.
Or maybe ... just maybe ... he wishes the old Arnav would come back.
Episode - Confrontation, K wants to leave, A tells her to go ahead, but then tells her to wait and listen to what he has to say. The fall from his office ... the Beast in full swing ...
Akash Payal scene ... hackneyed, been there, done that ... *rofl* ... this will be a sweet, uneventful love story.
Bimbo duo give K her termination letter, she relives all the humiliation she and her family have been put through by Arnav through no fault of her own, including her banishment to Delhi and the subsequent insults by Arnav again. And she says ... not again.
And finally the challenge. Stay 15 days or pay the company one lakh.
And no one will chuck her out before fifteen days, or his name is not ASR.
*ahem* slight problem here ... his name is actually not ASR.
And Sanaya reminds me yet again why I like her acting so much. And I must admit, BS was not bad either.
Links
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
I was seriously fuming after watching yesterday's epi! and believe me D, it's not often that I let a tv soap affect me adversely! I was seriously repulsed by the way that "$%&**&& let Khushi fall! That scene left me with such a distasteful feeling that I don't think I can EVER like this character...EVER!...there is no excuse for it! no justification for it! ...Ishq, vishq, pyar toh bahut door ki baat hain...pehle insaan bana toh seekho you...%""£%%%^^*!!!he doesn't even have an ounce of humanity, no sense of common decency, such a disgrace to treat a woman (or anyone) like that....I could go on...believe me I could...but I shall spare you!... lol...seriously, D...my BP must have been sky high yesterday! rofl! :D
ReplyDeleteon BALH...agree, it's the main lead that is making the show so watchable for me! Also, compared to other shows, I really appreciate the sense of "therav"..if that's the right word...in their relationship/chemistry...like the mature & realistic issues that have been brought out thru them! Can relate to it! ;-)
Oh boy, Papple itni gussa?!!! But i TOTALLY agree with you ... this was beyond inexcusable behaviour ... the fact that he knew the boxes were there is no excuse! she could have fallen any which way and gotten really badly hurt ... and HE could have gotten slapped with a lawsuit so fast
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ReplyDeleteTo continue, he could have gotten slapped with a lawsuit so fast and that would have really served him right ... and in a language he understood!
I really really hope he suffers a LOT after this ... and gets paid back in his own coin again and again ... he has a LOT of reformation to go through before he approaches anything remotely resembling human!
Yep, BALH is good ... mainly the Ram Sakshi parts ... I could so relate to Priya's outburst last night! Am glad those things were said ... they are still so prevalent in Indian society today.