14/1/14 - Epi 12 ... Rudra the Destroyer

Tuesday 14th Jan

 Rudra the destroyer 

Rudra the brutal animal

Rudra the Sunny Deol ka puttar   Sunny Deol of Gadar fame ... he who decimated an entire army with his bare hands. Rudra has been taking some lessons there! 

Action scenes very violent and explicit ... while in the background rang one of the most sublime songs ever sung in the history of Indian movies ... Vande Mataram by Lata Mangeshkar from the movie Anand Math. 

Why did Rudra bring only five men to counter what he knew was a force of 50-60 men? There's being heroic, and there's being stupid ... this was definitely the latter. No wonder his CO warned him to act with his brain ... was the entire platoon parked outside the Thakur's haveli to give a sense of false security to the Thakur? And how was that helpful? 

How many guns did the BSD miss in their search anyway? Varun had one hidden right under Paro's mattress ... apart from all the rest yesterday. 

Prince Charming's mask falls ... but Paro slept peacefully though the entire fight, including the unmasking, and woke up at the worst possible moment ... she didn't see her prince turn into a frog, but she did see Rudra kill him. 

And the mother of all MU's starts ... here!!! This MU is gonna be really tough to explain away ... seeing a man blowing her hubby's brains out in front of her eyes ... no woman is going to take too kindly to that. 

The good thing is ... Paro is definitely a widow ... no coming back from the dead for her Prince Charming ... errr Frog ... Only thing is, Paro doesn't think that's a good thing ... yet. And she's not going to think that for a long time to come.

What I really, really liked ... Rudra wasted no time in trying to reason with Varun ... no long speeches about iss ladki ko chhod do, etc., etc. ... just a terse 'as you wish' ... and bam! I've often wished that heroes in movies did the same ... those long farewell speeches always give the opportunity for someone to jump in and spoil the action. 

This was basically the episode in a nutshell. 

The precap was amazing ... beautiful and sensitive ... Rudra Paro on opposite sides of a mirrored glass, so near yet so far ... two shattered souls, searching for their other half.