Thursday 13th March
Yesterday's episode was almost unbearably intense ... today the intensity receded somewhat ...
Paro-Rudra ... he came into Paro's room, determined to shake her beliefs, a little shamefaced at his brutality, maybe a little guilty at her pain, pain he had driven her to inflicting on herself ... so he came to try and soothe it. And to reason with her, to convince her she was wrong, and she should think over his arguments.
Maybe he also saw what challenging her had led to ... his brave, foolish, foolhardy Paro would harm herself if he backed her into a corner, but she wouldn't give up. So he changed tack today ... tried calm reasoning, gentle, seasoned arguments. He admired her for standing for her beliefs ... but she was standing on the wrong side. She had to see that.
She listened ... he was persuasive. And he was different from the man of two hours ago. Not the cold, brutal jallad she hated, the embodiment of the BSD she had been brought up to fear ... but the man she had caught many a glimpse of, in this house ... the broken, vulnerable man ... and the shattered, vulnerable boy, betrayed by the one person every child has a right to trust ... his mother. She knew that boy now ... she had seen him many times ... she knew he still lurked behind the hard face of the jallad. As did the man she had grown somehow to trust.
But she couldn't believe his soft words, persuasive though they were ... this mockery of a marriage he was forcing on her, against all her beliefs, her views on the sanctity of marriage disregarded ... he had reduced it to a blackmail tool. And all to force her to testify against a man she considered a father-figure ... her trust was absolute, and it was true. He was wrong about her father-like Thakur. Children know whom to trust, she claimed, children can sense trustworthy adults.
Can they? he challenged. He had trusted his mother, and she proved most untrustworthy ... a child's trust can be misplaced, as his was ... so was hers, if only she would realise it ...
And she turned around and asked him ... if she was clinging on to blind faith in her father, was he not doing the same? Wasn't he clinging on to that same hope in his heart, that one day his mother would return?
He didn't want to answer such awkward questions ... he could not. So he left. As always, Paro made him open his heart, reveal his wounds ... he couldn't stay jallad for too long ... and somehow he felt no shame in showing her his pain. She always saw it ... and unlike the cruel classmates of his childhood, she never taunted him about it. She made him face it, and in facing it, she helped him cauterise the wound.
Two strong wills, two equal forces ... but on opposite sides.
In other parts ... Rudra Aman ... and Aman again points out the basic flaws in Rudra's marriage plans. On Shivratri, they expect the Thakur to be in action, why sidetrack Rudra in his own wedding? Shouldn't his entire focus be on the Thakur? This is his last chance to gather evidence against him before the court martial.
Again Rudra reiterates, if he doesn't get the evidence, he will get a wife.
And since Rudra needs to be at the Shiv mandir, he plays Mohini kaaki's game her way ... the wedding will be at the Shiv mandir.
For Rudra, because he needs to be there, and he doesn't think the wedding is going to happen.
For Mohini, he just played into her hands because she was trying to think of a way to get Paro and Rudra to the temple to deliver to Tejawat ... Rudra just made the way incredibly easy for her. And she's going to make sure the wedding doesn't happen. The groom has to die. The bride's death is extra bonus.
For Tejawat, his smuggling is of paramount importance, but he can kill two birds with one stone ... the bride has to die. The groom's death is extra bonus.
And in the last scene, Tejawat gets a small jerk ... Thakurain is going to be right there at the mela with him. His gun-money-bride-groom exchange plans just got a little complicated.
And Mohini calls Tejawat ... Mala receives the call ... and both sisters are puzzled at the unfamiliar familiar voice at the other end.
Yesterday's episode was almost unbearably intense ... today the intensity receded somewhat ...
Paro-Rudra ... he came into Paro's room, determined to shake her beliefs, a little shamefaced at his brutality, maybe a little guilty at her pain, pain he had driven her to inflicting on herself ... so he came to try and soothe it. And to reason with her, to convince her she was wrong, and she should think over his arguments.
Maybe he also saw what challenging her had led to ... his brave, foolish, foolhardy Paro would harm herself if he backed her into a corner, but she wouldn't give up. So he changed tack today ... tried calm reasoning, gentle, seasoned arguments. He admired her for standing for her beliefs ... but she was standing on the wrong side. She had to see that.
She listened ... he was persuasive. And he was different from the man of two hours ago. Not the cold, brutal jallad she hated, the embodiment of the BSD she had been brought up to fear ... but the man she had caught many a glimpse of, in this house ... the broken, vulnerable man ... and the shattered, vulnerable boy, betrayed by the one person every child has a right to trust ... his mother. She knew that boy now ... she had seen him many times ... she knew he still lurked behind the hard face of the jallad. As did the man she had grown somehow to trust.
But she couldn't believe his soft words, persuasive though they were ... this mockery of a marriage he was forcing on her, against all her beliefs, her views on the sanctity of marriage disregarded ... he had reduced it to a blackmail tool. And all to force her to testify against a man she considered a father-figure ... her trust was absolute, and it was true. He was wrong about her father-like Thakur. Children know whom to trust, she claimed, children can sense trustworthy adults.
Can they? he challenged. He had trusted his mother, and she proved most untrustworthy ... a child's trust can be misplaced, as his was ... so was hers, if only she would realise it ...
And she turned around and asked him ... if she was clinging on to blind faith in her father, was he not doing the same? Wasn't he clinging on to that same hope in his heart, that one day his mother would return?
He didn't want to answer such awkward questions ... he could not. So he left. As always, Paro made him open his heart, reveal his wounds ... he couldn't stay jallad for too long ... and somehow he felt no shame in showing her his pain. She always saw it ... and unlike the cruel classmates of his childhood, she never taunted him about it. She made him face it, and in facing it, she helped him cauterise the wound.
Two strong wills, two equal forces ... but on opposite sides.
In other parts ... Rudra Aman ... and Aman again points out the basic flaws in Rudra's marriage plans. On Shivratri, they expect the Thakur to be in action, why sidetrack Rudra in his own wedding? Shouldn't his entire focus be on the Thakur? This is his last chance to gather evidence against him before the court martial.
Again Rudra reiterates, if he doesn't get the evidence, he will get a wife.
And since Rudra needs to be at the Shiv mandir, he plays Mohini kaaki's game her way ... the wedding will be at the Shiv mandir.
For Rudra, because he needs to be there, and he doesn't think the wedding is going to happen.
For Mohini, he just played into her hands because she was trying to think of a way to get Paro and Rudra to the temple to deliver to Tejawat ... Rudra just made the way incredibly easy for her. And she's going to make sure the wedding doesn't happen. The groom has to die. The bride's death is extra bonus.
For Tejawat, his smuggling is of paramount importance, but he can kill two birds with one stone ... the bride has to die. The groom's death is extra bonus.
And in the last scene, Tejawat gets a small jerk ... Thakurain is going to be right there at the mela with him. His gun-money-bride-groom exchange plans just got a little complicated.
And Mohini calls Tejawat ... Mala receives the call ... and both sisters are puzzled at the unfamiliar familiar voice at the other end.
Dia, posting a link of a post by FLS, where she has an interesting take on why the writers might be keeping Paro's character nebulous as compared to other important characters.
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Thanks, Uma ... made interesting reading.
DeleteI agree to some extent ... making too much out of Paro's previous marriage might upset TRP aunties, especially since Varun was a terrorist. So yes, to show Paro having very strong feelings for him might not appeal. But I still feel they could show her feelings for her maami and Tahkurain maasa.
And yes, not delving too deep into Thakurain's character for now might be for the same reason ... they want to show her white eventually, for sure ... but how will they work around to that.
Let me read it again ... and get back to you. What do you feel?