Wednesday 26th March
Rudra has progressed from baby to sulky, tantrum throwing five year old.
Parvati realises that she has her work cut out for her.
Aman is wondering if his boss is mentally unstable. If he isn't wondering that, he should be. Rudra is hanging on by a very slim thread.
*edited*
Continuation of last night's scene ... Rudra's turn to have nightmares of his mother leaving ... Paro's turn to shush him, calm him ... finally soothe him with a murmured 'shaant.' And he sleeps peacefully like a baby in his mother's lap ... and so does Paro.
Another role reversal ... although Paro had it far worse that Rudra ... she slept on the cold bare floor, alone, abandoned, with no one to comfort her ... but here she stays with Rudra, giving him comfort, a soft lap to sleep on, a motherly hand on his head.
Mohini is back home, happy to have gotten rid of the three thorns in her life. Maithili starts asking some awkward questions, Mohini quickly shuts her up.
Interesting ... will Maithili actually use her brains to help Paro sort out the fire mystery?
In the morning, Rudra is back to rudra mode ... along with a hangover, most likely ... accounts for the extra grumpiness. In his grumpiness, he snaps at Paro, asks her why she's hanging around when he told her to stay away ... she replies, simply ... because he didn't let her go. Rudra doesn't have an answer. Maybe because he knows she's speaking the truth.
Paro tries to vouch for Thakurain maasa ... though she knows Rudra won't be in the mood to believe her ... Rudra is more upset about the fact that she calls Thakurain her mother, and that the Thakurain was like a mother to her. So Paro got all the love that he missed out on. Another thing to hold against her.
Rudra is now behaving like a tantrum throwing five year old ... Mommy loved you more than she loved me.
Paro gets him food ... he complains she must have poisoned it. Paro obviously decides that the best way to deal with a sulky cantankerous child is to humour him, so she tastes the food for him ... there, it's only vegetables, they won't poison you, they're good for you, now be a good boy and eat up.
Paro is at her wits end, how to deal with this big sulky bear ... she thought he would be happy that she turned against the Thakur and believed Rudra ... but now he's angry that she didn't believe him earlier, and he actually believes she could harm his father ... an accusation which doesn't even make sense.
Don't worry, Paro ... nothing Rudra is thinking or doing these days makes much sense ... even Aman seems to think the same, as he tentatively asks his boss if he really thinks Paro is guilty ... Rudra gives him a long lecture for his pains, on how the BSD trained them to believe all beautiful women are not to be trusted.
Could almost see Aman shaking his head at that one ... did he miss that lecture? Or is his boss missing a few marbles here?
Paro goes off to the temple seeking some divine help, since the only person on earth who could have helped her, is currently comatose.
I thought Paro was supposed to be closely guarded by the BSD as she is prime witness? Or is the temple in the BSD compound?
Paro in the temple, praying for divine help ... a sweet scene, where the fatherly panditji explains to her the Shiv Parvati story ... and how Lord Shiva, Bholenath, can be as gentle and innocent as a child ... he will forgive Parvati, if she begs for forgiveness.
Don't quite know why Paro should beg for mercy ... after all, she was deceived as much as Rudra was ... Tejawat is the true culprit here.
But Paro draws strength from Bholenath's story ... as Bholenath forgave Parvati her mistake, so will Rudra forgive her ... she just has to beg him long enough and hard enough.
Umm Paro ... how about trying to find out who started the fire side by side? After all, you believed the truth only when confronted with it ... Rudra will be the same.
Rudra has progressed from baby to sulky, tantrum throwing five year old.
Parvati realises that she has her work cut out for her.
Aman is wondering if his boss is mentally unstable. If he isn't wondering that, he should be. Rudra is hanging on by a very slim thread.
*edited*
Continuation of last night's scene ... Rudra's turn to have nightmares of his mother leaving ... Paro's turn to shush him, calm him ... finally soothe him with a murmured 'shaant.' And he sleeps peacefully like a baby in his mother's lap ... and so does Paro.
Another role reversal ... although Paro had it far worse that Rudra ... she slept on the cold bare floor, alone, abandoned, with no one to comfort her ... but here she stays with Rudra, giving him comfort, a soft lap to sleep on, a motherly hand on his head.
Mohini is back home, happy to have gotten rid of the three thorns in her life. Maithili starts asking some awkward questions, Mohini quickly shuts her up.
Interesting ... will Maithili actually use her brains to help Paro sort out the fire mystery?
In the morning, Rudra is back to rudra mode ... along with a hangover, most likely ... accounts for the extra grumpiness. In his grumpiness, he snaps at Paro, asks her why she's hanging around when he told her to stay away ... she replies, simply ... because he didn't let her go. Rudra doesn't have an answer. Maybe because he knows she's speaking the truth.
Paro tries to vouch for Thakurain maasa ... though she knows Rudra won't be in the mood to believe her ... Rudra is more upset about the fact that she calls Thakurain her mother, and that the Thakurain was like a mother to her. So Paro got all the love that he missed out on. Another thing to hold against her.
Rudra is now behaving like a tantrum throwing five year old ... Mommy loved you more than she loved me.
Paro gets him food ... he complains she must have poisoned it. Paro obviously decides that the best way to deal with a sulky cantankerous child is to humour him, so she tastes the food for him ... there, it's only vegetables, they won't poison you, they're good for you, now be a good boy and eat up.
Paro is at her wits end, how to deal with this big sulky bear ... she thought he would be happy that she turned against the Thakur and believed Rudra ... but now he's angry that she didn't believe him earlier, and he actually believes she could harm his father ... an accusation which doesn't even make sense.
Don't worry, Paro ... nothing Rudra is thinking or doing these days makes much sense ... even Aman seems to think the same, as he tentatively asks his boss if he really thinks Paro is guilty ... Rudra gives him a long lecture for his pains, on how the BSD trained them to believe all beautiful women are not to be trusted.
Could almost see Aman shaking his head at that one ... did he miss that lecture? Or is his boss missing a few marbles here?
Paro goes off to the temple seeking some divine help, since the only person on earth who could have helped her, is currently comatose.
I thought Paro was supposed to be closely guarded by the BSD as she is prime witness? Or is the temple in the BSD compound?
Aman tells Rudra they need to check out the Tejawat haveli again, to look for the thakur's little black book. Rudra grits his teeth and decides, he's a big boy now, he can do this.
And so he does ... enters the haveli as though he's entering the dentist's office to get a tooth pulled ... lets Aman go ahead to do all the work, and defiantly tells his mother's smiling picture ... you can't hurt me any more, this is the end of our bond.
It isn't, of course.
The false bravado in his words exposed, the hurt begins again, as he sees Aman pulling out all his mother's sarees and an old picture album. Not so old ... it has new pictures of his mother with a smiling Paro. Paro, the girl his mother looked after like a daughter ... the girl who got his share of motherly love, while all he got was his father's bitterness and poisonous hatred for beautiful women.
Aman finds the black book ... would have thought Tejawat took it with him ... but fortunately Tejawat's intelligence level suddenly dropped to that of the BSD.
And Rudra crumples the picture of the two women ... the two women who have betrayed him.
Danveer brings Dilsher home ... now that will drive Mohini up the wall again! Samrat and Maithili are there for help. Rudra goes to the temple to get some prasad.
And so he does ... enters the haveli as though he's entering the dentist's office to get a tooth pulled ... lets Aman go ahead to do all the work, and defiantly tells his mother's smiling picture ... you can't hurt me any more, this is the end of our bond.
It isn't, of course.
The false bravado in his words exposed, the hurt begins again, as he sees Aman pulling out all his mother's sarees and an old picture album. Not so old ... it has new pictures of his mother with a smiling Paro. Paro, the girl his mother looked after like a daughter ... the girl who got his share of motherly love, while all he got was his father's bitterness and poisonous hatred for beautiful women.
Aman finds the black book ... would have thought Tejawat took it with him ... but fortunately Tejawat's intelligence level suddenly dropped to that of the BSD.
And Rudra crumples the picture of the two women ... the two women who have betrayed him.
Danveer brings Dilsher home ... now that will drive Mohini up the wall again! Samrat and Maithili are there for help. Rudra goes to the temple to get some prasad.
Paro in the temple, praying for divine help ... a sweet scene, where the fatherly panditji explains to her the Shiv Parvati story ... and how Lord Shiva, Bholenath, can be as gentle and innocent as a child ... he will forgive Parvati, if she begs for forgiveness.
Don't quite know why Paro should beg for mercy ... after all, she was deceived as much as Rudra was ... Tejawat is the true culprit here.
But Paro draws strength from Bholenath's story ... as Bholenath forgave Parvati her mistake, so will Rudra forgive her ... she just has to beg him long enough and hard enough.
Umm Paro ... how about trying to find out who started the fire side by side? After all, you believed the truth only when confronted with it ... Rudra will be the same.
Actually, I see enuf reason for Rudra to reject Paro at the moment...(even with all the inconsistencies in this BSD business)....
ReplyDeleteRudra had got to a point where he thot that Paro was only refusing to side with him becos of being brainwashed by the enemy...he had lived with that and his attraction to her grew in those circumstances, like a situation of "she knows not what she does"...
Unfortunately for Paro, her actions at the scene of crime, when she hit him and the actions that preceded her arrival sealed her fate. To Rudra, her actions seem suddenly seem very gruesome..and added to that the complication of Mala in Paro's life....it would seem to Rudra as if the whole has conspired against him. At the same time, why Paro's pleas for being heard sound hollow to him are simply becos of the state of mind of Rudra. Its is ofc different from Paro's distrust of Rudra in the beginning...Paro was blindfolded becos of her complete trust of Tejawat...and Rudra is simply not in a position to reason becos of his situation, the prejudices and insecurities that have crept in his personality over time....
yayyy, Rekhs watches the show:)
DeleteRekha, I understand Rudra perfectly ... on paper. Somehow the effect is not translating well on screen. I feel the repeated breakdown of Rudra are the culprit ... he has broken down some seven times in three months ... so his major breakdown when he saw his mother had no impact at all. When I think about the situation he is in, I understand his pain ... I understand why he can't trust Paro ... but when I watch it on screen, I don't. Part of the reason is the too many breakdowns, and part of the reason in the acting ... I prefer subtle acting, and Ashish is going OTT in his breakdowns and in some of his expressions.
DeleteAnd again they are repeatedly ignoring Paro's side of the story ... she believed implicitly in Tejawat, how has she forgotten this huge betrayal, her parents' death, her sister's loss, so quickly, all because she needs forgiveness from Rudra for not believing him? After all, she has suffered as big a betrayal as Rudra has ... her entire existence has turned out to be a lie. But her paramount thought is only to get forgiveness ... for a mistake she committed unknowingly.
Wohi toh, Ashish needs to go back and start watching his own RR performance, he was far more restrained in his performance, now I wo uldn't say he is OTT, but far too dramatic for my liking.
DeleteAgree with you, any understanding I currently of have Rudra is more because of the character I have understood, the actor makes Rudra, Rondu, Kaamchar and annoying.
Dia...u r right...abt all these points...in fact i had missed seeing the epi of tejawat and paro confrontation...i tend to go by ur updates on the serial...i am not necessarily watching all episodes...i watched it now
DeleteSomewhere earlier i had written that these breakdowns have become a necessity becos of how they have structured the hero's background..insecure, impulsive, prejudiced and imagine an army man at that...
On Ashish performance, i haven't watched him much to judge his acting abilities...he appears competent for most part...as do all the others in the cast..frankly i am not seeing anything stellar from anyone in the cast, some of the side characters get by their diction and delivery and perhaps little else.. Tejawat/tarun gets by his mustache...Acting is just about average to above average...there is nothing nuanced in anyone's performance. But again, for that, i would say the writing is probably to blame as I am sure these actors are capable of more.
Ashish is getting some convoluted screenplay...imagine him having to drift /thrash about aimlessly in that room just to ensure that mirror scene, i feel sometimes directors/cvs get plagued by their perceptions of grandeur. frankly, even if Rudra was sitting in one place in drunken stupor, we can still get the idea of role reversal without having to resort to all these gimmicks
On Paro and Tejawat confrontation, i think is a last minute change to script...it was poorly done...and my sympathies with the actors...they could not do justice to that scene becos it was half-baked. Paro only showed urgency to accept Rudra's position but seems to have got amnesia about the rest of the situation.
Shwetha, I don't feel that Ashish has made Rudra annoying, its the writing that has done it. agreed Ashish has not added anything from his end to make us appreciate his situation better but by that same logic, neither has Sanaya...and the reason she perhaps has not is similar...becos the screenplay has not got her to focus on anything beyond Rudra at the moment. No nuanced acting by anyone at the moment.
Ideally, we would have liked Ashish/Rudra to internalise some of the conflict coming his way but the screenplay has to support that...u show a drunken guy asking for food(??) asking Paro to go away and in the same breath stay....sleep...i don't know what the Cv was wanting to achieve in that scene..role reversal all at once...
exactly.
DeleteMaa sa kyon bula rahi hai?
ReplyDeleteUlta Decode - He is just making sure, she is not his half sister.
I get it, in Soapyworld a love story is impossible if the hero does not have:
Maa issues
Dad issues
Di issues
Status issues
Looks issues
Cat issues ( Meray bachpan ka cat did not eat any rat in the house issue)
What I don't get it is when the shaatir dimaag wala hero starts getting emotionally attached/loving or whatevering a gal:
His Shaatir Dimaag goes for a permanent vacation.
He starts working from home.
He outsources everything to Aman. (Tejavat ka info mila toh tell me, Search the haveli for important info while I sit and go on Flashback mode)
All these creative stomp and sulk about the TOUGH conditions in TV industry why don't they show their own Hero working hard, using his dimaag, earning his money and not be such a Faltu insaan when on the verge of/ post romance?????
ROFL Shwetha............another gem from you! I was watching rerun of the show that shall not be named last night.........at least the villain had kept his shaatir dimagh in that show. here, the dimaagh seems to be on permanent vacation!
DeleteShwethu is back with another gem!!! :)))
DeleteArey, hero's shatir dimaag getting lost, I can deal with ... but Tejawat leaving his little black book in the cupboard for anyone to find?! Sob sob ... there goes one of the most suave smart cunning villains of telly ... at least redeem him by saying the black book was a red herring! I don't want Mohini kakisa to be the smartest villain!
Aki Dia, awwwwwwwww, thanks you guys.
DeleteDia You better understand something very clearly,
Ranavat men are idiots.
The women married to them are not and will always be smarter than them.
Tejavat ka intelligence ka koi bharosa nahin, India may water and electricity supply ki tarah hai, kab hoga, kab band hoga, kuch pata nahin.
ROFL ... samajh gayi, boss! How clearly and succinctly you explain things! :)))
Delete