22/8 - Epi 169 ... Dream? Or Reality?

Friday 22nd August

Today's episode went at jet speed even for Rangrasiya standards ... and I am zapped by the precap. So I will recap the episode without any comments or analysis, and see if it makes sense when I write it down.

Starts with Myrah asking Rudra ... 'who is Paro?' 
He doesn't answer ... she asks him again ... random armed men come in and he brushes off her question by turning his attention to telling the men something ... takes Myrah by the hand and leads her out to the car.
Gives her water ... giver her his jacket ... chocolate ... she says, 'I'm fine' ... he tells her, 'twenty minutes ago you had a knife to your throat, you're not fine ... take it.' 

SN - Paro always said she was fine, every time anything happened to her ... she never made a big deal out of anything.

Rudra reminds Myrah to call her chacha ... she does ... chacha is not happy with Rudra, Myrah says 'no, he saved me ...' and also not to tell her parents. Chacha says he won't ... but he told Rohit.
Myrah is dismayed ... asks Rudra's permission to make an international call ... Rudra tries not to listen, but he's listening to every word ...
Myrah's Rohit apparently says he will come, Myrah dissuades him, she came alone because he's busy with some important contract ... there is no need for him to come.

SN - So there is a Rohit after all.

Myrah and Rudra in the car .. Rudra questions her ... why such a short call to your fiance, is he coming, why isn't he coming, you said you're okay, and he agreed? He won't come, because you said you're fine ...
Myrah stops him ... so many questions?
Rudra - shouldn't I ask?
Myrah says ... so many questions, let me ask you one ... who is Paro?
Silence.
She asks again ... and again ... and again ...
He says, you talk too much ... to shut her up, he switches on the radio.
Song ... Kuch na kaho, kuch bhi na kaho ... sounds appropriate at first ... but then ...
Aur is pal mein, koi nahin hai ... bas ek main hun, aur ek tum ho ...
Both uncomfortable ... she switches it off.
Myrah answers ... he wanted to come, I only ... 
Rudra .. I never said he didn't want to come ..
Then ... what did you mean?
Rudra, speaks unwillingly, as though he doesn't want to say this but is burning to say it - you're getting married, you love each other ... it's a lifelong relationship ... if I was in his place ...
Myrah ... almost apprehensively, breathlessly ... if you were in his place ... then? What would you do? 

They look at each other ... tension in the air ...
Saved because they've reached home.
Myrah makes to return his jacket ... Maithili comes ... then the kids.
Did anyone know Myrah was kidnapped? Maithili seemed rather blase about it ... are you fine? 

Later ... kids talk to Myrah ... did Rudra kaka do dishum dishum and rescue you? 
Yes, he did. 
Maithili comes to take the kids ... Rudra brings the doctor ... dressing, and then injection ... Myrah doesn't want ... kids try to convince her it doesn't hurt ... she'll get chocolate ...
Kids run away seeing the injection ... Myrah stops Rudra from going ... and holds her hand
'Do you trust me? Nothing will happen to you ... '
She trusts him ... nothing will happen ...
And in the eyelock that follows, Myrah gets her injection.

Doctor warns that Myrah might have some side effects ... sar ghoomna, chakkar aana, not in full hosh ... she should rest.

Myrah stops Rudra ... what would you have done ... if you were in Rohit's place?
He would have flown in from wherever he was, broken the heads of those who tried to touch her, then taken her away with him and never let her out of his sight again ...

The luminosity in Myrah's/Paro's eyes ... seems to catch Rudra in a spell.

Broken by the kids ... with chocolate for Myrah.

Rudra tells Maithili to stay with Dhruv, he will look after Myrah.
Maithili not happy ... this isn't right ... she will stay with Myrah.
Rudra says Myrah is his responsibility. Maithili is not very happy.

SN - When Paro got wet in the rain, then Rudra sat with her at night, even though Maithili offered to.

Myrah tosses and turns ... remembering Rudra ... the rescue ... in his arms ... his words, 'don't touch her' ... and his words, 'if I was in Rohit's place ...'

Rudra comes in, he'll get her something for her head, she's half asleep ... Myrah wants to talk ... she gets up, stumbles ... he holds her ... she points a finger to his scar ... 'how did you get that?'
She's half asleep, half drugged ...

Sanaya did this part fabulously ... her eyes just slightly unfocussed ... her expressions merging, moving between Myrah and Paro ... blurring the lines between the two ...
He fought with Sumer for that scar?!
Yes ... now go to sleep.
No, she doesn't want to sleep ... and she's not going to return his jacket either ... because she feels safe with it ... the same way she feels safe with him ... if he's there, nothing can happen to her ...
Rudra seems mesmerised by her words ... the familiarity echoing through his brain ...

She needs to sleep ...
No she doesn't want to ... why is he running away? Why is he scared? Can't he feel something happening between them?
It's magic ...
And she comes closer still and looks up into his eyes ... and he looks back, his eyes tormented, yet with a faint light of hope dawning ...

Precap ... even when I touch you? Nothing happens? Why so scared, major saab? 
Scared ... scared to hope ... terrified this is a dream ..
Up on her toes ... close her eyes ... and a kiss ...
Paro ...

If the cvs are playing with us, and Myrah is not Paro, I will personally go find them and do some serious damage.

Sanaya killed it in the last scene ... I think I stopped breathing for a bit there.