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Strange are the ways of love indeed - it's never really about who will fit your wishlist. It's always about that person. The whole wishlist and its many check points which we tediously edit and amend running them over and over in our heads through the years waiting for love to happen are quite a waste of time because soulmates are not a myth; the wishlist is. It is, like I said, always about that one person.
So I was thinking of how interesting it is that Ridhima to the face is everything Megha represents, and better (no, DO NOT THROW things at me for saying this! Let me make my point first π) I say she is everything Megha represents - because honestly, even Megha might be briefly star-struck by the *makes me roll eyes* epitome of susheelta that Ridhima represents π And she is better, because hey, she's accepting Mohan!!! π Okay - serious point here? Let's go back to Mohan's monologue from the farmhouse, and just for a moment remove the fact that the woman in reference of his confessions was Megha. What did Mohan really ask for that night? A simple, suljhi zindagi. Where he could come back home and feel the exhaustion just crack away from himself at the sight of a family, an institution, and a woman who made his life worth it all. Love. Being wanted. Peace. When you look at Ridhima and her extent of simplicity, you've GOT to admit she epitomizes it even beyond Megha! Like come on, can you give one look to that girl and ever imagine her pulling off one iota of "Mirchi"?! Not really. She is tailormade as Mohan asked for - simple, loving, accepting - given that the whole Rashmi affair had left him quite charred and outcast!
But Mohan has tasted blood. Yes, literally too π Mohan has known and loved Megha. Who was everything that can be simple and loving and accepting, and yet show a fire that most people who she spent her life with remained unaware of! Mohan has seen it. And whether he likes it or not, knows it or not - he likes it to be that way! A woman like Ridhima would exhaust him out of any spark in his life, from the sheer lack of challenge! The sheer lack of spirit - she would do everything in the world to make him happy, everything he ever asked for that night - everything that makes a home warm - and Mohan would probably end in an early grave jaded with the perfection! π
There is of course the other side of the coin too. Amar was the epitome of perfection that Megha not only knew, but loved with all her heart, bore a family with, and lives with the name of... Amar was her entire world, and continued to be so even after he was gone. Amar is the mantle above the highest mantle which basically no one else in her opinion can reach out and touch. Amar is the unattainable. When she was with him, what they had then is unattainable.
But lo and behold and hold your hearts because the world may have yet another Amar specimen after all. Mr. Clean AND perfect. From whatever we can and have gathered of Amar, Manav is possibly the closest that can come to being his clone - perhaps in his own ways even an improvement, since the shots of the Bhopal home reflected a yet lesser talent in Amar to be of any "household" help that Manav seems to be a pro at π If Megha ever thought she would never exhaust of the impossibility of anyone touching the perfection that was Amar - well, here is, in flesh and blood, ready to be her new man!
Of course, Megha too has tasted blood! π We can say it the one way - Mohan has rubbed off a little too much on her, perfection isn't as becoming a trait as it used to feel like. We can say it another way - Mohan has brought out THOSE attributes of her character which remained unraveled even in her perfect world with Amar. Ironic as this sounds, perfection comes with that flaw. It doesn't allow you space to challenge yourself any further. With Amar - Megha was always the loved pretty girl who was wife and mom and all that, but just a little girl in the care of her always be there for you husband. Then the shield was gone, and life didn't look so pretty. By the time Mohan came into picture, Megha had weathered some, by only in going from an curious but ideal girl to a passive ideal woman. Of course, Mohan spelled musibat from his very advent. He poked and poked and dug out the curiosity and compelled and aided to hone it into greater bigger synonymous forms. Megha found a fire inside her - that wanted to live, to win, to be happy.
For two people who seemed to have had some very clear notions on their wishlist - Mohan and Megha didn't quite realize that neither of them is a perfectionist, and that perfection is somehow, quite boring to them. Their "peace" is in "unrest" π Even the trivial routine one upmanship will do. Will work great in fact - with each other. They shared the simple joys of a split cup of office tea. And they fared through complex adventures like becoming a make-believe couple π They didn't quite realize how this happened but the wishlists did alter in a manner, that they became each others "ideal" wishlist. So at this testing point of their lives, when they are each faces with a prospective other mate - they can't find the sense of completion anymore. Try as they might - and even they don't consciously "tally" the prospects against each other, fact is, no one can really become another Megha to Mohan, or Mohan to Megha at this point. Perhaps in real life and other circumstances life and time would have changed that. But this is obviously different.
So even if Mohan with a proper resolve wants to give moving on a shot, and even if Megha with her righteous resolve wants to go with her family's wishes - the sense of something amiss will not go away! They can try and bother their heads about WHAT is amiss if they care to waste time like that, but technically they both know!
I was very pleased to see that the tone of Mohan's reaction to Megha and Manav didn't change today, and that he STILL made no cynical comeback to the "love is complicated" remark. I know its just a line - but the whole essence of it means THAT much to me. ALL THE MORE when I put it together with the later Mohan moment where he scoffs and says aaj tak kisne kiya hai - in response to Indu being miffed they didn't stamp her Monu for instant approval! For all the cynicism of that moment - it just WARMS my heart to no end, that Mohan doesn't feel let down by love! And somehow the irony of it stands SO LOUD for me in its subtlety! Past Rashmi, Mohan had become a serious non believer staying away from love as far as he could. He was the outcome of what Ridhima told him today were the "complications of love" While Ridhima stayed clear all along, Mohan somehow came out of a mess and went with that belief. Only until Megha happened. And now at this point where he has matured much more and loved in a much deeper more complete way - the loss of Megha right now DOES NOT take him back to that old square one! I think that ONE thing is like a litmus test! Somehow, at least for real people like Mohan, a taste of TRUE love - whatever that is defined as - the kind he has with Megha, should NOT leave a bad taste, even on the verge of an unhappy end! The disasters that leave you charred and retreating in your shell are usually the kind that were storms in the passing - even if you didn't see them so in time! The very real and EQUALLY reciprocated (even if not as he would have it) kind of love that he has with Megha has made him a better, more stable man - and it shows! He's falling apart inside - no way he's not - but he's holding fort so strongly and well WITHOUT ANY KIND OF PRETENSE to be stronger than he is - Mohan is such a remarkably real guy!!!
But why I referred to that comment he makes with a scoff about who has ever said yes to him made me smile shaking head at the irony too. Look at the women in his life. Rashmi - started afresh but with a clear picture of KNOWING what she had lost. And regretting it duly. Megha - who could want NOTHING MORE than some miracle with which she could be with Mohan. Ridhima - Who for unfathomable reasons EVEN AFTER BEING treated to Mohan Bhatnagar in his most appalling element is shy and coy and all yes about marrying a man jo dil ka bada saaf hai...
And ek hain Mohan Bhatnagar. A man who scoffs at his fate, where no woman ever wants to say yes to him! The way life will come and play a tease on you is just... ridiculously ironic! 3 women who would have given anything to be with him - and he can't get ONE straight yes from ONE of them when it is needed! But the interesting part is, Mohan at THIS POINT is not self defeated about this "rejection" sort of sense. He's just in the middle of a resolve he seriously wants to see through and the lack of purpose he feels in himself and in his life EVEN though he's setting out to accomplish SUCH A CHALLENGING resolve!
I'm TOTALLY going to quote lines from Serena Ryder's All For Love because they SO GO for Mohan at this point!
Slipping through the hole where the moon don't shine
Spent too long trying to make you mine
Kept on running but I fell behind
Butterfly better fly away this time
I'm all for love
But I can't see the light
Tell me how to do it
Tell me how I'm gonna get it right - cause I'm all for love!
So anyway. The opening scene and Mohan in all his glorious bindaas giri was OBVIOUSLY the USP of the episode! I also kinda heart the Nanhi Addu scene - for all its filler value - because it's just a picture of so many of my own childhood days π Using your younger brother to "get your dirty work done" is like THE AWESOME FEELING of being boss you can get as a kid π
Btw - I was in total rue about how the wannabe duo had made such a villain out of Addu last week, people were actually HATING on that kid, and WHY NOT - that's HOW low they went for whatever drama they were chasing - but I'm glad we got a brief moment of Addu winning Kudos from REAL FUTURE DADDY!!! π Waah mere sher π€£ se muje bas ek baat yaad aayi - abey chuchandar kahin ke, khud ki himaat ni hui toh Mummy ko le aya!
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Oh and also - I just liked that Monu moment between Mohan and Indu. I did. I can't bring myself to like her - but all these random moments thrown in occasionally are reminders of why Mohan himself dotes on his mommy like a boy, in his own faltu giri ways! βΊοΈ
Chalo - that's that I guess? Today didn't seem off track to me from Sunday - but asal toh we'll know tomorrow hi. Mohan in the preview didn't look like he'd just suddenly drop his brains to the pit and walk away without them. I do think his revised plan has the potential to make sense - pray the original duo STAY!!!
Edited by without-fathom - 11 years ago
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