like an addict...I know its bad for my health...but I keep returning to the show for my daily fix...or even like a tiny fix!!!
hmm...so maybe a little sanity today...
following from your marvelous synopsis on POVs in last epi discussion thread...I can relate to kumud somewhat
1) she's been third time unlucky...that's the absolute pits...shouldn't happen to anyone..
2) and there's the huge marriage tied to family pratistha issue tied to VC as head of the house still ...she was always daddy's little girl and subconsiously cannot be the person who blames her dad for the shit she is in..doing so thereby destroys VC's facade of fatherly responsibilty of protecting his little girl...thereby becoming a daughter destroying her own father...thereby destroying one of her identities...a hindi word here...her astitva...without VC the father, there is no kumd his darling daughter...so she's shifted the entire blame to herself by emphatically stating its was her decision...
3) now once she's progressed on this choice path...to backtrack even a little means revisiting #2...
4) so she's stuck once again in this horrible situation like a broken record...first it was her astitva related to her love for saras ...and now its her astitva related to her love for her dad...
5) add to this mixture..her own innate stubborness, guts, never give up spirit
6) her love for her dad is strongest...stronger than her love for saras...so while she may or may not forgive saras...there is no way in hell she is going to go along the path of forgiving her dad because to do so means #2 all over again...where you will need to start with the blaming first... did you notice her emphasis on (i) it was my decision (ii) recourse to #5
7) AND she still knows...though she won't admit it yet...it's all wrong...
To quote from The Matrix:
What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. ...that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
So maybe...the recourse to the all-powerful destiny... its fuzzy logic conveniently explains & fills in the blank / illogic spots cause by the various splinters driven in her mind by everyone...and once she takes recourse in this destiny, she doesn't need to probe further internally...
Loved Ivy's description of this state...her eyes are screaming SOS though her actions are otherwise...
DB / Guniyal-
Nope...no redemption for these two yet...this change seems permanent...sacrificed to TRP Maiya..This is a wrong note both from the novel and the show's earlier adaptation POV..
Got my hopes up when Guniyal started the discussion on Independence Day ...but what a damp squib the subsequent discussion turned out to be!
Raged when DB stopped VC from making kumud promise to tell all whever she's in trouble...I was like Say What!...W*F?? 😡... Why are you tieing up kumud ...Can't you see the screaming SOS in her eyes (Thanks again Ivy!)
A great pity and loss overall...
VC-
Finally he got to see the light...But...
Most illogic reaction...what will a dad nornally do when he realizes he pushed his own daughter in the deep end?...Make corrections...One of which would be to first remove the daughter from the cause of her misery...which is to take up DBs earlier call...PROBE what else is wrong?...is she suffering in any way?...Or no way are you going back...
But what does our guy do?...Says I have no face / right etc...So I will accept whatever she says...
That's total bunkum...Yet another smaller sacrifice to TRP Maiya...small because even in the novel..VC's prime motive was log kya kahenge..
Saras-
Finally he gets some of it...He has no locus standii now...He needs to support and forget her..
BTW: In that last scene... I was thinking that the earlier water scene had some dirty pond thing...now where did this large river-like thing come from...but luckily he clarified it...this was the place where his mother ko 'samarpeet kiya tha'...so maybe this was the river where her ashes were immersed...
Did not get the last line...30 days mein shaadi theek karwa doonga...was ROFL...especially when he said it in the Mr. So Serious half-growl...
1) Is this a cheeky way of the PH (new, old) or SP telling the viewers that 30 days is the new extension?...so all crazies still watching this ...Growl : "please get this / read our lips...30 days and its all over...fin..the end...now go home and get some sleep.."
2) OO hero!...khud ki shaadi to theek se 2 baar karwa nahin paaya...now he's going to go out and make theek se of kumud's marriage!!
To quote from Conan O'Brien's Harvard Commencement speech in 2000:
When all else fails, there is always delusion!
..Pure TRP Maiya...Mr. Hero can't be wrong ever...
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