Aye ajnabi tu bhi kabhi aawaaz de kahin se
Aye ajnabi tu bhi kabhi aawaaz de kahin se
Roz roz resham si hawa aate jaate kehti hai bata
Resham si hawa kehti hai bata
Vo jo doodh dhuli masoom kali
Vo hai kahan kahan hai
Vo roshni kahan hai vo jaansi kahan hai
Main adhoora tu adhoori jee rahein hain
Tu to nahin hai lekin teri muskurahatein hain
Chehra nahin hai par teri aahatein hain
Tu hai kahan kahan hai
Tera nishaan kahan hai
Mera jahan kahan hai
Main adhoora tu adhoori jee rahein hain
This episode belonged to Sanaya and Barun ..Sanaya after many a episode finally got some meaty scenes to sink her teeth into and she did full justice to it ; Barun..is a viewer's delight !!
Khushi is going on about her day to day job and she witnesses the love, care and concern that Arnav has for Anjali, watches from afar, a indefinable sadness in her eyes as Arnav administers his tender care on his sister, She wonders at the duality f this man who can straddle the two extremes of love and hate with ease ..A man who is the veritable ocean of Love to his sister but is a bubbling, boiling Volacano in their relationship ..Anjali reveals the reason for absence and the silence of Khushi . Arnav takes Anjali's leave ...
Khushi is beginning to get more hints and so is Arnav .. each hints negating their assumptions , furthering their progress towards truth but in the case of Arnav , not just his head but his emotions come into play too and when his heart rules, all the hints take a beating and he slides back to the same square , burning in the same hell again and again ...
Khushi, I had always held the thought that in comparison to Arnav Khushi was the luckiest one since she had a loving refuge and a age which could act as barrier to the grief but today after watching that scene, I would say that she is grievously injured too, her desire to belong overwhelming..In Arnav's case, The siblings had one another , to feed or lessen one another grief but Khushi, NONE !!.. She was taken in by a benevolent family , loved by them yet there was always a soupcon of alienation , A trace of charity in their behavior which drove Khushi to be the life and bread of the family, she was the clown, the joker who made them smile, the punching bag who absorbed their barbs, the banyan Tree who provided the shelter..She made them smile, laugh the while her craving for acceptance.Khushi appeared to be the proverbial sunshine girl, always cheerful , positive, goofy, idiotic, immature but beating underneath all this spurious acts was a aching heart, mutely crying to belong, to love , to be accepted for herself rather than on her usefulness..She thought for a brief while that she did get what she had longed for all her life "Unconditional Love" But that proved to be a dream...Now she reels under the hatred of the man whom she loves, despeartely seekign some clues to that young man who bought her bangles,hope arising one second as she catches a fleeting glimpse of the caring man only for it to smashed into fragments of zillion pieces ...in comparison to Khushi, Arnav has had a easy ride ..
So Redux's pet triangle is back again...yes..this time the siblings at the base and Khushi at apex..what strikes me about the triangle is its fluidity , it is not a fixed triangle ..The person who is at the apex is almost always out of the loop while the members at the base exchange the secrets or hold a secret...One another thing I noticed is that Arnav forms relationship with one woman at a time ..when he is with Anjali, Khushi walks away ..Arnav gets closer to Khushi after Anjali leaves the stage...when will the girls come together ...
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
~Amy Lowell, "The Letter"
Arnav approaches Khushi , tries to make amends and for his good intentions is rebuffed by Khushi...The ego which is just beneath the surface flares up turning to ashes the finer feelings of apology !! Arnav climbs the high horse of misunderstanding again, while Khushi leaves quietly without sparring with him.. ..
The distance has begun to grow, Arnav at the lower rung, flung from his pedestal bec his love lacked one important component , TRUST !! bec he humiliated the sanctity of marriage, bec he disrespected relationships..but does he remain there , No..Once he sees the distance growing , He moves to shorten it , catches up with Khushi only for his ego to be pricked again ...
"I try to talk to you, but I don't know what to say. I am afraid you don't want me to say anything. So I don't. But inside of me there are words waiting to come out.And tell you how I feel-like how I miss you. And how I love you despite my broken heart.And how I need you in my life. And especially how much I want you.But those words may forever stay in my heart-locked inside.Sometimes I wonder if there are words locked inside you too... but I'll never know."
The battle of wills starts quite seriously..Khushi removing the dupatta from his path, Arnav following her , provoking her, throwing vengeful words calculated at getting a raise from her but his efforts come to a naught as Khushi follows the principles of least resistance ..Arnav leaves the room, thinking he has won , not realizing that this is one victory he does not want or would ever want...
it was a moment of quiet dignity, How wretched would Khushi be feeling, to be accused of turning someone's life a hell !!..She is a girl who worked tirelessly to bring a smile on everyone's visage sometimes at the cost of her own happiness, pride and self respect ..and today to be accused by the very man whom she loves so much so that she would even embrace death !! it would be like getting staked through ur heart by the very man whom u trusted to protect ..Khushi decides to give Arnav what he wants not because she wants to extract her pound of flesh but bec she want to relieve him from the agony of confronting her everyday , She withdraws from him so that he can smile again but the simple girl has not realized that Arnav was spiteful bec he sought assurance, the assurance of being needed, of being cared from her .
I liked the shot of Khushi and Lakshmi together when Arnav was going on about the way his life had turned out to be ... Both on the ground, in a way both are toys wound up by people for their pleasure, their own emotions unreadable to the people who supposedly care about them , not paid attention but their presence always bringing joy and a smile of pleasure ..
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. ~Adrienne Rich
Khushi disappears from Arnav's sight for whole of 2 days ...Arnav does not hear her voice nor feel her presence anywhere...on the first day , he comforts himself saying that he looks forward to the pleasure of his own company, the second day, even that comforter is not available as hunger pangs [of wanting to see her] overpower the controlled, Self contained Arnav Singh Raizada ...
If earlier we saw the need for acceptance, need for Love of Khushi, in the latter half we just got to see how the powerful Raizada who has everything at his finger tips still feels himself incomplete without Khushi ...Khushi brought colors into his room, his life and he has embraced it without much fuss.. the colors have so seeped in they have become part of his own makeup and one which he misses terribly when Khushi withdraws ...
I really liked the use of FB,,,The first one hinting at the lack of sugar in his life lack of softer feelings, lack of finer emotions due to which he is shunned by all except for his immediate family, Khushi telling him that the reason for all shunning is his ego which is being burnt to ashes and then An Arnav devoid of his ego, bitterness finally accepted by Khushi and Arnav finally letting go of his ego, his bitterness , letting in music, colors, joy Khushi into his life...
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
~Francis Kazinczy
Arnav opens his eyes to the tinkling of the wind chimes , His eyes instinctively flickering towards the bed , looking for signs of Khushi, when the bed looks not slept in, Arnav immediately turns and glances his sleepy eyes towards the pool.. his eyes searching for that long haired lass whose one glimpse sends his heart racing, disappointment awaits him as Khushi is resolute in her determination to give him what he wants ...
Here was a man who had emphatically stated to Khushi few months back that he preferred the silence to any sound ..but look at the changes within him, changes to which he is oblivious about.. the sound of the wind chimes does not irritate him, it serves to remind him about his girl and he welcomes it, the tinkling of her bangles are not reduced to noise or a babel but is actually the sweetest music that he longs to hear , Her voice that of sweetest nightingale, the murmur of ocean waves, a gentle breeze from the hills, the suffuses him with pleasure, warmth and leaves him rejoicing at being the blessed recipient of this boon ..Imagine the desolation when this ecstasy is taken away..like a mordant he just assures himself that this is just what he wanted , he simply does not care for Khushi brand of happiness but second day the shoe begins to pinch and he cannot ignore the gaping hole in his world, a hole which is assuming black hole proportions sucking away at his equanimity, his control, his aloofness ..His reserve , his detachment has been chipped away so much so that now he craves the noise, Khushi's incessant chatter , ..Without seeing, her, without hearing her, without feeling her ..Arnav is a vacuum, A vacumm from which he seeks escape and the key to the escape hatch resides with Khushi ..
Another moment which I liked was when a cosmetically and genetically redesigned Hariprakash comes to the bedroom in the morning, He asks about the preference of Khushi Bhabhi, Arnav's Swift retort , Did I ask you ??.. he simply does not want anyone to know the effect she has on him, his monumental ego prevents it ...but come evening when his searching eyes has still not found that elusive deer , he voluntary stops the harried Servant and asks the whereabouts of the girl who holds his heart to ransom...but none are able to help him and he goes on in his pursuit of that mythical chimera when he is arrested by the sound of her voice which guides him on the right path .. A good hint for the future when Arnav has to climb down from his rigid stance, unbend and open his heart unconditionally for only when he opens his heart , will he hear the Music of love...HER Voice !!
What an Ironic fate have this duo been cursed with that their love can be exhibited only as hate !
Shyam has come back and is consistent to his true character.. so far we saw him haring up and down the rooms like a one time petty thief but now we finally saw the Shyam Manohar Jha , the meticulous Planner, the man who does not leave things to chance, covers every base , the strategist who knows the weak points of all his pawns ..who moves them with due care for his own diabolical means but convinces the pawns that he is doing it for his own good ...
I loved the fact that Shyam is pouring out the water when Nani is urging Arnav to take the thread ..Water by virtue of its scarcity is considered precious .. and is endowed with the property of negating all the ill wills.. A suggestion that the malicious intention of Shyam will not coe to fruition ..I also liked the use of fire , The fire from the lamp of DM stopping Shyam, acting as the break , putting paid to his evil designs ...
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