Originally posted by: Minionite
Dec 10th - Symbolism Galore
I couldn't find one simple title for today. There was just so much going on. So I chose a broad encompassing title. Let's hope I did justice to it.
Ananya and Rudra's pure friendship - Despite everything, Rudra does care deeply for Ananya. He knew that she was stressed/angry over whatever he did to get those wounds and he made the mood as light as possible to get her to relax. What I like the most about their friendship is that there's nothing hidden in it. Ananya's feelings are out in the open. Rudra's feelings are out in the open. And there's no awkwardness about it. Ananya believes that Rudra will come to love her someday and even if he doesn't, it'll break her heart, but she'll be able to move on over it. It's a pure friendship. The type you would want to have with anyone. Someone you can share your pains, laughter, joys, ups, and downs with.
Now let's just point out one thing right now. Ananya is smarter than she's been given credit for. Rudra can make light of the challenges all he wants. Ananya understands that it's torture for Rudra. It's in line with his reaction after the first challenge. He wanted to fence and take out his anger, but he couldn't. Ananya sent a cake as another outlet for anger. Just let it go and enjoy the moment.
Ok, I like this couple, because of the fact that they are very open about their feelings for each other. I appreciate this friendship because of this openness. So, I have another Mahabharat foreshadowing to add here. Ananya and Rudra's relationship reminds me of Arjun and Subhadra because Subhadra loved Arjun, but Arjun always saw her as a friend. Also, she was Krishna's sister. And Draupadi had a very sisterly relation with Subhadra. And in this show, Maya is the Krishna, and she is Draupadi also, so does this foreshadow anything?? I may be wrong, who knows.
Rishi's selfishness - What a liar. I tell you, Rishi is turning out to be stereotypical in every sense. He cares about no one, but himself. Even faking that concern for Maya and the lies were all to get Maya closer to him. In the process, he revealed a lot more about himself than usual. He revealed part of his real personality. Girls are not important to him. They are just someone to attain, keep around for a few days, and then leave - through the scorecard. Even Maya is just someone he wants to attain, except in this case, because Maya is a damsel-in-distress, simple charm won't do. He has to woo her and show her his commitment. And for a damsel-in-distress who has been hurt before, that commitment is all the way to marriage. Of course, he also needs to understand his boundaries. Rudra shouldn't have to remind him to not touch a woman if she doesn't want to be touched. He should know that. But then he is used to getting what he wants and he's probably never been refused by a female before.
Well, Rishi may be selfish, but I don't think he is bad. Who isn't selfish. Everyone is.
The bracelet - I come back to the bracelet, but this time in a broader sense. I'm not just focused on that bracelet that connects this mysterious lover with Rudra, but the bracelet that the lover gave Maya and the bracelet that Rishi is attempting to give to Maya. Watch how Rishi puts the bracelet on Maya. It's like a handcuff. Open, slip on from underneath, fasten from above. Symbolically suggesting I'm making you mine now. Now watch how the lover puts the bracelet on Maya. Slips it on and tightens it to the point where it's wrapped tightly around the skin. Symbolically suggesting that you are mine and you can't get loose from this. You're trapped. Maya didn't just jerk away her hand from the bracelet because it reminded her of the past, but I believe it also reminded her of this feeling. The feeling of being trapped and not being able to get away.
Bracelet nahi, phanda hai phasaane ka. Kisi ne kabhi Maya ko phasaaya tha, ab wo usi ke zariye kisi aur ko phasaayegi. Maya's pain is her weakness and her strength also.
Rudra vs Rishi - Not in real, but in the symbolic sense. Today the tables turned. Up to now, Rishi has always been the happy-go-lucky, fun-loving guy and Rudra the quiet, sensible, thinking one. Today the tables turned thanks to Maya. On one hand, Maya made Rishi cry. Despite his selfishness, she made him realize that it wasn't going to be so easy to get her and that even if he did, she wouldn't just bring happiness in his life, but sadness as well. Rudra, on the other hand, was happier, confident, and fun-loving today again thanks to Maya. Maya's tasks may have been difficult, but they also filled Rudra with confidence when he completed the first two. This is important because somewhere Rudra was losing confidence in himself and his abilities to run his business. I don't think he would have gone to MJ, but he may not have been able to fight off MJ as vigorously as he will now. Fun-loving because he managed to cheer up Rishi by teasing him - tu idiot hai. Haan tu bewakoof bhi hai. Wohi naa? I like this teasing banter between the brothers. But I also like how serious Rudra can get when things need to take a serious turn.
I get the feeling that Maya was traumatized mentally and physically. She was physically assaulted and her heart was broken. And both can cause an unending sequence of pain and agony. So with Rudra and Rishi, Maya is playing both. She is gradually breaking Rishi's heart which will cause him pain and with Rudra, she is giving him physically challenging tasks to give him the physical pain.
MJ and his mother - There is so much going on here! I don't know where to start! Okay let's go step-by-step. The CVs set up this sequence in a particular way and it's best to follow it.
First, their responses to Rishi and Rudra. MJ - aansoon dil se aate hain aur khushi dimak se. Lekin yahan dil samjhta nahi aur dil sunta nahi. He's both complaining about his sons indirectly and also pointing out his characteristics. Dil as in Rishi and dimak as in Rudra. Rishi thinks directly from his heart, but doesn't understand anything. Rudra thinks from his mind, but refuses to listen to reason. In the same way, MJ reacts both from his mind and heart. When Rishi or Rudra are hurt, in pain, or wounded, his heart reacts. He wants to protect them to the point of stifling them. But once that initial phase passes, then his mind takes over and he wants to find out who is hurting them and why and make them go away, again to the point of mollycoddling his sons. That's exactly what MJ's mother said as well for both Rishi and Rudra and MJ.
MJ - lekin kabhi kabhi dil toota tha hai lekin aur zada mazboot ho jaata hai. I feel that here he's referring to all 3 of them. MJ has had his share of heartbreaks. No, I'm not whitewashing him. If he turns out to be a scheming, arrogant man, then he's going to get his share of mean comments, but what I mean to say is that MJ is not just one layer. He's many layers. Like most humans. And somewhere in those layers is a man who has had his heart broken more than once to the point that he put up barriers and became this man that no one likes. Rudra has had his heart broken as well. By MJ, by Antara, and possibly by a girl he loved. But unlike MJ, it hasn't made him cold and distant. It's just made him wary. He's got shields up, but only long enough to assess the person coming towards him. If he thinks he can trust them, then he'll lower those shields. If he can't, that person won't be able to get in. And finally, new to the game is Rishi. He's just had his heart broken for the first time and now it remains to be seen which way he goes: cold and distant like MJ or wary like Rudra.
MJ's mother - kahin akal ne tumhara saath hi naa chod diya ho. The way she paused to say this makes this important. And MJ's reaction adds to that. MJ has done something big in the past, something that he didn't think through and that brought about the divide between mother and son. Mrs. Roy wasn't just taking a snide jab at MJ, but also reminding him that it divided them and maybe it can bring them together again. All is not lost between mother and son. If they can drink together and have a meaningful conversation, then they can potentially bridge the distance that has appeared between them.
The foreshadowing, mazboot hone ke chakkar mein kahin Rishi galat haaton mein naa chala jaaye. Mrs. Roy sees and understands the heart more than MJ. She knows that when a person is heartbroken, they seek solace and in the process they may end up going down the wrong path or going to the wrong person. Maya has hurt Rishi, but she could just as easily heal Rishi as well. And while MJ keeps believing that the heartbreak will make Rishi stronger, Maya will turn Rishi against him. Be warned MJ. Your mother has warned you.
Finally Mrs. Roy kahin tumhare jaise naa ban jaayein vs MJ's mere jaisa bana itna bura hai kya and in response tum jo ban gaye ho naa woh bura hai. There's a lot to this small interaction as well. Mrs. Roy is angry with her son because he has done something big. Something that he didn't think through and something that hurt him and others around him. Despite all the taunts and mocks, somewhere deep down Mrs. Roy loves MJ, but can't forget that one defining moment and she doesn't want her grandsons to become like that. And MJ's comment, while casual, was full of pain and suffering. Every parent wants their child to be like them and yet here, his own mother is telling him that she doesn't want his sons to be like him. But note here. She doesn't want them to be like this MJ. There's another MJ hidden behind this arrogance, intelligence, and scheming MJ. The MJ that she loves and wants back and the MJ she wants her grandsons to be like. Is that what we're seeing then? Are Rudra and Rishi both somewhat like MJ and combined fully like this old MJ?
Kaafi lamba tha nahi. All in all, I would just say, I need to watch Mrityunjay's character fleshed out. He is not the divine angel that he shows via the conversation with his mother. This was the first decent conversation between mother and son. Gave some insight into their relationship and also something Mrityunjay has done, which he shouldn't have.
Symbolic and Real Deaths - Okay there was a lot of death talk in today's episode and I realized one thing. They won't both be real deaths.
Rishi - main toh hanste hanste hi maar jaonga. Rishi's death seems more likely to be real. Rishi takes death casually. He mentions it casually in conversation. I'm sure most of us have at some point. Something like Rishi's dialogue (I'll die of laughter). It's not real, it's just a figure of speech. But here's the thing. You never know when something like this could come true. What if Rishi will actually die and that too laughing? He won't even realize it. He'll just happily walk into his own death and in those seconds before his death he'll realize what Rudra meant whenever Rudra would stop him from talking about death.
Rishi - aapke baad maaronga. Again this simple dialogue makes me believe that Rishi will die first and will possibly be the only death in the show. Rishi believes that death happens by age. He's younger, so he'll die after Rudra. What better counter to this than him dying first? And Rishi's death will break Rudra. The man who can't even hear his little brother talk of death will break upon seeing his little brother actually dead. This will make him stronger though, like MJ said, but it may send him down the wrong path or to the wrong person, as Mrs. Roy said. As you can tell, either I'm drawing connections where there are none or the CVs have really planned this out to the most intricate of details. (I'm leaning towards the former, mind you. I think I've just gone mad and am seeing symbolism where there is none. 😆 Screw you CVs!!! 😡)
Haarne se better main marna pasand karonga (precap dialogue). I hesitate to talk about precaps, but I just want to make a quick mention to this dialogue. I know there was a lot of talk of death today, but I have a feeling that Rudra's mentions of death don't mean real death, but a symbolic death. Rudra isn't scared of dying. He's scared of losing. For him, a symbolic death would be a loss. This ties into everything that happened today. Rishi repeatedly mentioned death and his will be a real death. It may also be the loss that would symbolically kill Rudra and make him into someone different (as I mentioned above). Alternatively, maybe there's a bigger loss in store for him in the future that will symbolically kill him. I don't think his will be a real death. It'll be symbolic. He'll die and be reborn again. Like a phoenix. Except this will be without the reincarnation stuff.
As I pointed out in my post, all this talk about death is boring me to death (pun intended). As long as death is not happening, I will not expect the worst. Death does not necessarily mean the death of a person, but it could mean the death of the person they are to emerge into the person they will be because of Maya. They could be her biggest allies or her worst enemies. Let us see.
Rudra's intense reaction - There's a story there. His reaction when Rishi wanted to talk to MJ about Maya was intense. Without realizing it, Rishi asked the right question. Did MJ chase away a former girlfriend of Rudra's? Rudra's hatred for MJ can't just be about a girl. There has to be more to it. But that question is a good starting point. Rudra is clever though. He quickly made it about Rishi. This is one of his strong points. He made the challenges about Maya. And he made his reaction about Rishi. It's also an interesting facet to his personality. When push comes to shove, Rudra is quick to deflect. I don't mean that he doesn't take responsibility. But when someone touches on a topic that is sensitive to him and he doesn't want to share with anybody, he quickly but casually deflects it back to the other person.
I don't understand Mrityunjay's problem. Why is he so against any woman coming into his son's life? Is this mollycoddling, controlling, protecting or something else?
The symbolic fight club - The whole set-up and the way Maya and Rudra were standing facing each other with Fight Club perfectly between them sets up the whole scenario for the show. It'll be about a face-off between these two. The symbolic fight club. But will they always be against each other? I doubt that. As Rudra learns more about Maya and comes to understand her motives, that fight will turn against a common enemy.
Dard nahin dena chahta - And this dialogue highlights what I mentioned above. Rudra is all willing to fight but, at the same time, he doesn't want to hurt anyone. He fights when it's important, not just for the sake of it. And even when he fights, he wants to be careful. Now this dialogue also has another meaning to it. He doesn't want to hurt Maya. Despite what he says about hating her and teaching her a lesson, he doesn't want to give her pain, even if he was given pain. But Maya doesn't care (dard se kuch khaas rishta hai mera). Once again, tying this back to MJ's dialogue (lekin kabhi kabhi dil toota tha hai lekin aur zada mazboot ho jaata hai), it points to the fact that Maya has been hurt before and now is no longer scared of being hurt. Once again, a symbolic fight has been set between the two. Rudra wants to be careful and not hurt her, but she doesn't care and will take all the pains that come her way.
I don't know why, but I also have this feeling that with the passage of every episode, Maya will start turning towards light and Mrityunjay towards darkness and so that when a midway is reached - that is when a proper show off will happen. What do you say?
444 - The symbol of angels is back, but by reusing it, Maya has effectively told us (or at least the CVs have), that 444 is more than just that. Something in her past is tied deeply to this number. First her license plate and now this game. I can't speculate on just two small instances. Let's hope we get more so that the speculation can begin. As usual, Rudra asks those questions that Maya doesn't want to answer.
Rudra always asks pertinent questions, I like it that sometimes he manages to make Maya uncomfortable.
Good Post👍🏼
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