Ep 12: Aage badhne ka waqt aa chuka hai...

On that note let us go ahead. Maya indeed aage badh rahi hai, with her designs against the Roy family, but let us rewind into what transpired today.

Rudra's panic attack - Ok so Rudra's claustrophobia does not emerge from any particular condition; but from his past when he caught his GF in the act of getting intimate with a guy, on an elevator. So he mostly has an elevator-phobia which is holding him back from breaking free of his problems - basically his past. So, here we have Maya who has fought and emerged victorious from these inner demons, but only to watch them crash and burn together. Just like she emerged victoriously, she guides Rudra in her iconic style to break free of the past and open that elevator door. Here we see another instance of a teacher coaching his student or in Maya's view - the guru training her warrior. And Maya is quite pleased with herself when her student too emerges victorious. Another point I would like to add is here we saw Rudra struggling to break free from his darkness which is presented here as a phobia, and when he pulls open that elevator door and rushes out in the light and rain - he embraces the light and rain which represent freedom as he breaks free from the shackles of his inner darkness.

Antara's true 'aukaad' - Bade sapne aur choti aukaad hamesha khoon bahate hai. Antara was dreaming that after 30 years of marriage, she would hold someplace in Mrityunjay's heart. But Mrityunjay showed how chota is her aukaad, just like the water that makes alcohol pheeka - unlike lemon and ice. For Mrityunjay, his sons and his mother are his life. Antara is only a means to keep Rudra in that house because Rudra is as important as Rishi is to him. He calls it 'love' which his mother correctly terms as 'control' and walks off. And Antara is left with a bleeding heart and moist eyes.

Rudra's 'feelings' - are certainly mixed. As we all know and by Rudra's own admission - he is intrigued by Maya - like a book with several chapters and sub-chapters to them. She is only 'sanki' towards them, but in general, she is a regular girl who is deeply attached to her mother. He was so much involved in describing Maya, that he forgot to sweeten his coffee - just the way Maya likes to have it😉. Well, Ananya is very observant because her feeling isn't wrong when she asks him, tujhe Maya se pyaar to nahi ho gaya - which he conveniently brushes off - and his eagerness to call back mummyji.. oh sorry, sorry...auntyji was also noted by Ananya. What I liked is, that Ananya does love Rudra, and she gets very possessive about him, but not in a way that will make you feel irritated or annoyed i.e. like Saanjh in S1. Of course, she will feel bad if Rudra's attention shifts to Maya, but her character traits are such that she may accept defeat in love, but surely not in friendship.

Rishi's obsession - Well in his bid to prove to his friend that "Maya loves him", Rishi shows another display of his Mrityunjay-ness - as in his obsession and need for control, which baffles his friend - because Rishi going through so much trouble for a girl, is so unlike him - well we have our Duryodhan in the making, peeps!

Maya and Nandini - In S1, when Maya was trying to so-called "protect" her mother - she was so controlling to the point of being mean - even with Arjun. In S2, we see that she is definitely trying to pull back her mother - but only to make her understand that she is just trying to keep her away from the wrong people out there, as well as her dark designs against the Roys. Her mother does try to feed some sense into Maya to let go of the darkness of her past and embrace the future, looking back only brings death - which is exactly what Maya is seeking I believe - like fire - aag ka to kaam hi hai sab kuch khaak karke, khud khaak ho jaana. All that happened in the past - has rendered her lifeless already - so what better than embracing death by taking all those people along with her - but what if life does not let her? what if life pulls her back?

Coming to life, Maya drowns her mom's phone in the water bowl as she has not allowed Rudra free pass yet into her life. But Rudra is equally adamant - he will continuously try calling till Nandini picks up - but Maya will not let it happen so easily. Rudra's access to Nandini means access to Maya's history - and Maya cannot let someone so easily into her past - especially a Roy. This scene also has a strong foreshadowing, in a way Rudra and Maya's relationship will be in the upcoming episodes - Rudra trying to reach out to Maya and trying to break through and Maya consistently pushing him away.

Well I am through with my ramblings, time for me to hear yours

For me aage badna ,means taking next step towards her revenge

Today Maya become Rudra's Krishna and awaken the warrior in him

MJ is such a Rangeela type person he had an affair with Rudra's gf too

Sorry if anyone get hurt with my this statement but the women like Antara only deserves men like MJ....ache admi ki kadar nhi hoti for unhe

Anatara is MJ's wife just for name sake and for society

Now I want to know his equation with Dia .

Awww Rudra has started falling in love and now the denial period will start

And agree with you that anu is not irritating like saanjh and I admire their friendship.... I'll be very hurt if Maya will be trying to break their friendship

And now am very sure rishi is like Maya 1 and a spoilt brat of a rich dad

He'll not handle a defeat in love and he can even go against his family for his obsession and I think that's Maya's plan

I just love Nandani as Maya's mother she's not scared of her but have concern for her

Precap is lil bot confusing so no comments on that for now

Today for Rudra.. a person can break free from their pain and hurt towards what happened to them but not exactly from their past.. u can only emerge stronger and that's what happened to him.. Maya is equally buried in her past and he lent a hand to her to bring her out.. Rudra is still has more light than Maya even after a pained past.. I loved the song being played for him actually.. it was just beautiful..

Rudra is not in love..that feeling holds a very special place for both Rudra and Maya.. they are hurt right there in their life.. but what he likes is that there is so much about Maya that he saw in a single day which makes him want to know more.. till last week we actually saw Maya who has actually got weak when he is close to her.. their feelings will grow together only not one before the other.. that's the beauty of MayRa I feel.. it will only come out also together only..

for rishi ..less said the better.. but then the growth of his character from a simple boy to Rishi Mrityunjay Roy is an amazing move.. the differences they drew between Rudra and Rishi was spot on.. both went through same pain to get Maya...one mentally and one physically.. Rudra endured it and it got the better out of him... for Rishi it got the worst out of him..

Mj true colours are coming out very slowly.. I am sure there is so much more to him.. the more they are peeling his character..the more interesting he is becoming.. I feel there is still more time before we get to see a complete side of MJ..

Few notable points for me today

1. Ananya saying meri niyat kharaab ho rahi hai was exactly my feelings 😆

2. Rudra ka cute pink tshirt..I liked that he just randomly picked up something from her cupboard and wore it..they r really cool buddies..

3. Please show us Rudra room too cvs 😃

Today's Episode was dam intriguing and amazing.

1. I totally love the way Maya motivated Rudra and made him overcome his fear. Even though majority of us kind of expected it but for a change it was really interesting to watch & very different. Mostly we see heroine comforting hero in such situations but the way Maya handle Rudra & show him his way out was just fantastic .

Today I clearly got the bonding of Krishna & Arjun from Maya Rudra . Maya was today perfect Krishna For Rudra . The way she guided him from his darkness.

Her words " Tumhei Bandeka haq srif Tumein hona chahiya kisi aur ko nahi hai , o Chaya koi yaad ho , ya dard hi, ya pyaar ho , ya Mohobat, jis din tum yeh baat samaj jayaoge usdin tum sab bandhan se Azad hojayoge"

2. This couple going to be interesting one and different from regular ITV couples.

3. We got more Clear version of Rudra's past . Some girl cheated him .I think that girl cheated him with his father only that's why he hates MJ so much . 😷 Sick MJ is 😒🤦 Casanova kahika 😒

4. MJ has no attachment towards Antara for him she just someone who is hanging around with him . No wonder he never felt ashamed while cheating with her. Her character sick me out more even after knowing everything & knowing that he doesn't love u still she choose to stick with such man. For MJ she is just someone he is tolerating for his sons . 😷

Rudra ne pehele hi bola tha chorne ki himat Nahi hai .

5 . Rishi no matter how I like the actor his character is becoming extremely annoying. How easily CVS making his character from sweet , naive kid to spoil irritating, self centered bratty jerk 😒🤦 he is behaving like mad guy . He is just going to be like his father sadly 😴😴. He is going to be used against his family too maybe 🤔

6. I never get bored from saying it I totally Adore the friendship between RuAn 💖. Anayana is so sorted and open with her feelings na that make me like her most . They both dam cute 😍💖

Rudra in Pink shirt was looking adorable it was such a sweet thing from his side . Love this guy .

7 . Rudra already developing feelings for Maya bechera, Maya tho clearly said I still didn't allow to enter in my life . It's going to be a tough journey. But I am sure Mayra going to be worth for all the waiting😆💖

Amazing post 👏

The episodes are getting more and more interesting everyday. So Rudra has claustrophobia. Is that why he did not think about taking the lift before running to take the stairs? There might be symbolism lurking here connected to his past.

We saw two Mayas: One who was liberating Rudra from his past, another who was binding her own mother (and herself) to the miseries of past. Also there were three kinds of love running in parallel. Rudra's: One that is wallowing in the past, still suffering in despair, MJ's: Who doesn't even respect his life partner. He thinks she is only someone jiski kabhi-kabhi zarurat par jati hai. Rishi's: Pure obsession and ego boosting.

I am really loving the contradictions that Rishi is showing.😆 First he said he would prove Maya loved him madly. Then he sends a video saying he would die if she doesn't meet him. In the previous epi, he said he wasn't her pet, in the next epi (as seen in the precap) he would exactly behave like that. Bhagwan aisa pyaar kisi ko na de. 🤪

The lift scene had its own symbolism, Maya's dialogues were symbolic. So I won't refer to that.

It's ironic how you also referred to the final scene of Rudra's call. I mentioned this in Shreya's thread and I am doing it here as well. She was inferring a lot from the use of water as a symbolic reference in yesterday's episode. And the last reference was when Maya put the phone inside the jug. As if that phone drowning was symbolic of Rudra's access to her getting stopped like you said. But her dialogues then, were significant coz she said she won't let him into her life, something like that..and the flashback was of Maya drowning.

1. So, she'd probably douse any arising feelings for Rudra just like how she drowned the phone.

2. Maya would make the Roy's pay, by drowning Rudra (metaphorically) in defeat and misery just like how she drowned in the past.

3. She'd trap Rudra by using Antara. Remember MJ used water to refer to Antara. This is MY own inference since they didn't show Maya knowing about the same line. But seems quite relevant to me. Antara is the one connection that binds everyone. MJ might give her no importance. But Rudra does. Rudra chooses to keep his hatred for MJ at bay, for his mother's promise and is staying at home. Rudra's love for his mother exceeds his hatred for his father. And Maya is going to use that to trap Rudra.

Originally posted by: Grey-licious

For me aage badna ,means taking next step towards her revenge

Yes, same meaning dear. Same meaning

Today Maya become Rudra's Krishna and awaken the warrior in him

Yes, Maya's technique to cure Rudra is as badass as her. He could have said a thank you, considering she thanked for her mother, a couple of moments ago

MJ is such a Rangeela type person he had an affair with Rudra's gf too

Abhi tak wo clarify nahi hua hai, we did not see faces. But if its Mrityunjay, then I must say his ways of helping his kids are pretty far-fetched from the daddy's code of conduct.

Sorry if anyone get hurt with my this statement but the women like Antara only deserves men like MJ....ache admi ki kadar nhi hoti for unhe

Honestly mujhe koi problem nahi hai. Jo apni jaat ki nahi hui, uska kuch nahi ho sakta. She broke a girl's honour for a man, and now this man is breaking her.

Anatara is MJ's wife just for name sake and for society

Now I want to know his equation with Dia .

Awww Rudra has started falling in love and now the denial period will start

Rudra does have feelings, but he hasn't reached that point to realize that he can fall in love again. Maya, is too consumed in the darkness, to actually put any thought of love for Rudra. Its a tough road ahead for darkness to meet light.

And agree with you that anu is not irritating like saanjh and I admire their friendship.... I'll be very hurt if Maya will be trying to break their friendship

Hain na. Ananya is like Rudra's bro😉

And now am very sure rishi is like Maya 1 and a spoilt brat of a rich dad

He'll not handle a defeat in love and he can even go against his family for his obsession and I think that's Maya's plan

I hope they do not take him in the lines of Shaurya Goenka, like in EHT.🤔

I just love Nandani as Maya's mother she's not scared of her but have concern for her

Yes, agreed.

Precap is lil bot confusing so no comments on that for now

I will not either. Kuch aur hi nikalta hai hamesha.

As always fabulous post

Everyone has more or less covered my points and so I won't repeat. Just few things that I really liked that the show keeps doing in terms of highlighting contrasts.

Be it costumes, lighting or dialogues. For example Maya as usual was in Black but Rudra per usual was in White. Like you said Rudra was drenched in water /a symbolic rebirth, Maya had herself covered thereby indicating she is not yet ready for her rebirth.

Some have pointed out that Rudra ran to light but Maya chose to stay back thereby pretty much choosing darkness and anger for herself. That Rudra didn't stay back and ask Maya to come along was also significant and possibly a foreshadow that one day, Rudra might not be there for Maya. It makes her words in the lift more significant that we can only ever rely on our ownselves.

Isn't it funny how Rudra introduced himself to Mayas mom as just Rudra and Rishi introduced himself to Maya as Rishi Mrityunjay Roy?

O Anu dear, she sure has predicted rightly about Rudras growing fascination for Maya but Maya isn't yet ready to let him in. But then Rudra isn't Rishi, she can't control him without properly reasoning with him.

MJ just keeps revealing disturbing sides of his personality and the way he was unaffected by Antaras teary eyes was frankly worrisome. I can only imagine what mess MJ put Maya through.

Btw I don't think Rishi slit his wrist. He is fake and I think just did drama but Maya actually slits her wrist today to scare him.

Originally posted by: NamuVyas

Today for Rudra.. a person can break free from their pain and hurt towards what happened to them but not exactly from their past.. u can only emerge stronger and that's what happened to him.. Maya is equally buried in her past and he lent a hand to her to bring her out.. Rudra is still has more light than Maya even after a pained past.. I loved the song being played for him actually.. it was just beautiful..

Yes, I agree. You are not the same person you were a minute ago. You are continually evolving. For Rudra, it is time to evolve. It is time to stop fighting himself and his shackles and fight the man Maya wants him to destroy - Mrityunjay Roy.

Rudra is not in love..that feeling holds a very special place for both Rudra and Maya.. they are hurt right there in their life.. but what he likes is that there is so much about Maya that he saw in a single day which makes him want to know more.. till last week we actually saw Maya who has actually got weak when he is close to her.. their feelings will grow together only not one before the other.. that's the beauty of MayRa I feel.. it will only come out also together only..

Hope so dear. Their story can only happen when both make a conscious effort to drift towards each other. Rudra still can do so, but Maya, uh uh, not so soon. Not yet.

for rishi ..less said the better.. but then the growth of his character from a simple boy to Rishi Mrityunjay Roy is an amazing move.. the differences they drew between Rudra and Rishi was spot on.. both went through same pain to get Maya...one mentally and one physically.. Rudra endured it and it got the better out of him... for Rishi it got the worst out of him..

Rudra and Rishi represent two aspects of Mrityunjay's personality. Rudra is someone who is hard-working, stubborn, and wants to make it big on his own. Which I believe Mrityunjay did for himself. Rishi on the other hand is that side of Mrityunjay which is arrogant, control-freak and downright rude, mean and vengeful. In short, a mix of good and bad.

Mj true colours are coming out very slowly.. I am sure there is so much more to him.. the more they are peeling his character..the more interesting he is becoming.. I feel there is still more time before we get to see a complete side of MJ..

Mrityunjay is very layered and he has this killer composure on his face to compliment his personality which comes across as charming and devious at the same time.

Few notable points for me today

1. Ananya saying meri niyat kharaab ho rahi hai was exactly my feelings😆

A true bro of Rudra.

2. Rudra ka cute pink tshirt..I liked that he just randomly picked up something from her cupboard and wore it..they r really cool buddies..

Thankfully, Rudra does not have those 'main ladki thodai na hu, jo aisa karunga" type masculine egoistic tendencies.

3. Please show us Rudra room too cvs 😃

Haan bhai CVs, Rudra kya chajje pe sota hai. Uska kamra bhi dikha do kabhi to.

Originally posted by: 69_Anushka

Today's Episode was dam intriguing and amazing.

1. I totally love the way Maya motivated Rudra and made him overcome his fear. Even though majority of us kind of expected it but for a change it was really interesting to watch & very different. Mostly we see heroine comforting hero in such situations but the way Maya handle Rudra & show him his way out was just fantastic .

Yes, so did I.

Today I clearly got the bonding of Krishna & Arjun from Maya Rudra . Maya was today perfect Krishna For Rudra . The way she guided him from his darkness.

Her words " Tumhei Bandeka haq srif Tumein hona chahiya kisi aur ko nahi hai , o Chaya koi yaad ho , ya dard hi, ya pyaar ho , ya Mohobat, jis din tum yeh baat samaj jayaoge usdin tum sab bandhan se Azad hojayoge"

This is something that she says in her context as well - when the right time comes, don't let me bind you as well.

2. This couple going to be interesting one and different from regular ITV couples.

3. We got more Clear version of Rudra's past . Some girl cheated him .I think that girl cheated him with his father only that's why he hates MJ so much . 😷 Sick MJ is 😒🤦 Casanova kahika 😒

4. MJ has no attachment towards Antara for him she just someone who is hanging around with him . No wonder he never felt ashamed while cheating with her. Her character sick me out more even after knowing everything & knowing that he doesn't love u still she choose to stick with such man. For MJ she is just someone he is tolerating for his sons . 😷

Rudra ne pehele hi bola tha chorne ki himat Nahi hai .

5 . Rishi no matter how I like the actor his character is becoming extremely annoying. How easily CVS making his character from sweet , naive kid to spoil irritating, self centered bratty jerk 😒🤦 he is behaving like mad guy . He is just going to be like his father sadly 😴😴. He is going to be used against his family too maybe 🤔

6. I never get bored from saying it I totally Adore the friendship between RuAn 💖. Anayana is so sorted and open with her feelings na that make me like her most . They both dam cute 😍💖

Rudra in Pink shirt was looking adorable it was such a sweet thing from his side . Love this guy .

7 . Rudra already developing feelings for Maya bechera, Maya tho clearly said I still didn't allow to enter in my life . It's going to be a tough journey. But I am sure Mayra going to be worth for all the waiting😆💖

To Rudra kaunsa Maya ke kehne par ruk jayega. Apne baap ka layak beta hai. Tera peecha na main chodunga soniye, karta reh jayega hamara Rudy boy😆