Ahhh, I'm watching today's Mukti Bandhan, Pallo & Zainu! 😊 I've missed the rest of this week's eps but so glad to be watching this one. I read that Charu found out yesterday that Devki and Vaibhav sleep in different beds? And that she warned him against becoming another IMV in that respect? Good, good - let's see if this has any assar on him. Yeah, Charu did find out but all to no use since the mahaan Devki has already covered it up. 😆 Damn, I was really looking forward to the revelations of Charu finding out about Devki and Vaibhav's relationship.
IMV's voice turns so small when he tries to remind CP who he is 😳 like a little kid desperate for his best friend to recognise him. This is not the IMV we've seen until now; the hard voice, the easy arrogance. This is a poet, a lover, a storyteller, a young boy lost forever in his dreams. And how excited does he get when he tells her the story of the rest of his life!! She's just standing there, trying to acclimatise to this new shock; pretending not to understand, not to remember. SO true! I also couldn't help noticing that change in IMV. Truly he looked like such a lost lover. You could really feel the depth of his emotions here. I mean he was literally holding on to EACH memory with regards to CP. And yeah, the way he told her his entire story. EVERYTHING he's been doing in his life has been with respect to CP only. He loves her to SUCH an extent. Like you said ealier Vasu, she really holds the key to his soul. It was she who taught him how to dream...his emotions, his sorrows, his actions all lead back to her only. I liked the child analogy you brought up too. I think it's only with CP that this childlike, innocent quality comes out in IMV. Whatever other flaws this guy has, his feelings for CP are so true and real. And it's kind of ironic that he's lost himself trying to hold on to this one thing. He is almost unaware of how much time has passed. He can still relive those memories like they happened yesterday. It's like he is held captive in that time period only. And he refuses to free himself from it. Find that mukti.
I love the Ishwar-Chanda flashbacks...they are so sweet and original and unlike any other "love story" I've ever seen. Especially today's scene, which shows you just how much of IMV's success and drive was down to his love for his Chandraprabha. How he carries a packet of gulaal and other mementos of their lives in his briefcase. I loved the original version of BALH as it played over that scene too...this is generally such a melodious song that thankfully even EK hasn't managed to spoil. Me too. I love their flashbacks too. Such little things that still hold so much of significance to IMV. He has treasured these memories with him all these years. That's why they are so beautiful almost. Because he has preserved them. Their flashbacks are just so innocent and sweet. Each little momento like the chunni, gulaal, the piggy bank, the movie tickets, and the earing has its own story and significance. And they are all related to IMV's success and drive too like you said. It's like each of these momentos are an implication to what drive IMV's current motivations and actions. They all hold a clue to his life in some way.
And throughout this entire scene, Chandraprabha says not a word; her eyes say it all - surprise at the fact that he has kept so much of their history alive, anguish at the remembering of it, the awkward way in which she tries to not be affected by it. Yeah. I loved the way CP didn't say a word, but you could tell that she was affected. It was such a mix of emotions that CP was feeling at that moment. I think she was also feeling oppressed and overwhelmed almost in this scene too. Here she thought she had freed herself from all her previous ties, and now all of a sudden she was being weighed down by all those memories and emotions once again. For once even she didn't have the usual calm and composed reaction to such a situation. The way IMV had preserved their memories and kept all these momentos, forced her to relive that past. As much as she tried to stay disconnected, her thoughts did wander off to those times she had herself chosen to forget. I am intrigued to see what CP does now.
The moment when she realises that Charu is his wife (and consequently that Devki is his daughter in law) is amazing - Deepti's eyes just light up as if she had exclaimed out aloud. Yeah, the realization of this connection again surprised her. It was just interesting how we got to see this slight change in both CP and IMV's characters through this scene na? This was exactly what I was hoping to see with their interaction too. Just how they affect each other.
I wasn't sure whether IMV really meant it when he said that he would be happy in his life if he saw that she would be at peace in hers. Did he really mean to say that he would leave her be if she came back to the "world"? That's not the IMV we know - I am sure he would have wanted some claim on her...how could he go back to be with Charu? Yeah that whole part really caught me off guard too. Even when he was asking her to "come back" for Devki's sakes? 😲 Waah...how did IMV sudharo-fy that much in just one scene? 😛😆 And yeah all this mahaanta so doesn't suit our IMV na? Was this really the only thing bothering IMV all these years? That CP wasn't happy wherever she was? Her soul wasn't at peace? There are just so many questions with what IMV said in this scene. I think he does know that he can't leave Charu anyways. I don't think he wants his whole family to break after all these years and everything. The question really is what is the main reason for his anguish and loss of his own peace of mind? And how will CP's "coming back" help with that? How will she help him heal his wounds just by being there, even though she won't officially be with him? Like what exactly is IMV thinking at this point? 😆 And what about his revenge with Bha and Devki? 😕😆 Perhaps IMV's love for CP is so strong that it really does overrule all these other aspects/issues? And ALL he's thinking about at this point is having CP "back" in his life in some form or another.
Though some things never change - his assurance that he would take her back to her old life - without even letting her refusal faze him in the slightest is classic Ishwar. That stubbornness that we see now, that unbending way in which he tries to ride roughshod over everyone's lives, not least his own Chanda's...everything about him might have changed, but that has not. This man is incredibly selfish - and I don't necessarily mean that as a bad thing. Yes, he is self-serving and ruthless, but on a larger scale...he is driven by HIS love for other people. HIS love for CP, HIS love for his Ba. It doesn't matter to him that CP might not love him anymore. It's enough that he does. He still feels like he needs to "save" her, to protect her. Good point. That stubbornness and selfishness is still present. Even though I don't condone IMV's ruthless actions of course, but you can see the reasons for them.
I find it fascinating how on this show, NONE of the love stories are successful. Aside from Ba-Babuji, of course. But all the others, they are unfulfilled, and unsuccessful. In a roundabout way, this is all down to IMV. His relationship with CP paved the way for all the other relationships; he married Charu but was never happy with her, he became so opposed to love that he made Sid marry a girl he didn't love, and the same with Vaibhav. He not only allowed history to repeat itself - he engineered it so. He became the very Bhawanji Bha who threw his love out without a second thought. He could have gone the other way - encouraged the love in others that he didn't get himself...but he was not strong enough for that. He became so bitter that in this bitterness he lost the one part of him that he should have kept. Isn't Sid's love story successful now though? 😆 He bought her a gajra and all, come on yaar. 😛😆 But yeah I know what you mean. I guess since IMV was always so perturbed himself that it translated to pretty much all of his family members. His own loss of peace of mind caused him to repeat the same situations that he was faced with, back to his sons also. The whole problem I think is the fact that IMV was never able to let go. He was never able to forgive. And so he kept all this anguish within himself all these years. Which caused all this bitterness and negative energy to brew inside of him. Which is why he needs that mukti of all things...so he can let go, have his peace of mind, forgive and just move on finally.
The rest of today's episode was okay; not sure that Devki lying to Charu is the right thing. This issue will only just come back again soon enough - I would have liked for it to be out in the open now. What's the point of the subterfuge now? Yeah I didn't like that. It felt like a drag almost. Though usually I know the show doesn't drag. But I was hoping for a different conversation. This was Devki's way of completely avoiding the situation which NEEDS to be faced now I think. I was hoping the conversation would be more along the lines of Devki clearly informing Charu of the exact reason for both her and Vaibhav agreeing to this compromise. And maybe telling Charu about how Vaibhav is still supportive to her...he fulfills his responsibilities as a husband even though they are not romantically or physically together in that sense. Charu's main concern was that their situation was too much like her's and IMV's. But that is really not the case with Devki and Vaibhav. There is compassion and friendship between Devki and Vaibhav; something IMV and Charu's relationship lacks altogether. So yeah, I didn't really get the point of hiding this reality either.
I loved the IMV-CP scenes. There wasn't a shouting match or nervous breakdown, no recriminations being tossed this way and that. IMV didn't ask why she had never come in front of him until now, why she had stayed away; he didn't care that he thought she was dead all these years. All he cared about was that she was alive NOW. I also liked CP's wavering towards that way of life again, and interesting to note that this was because of Ishwar and NOT because of Devki. When Charu told her about Devki she very calmly said that she had left those relationships behind; but for some reason, seeing "Ishwar-ya" talk about Devki was too much for her resolve. So much that she had to force a maun vrat just to stop herself speaking to him...to stop herself from going to him. Yeah the maun vrat does show how CP was affected by all this. She has to physically stop herself from saying or doing anything at this point. She literally has to use some self control in order to stop herself from saying anything she might regret. Yeah, I also liked how the IMV-CP interaction wasn't a nervous breakdown altogether or anything like that. It was just a reminiscing to their old times. A little insight of humanity and soul from IMV's side which we don't get to see often, and a little bit of an emotional reaction from CP's side which we also don't get to see often.
Precap looked interesting too - I like how things don't drag too much on the show...looks like (hopefully) Charu will find out about Ishwar visiting CP soon. What will be interesting to see will be if Charu's reaction to Chandraprabha changes after she discovers that she is the reason that IMV does not love Charu. Oh I didn't see the precap...since that colours channel on youtube never shows the precap. But wow, so Charu finds out about Ishwar's early morning whereabouts already? I gotta say, Charu is really brilliant at finding stuff out. 😆 But yeah I also want to see her reaction to when she finds out about IMV and CP's relationship. The story's at an exciting point right now.
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