Arhi FF: Labyrinth - Thread 2 Link posted - Page 86

Frisk & Lure... in both these chapters you showed Vishwa's view point and the start was itself quite capturing. The first glimpse of his thoughts was as reflective and mystical as his character. Loved the lines ... "to espy the winding labyrinth of any one person's sanity or to squint at the immense light in their lunacy, never did give away the absolute truth..." and then gave it a saner dimensions yet anomalous ..."for every man's reality and illusions are his own making..." 👏

Vishwa and his ploys as well as his thought maze is the quite intriguing.

Liked the glimpse you showed of Vishwa, Subha and Arjun's childhood days... and it did show that even he could be tricked. It was in a way showing, Arjun being another aspect of Vishwa's own personality can see through at least some of his ploys or can understand him somewhat as in his reaction to certain situations... Whether or not its Vishwa's own willing doing or another illusion is as mysterious as the man himself...😆. I guess that's why Arjun saw through his this time scheming of trying to bring them together by manipulating so many things simultaneously. Only this time it's much difficult as the illusion too is somewhat seen through by them, in wake of their own strong denial or fear of the desires.

Yet in spite of it all Vishwa does get a tiny miny crack in their strongly build walls of denial and ignorance ... For Arjun in form of his reviewing his own decisions in contrast to his nature of single minded focus and strong determination, While for Shyama ... It's in the way of her curiosity against Subha.

Vishwa detailed the happenings of their "date" so precisely ... I had to laugh 😆 Quite smart of him be it the way of revealing it in front of a worthy audience or be it in way of inciting by use of a name like Aditya... 👏 And Arjun spoke of the hug they shared... though it was as if he was stating the dynamics and also of the illusions presented to him. They did end with no right answers at all where I was reminded of "for every man's reality and illusions are his own making..."

Arjun denied any sparks or even about the likelihood of a dying firecracker... but then it did make sense, as what's between Arjun-Shyama is not just a spark but a slow flame that has born within and is gaining strength as time passes and all the forced events, eventually spreading the warmth that started seeping from the very moment of the first touch while exchanging the clip... I guess that's what it is ... Is it so???

Arjun put in guilt in him about trying to manipulate Shyama's life by moving everything like pawns of his play ... without regarding as a person having her own volition. Very well correlated in the way of showing - her choosing a saree of her own choice. And I guess this guilt must have led him to reveal about Riti as well as his story with Shradha.

Vishwa is a master illusionist and you put it in his own words by calling himself "Con artist" but I really did like her own version to this as that of a man behind the mask...

His story about his life with Shradha was quite ... I don't' know what words to use here it was as if a illusion by him to show her what the moments of denial can cause her or both of them to lose yet somewhere it did give a feel that he also told her some truth as if parting with it in front of her was an absolution he was seeking. The whole story telling in there was brilliant... and very flowing. What struck me was the partially charred lotus both of them were watching being in each other's midst and forming a bond just by observing something losing its existence... very analogous to the supposed end which I feel is still seeking a revival of sorts in his mind.

His thought ... "Shradha is an unfinished seeking, was a definition of my past and in that way, a part of my present and my future too" that his seeking or the void left by his loss of her was in somehow sought in parts in Riti or that Riti it was that it was always meant to led to yet the shadows of the past are lurking in his present impacting his future too. (Am I speaking crazy here???) I'm left wondering that indeed it's his own reality and also illusion which he presents as pleasing to him ... only needing the recipient to decide for self whether it's their own reality or illusion. Shyama did catch him in the start with him mentioning the desert... ...Yet allowed him to complete his version, why so??

And then he ends it off the dot/hyphen/ dash... Splendid! 👏👏He ultimately manipulates yet leaves the choice to her leaving behind an illusionary world to think about gaps between her past dots, dashes and hyphens so to choose whether or not she wants that promise on her blank page is only she allows it for.

I love this character of Vishwa now...😳😳😳 more than that of Arjun's that too just with 2 narratives in comparison to Her 15 narratives...

wow , an update!!!!