The Scene:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqMx9QL_Bj0[/YOUTUBE]
My Take (originally posted in the Den):
What can I say about this scene? Fantabulous. I literally held my hand on my heart, aching for these two as they shared the most wonderful feeling of being in love - being totally selfless towards each other and totally involved in the other's lives. Nothing mattered to either of them than the happiness of their beloved. Blessed are they who find such true altruistic love. In Greek it is called agape love. Maaneet exemplified this agape love in this scene.
Apart from selfless love the other thing which stood out in this Maaneet scene was unspoken understanding between these two. They are in perfect wave length with each other.
The first shot was beautiful. Geet is her usual bakbak self while waiting form Maan, complaining that he thought himself as God. Just as she was thinking of him, she sees Maan's reflection come from behind and rest next to hers, as if to indicate that he will always take the rearguard to protect and preserve her. When she sees him in the water, there was the reverence in her look one would reserve for God himself. Whether she admits it out loud or not he was like God to her, not that Devil who cheated her.
She turns around and asks him whether he will speak or remain like a God's statue. When he asks her to explain she tells him that he thinks of himself as a God. Although he was irked by her mocking comment he controls himself for he has more important things to discuss with her. He asks her to give him an opportunity to speak and when she grudgingly agrees, he sits beside her and says something totally unexpected and out of the blue. He tells her that he has never asked for anyone's help all his life, no matter what difficulty he faced because he always thought that asking for help would expose his own vulnerability. He says that he will never allow anyone to think that he is weak, nor will he allow her to be considered weak. Geet does not follow his train of thought and thinks it is just another instance of his pompousness. So she says that she is leaving and gets up to do so. He holds her wrist and drags her back to sit next to him.
Geet splashes water on Maan in frustration and later gets scared wondering how he will react. The old Maan would have either splashed back water on her angrily or yelled at her. She waited in anticipation of one of these reactions but was surprised and elated to see that he merely took her dupatta and wiped his face before telling her that the water always bound them together in every important juncture of their lives, including that day. He was hinting at how important it is for him to know what he was about to ask her.
Maan then tells her that there was something he wants to ask her since the previous night. He is clearly at a loss for words as he keeps hesitating, not because he cannot speak but because he does not want to hurt her in any way with his words. He knows he has the habit of speaking thoughtlessly and has hurt her several times in the past. He lacks certain social skills. He lacks sensitivity and he knows that the topic of 'who the crook is' would be ultra sensitive to Geet. So he is treading very carefully here, lest he hurts her with his insensitivity. At the same time he has to know the name of the crook. Why? Not only does he want to punish the man who has wronged his woman but also because he knows without her actually saying it out loud, that she would want to find him in order to bring him to justice. He was able to read her feelings even without her voicing it.
That is true love, when you are so connected with your beloved, you don't need her words to tell you what is in her heart. So he starts hesitatingly asking her his question, but his hesitancy was enough indication to her what he wanted to ask her. She knew he was going to ask her about Dev and wanted to avoid answering him. Why? Because she could clearly see that if the question was disturbing him so much she could well visualise what the answer would do to him.
See the beautiful way Maan asks her the question. He does not tell her that he wants to help her find the crook. He knows Geet is sensitive about this whole 'madhath' thing. She already has been repeatedly reminded how much she has been helped and he saw how much she resented that the previous day. She wants to be independent. She wants to be in the position where she too can be of help to him and not always the other way around. So he twists the words and asks to help him. Remember just moments before he had said that he has never asked for anyone's help all his life because he would be exposing his own vulnerability? But he is willing to change himself, give up on his ego, willing to expose his vulnerability for her sake.
He thought by wording it this way, she would feel honoured that he sought her help and would bare her heart about the culprit but unfortunately it had the opposite effect because she could not bear to see him give up on his pride. She could not let him seek her help and that too for something concerning her life. For her, his self respect means the world. So even before he could open his mouth and ask her, she promptly told him she has already made all the arrangements for their trip. Did she really think he was asking for help for the trip? No she knew he was about to question about the man in her past, but she tried to forestall him.
He then had to ask her point blank. When he started asking she could see that he was clearly getting worked up. The fact that this unknown man had played with her life was disturbing him so much that he was turning red with anger. She asks him back if her past is disturbing him. He clarifies that he has no problem with her past but has a problem with the man who had troubled her. He tells her that he knows she wants justice and promises to find the man from any corner of the world and bring him in front of her. Knowing the effect the truth will have on him and also thinking that finding the man may be next to impossible but Maan getting obsessed in this mission would ruin his peace of mind and happiness, she decides to lie but she couldn't do so by looking him in the eye.
Maan could easily read her face and couldn't believe that she does not want to seek out the culprit because he has already read her heart. But her repeated reassurance makes him think. Especially the words that she wants to forget the past because she wants to grab this new life she has been given. Those words made him extremely happy. For the first time he heard her say that she wants to start her life (the unspoken 'with him') was there. He wants nothing more than her happiness, so he lets go for the present but I doubt he will really let go.
The Current Situation
Geet wanted to start a new life with Maan much like in the water fountain scene. She knew that her past in the form of Dev was never going to go away from their lives. His presence was disturbing her husband like it did in that water fountain scene, only this time it was much more now that he knows the identity of that culprit (who happened to be his own brother) and still could not do anything about it. Dev's plea for forgiveness gave her that window of opportunity to let go and move ahead. She knew Maan's anger against Dev was for her. If she lets go, she thought he will be able to reconcile with the past and be free to start their life together.
Unfortunately their non-verbal communication which was so good in the water fountain scene I recounted before has got blunted by the grief they went through following the huge loss of their baby. So they could not read each other well enough. While Geet underestimated Maan's hatred for Dev, Maan underestimated Geet's ability to forgive even her worst sinners for the sake of the success of her marriage. This led to his confusion over her actions and her confusion over his words which tumbled out as a reaction to that action. Ironically, while in the fountain scene he kept in mind her strong sense of self and, in order to not hurt that self respect, he asked for her help to help her, this time he questioned that very self respect in his anger.
Maan's confusion has been cleared.
We are now awaiting Geet's confusion be set right soon enough so as to get back our beloved Maaneet.
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