A huge shout out to: Pentu82
I've been time and again saying this ki, Advay is my guy. I mean, I know him, I understand him, I just..can read him. For all that he is.
It actually is Chandni whom I find hard to understand or connect to. I..I dont know, I cant feel her the way I feel Advay.
Or rather, I cant understand her character with as much clarity as I would like to. Its like..blurred and murky for me.
Until today.
There's this HotStar Discussion thread (if anyone is unaware of it, please do check it. Its a stickie thrad and appears on the top of the first page in the forum.) where the HotStar premium users post how the episode is, give us a few spoilers, short reviews and basically, tease the crap out of the regular viewers.
And while we were discussing about quite a few wonderful things that today's episode has, Pentu82 (one of our yaaron) commented regarding the show, and there is this one line she's made:
Dark aspects of Chandni's character came out - sometimes you think you are so good that you hurt others -that is what is happening to chandni.
And..its just struck me. This really makes a lot of sense.
Its like, I've finally found one crucial bit of Chandni's character.
See, I am not saying ki jo bhi Addvay kar raha hain, woh sab sahi hain. No. What I am saying is that, Advay is an anti-hero, driven by rage and revenge and hence whatever he does makes sense, coz that is exactly what his character is.
What I couldn't understand is Chandni. She..is the soft, good morale woman. The one who preached that 'jeethne ko doosron ko haraana zaroori nahi hain.'
Who time and again corrects her sisters upon how one should not let the anger consume you.
The one who speaks so high of morals, truth and honesty of life and living. The one who believes in self-respect and you know, everything that makes her all the more admirable and really wonderful.
But what I couldnt again understand is, why, a girl as educated, confident and broad thinking as Chandni would agree to get married for the sole purpose of aiding their family's affluent status?
I have no qualms with her agreeing for an arranged marriage. Hell no. Its quite normal for us, around here. Rishtha acha hain, ladka acha hain, you love your Mom, you go ahead and give a nod. To atleast see the ladka if not right away get married. And with the kind of relation that Indrani-Chandni share, I understand why she was downright ready to marry even if that means she's gonna put her happiness curbed down forever.
But agreeing to get married just so as to enjoy the wealth that comes with him and get back to their pedestal of the rich and flourished Mahanth family?
I was lost there.
Chalo, we'll think ki, Chandni has no idea that her Mom wants this rishtha to be fixed coz of the money. Let's give it a benifit of doubt. Done.
When you know that your family is in need of money, (oh she knows this. She's the one who sold the bangles to get the pooja samagri, remember?), what are the three young educated women doing sitting at home rather than working somewhere?
Chalo, lets think ki, Mahanth's daughter hain woh, they're not allowed to go out and work, warna the world will know that they are in need of money.
1: I dont agree. Not every working woman is working coz she is in dire need of money.
2: Atleast they could do some home-tutions or YouTube videos, coz hey! They can cook well and we also gotta know that they know the stuff that goes behind recording a video and telecasting it.
So again, lost there.
Plan to send a man out of his own house?
Totally lost.
I mean, I cant understand why a character like Chandni would attempt doing something like this. It kinda against the morals she believes, doesnt it?
Answer: Morals dont apply when it comes to keeping/making her Mother happy. -> [1]
She's hurt coz her Mom's not talking to her. Fair enough.
And so she comes and hurts him back, with words deep, dark and daunting. Fair? Well, yes. Honestly yes. But with what we got to know of Chandni's soft and calm and all that..ya know, sweet sa character, this was a bit out of line.
Extreme times call for extreme steps, yes.
But that's what has me frowning.
She's not what she claims and prides in. Atleast, not all that she believes and preaches that she is.
Coz for her Mom, she's do kuch bhi. Kuch. Bhi. -> [2]
Put the goddamn nails (or whatever that is) on the floor while the guy is carrying her, so that he wont do the rasm?!
More than totally lost.
I mean, here, her Mom clearly had no objection in letting Advay carry her, coz of the apshakun or something. So why even attempt?
Answer: When he doesn't follow any goddamn rules, why the eff should I be the only one to follow the rules? -> [3]
From equations 1, 2 and 3 (Engineering ka side-effects), we can here by conclude that, Chandni might not be as dark as Advay is (hell, she's far from it), but she's not all the Holy than Thou either. She's got gray shades in her as well.
And that makes her normal for me. Which means, I kinda now can see her as a normal regular real character and not the one that is strictly limited to the fictional world.
Also, like pentu82 mentioned in another post of her's,
I have sometimes noticed this in real life too. People who assume they are on a moral high ground tend to hurt others more because they think they can do no wrong. A person who realizes his own fallibility is usually a kind person.
While I was under the impression of Chandni belonging to the second category, she, clearly is the one who belongs to the first category.
She's all fine and white-y white till her family is in smiles.
If it comes to her that something is going wrong with her family, then she has no qualms in stepping out of her line and her much preached morals and goody good character.
Which means, Chandni too has a gray in her.
Of course, everyone of us do. Or atleast I do, coz I cant talk about everyone.
But I never claim to be the goody good all the time. I know I can be the bitchy ass when needs comes to be and I am pretty vocal about it.
When Chandni went all 'samay, shaanthi, sach and nyaay'; I was like..er..okay?
I do respect such people, dont get me wrong. It takes a hell load of control and waay too good a heart and head to believe and abide by those norms at every given point of time, no matter how deep into the shit you are.
I respect them.
But..I just cant understand or connect to them.
Its like...admiring a modern art.
You know it is beautiful and magnificent and of very high value and is pretty damn rare. But you can not bloody understand it.
But now, now, I am a bit more comfy at understanding her. Understanding atleast a bit of her.
So yep, that's my post for today.
I am NOT going to talk about Barun Sobti's tweet and his acting in today's episode.
Nope, I am not.
Coz if I will begin typing now, I will finish it by tomorrow at around this time. And that's harmful for me.
Khel jazbaathon ka - dard zehreela sa.
Nafrath ke godh mein chupi - mohabbath hain woh sachi.
Aawaaz tha nasheela - alfaaz thae madhoshi.
Aakhein hain lafz unke - chehra atrangi.
Aashiqana hain woh hasi -Aafath woh aasoon.
Naa hosh tha, humein - na khaaboo,
Khaatilana tha woh nazar, jo chaa diya woh jaadoo.
That's all for now.
Signing off,
Candy.
P.S:
Oh and there's something I wanna share.
Today, for the first time ever, I watched IPK3 with my parents.
They were silent all through the episode but once it was done, my Amma (Cadbury, remember?) was like 'He is real good.'
And she kinda likes this subtle look over the bearded one she's seen him previously in.
And she asked how much he earns. And I read somewhere ki he's given 80+K per day. And guess what my Amma thinks?
That he is way underpaid.
Coz according to her, her words and I quote "for a glamorous profession as his, 80+K is nothing. He needs to maintain his body, his face, his health and probably remain without work between one project to another."
And I was like...nodding with wide eyes.
And my Nana-garu.. He absolutely loved Barun. Pretty, too damn pretty impressed with him.
He was like 'I cant watch Indian Soaps, no matter how good the leads are. But I'd love to see him in a film or something. He's got the potential. Try kiya Bollywood mein?"
It was such a proud moment, yaar! Felt like personal achievement of sorts.
And yes, needless to say, I gave a proud speech on Tu Hain Mera Sunday and the crucial things about it, which includes the release date, the film festivals it was screened in (which surprised and impressed both of them) and the awards it has secured.
Tu Hain Mera Sunday - 6th October, 2017.
P.P.S:
If anyone is gonna begin going #teamChandni on me, please...even though I am out and out #teamAdvay, I do love Chandni a lot. Its just that, I don't tend to understand her at times, bas.
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