Hammie's Impression's ep 67~3.10.17. Sepia recollections
Humans are the prime creation of the creator.. much love and craft has been put in us by the divine hands in their formation. Many faiths preach that the cosmos and life across it , is all created to give us pleasure. While we are an integral part of the living species we are also a league among ourselves in comparison to other living organisms.. we are gifted with individual persona's that speak for who and what we are? For its our mind and our heart that gives us an identity. Our individual rationale and emotions both teach us to adapt to any change that transpires in our lives and breaks into our routine. Part of adaptations we make to lives, especially in cases of past good and bad times is the use of the our memory.. the faculty of retaining , and instance recalling of our past experiences. Yet despite having a mind and a heart, we are remain mere mortals..time bound beings. Still its our memories that have the power to jostle those with sane mind back and forth between our past and present. Today's episode, for me is all about memories.. the capacity of storing information and the effects it has upon certain characters. Memories vivid enough to legitimize a vendetta! memories, those sepia parchments, brown, autumnal ,faded recollections best forgotten! memories of the age of innocence , so sweet that one wishes for childhood to return one more time!
He is a man , within whom a child remains badly scarred ..Before Chandni stands the successful Advay, lightly hanging on to her finger tips. Dev wrestles to come even with her. To show her some home truths. Had it not been for Nani's guidance ..he too would have let his soul darken as sin itself. But being his father's son a Mahant's boy, some good blood runs through his veins. He lets go of Chandni's hand and literally chokes when he narrates his tale of woe.. how her parents instigated the public against his parents, maligned them! rolled his parents revered role in muck! and finally had them lynched and mobbed to death! This was news , shocking news for her! Advay rejects her act as feigned !well he nearly weeps, she can cut the dramatics! This is the truth! and truth is evident enough , he recalls how his adolescent eyes were forced to take in all in those harrowing scenes..one's parents being butchered by a frenzied mob! Advay leaves..The Dev in him still hangs on to his gruesome memories.. he is like an elephant ,who never forgets! After all his memories are also consolations for him, have been so, when as a boy he missed his mother and father.. those nights of crying for them ,for his baby brother..what does Chandni know about his sufferings ? Advay gulps the lump in his throat.. but he kept his sorrow alive..till the day dawns when he can show the perpetrators their crimes.. they will confess their sins!!! Her reminiscences about her childhood were all incomplete without Dev.. he was the be all and end all of her life.. she recalls his accusations against her family. Chandni runs and knocks over an ornate glass unlit table lamp! The light of love hadn't even lit up yet between them.. and the lamp shatters into pieces like her heart. She weeps for her Dev.. the torture he must have gone through!! Its what she never expected, at this point in time when she is one step away from her.. Rabba ve..such serious misconceptions, such entrenched loathing towards her! cannot lay the foundations of their childhood bond.. she will have to prove to Dev that his misunderstandings and hatred towards her are unfounded! There is only one person who can bail her out of this one.. he has too..
A daughter needs help! she'll get it, if she runs to her father! Fathers are infallible! strong and protective.. but Chandni's father ,is weak and frail has a memory like a sieve!! being forgetful, absent minded is Yash Narayan's infirmity !not a character trait! The father daughter scene is very poignant , she bursts out crying out for his help.. stimulates his memory, reiterates her name and her relationship with him! Chandni ,your daughter!! Yash looks at her he needn't back into his world of oblivion ! he stares at Chandni .. he sees her riding a bike! Memory churns up images of Chandni carrying balloons.. yes Yash recalls, she was bright ,bouncy ,floating around him like colourful balloons! Chandni!!He acknowledges her. The nurse gives him his medications and feedbacks to Chandni..this is what he is like? fluctuates between awareness and lack of it ! Can Yash Narayan's Alzheimer be seen as real? or brought on? can his condition if real, be seen as the wrath of god against him for his crimes against Advay's family?
A daughter begs her father to save her marriage.. her love! Chandni knows her father's illness.. its a chance she takes! A lot is at stake.. babba will have to put pressure on his brain.. possibly suffer seeing harrowing images! Detrimental to his condition. But for her, its to find out the truth behind Dev's years of emotional scarring..her love for Dev now overrides her love for her ailing father.For deep down Chandni believes that if the gods decree they will open the old, brown, crinkled, scrolls of her babba's memory, so by his confession he too might be granted solace along with her one and only Dev!... just taking his name brings back her childhood ,plus the present day memories of her and her husband Dev! his voice moves her to tears.. Rabba ve! Rabba ve! His name does not ring a bell with babba..
Chandni stimulates her father's mind by making him go through old photos of both Dev and her happy families.. group photos!Yash's memory stirs, as one does when one goes through a box of old photographs! Photos of one's self with old friends, associates!! Those sepia bygones.. bring up many old anecdotes of yester year.. a tear rolls down babba's cheeks as Chandni questions him about how Dev's parents died?? The accusations that he hurled at her family!!were they true?? Suddenly the fond memories turn! Black and white ,smudged images of faces, noises, screaming! Yash Narayan takes full blame for mob incitement, defamation of Advay's family all to get the esteemed Mahant's seat ,power ,position and wealth! He howls in repentance! Suffering physically ,mentally and emotionally! till he drops almost like a useless vegetable on his bed!!
So a horrified Chandni gets the full picture from her fathers failing and ailing memories how the Yash Naryan's including herself were involved in destroying everything that Advay's innocent family had.. their respectability , clout. She sees her family as the hungry crows who flew in from nowhere and scavenged, defiled the name of a pure and chaste family! She cries when she learns how Advay had to flee the deadly mob to save his and his younger brother's lives.. away from this blood thirsty mob !all orchestrated by the Yash Naryans in the name of avarice! Devastated Chandni knows now what to do.. Atone for the sins of her forefathers.. her penance would be to give up the one she loves more than her self.. Dev..she will love him till eternity but leave him she must! Confess! Then depart! it would be her penance for her crimes against him and his family... hamlet53.. 4.10.17
Fantastic episode.. all the FB of previous episodes.brought to life inthis one.. so Yash too colluded with his wife to gain wordly stature.. at the expence of some good souls.. Barun and Shivani yet again told the sad tale in the episode.. brilliant! so Chandni will confess before advay's family tomorrow.. adi in precap crying out to chandni not to leave .. has to be a memory of Chandu crying out to her Dev not to leave her.. will Advay let her leave? can we anticipate the rain scene ,the sprint, and the huggle????