IP REDUX ; Darkness Approaches - Page 6

Tanthya/Doods,

Fantastic Post as usual!!! You are right, Shyam is the dark force and his character traits: selective hearing, selective seeing, his gloating will be his downfall. Doods, your character analysis of Shyam was superb. I loved Mama - Mamiji scenes, I wish we have more of them. Payal and Mami was another good touch, things are changing there. So let me say again, Fantastic post by both of you.

You know, the confession scene, from the time , it was shown in the promo, I was joking about it, saying that it was a "Viewers special confession", something that they were doing only for the viewers, but Doods, your post of the other day, the 5% message in every episode, plus something that princesssunnara and Tanthya wrote in their post, made me think. I have been pondering over it for days thinking was this confession only for the viewers or did it have an ulterior move, why was it shown now, I mean why will CVs invest in it, it has to have a subtle message. So I decided to analyze it, I might go totally tangent but then you girls can get me back.

So let me start with that day when this journey of Arnav and Khushi really started.

That day, in a place which was as broken and destroyed as Arnav, ASR held a girl in his arms who had managed to make a crack in his shield. That was the first day that he felt guilty, he felt bad for putting a girl's life in danger. That was the first time in years he had felt an emotion for someone other than his Di and it totally disturbed him. That was the first crack on ASR's armor. After that, there were many cracks in his armor and Arnav started healing but the shield was not totally broken, he had not healed completely. Thus it was very easy for him to resurrect it, when he thought that the person who was making him believe is actually someone totally opposite.

ASR has no repercussions, for him the most important person is his sister, and his most important goal is to protect her. In the process he does not care who gets hurt, who gets trampled, even if that person was someone that Arnav was half in love with..Yes, Arnav was hurt, Arnav was in pain, we saw glimpses of that, but how can you break someone who is already broken. Previously, with his parents he dealt with his pain with becoming ASR, this time he did the same.

And then there was this day when he was holding the same girl in his arms, a girl who had just asked him questions, questions that staggered him, question that stunned him, questions that gave him hope, questions which were so forceful that they completely crumbled ASR, questions that brought tears to his eyes not only because he got a confirmation that his feelings were returned but because it also resurrected Arnav, made him whole. Thus like the phoenix who rises again from the ashes, Arnav rose, a person who could feel again, who was again so full of emotions that he was as magnificent, as exquisite, as beautiful as the gazebo that he was standing in.

Thus saying that, now when Shyam starts his games, lets him know that Khushi has told him the truth, it will not be ASR he will facing, it will be Arnav. It will be Arnav who will feel betrayed and hurt and it will Arnav who will fight back. This Arnav will be even more dangerous, even more vindictive than ASR. Why? Because previously though, he was shocked, he was hurt by Khushi's betrayal, his sense of right and wrong, could not allow him to blame Khushi. They were not committed to each other, so he had no right on her and this was the only reason he could not ever divulge the reason for his "Dukh" to her. Whatever her did to her was only for his sister. This time its different, this time though subconsciously they are committed to each other and he is going to lash out and how he is going lash out.

"What is love if it does not pass the test of pain and separation"

When the confrontation happens (I knows doods you said it will happen in parallel, and I so want that terrace scene revisited, exactly like it happened before) the whole Arnav will break down again, not because he was betrayed like with his parents but because he himself betrayed, betrayed the love, the trust, the relationship that he has subconsciously started. This confession made them committed to each other, which they were not previously, and thus the repentance will have more depth, more intensity as it will be lover you will be doing it, not the brother. Then, as doods said, we will have the journey from the terrace to the middle of the road to the temple and this time Khushi will be the one who will get him back.

Today we saw she wanted to leave twice but Arnav stopped her. Similarly that time she will want to leave. but Arnav will not let her go. Hopefully, we will see him running behind her, high on their love like the bhaang in his own ASR style but when Anjali calls or when Anjali realizes the truth i.e the "Khatta Limbu.". Khushi will decide to leave. Initially again, Arnav will not let her go but he will agree for his sister. We have seen in past, many times Arnav has returned her duppatta, he knows its her dignity, her modesty and so he will let her go for her duppatta, for her dignity, her modesty, her values. She will ask him to move on, to go forward but his answer will always be "I am waiting", waiting for her dhadkan as well as for her duppatta.

Thus as predicted by everyone, as Anjali has been a witness to their antics in holi, she will be the witness to their love and pain. She might support her husband initially but she will have to give her "Agnipariksha" not for her husband but for her brother. She will be the one who will guide Khushi to her Arnavji, and in the process she will be the one who will walk away from her husband towards the person who has always been with her, in good and bad.

Its so amazing right, how the CVs show us the trailer before giving us the full picture. Will they follow this route is another discussion completely.