I am sorry but I will not be able to do a perfect analysis on today's episode. The weather is terrible here and I couldn't watch the episode. However, caught a few glimpses on the YouTube (I hate watching it that way), but there was no audio for the major segments. So from what I could understand, from their body language and expressions, I have summed up a DIGGING DEEPER, and I am calling it a night with that. Sorry, friends, but probably this might be even worse tomorrow. The weather is terrible here, and there are forecasts that predict tomorrow to be more wild. If that is the case, you will not see my post tomorrow. But if I can get a small fraction of a time to use the net, I will try and do what I can.
MIRRORS and CURTAINS
PICKING POINTERS
- WHAT THE!! Promotion of the new reality show in IPKKND? *groan* This is not the first time, of course. And yew! They even put that show's motto "Once more" into the scene. And how many times was that motto repeated! I was like, WHAT THE! again...And for Master Chef promotion and for this Superstar Part 2 as well, it was Mami who was given the dialogues that included the timings and information of the shows. Materialistic Mami diluted!
- When Chikini Chameli was running in the night air, I loved the smile Payal had on her face. Sweet!
- Mami seeing Kushi dance and going to join her. Mami uncomfortable under Payal's confidence in her (twice). Yes, Mami the kids are accepting you already and you are moving towards them too. The keys in your heart are pressed where you never thought they'd be pressed. A different music is coming out of you, Massiji...Let's see how far it plays.
- Arnav refusing Shyam for the first time in front of Anjali. Remember in the initial episodes of the show it was said that if Arnav will listen to anyone it is his Jejaji. He will always obey his Jejaji's advices. Look what has come to be of that now. Shyam looked at Anjali suddenly because he feared she might catch a clue from that digression. But she was too excited for the show that she only spared a baby-faced sulk to follow the departing Chotey. Phew! Shyam must have been relieved by that close call.
- If we saw Nani, Payal and Mami trying to make a some-kind of truce in a previous episode, today we saw Kushi, Nani and Mami dancing to Chikini Chameli. Bonds building everywhere in the show, babe. Go for it!...It may be slow, but its progress alright.
- Loved how Mami and Kushi were going to hi-five and then Mami withdrew her hand and did that circling-head-thingo. But what I loved the best, Nani's childish voice saying Bye Bye after Mami went away saying Hello Hi Bye Bye! Hilarious Nani!
- Nani eyeing Arnav and Kushi's masala fight at the poolside. Arnav coming to stand IN LINE with Kushi and Nani during Chikini Chameli song. Both these are two of the many clues that show how Nani is going to have something big role to play in bringing these two together in hearts.
- I didn't understand the huge chunk in between. Video was not working. So I don't know if there is anything I should see that is important. But I think it was Nani, right (?), who was keeping Arnav there, by holding his phone and keys hostage. And wow! Isn't she really planning things out...She's definitely smelled something in their relationship and is out to try and bring them more closer. Not just honeymoon, honey, but fancy dress competition too!
- Arnav loves watching Kushi bond with his family. Not just for the Chikini Chameli dance but for the Oooh La La as well. He loves to see her bond and he loves to see her smile...
- The manager's question to Kushi: "Where's your Ranjha?" Powerful irony, there. Where is he, Kushi? In your heart? Close to your heart? Where's your Ranjha, sweety? Still in love with you? Or withdrawn? Or is he coming to get you? Coming to confess? Coming to carry you away on the wings of Destiny?
- Arnav is so heated up that Nani had pushed Kushi onto the stage where she would have to be helplessly standing to get ridiculed by the crowds. Teri-Meri memories coming to me. He is disgruntled that Nani has pushed his wife into a place where she will have to stand subjected. And he accuses Nani for throwing her away before the crowd like that. Nani is ready with an answer. "Doesn't this manly wear suit you? Oh it does! Doesn't it? Yes...Hmmm... Chotey, why don't you put this on and save your wife from getting...subjugated?" *smirk Nani, smirk*!!!!
- And yes, Shyamwa in Arnav's room, getting all titsy over the search. Snake's shedding his skin! Wonder who'll find it there first...
DIGGING DEEPER:
"Ego, buddy. My Ego is my mother." Really, Arnav Singh Raizada? Looks like Kushi is all geared up to deflate that puffed up Ego of yours. Her retorts and her answers were outstanding, just the right amount and just the right note. What are you? Are you even human? Her justification of how she was involuntarily given credit for what he didn't want her to get credit was bang on. And so was her He tells his Ego speech, with the knife held under her chin. Saying just one thing by that hold: "BEWARE, Kushi Kumari Gupta Sing Raizada. I'm the reason you're so strong as you are now. Don't mess with your teacher." Yes, Arnav, we need to credit you for that. The number of times you've hurt her, accused her and smashed her heart with your dark cold words, has resulted in making Kushi more stronger. Not weaker. The Kushi that can face and fight the roaring Lion. The Kushi that can shoulder a family's name and walk off with pride knowing that even if someone tries to mess with her family's integrity, she will find ways to bring back their virtue. The Kushi who will always learn to hold her head straight and high even when her husband bows her pride to tears and losing trust. Arnav made Kushi stronger and Kushi will now make Arnav lighter. At heart. This I can't wait to watch! *rubs hands with wicked glee*
Had shivers running when I watched that Tu Hi Mera. "You are mine" and Arnav was totally into Kushi. Like what he often told her, "you do not know what you are doing or what is happening around you, half the time." But he does. He watches her. He has got his entire focus on his Kushi. Kushi didn't see her earring fall down, but he saw it. He didn't walk off because she sensed his intense stare. He walked off because he wanted to appear IN FRONT OF her, catch her focus away from the song on the stage and onto him and THEN hand her the fallen earring. Reminded you of the first earring-tuck-in-your-shirt scene, because that was the 'tenderness' with which he handed her the earring. 'Love' that was still a 'bud'. Reminded you also of the scene where he hands her back the retrieved earring which she had lost after the Teri-Meri, because there too, it was a fallen earring which she didn't know had fallen until he told her or showed it to her. The fallen earring returned to someone with whom you have a deeper bond than what it had been when it was a bud. But the difference between that scene and today: Kushi was made to take it then. He had put it into her hand. But today, he wanted Kushi to take that step and pull it from his hold. And I thought she would pull it out of his hand from the bottom, where it drooped easily for her to take without having touch him. But no! She went right up, close to his fingers and then pulled it out. Love and its wonders, dear...
And when he walked away, she didn't look at him but she still knew he was staring. And wow, the "you are mine" running in the background all the while. And when Kushi had turned to see if he was there at first, did you see the way she tried to calm herself after not seeing him there. Was the dhak dhak back? Couldn't hear it over the loud music...
Okay, the following 'Curtain' digging deeper was created solely out of the watching the body language and expressions of ArHi. Didn't have audio in this clip. Hope those who HEARD the scene can tell me if this is what they get from that clip. It was such an important scene and I wanted to kick myself for making an ASSUMPTION on what it had to convey instead of waiting another day to listen to the scene and then posting this. But if I had waited for tomorrow to listen to it, then I wouldn't be able to post it either, what with college and the *grunt* weather and all.
The curtain falling on them was superb. I was able to see some significance there too. You see, the feebly hanging rail upon which the two curtains hung was the 'sister' pole. One curtain was Payal and the other was Anjali. The space between these two curtains was the matrimony of Arnav-Kushi. The second pole that fell on Arnav and permitted dust to enter his eyes was Shyam. Now let's do some deciphering on that:
First Kushi comes and looks into the space but does not enter it. She is someone who believes in marriage and knows it must exist there. She knows one day she will have to cross it but she believes there is still time. Remember what she told Buaji on the day of Payal's wedding, "I'll be here for sometime longer." Of course, the poor thing had never dreamed she would have to take back those words that very fatal night. We see Kushi move away from the space between the curtain, believing its wasn't time yet. Then enters the Hero. Quick, lightning bolt, not even thinking or looking where he is going, our angry young man, barges right through the curtain and WATAK! Crashes into Kushi. Crashes into her innocent childhood in the name of what the mangalsutra and sindoor hold for her. Crashes under the canopy of the wedlock for the sake of saving Payal's marriage (one curtain) and for saving Anjali's marriage (other curtain).
They both get hurt by the turn of events. By the fact that they had to marry...but Kushi is hurt more because she was 'dragged' into marrying whereas Arnav had the power to 'choose'. There are fights in this bond. But Kushi will also learn to compensate for the hurt he gave her. She tries punishing him in little ways of her own, and tries to teach him a lesson. And then, something occurs in their life, and she is about to fall. Instantly, his hands are around her, holding her steady, not permitting her to touch the floor. Did you see the way his face moves SOOO close to her face when he catches her? In that dip? That is the reflection of the love he hides. All through his married life, he hurts her, accuses her and wounds her heart with his ruthless words and cold actions. But when she is falling, confronted by Shyam or in any desperate need, Arnav is always there to hold her and when he comes to rescue her, we see that glimpse of love that he is hiding from her. That is what that closeness of their faces (he brings it close, not her) in that dip meant to me. Also, note how the pole that held both the sisters have fallen upon them. And then when they try to make something good out of their marriage (them rising up from the dip), down falls Shyam right into their midst (middle*grunt*) and puts mistrust into Aranv's eyes. Shyam has succeeded in telling Arnav something against Kushi. The yoke of the sisters is still on Arnav's shoulders. Arnav, though distrustful of Kushi (the thing in his eye) is still holding her (by the waist). Bound by the marriage. But above all, he still CANNOT STOP LOVING HER, DAMMIT.
And then comes Kushi to the rescue. She not only flings Shyam right out of messing with their marriage, she steps forward, and heals the wounds and clears the fog of doubt in Arnav's mind towards her. He sees her truth clearly and is mesmerized (not by her beauty symbolically) but by her innocence in the whole tragedy. But they have reached a point where they do not know what the future holds for them. Maybe the six months is nearing its end...maybe they don't if they should proceed in a marriage that is too scarred to be healed. Kushi may be led to fall again (second trip), and though its not shown on the screen I have my doubts if she had slipped on the rod lying on the floor (Shyam). Again, Arnav (a changed and more loving man) is there to rescue her. But since their marriage is still a question mark, they may need some backing. That's when Anjali (the curtain) falls upon them. Her words, her acceptance, her need for them...envelopes them once again to join in continuing their bond as husband and wife...
Mirror is often referred to as the unconscious. We all wear one or more masks throughout our existence, showing different faces in different places. We are never the same person everywhere. But if we accidently cross our reflection, on a window shop, a puddle on the road, the blurred reflection in a cup of coffee, or even when we pass by a car with a tinted window...the mask lifts for a fraction of a second. It is only our reflections that remind us who we really are. We may laugh with our friends and family, but when we look across the room and find ourselves staring at a mirror or a reflection on a glass, we pause. The smile stops. Because we suddenly saw who we really are. What we were hiding...the pain and the secrets hidden in our eyes.
Today, we saw Arnav, not looking into the mirror, but reflected in it for us. The real Arnav, hurt by what he had done in the name of marriage. Kushi, we saw as she stood, not as a reflection. The pain she had because of the marriage was openly said by her many a times, but Arnav never said how the marriage had hurt him. Yes, he said he was disgusted and that he hated her, but he never said he was 'saddened' or 'hurt' by the fact that he had married her. When Kushi said that Heer and Ranjha had to die on the day of the marriage, it was smack bang a reflection of what Arnav-Kushi had gone through. On the day of their marriage, Arnav died on seeing Shaym embrace Kushi on the terrace. On the day of their marriage, Kushi died when the man she thought had loved her and in whom she had put her complete trust, was forcing erg into a bond that destroyed her beliefs and trust. The girl who believed in the divinity of marriage having to involve in a marriage as if it were a business deal. To her, her life was ruined. And yes, like Heer and Ranjah, they had died hence on the day of their marriage.
Did you hear Mamaji? That Kushi's and Arnav's (Nani actually) dance is the third to play. And 'three', darlings, is one perfect number. The number of completeness, the number of love!! And now, the next epi, or the one after that, is gonna have these two...ahhh! Can't control my excitement. Dart! If the weather messes with my chances again...Ah well, at least we can see all the audience get shocked again seeing Arnav step into help lonely Kushi on the stage. But this time, there is one person missing from the audience who will not get shocked, like on the Sangeet. No, I'm not talking about NK. Miss that dear boy a lot *sniff*. I'm talking about Nani, the masterbrain behind all this chemistry we're getting lately. Awesome Nani! I relaly want Kushi to grow up to be as fun, alert and wise as you!!
Goodness! I didn't even watch the entire epi and I came up with this long a post? I really am losing it here!!!
P.S. There's this VM I came across (HD) and I was awestruck at the effect it had on the beholder. It shows why Arnav is hurting and in turn hurts her, though he doesn't want to. It shows how Kushi finds it hard to understand him and yet does not stop seeking after his love. Though Arnav tries to keep his love hidden away from her, at times it emerges, especially when she NEEDS him. This is exactly what they are going through and it was so marvelously shown in this VM. If you haven't already watched it, I'd suggest you do, and immerse yourself in what they are going through. The credit of course goes to its outstanding creator who goes by the ID KasuPremeer. Don't know if that person's on the Forum and don't know if this VM has already been posted by someone before. But if anyone does know the person who created this, do thank him/her from my part. She/he has captured excellently what ArHi are involved in a deeper level. Leastways, try it and grip yourself in ArHi magic!
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