I m in awe of how beautifully they are handling this realisation track. And today, I give a big round of applause to the makers for the text Rohit sent to raima. Generally in ITV, the love story of leads is destined one and hence they falsify every other relationship that comes in its way. We have ample number of shows based on second chance at love. But in each show when the leads realise their second love, they tag the first love as friendship. There r dialogues conveying Main dosti ko pyaar samajh baitha...ab jab isse Mila tab samajh Raha hai k pyaar kya hota hai, Jo tumhare Sath tha wo toh pyaar tha hi nahi. Or there are cases where the ex has turned negative due to some reason, the lead character is full of hatred for ex and then it is said that the love they had for ex was not love at all. No, this is not second chance at love. I don't support this idea!
What they r showing in khkt is second chance at love in its truest sense. Rohit passionately loved raima and then they got separated for 4 years and the feelings of love have slowly vanished and what has remained is friendship. Rohit respected this relationship then, he is respecting that relationship now. He is not falsifying his past love for raima claiming it to be just friendship misunderstood as love. He is accepting that he has fallen in love second time. He still wants raima back, but as a friend. He is moving on from that relationship, he is not moving on from her. Like veena rightly said, Rohit was missing raima's love, not raima herself. He has found that love in sonakshi, he has not found raima. Raima will still be that special friend in his life, however he will not love her.
On the other hand, he met Sona a few months ago, they became friends, best friends, special friends and all those categories of friends and now they are in love. Rohit has realised and accepted those feelings for Sona. But for him, Sona and raima are not replaceable. Sona can't fill the void of raima, nor can raima remove Sona from his heart. Anyways, let's not go there unless we see what they want to show. Ronakshi relationship will grow gradually and Rohit will fall for Sona as passionately as he did for raima, or even more than that. And seeing how much Rohit still respects his relationship with raima, I kind of believe he'll have similar respect for his relationship with Sona too....all it needs is some time to strengthen this bond. Like, we all know ronakshi love is at a very initial stage right now.
The last few episodes since after ganpati visarjan have been thoroughly beautiful for me. The emotional complexities are wonderfully handled. The realisation and moving on process is as real as it can get. That's exactly the way people behave in real life.
Take a bow, makers...for giving "second chance at love" it's true meaning, for giving due respect to the first love, for standing up to my expectations from this realisation and moving on track. And let me warn y'all, u have raised my expectations too much from the upcoming raima track... please don't disappoint. At least let the respect for eachother prevail, if not anything!
Sandip Sikcand, u have proved Ur real calibre with this show, I apologise for distrusting u based on your previous work 😂 don't make me eat my own words in future!