I can't believe it actually happened. Even though I was expecting it, I had hoped beyond all hope that even if Kripa did sleep with Prithvi, she wouldn't make the dreaded phone call, but my worse fears became a reality as she did just that.
Setting it up, with the phone face down, so that Prithvi wouldn't notice, she started talking to Prithvi, saying that Angad was in her past and that she loved only Prithvi, and that she was willing to take the next step in their relationship, but it didn't end there……though it wasn't shown that Angad was listening to Kripa and Prithvi while they slept together, it was implied.
I felt disgusted when I had read the tidbit of what was going to happen, and I know that it will be a long time before I EVER LOOK AT Kripa the same way, before I can forgive her for what she did…..but yesterday, more than disgusting, I felt sad, hurt and drained at what this show and these characters do to me. I felt numb as I set there in utter misery as these events played out on my screen, the tears streaming down my cheeks unchecked at the pain that these two always put each other through. And though I really did try to see it from Kripa's point of view, all I could see was the horrendous, Herculean mistake that she was making……and deep down she knew it too, as that single tear was not one of joy or ecstasy, but one of deep sadness.
IQBAL!!!! O.M.G!!!! He was brilliant yesterday. He has surpassed all of his prior performances last night with what I consider his best performance to date. I would actually rate it better then the scene where he told his parents that his child was dead(Which was all-time fave scene of his), but this is now, to me, his best!!!
Angad, in the rehearsal hall is lost in his memories of him and Kripa, sadness written all over his face, but as he listened to Kripa over the phone, his sadness was replaced by sock at what he was hearing, then the closing of his eyes in pain when she said that she was willing to fulfill her wifely duties…..and as her conversation continued, along with the pain was anger…..Anger at what she was about to do, the slight hardening of his eyes and the tightening of his jaw.
The intensity of which he hit those drums, in an effort to drown out the sounds, to drown out her words, to drive the images out of his head, but these images will never leave him. Along with Kripa this will haunt him for many a days to come. And as those images in his head continues to flow, he finally snapped…..going wild by thrashing the drums, flinging whatever was in his path aside, in an attempt to assuage his pain, yet that was not to be, as he bellowed out Kripa's name……and in that one word was a gut wrenching anguish, a pain-filled scream that came from the inner most and deepest part of his shattered soul.
And once again in a vain attempt to rid himself of his thoughts he turned to alcohol to find some sort of solace, in the hopes that it would numb the pain, but alas, the memories still continues to hound haunt him…..the time on the bridge, her birthday when he put sindoor on her forehead, the warehouse scene where he watched as Prihvi placed the engagement ring on her finger, the scene where their physical beings were separate, yet their souls remained locked in each others arms…..and as these memories continued to flood his mind, his sadness was replaced by an anger…..no….a RAGE so intense, so all-consuming that he trembled with its force, and still the memories refused to leave him alone. The lipstick sindoor scene, the time she slapped him in the rehearsal hall.
And if that wasn't bad enough, to top it all, they slept in his bedroom!!!! Angad stood outside his bedroom looking like a lost boy, talking to Prithvi in a subdued manner and as Prithvi unknowingly confirmed what had transpired the night before, tears welled in Angad's eyes.
As for Kripa, wasn't it enough that she destroyed his soul in that one phone call, that she had to drive the knife deeper by her cutting words to him…..and as she spoke, he stood there impassively…..his eyes were dead, as dead as his soul……that is until she asked him if he wasn't going to congratulate her, as she was finally a wife….he turned his face away, but those eyes flicked back to her. And if that weren't enough she drove the final nail in his coffin, and in turn her own, by thanking him!!!!
I'm sorry, but HOW MUCH LOWER could she get!!!! Has she satisfied herself at what she had achieved....NO!!! Is she happy…..NO!!! Is she still looking at him with pain, sadness and longing….YES!!!! SO WHY KRIPA, WHY!!!!
I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR HER NOW. As she stood there, her back to Angad, crying, I felt numb, no sympathy, nothing!!! Call me cold if you want, because that's exactly how I was feeling last night. All I could think was that she did this willingly, even though she knew it was wrong, even though she knew it would destroy Angad and hurt you. All I could think of was Angad's pain.
Angad walked to his beadroom, trepidation filled him as what he was going to find. I guess seeing the remnants of Kripa and Prithvi's night together, made it all the more real to him. And in a fit of rage he desperately tries to rid all the "evidence" from his sight, then backing away from the bed…..and just like that, all anger leaves him as he collapses to the floor, openly sobbing, gripping his head as once again he is filled with happier times with Kripa, and then images of Kripa's night with Prithvi.
And as this slide show of memories played in his mind, his pain, still palpable, gets pushed to the back. Once again rage took over and he snuffed out the flame of a lone candle, just like he's going to snuff out Kripa's marriage, and her.
Trembling all the while, his eyes close for a few seconds, then he stills and a sort of calm comes over him, his eyes open, fierce determination and cold fury, promising retribution shines from his eyes…….TRULY THE CALM BEFOR THE STORM!!!
If you guys want to call it "moral policing" then go ahead and do so, because though I tried not to take sides, I couldn't help it. Right now I'm behind Angad 1000%.....all the way!!!
But here's a question that has been nagging me since last night. We all know that Kripa is hurting as well, but now that she has taken this step, Prithvi will expect her to be a wife in the truest sense of the word....and since she only did this to get back at Angad.....how will she handle his expectations....how will she vring herself to give herself to Prithvi again while her heart and soul cried for Angad???
I am worn out, weary, numb and my heart is bleeding at these two foolish people ans what they d oto each other and us.
Luv
Hafsa - whose heart is still crying at what occured yesterday.