We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
However huge a mistake a person makes, everyone in the world deserves a second chance! Yes, by now you would have guessed that this is a post in Angad's defense and favor!
Angad has surely committed a huge blunder by unwittingly putting Kripa through hell. And only because of his King-size ego, which permits him to listen to one and all raving and ranting against the woman he loves, but it does not permit his senses to just go and speak to the lady in question herself and clarify all his doubts. Angad is surely an immature, impulsive, impervious and tremendously egoistical individual. He is just too self-absorbed to say yes to love and accept that what ever ''crimes'' Kripa might have committed, he nevertheless still loves her as before.
That is where the difference in a man & a woman's perception of love lies. Love for man is one part of his life and Love for a woman is her whole life. Angad is ready to burn in his personal hell, hating and yet pining for Kripa, but he is not ready to face upto the fact that Kripa has actually betrayed him and that he should ask for an explanation from her.
Instead if it would have been Kripa who would have been in Angad's situation, she would have cried her heart-out in front of Angad, accused him, screamed on him…..but would have come out and asked HIM directly why has he betrayed her and not go round-about the whole issue.
But all said and done, I still feel that somewhere Angad deserves a second chance. Only because, he has also loved Kripa as much as she has loved him. Alright, he has caused her a lifetime of hurt and resentment, but that is because he truly and intensely loved her. If his feelings for Kripa would have been superficial or farce, he would have just let go of Kripa and moved on with his life……but he is as much in pain as she is. And his torture and anguish is going to increase enormously when he comes to know of the truth…….it will shatter him beyond belief.
I sincerely believe that Happy Endings are a must, be it on the Silver Screen, be it on the Idiot Box or in Real Life. Human failings are as old as civilizations itself and if everyone did get what they deserve, life would be a very different proposition altogether. It doesn't matter how much Angad has hurt Kripa how he has thrown her dignity in tatters, how he has given her mental anguish…….the point is that he has gone through all of this himself and will also regret it in the future.
Love will ricochet & reverberate even amongst the most recriminatory emotions…..that is the captivation, enchantment and power of Love.
Cheers,
Chilly