I had vowed not to watch Thursday's episode but my addiction to KYPH and overall curious nature in general got the better of me, and thus, it was with a heavy heart and a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that I tuned in to watch yesterday's installment of KYPH.
And now that I've watched it, the one thought that keeps going round and round in my mind is that this episode was, on the whole, the beginning of the end. Because it heralded the end of so many things as we knew them. Josh's brutal murder marked the end of the most lovable person in the show, it marked the end of Prithvi as we knew him and it most certainly marked the end of the Angad-Kripa reunion, since as per Dinky's post, the serial is poised to take the one year leap in a week probably.
Generally I'm able to laugh away most of the stuff that happens in KYPH, no matter how ridiculous or annoying it might have seemed at the time. But today, I'm unable to do that. Today I'm just sad and depressed.
The episode started with Angad running on the open road while getting drenched in the rain. A symbolic scene, perhaps, but he's soon going to learn that we can never outrun our demons, eventually we have to come face to face with them and confront the bitter reality.
The one thing I'm really glad for is that Angad got a chance to apologize to Josh and make his peace with him. Because otherwise he would always have had had to bear the guilt of having doubted and openly accused his best friend of having betrayed him, a heavy burden to have on anyone's conscience and an impossible act to forgive oneself. Plus, I would always have held it against him, if he'd allowed Josh to die an accused man. And it is truly a pity that Kripa didn't get the chance to unburden her conscience too.
Josh, the rock star cupid, as Nitica so aptly christened him, has gone and forever taken with him a very special appeal that he brought to this show. Remember the promo, the Sony ppl ran when Josh was first being introduced on this show………about Josh coming and working his magic in Angad and Kripa's lives. Well, his tragic demise has marked the end of that magic and as of next week, it's back to a whole new set of horrific misunderstandings, intrigues and new Machiavellian plans being set in motion to tear apart a-k and ruin their lives forever.
I don't hate a-k after all that has transpired in recent episodes. I could never hate them. Because just as I believe in love, I also believe in the fallibility of humans, therefore, just as there are no perfect individuals, there can be no perfect love.
They alternately aggravate me, exasperate me, and get completely on my nerves. But then from time to time, they also remind me why it was that I fell in love with a-k in the first place. Case in point being the blissful, dreamy dance sequence of Wednesday's episode. Can anybody deny not having forgiven them their annoying shenanigans while watching that waltz? This is the a-k I fell in love with. This is what I want them to return to. However, I'm doomed to a long, long, long wait apparently. Sighhhh!!!
I can't hate a-k, because they are only human and thus they possess human flaws and faults just like all the rest of us. I remember writing a long time ago that KYPH was a story of two beautiful people who became a victim of others plotting and planning and their own insecurities and uncertainties. And it has never been truer then this moment. They simply fell prey to the very human weakness of the fear of losing each other. A fear that in the end turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy! Because they are themselves going to be responsible for the very thing they are afraid of… losing each other.
In yesterday's episode when a-k are together for their last romantic rendezvous and Angad comes and apologizes to Kripa and tells her that she's not only the love of his life but also a very vital and fundamental part of it and that even if she were to leave him at this instant, he would continue to love her for the rest of his life. Have more prophetic words ever being spoken??? And Kripa, after a long time, appearing like her old self again, tearfully told him to stop talking about separation and reiterated that she had always loved him, even when they were apart and would always continue to do so and she so fittingly said that he was her destiny and that all her steps in life had been towards him. Was it just me or did this scene seem to have such an air of finality about it. Apparently Angad sensed it too, hence his desire to freeze time at that instant, forever suspending them in a warm hazy limbo, where the only things present would be themselves and their love.
If the scene at the Goa airport, when Angad goes to drop off Kripa, was the preface to the first breakup, then this scene was undoubtedly the prelude to the second breakup that is looming so ominously in the future.
And the last scene of the episode, my God! brilliant acting, brilliant execution and brilliantly heart-breaking. I have to say this, Amit managed to pull off one of the most incredible metamorphosis into evil I have ever seen. The way he appeared genuinely contrite, the way he stabbed Josh so belligerently, the way he kept on stabbing him while all the time apologizing steadfastly for what he was doing and in the end standing there explaining in that half demented way why it was that he had to do everything he did. And I can't even talk about how sad it was too see Josh writhing on the ground like that, and the way his very last word was, 'Angad!' a loyal friend to the end. His last thought wasn't for himself but the incredible dangers awaiting his friend.
My sister, who was standing there while this last tearjerker scene was coming on the screen, in response to my reaction stated that I had apparently started blurring the line between reality and make-believe in my head. In simple lingo, she thinks I've gone crazy. But the fact remains; I'm excessively attached to this show and watching Josh's tragic demise and knowing what's going to happen next week left me very depressed.
I always knew there were hidden depths to Prithvi, his saintly behavior was simply too unnatural, and that the load of his unrequited love would compel him to reveal his true nature, but I never expected him to fall this low, this fast. Prithvi's character has been butchered beyond all hopes of redemption. When he so brutally murdered Josh, he decreed that there could be no salvation for him. But I also feel sorry for him in a way. Don't get me wrong; I hate him for what he did. But I'm revising my statement of yesterday, that he had a look of sheer evil on his face when he killed Josh in such a horrendous fashion. After having watched the whole scene, I have to say that evil doesn't quite cover it, the look was pure maniacal. I don't think he really wanted to murder Josh but his love, nay; obsession for Kripa has reached such maniacal proportions that he will stop at nothing to attain her. He is willing to destroy everything and everyone to claim her as his own, and in the end, after ruining his own and a lot of other lives; he will simply be doomed eternally to the fires of purgatory. Sigh! A messed up character, who's going to mess up everybody else's lives as well.
I've been reading a lot of posts since Wednesday's episode aired, stating that Kripa deserves to be married to Prithvi. But I disagree. So okay, she was insecure and possessive about her love and these two elements made her do some extremely foolish things and at times appear a little 'naina-ish' even. But does she really deserve to be married to a crazed murderer just because she was afraid of losing her loved one yet again.
Let me tell you guys a very sad true story here. One of my mom's friend's daughter met and fell in love with a guy while at university in the UK. A big glittery, fairytale-ish, society wedding followed with everybody as happy as could be. The bride was radiant and the groom appeared to be completely head over heels in love with her. They left to settle down in the UK and it was then that it started transpiring to the girl that everything might not be as hunky dory as it seemed. Oh the guy still worshipped the ground that she walked on but he was possessive as hell over her. He wanted her completely for herself and couldn't bear her giving anything else any importance. She's a very beautiful girl and naturally attracted a lot of male attention wherever she went. This drove him crazy and slowly the unstable streak in him started making his presence felt. His pathological jealousy slowly made him think that instead of the being the victim of this unwanted attention she was the seductress, leading everyone on, and he began punishing her for it, mentally, as well as physically, if you know what I mean.
His obsessiveness ultimately grew so bad, that she attempted suicide, taking a large overdose of Valium, finally letting everybody know how horribly wrong things were, since she had kept quit for fear of upsetting her family, and they brought her home, filed for divorce and got a restraining order slapped on the guy.
She was diagnosed with severe clinical depression and underwent intensive counseling to finally get her life back on track. But what she's gone through has left lifelong scars on her psyche; she doesn't believe in love anymore, not in marriage, draws away from close contact with others and has gone from being a vibrant, cheerful girl to a quite, indrawn person, while her family and friends all helplessly look on.
Would you ever willingly wish somebody this fate? Because who knows what form a person, in this case, Prithvi's, obsession would take? I certainly wouldn't wish that fate on anyone, be it a real person or as in this case a TV character, Kripa. Because Prithvi has just shown himself to be a Grade A, certified lunatic and God alone knows what a psychopath like him would do next?????? Who knows what Prithvi's 'love' for Kripa will compel him to do next????????
So Josh is gone, Angad is going to be caught at the scene of the crime and declared guilty; Simone is probably going to claim to be pregnant with Angad's baby (ugh!), Kripa's going to marry Prithvi and in about a week's time we are going to see KYPH fast-forwarding by a year on the sunny shores of Dubai with Angad coming back for vengeance with a bang.
Sigh! Is this all that is left of our sweet little love story that first attracted me to KYPH?????
Take care everyone!
Luv,
A very thoroughly depressed Amal
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