Originally posted by: AreYaar
Ahh young love😆...it's one thing to get caught up in the euphoria of it and make undying promises of love and trust, it's a whole another thing to actually live up to those promises. I always felt that these promises came a little too early for Manik-Nandini...over just a few incidents, they started to claim undying trust for each other...and today when that trust was tested severely, they both crumbled proving that they still have a long way to go in truly understanding love and trust.
Young love yes ! 😆 The first thing that comes to young ppl's mind when they are in love is FOREVER. When you are young and all dewy eyed, it all seems so great in theory ... because then they are too young to know what forever actually is. I knew something was going to go wrong the moment Manik started extorting promises of HAMESHA from Nandu ! 😆
This is not to say they didn't trust each other...they very much did...if Nandu didn't trust him, she wouldn't have submitted herself to him the way she did...but that is one kind of trust...the other kind of trust which got tested today involved UNDERSTANDING Manik...if she truly understood him, that DOUBT that crept into her mind the moment he dropped hints of him having tricked her wouldn't have been there.
I think it was more like she was WILLING to trust him ... and she had just STARTED to ... but before it could be etched in stone, her faith in him was shaken. Again, because like you said, she didn't have the tome to COMPLETELY understand him. All this was such a whirlwind affair. Both of them were too giddy in love to actually think of all that and before they knew it, disaster struck.
The most significant moment of the scene was that one...when Manik turns away and murmurs for her to stop him if she really thinks he's kidding...but Nandini's trust was instantly shaken...there was only one feeble attempt from her wondering if he was joking with her before Manik very convincingly pulled his most evil acting yet to convince her of his betrayal.
Oh man. THAT bit. He was pleading for Nandu to step on the break for him ... because his sense of 'duty' towards Dhruv wouldn't let him. And at the same time it hurt like a bitch that he had to hurt her in THIS manner. My poor Baba 😒
I can't blame Nandu there either cuz she's young, innocent and relies a lot on her instincts...she totally went with instinct when it came to Manik...never really paused to question much even as her feelings for him changed from hatred to love...and that is why this relationship didn't really have the strong basis it needed to survive this test of trust...there is still a LOT they have to learn and understand about each other...
That's the thing about young love, you love with all your heart so your brain doesn't come into play. Which is why as much as it feels good to FEEL with all your heart, when you are faced with a test like this ... you are missing the one KEY player that could bail you out of this mess, your brains. And so you have no choice but to yield. And suffer.
Manik has used his Monster Manik persona as a weapon or defense mechanism for most of his life it seems...and when it came time for extreme measures to break Nandu's heart and make her let go of him, this was the only sureshot way of getting it done...but I think somewhere in a corner of his heart, he was hoping against hope that she won't believe this...that she would look beyond the facade and truly know him, show faith in him...it's a paradox but there it is...
Bitchin' paradox - Man its like Hopeception. Hope against hope against hope ! 😆 But alas it failed him and how so ! Because, Monster Manik, unfortunately is a facade he had perfected over the years. So when the time came to press the self-destruct button, it served him perfectly. Except he wishes it didn't but this is HIS Frankenstein that he brought back to life for this very purpose ... of crushing Nandu and his first love.
One's heart goes out to Nandu as she says that she's new to all this, that she doesn't know what he's saying...heartbreaking moment...what it must have taken for Manik to still sneer in her face so convincingly to convince her without a doubt that he is the monster of her worst nightmares...
I swear I hope VG burns in hell for hurting my babies like this 😡😡*Fangirl fury* As much as it was heartbreaking, it was also a revelation. That all this was NEW. For both him and her. It hadn't been long enough for them to be sure of what the other is capable of. Right now Nandu isn't sure who Manik really is and Manik isn't sure if he really has it in himself to see this through. So One last entreaty from Nandini, one last spurt of mind-control, and willing himself to go through with this for Manik before they find out.
If Nandu didn't still believe somewhere inside her that he really IS Monster Manik, she wouldn't have fallen for his act so convincingly today...so the trust is fragile from both sides...it is unfair of Manik to first ask for her implicit trust and then do his worst to shatter it like this...but then there it is...they were both wrong when they thought that he could so easily ask for her trust and she would so easily give it to him...
The real test starts now...and this time the trust should be fought for in a harder fashion and then won truly...that is when it will actually last and stand strong in the face of any challenge.
I said this somewhere else , and I am elaborating on it further here . The best thing about young love is its resilience. Young love suffers, young love weathers and young love bounces back. Like the tender bamboo shoots that bend when a gust of wind comes , and bounces right back up. Its that quality of pliability that you no longer have when you grow older. By that time you are already jaded by the big bad world and all the eeevil in it ... it hardens you , and hardened trees no longer have it in them to withstand a storm, they just let it blow them over. But when you are as young as Manik & Nandini are, you still have that zest for life ... that willingness to give life every chance it asks for. Which is why I say when I say what I say. I have hope for these two.
Anupamaa
