Very nice post!
Celebration! - I think that's really the most apt word for my joyous state right now
U know the whole - 'i'll choose my friends, bcoz i have to protect them like u protect', followed by the hug - is definitely the highlight of this episode...or may be i should say highlight for he whole week ...i'll come back to this later...but what surprised me most is locking him up in a different building(mind u, guy still doesn't know that! )...and the gal...that bachi did it! i'm unable to get over this little fact
And they convo...it is one of their best till date...short, to the point and most of all - REAL
her actual insecurity was not that he would go to some other girl...her worry was never abt manik-soha...she knows he likes her (Nandini) and only her. She didn't want them to move forward only bcoz it's unfair to soha...she actually did all this to stop him doing something stupid
so back to her actual insecurity...it's not another gal but his friends, who had always been his priority and will always be his priority...so, where would she stand in all this?
I was really not expecting such a genuine reason for her pushing him away
He gives an even more genuine answer..he would choose his friends... their ability to talk to genuinely amazed me, more than ever
they always had very convos...but usually on tv or movies, unless u want to show a girl on little negative side, they never show that she is insecure of his friends (irrespective of gender) ...the girl usually is a mahaan, esp if the guy is in something like a band...and the guy too...he's supposed to react to such a confrontation in one of the ways - 'how dare u to give up on my friends for u?' or 'ofcourse, i'll choose u, baby' kind...but no...this guy doesn't do that...he says he'll choose his friends to protect...like she protects him...no macho-giri here...all truth...pour your soul out...so simply..so easily
one might whom does he need protection from...it's simple - it's from himself...the stubborn and monster Manik can be destrutive, not to ppl around him, but to himself too...his hand is a physical example in itself
Feeling so relived after typing all this
P.S: I have doubt...all the decoration in the house - did Nandini really do it? It felt like she had no clue abt it...isn't it abhimanyu's doing?