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New to this forum, been stalking etc etc
so. Hey! here goes a thought:
Music. It is music that connects them all. Isn't that what Nandini had said once? The purest form of love, that sings together, binds together, a bond between all of them; a bond that strengthened five broken kids; a bond that was made between a boy and a girl, both desperate for someone to protect them, to take care of them for a change. Yes, they did find each other. And how!
The music library scene that day, where Manik came asking for guitar strings struck me as a very powerful one. I won't see it as overtly symbolic, but as standing in for that theme that was created between them.
Manik's first gift to Nandini was a musical tied note bracelet. Something that was theirs.
Manik's music is incoherent, just like his world, and his heart that can understand nothing of what has happened because of so much pain and shock.
He breaks his guitar strings and she, she drops a delicate instrument: their lives are incoherent without one another.
And neither can concentrate on other things.
It has been my experience that when one's heart is breaking, it's hard to focus on other things and even if one tries to, one comes back to what/who broke one's heart.
And love each other they do. And they barely had a chance to realize it when a chance to make some more memories was stolen from them, in one way or another.
However, the music library scene gave me hope, because it reminded me of Manja.
Roothe khwaabon ko manaa lenge
kati patango ko thaamenge...
suljha lenge uljhe rishton ka manjha
This song had come at a point when two sets of relationships were shown as being entangled in complex ways:
Cabir and Raghav
Manik and Nandini
And yet, both Manik and Cabir held out some sort of hope to Nandini and Raghav at those points.
Which is why I think this incoherence, this complex web where two people who love each other are not yet with each other, it will be sorted through some sort of musical means: does not have to be a performance, does not even have to be in college. But perhaps a realization that walking away every time is not the answer: it is not only Nandini who cannot stay away, Manik cannot either.
And Nandini is desperate now to take away the pain from both his eyes and hers: just for a small chance. She didn't see that chance in those eyes yearning for a last look at her as she walked away: but we did. And if anything, it gives me hope that these two, they will sort out their entanglements only with each other.
Maybe this post is superfluous, but I have been fascinated by how ties and strings have always been used in a special way in the show😆 (music, anyone?)
And Manik does not let go. He never has, not even when he didn't know he cared about her (when he saved her from falling off the cliff: Chaahe khud latak gaya ho😆); not when she (in blind faith) fell, only to be held by Manik; and not now. He will not let her go, because he loves her. And if he is angry with her, he'd rather she's around to see it.😆
And she, she knows how she feels about him; she knows how he feels about her; her moment of doubt wasn't about her insecurities remember? She knows he will never hurt her. Or let her go. He just needs reminding..and we all know how good she is when she decides she wants to seduce Manik😆
Well, I digress. But anyway, I was listening to Manjha and was reminded of all of this😳
xo
Geet (oh look my name!!😆 how ironic)
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