I m totally loving Anurag 2.0 n Parth as Anurag 2.0 is
Earlier though I used to like Anurag but I wasn't a fan of Anurag or Parth because I used to find him boring n too goodie goodie n then cheesy. This Anurag 2.0 is a mixture of all. N Parth aces it. Such characters suit Parth better than goodie goodie ones imo. That pain in his voice n that intensity in his eyes n the transition of emotions...it is all so wonderfully done👏
Idk how to start. I was so engrossed in the act that I m not able to recollect what all happened. Anu sees the saree gifted by him in Prerna's luggage n feels a hope that she has not left him. But the honeymoon bed hurts him straight in his heart. He can't imagine his prerna can share a honeymoon bed with someone else, that too at the place where he had planned their honeymoon. He wants to finish it all at that moment itself. He puts the bed on fire n leaves himself in the fire to get burnt too. He could have left from there after instigating the fire, but he is so devastated that he can't even gather strength to come out of the burning room.
He gains back the consciousness n the first thing he sees is his prerna crying for him, dying to see him come to senses, happily hugging him out of relief when he is ok. Anurag doesn't know whether to believe his eyes or believe what has actually happened. He tries to push her away n leave out of the room, but can Anurag ever push his prerna away? He fails, and grabs her again, trying to understand what exactly happened that forced her into this marriage. He also apologises to her for marrying komo n leaving her n pleads her not to do the same to make him feel the pain. He believes she too must have some majboori that forced her take this step. Her silence hurts him the most. He almost gives up on her silent and twists her arms urging her to just say a word. But he is Anurag, who can't give a pain to his prerna even in his wildest dreams n if he does, he'll punish himself even more badly. He hurts his own hand for unintentionally hurting his prerna. He demands prerna's care. He wishes it affects her. He hopes something makes her share the truth with him.
Prerna pulls herself out because she wants to be a loyal wife and wants to make Anu hate her. How hurtful it is for Anu to see HIS prerna suddenly becoming paraayi...that he is not allowed to even touch her...that she is refusing his right to simply touch her!!! But he obeys her, her wish is his command. He stays at a distance. He kneels down in front of her. He doesn't even look into her eyes if that's what she wants. He begs her. He tells her he is as good as dead without her, that he can't live without her. Here he is not cheesy, but telling her the fact like what his life has become without her, he only survived, didn't live.
N finally prerna opens her damn mouth. Only to tell him that she loved bajaj, she never loved him, she played him, she manipulated him with her act of love...only to enjoy the power. She told him all that she was interested in was money. She made a fool out of his love. She insulted his feelings n he lost it. He did the unthinkable. He slapped his prerna! He himself didn't realize what he was doing. N the moment he did, the first thing his hands did was tried to caress her cheeks where he hurt her unknowingly. I absolutely love this thing about Anu. His brain is almost convincing him to believe what his eyes r seeing n making him react to that, but the heart doesn't let him. Prerna's facade makes him hurt her, but his love makes him put a dressing on the hurt. His brain wants to take a revenge from bajaj n earn prerna with money because she wants money but in his heart, he wants to gain back what belongs to him, he knows prerna is his, he knows she belongs to him, he knows she loves him too, he can sense that the reality lies under her said words. This brain vs heart battle of Anurag is the highlight of this track for me n I m totally loving it. Partho, ur eyes r love...they speak volumes!!!
I hope, as this track moves ahead, prerna understands that marriage in not an end of everything, that a marriage can be broken, that she tries on her own or with someone's support to find ways to come out of it, that she doesn't keep crying in the hands of destiny and brings her sass back. The way she doesn't give a rights of husband to bajaj in their privacy, I hope she doesn't give him the respect of husband in front of Anu too. I want this war to be in the open. I want prerna to shift her loyalties to the person she loves. According to me, ur loyalty lies with ur love, not Ur marriage, if it is not done willingly. I do not mean prerna should get intimate with Anu while being married to bajaj. But her priority should be Anurag over bajaj as the story moves ahead. Prerna must gather some guts now the way she did against komo. Anu should come out of his heartbreak n take actions based on the clues prerna will leave for him. I want lots n lots of monologues of Anu which r not just dreams or flashbacks with songs but where he introspects.
My baby boy has turned into an intense man!!! Go, win her back dude, change every destiny that puts prerna apart from u!!!❤️
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