Apropos the preview-ad. of ep (26th May).

Subject: 'Apropos the preview-ad. of "Kasturi"'s upcoming ep. (Monday, 26 May 2008).'

Kastr's going sobbing in pain to Robbie in his bedroom looks – at least in the preview-ad. of upcoming ep. (Monday, 26 May 2008) – to be a very bad idea. Making Kastr look – metaphorically speaking – like a heedless lemming as she repeatedly expects the one man to believe in her "Raunak is evil" crusade who has probably the most experience of how colossally she can err on that point.

Considering the matter from Robbie's point of view, if Kastr were to – after succeeding in the Raunak crusade – realize that, like Robbie, Raunak too was *not evil*, the guilt the second time over would devastate her. But Raunak, with his (pre-villainized) nobility, would be even more swiftly forgiving of her misunderstanding than Robbie had been.

But if Robbie, whose interactions with Raunak prior to the latter's 'death' had consisted of stated & established intent to ruin &/or kill him, were to support Kastr in her anti-Raunak crusade & it were to later be proven that she was as mistaken about Raunak as she had been about Robbie, Robbie would find it impossible to convince his erstwhile friend that his own misunderstanding too had been genuine.

Robbie's overwhelming guilt over his vitriolic conduct towards Raunak is the prime reason he's been compelling Kastr, the love of his life, to honour her legitimate legal first marriage to Raunak. Raunak's 'amnesia' & later his 'catatonia' were merely excuses. If Raunak had walked back of clearly sound mind & body, Robbie would still not have been able to bear brazening out that Kastr was now with him & would stay that way. Hell, if Raunak hadn't been villainized, *Kastr* wouldn't have left her worshipped first husband for her beloved second one.

Robbie's adoration of Kastr was reason for him to first blindly trust her while she destroyed him & then forgive her without knowing any exculpating reason for her conduct. He basically accepted that her misunderstanding was why she destroyed him, and her repenting was reason enough for him to forgive her.

But Raunak? Robbie has never *known* any ill of his lifelong 'friend' (maybe because prior to Raunak's return from 'death', "Kasturi"'s creatives had almost definitely had no intention of villainizing him.<LOL>).

Robbie cannot have forgotten how much it hurt when Kastr suddenly began to believe him capable of cowardly malice (Dvk's machinations). He will also remember that he retaliated not against Kastr but against the unretaliating Raunak.

Now Robbie finds the positions reversed. Kastr now claims *Raunak* is the bad guy.

And Robbie has no desire to accomplish the most unique atonement in history by crowning everything he did to & against Raunak with now standing by & letting the woman they have both loved (these storyline-twists really send the grammar for a toss) finish the job.

Especially since what he's seen rather incontrovertible evidence of has been Raunak's (pre-villainized) disposition to turn the other cheek pretty much infinitely while the aggressor gets busy smiting.

Robbie *had* inclined to suspecting, during Kastr's 'disappearance', that Kastr's accusation of shamming against Raunak was true (courtesy the genuinely unconscious Raunak's still wearing the chappals he had secretly gone out in). Inclined enough that seeing a black-garbed silhouette (actually Raunak) walking in Raunak's bedroom, he rushed in only to find Raunak, in black salwr-krt, sitting 'catatonic' in the wheelchair while Ant, in black top & trousers, sat opposite him, implicitly exonerating Raunak by Robbie's assuming that she had been the one walking.

But Kastr did not learn of Robbie's nascent suspicion of Raunak because, thwarted at the very end in her attempt to expose Raunak's good health with the reports of the medical tests she'd had carried out on him after having him kidnapped & drugged unconscious, she acted in haste & seized an opportunity not even a few hours later to yet again try to expose him. Had she not acted so precipitately, Robbie might have disclosed his aborted suspicioning to her, if only to convince her that her disbelieving Raunak's illness was unfounded.

Instead, her sending Raunak's wheelchair hurtling down the stairs and counting on his inability to rush back from the window to the bed & tuck himself in before family-members would dash upstairs to see to him evoked a brutally effective response from him. He lay down 'catatonic' on the floor with a leg twisted under him, causing Dvk, Robbie & Nandn to suspect that Kastr had shoved him onto the floor to give credence to her claims.

So, with Robbie already convinced that his poor love, in her determination to reunite with him, was capable of doing harm to Raunak to place him in a bad light, her injuring herself to frame Raunak would not be a major leap.

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