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I've been wanting to pick apart this episode for quite some time now...
Its the episode where DJ breaks the wedding talking about how Prem is Gayatri's Sauteli Ma...
Gayatri and Prem were both incomparable in their performance in this episode.
In the beginning of the episode, when DJ was going on and on about sauteli and accusing Gayatri of not wanting to marry Lallu and not loving Prem/Kulraj, I couldn't understand why the idiot was standing there letting this ignorant woman talk to his wife like that. I should have guessed it then and there that this man isn't worth the time or effort.
Thank God Preet stepped in and stood up for her. I love this guy. He will NOT stand for what is wrong no matter what, and he reacts without thinking in situations like this. Lallu may have been quiet in order to escape society's ridicule, but Preet had the guts his father couldn't muster. He even goes as far as to yell at his dad for just standing there and letting this happen. ๐ I also loved how he warned DJ not to call him Beta...Preet was outstanding!
When the focus turned to Prem...the look on his face was heartwrenching. He just stood there in disbelief as the tears welled up in his eyes. He looked so hurt...so broken.
His relationship with his mom is so beautiful. I'm such a sucker for such mother/son relationships...always have been. And as he stood there then, it seemed as if his whole world had just been turned upside down. Not because he thought his mother didn't love him...he knew that to be nonsense, but because his mother would let anyone raise a finger to their relationship.
He walks up to his mother slowly, and stands before her. When she looks up at him, he slightly nods his head in the negative, asking her not to cry...not to look at him like that. Instead, he was silently asking her to say something, anything, that would prove to the world that he was her son. He was begging her to call him "beta" then. And when she couldn't...when she simply averted her eyes to the ground, he walked away, more hurt than he was before.
The words in the bg music then matched perfectly..."Bejhna itna door mujhko tu...yaad tujhko bhi aa na paaoun maa..."
The mother/son scene that followed was spectacular.
She asks him how he too could believe what everyone else believed...that she didn't love him. And when he turned and looked at her, his eyes mirroring the pain deep within his soul, made her go weak in the knees. How could she cause him to feel so much pain? How could she have brought tears to his eyes? He looked at her with painful, accusing eyes...and she began to try to explain herself.
Harsh/Prem was brilliant in the next scene...First, he picks his kneeling mother up off the ground, as he can't bare to see her kneeling before him. And then, his emotions explode..."Aap ko kya lagta hai ke koi aadmi aayega, mujhe ek khat dikhayega toh main maan lounga ke aap mujhse pyaar nahi karti? Main maan lounga maa?!?"
The excruciating pain was evident in his rage...but Prem, even in his rage, didn't forget to Respect his mother, as he always had. He was screaming at the top of his lungs "Mujhe khat pe gussa nahi aa raha, mujhe gussa aa raha hai toh..." and very gently, he turns to her, crying his heart out, before he tells her that she was the reason for his rage...her silence was the reason for his rage. He pleads with her to tell him who he was to her...begs her to just once, tell him what relationship they share...
And when she finally says the one word he wanted to hear all along, "beta", he asks her why she couldn't say the same infront of everyone. Why when he walked up to her the first time, silently asking her to just say it once...she was quiet.
The pain in that scene was unbearable...I couldn't stop myself from crying with him...
He tells her that even if God himself affirmed that she wasn't his mother, he wouldn't believe him...that he never mourned the death of the mother that birthed him because for him, his true mother was standing there in front of him. So then how could she let everyone question their relationship?
He says that even though she couldn't say that he was her son, he was saying that she and only she was his mother...and had always been...
What followed was something that can only be described as a mother's love for her son...that undyeing, unconditional love. Gayatri took Prem back with her, and infront of the same society that had taken from him his right to call her "maa", she gave that right back to him, by calling him "beta".
This episode was and always will be so very special to me...it touched my heart.
Love,
Prem Ki Deewani,
~Payal
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