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Ltl so reigns so supreme on my mind that whatever movie I see these days, it somehow reminds and connects me to laagi....and I know we all stand on the same footings. In fact recently I was watching sholay and during the famous dialogue between Sanjeev kumar and Amjad khan where thakur(sanjeev kumar) says ye haath nahi faansi ka fandaa hai I was reminded of ltl's most infamous dialogue 'ise mangalsutra mat samajhna...yeh faansi ka fandaa hai.'
As you guys must have got it from the title i was watching Pride and Prejudice and again zap came ltl flashes and the obvious comparisions..... with the legendary story and its characters...
Both Lizzy and Darcy are headstrong characters just like our own Nakku and Dutta. Darcy is arrogant, a snob to some extent, tough exterior with a good heart... just like our own gadha dutta, it was lizzy who changed darcy ,,,,, same goes for nakku and dutta. Nakku changed Dutta.
but looking to the scenario and dutta slapping nakku the comparision ends here....
lizzy changed Darcy fundamentally without knowing it.... When she threw his proposal back into his face..... because he had done so abominally.... he had become a changed man... lizzy did not know it....she felt it....and then realized it.....that is when she also fell for the man who saved her sister and was humbled by the fact that a man of such calibre could love her.....
In ltl's case Nakku had tried to change him.... not a conscious effort.... but she wanted him to happy and for that it was necessary for him to take that leap into the journey of faith and love.... but then because of her only he is back to square one...
and that is where i find Darcy stronger....
he changed and didnot even expect an acknowledgement from Lizzy... and he changed permanently...and with that change he brought a change in lizzy's portrayal of Darcy in her mind...
I love that....he became a better man.... he was never a hypocrite.... but a proud one and his pride had made him propose to Lizzy the way he had....
It was he who had said that 'my good opinion once lost is lost for ever.' implying that he would judge people and they would be branded for life in his mind....nothing would change ...but he rectified it in the end when he proposed her again and said those legendary words,,,'you have bewitched me body and soul and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.'
all his pride and rantings and rude behaviour were forgotten and forgiven at this point of time....he had redeemed himself
but dutta....dutta has gone to a point from where it would be very difficult to come back....to be forgiven.... if nakku would forgive him without any penance on his side then it would be a degradation for nakku also....and i am talking about penance and not penalty..
that is where Elizabeth (lizzy) is the supreme character.... the way she had held herself all throughout her story was amazing.... calm, poised, intelligent......
she herself knew that she had low tolerance for fools...when she told her sister Jane who has a very amiable disposition that 'you give me 40 such men and i cannot be as happy as you..... till i have your goodness i cannot have your happiness'
nakku has that goodness.... and to some extent i do believe she resembles Jane....good, honest, and unable to see the real face behind the face...had she been not hit on her head about the truth about kala she would not have even thought about it. and I understand that....she comes from a basti....an illiterate and impulsive mother and a drunkard father dont contribute much to her upbringing except her amazing courage.... that is what makes her different than Jane
but she has not fallen for a simple guy like jane's beau...she has fallen for dutta who comes with a baggage...but so did Darcy... but he overpowered them all.......he was able to weed them all out....
Nakku does not have that leisure..... she has the ET, a stupid and pendulum like mother-in-law and above all Dutta's inner demons to fight.... because dutta is too weak to fight with them.... he succumbs to them....and lashes out on people near to him....
that is selfish... because he knows....he knows this two would never leave him he tortures baaji and nakusha.....
To be an idiot and selfish and proud dont make an appealing character....but still he was the apple of our eyes because of one thing....his honesty....his child likeness....his basic goodness... his ability to see beyond koel nakku's ugliness, background....his gesture of saving a girl from death (a girl he hardly knew)...his action of putting his friend first in a sense of emergency....
but this things seem to have vanished from his nature....he slaps an injured girl who put her life on line for him....he walks off not even bothering to know whether baaji who had come to save him from chaskar was safe or not....
this journey this time will not only have dutta redeeming himself.....it has to be nakku finally rising to rediscover herself too.... will she always be like this.... pushed, trampled and finally used as an anchor when need arises...she has to have her self respect...just like elizabeth had...she has to for once teach dutta a lesson....a lesson for life....a lesson of life...
p.s. dont make a lot of sense...and thoughts are just random...so please read it with a pinch of sugar😛
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
Mangal Lakshmi
