Rishbala: A megalomaniac & a tigress collide.
Ok, what in the world was that?
That whole frame and sequence of Rishabh and Madhu in that beautiful fairytale set up , adorned with cotton flakes and the beautiful music of the evergreen " Yaa Maulaa" from the film 'Fanaa" looked like some kind of a fairytale visit . During that whole sequence , the frame seemed divided into two worlds – Madhu and RK where RK was looking at Madhu's tragic beauty with half of his breath stopped and the other half amused and challenged by her. And the other half of the frame was that of Ramaani, Bittu G and the press as they looked at the interaction of Rishbala as though it was a scene from a romantic film……If you look at the contrast , Madhu and RK were in some other world altogether.
RK is a mean machine but he has this beautiful dreamy side which he lives through his cinema. The way he brings the press to his film set – particularly the set where his first romantic scene with his new heroine in 'Kaaynaat' will be shot , he turns into this lovely dream merchant like story teller. He goes into some other world from where he narrates the besotted audience that he will meet his ladylove at this bridge – he will play the piano and she will walk over to the bridge , listening to his music and there , he will go and meet her. RK sounded so sensitive and beautiful as he wove his fairytale that it was tough to believe that he is the same man who could be the biggest jerk in the world. …. It didn't sound like the script of his film – it sounded like the call of RK's heart or should I say his kind of favourite fairytale…
Even Ramaani and the press were transported into that world of candyfloss as RK played the piano , looking at the bridge , looking at it lovingly , deeply as though the mystery yet-to-be-cast-heroine will appear any moment . The dream slowly turned into 5 feet and 4.5 inches of a porcelain doll wrapped in mauve shades . The press realized that they had an intruder but RK didn't. He just kept looking at her , not even realizing that the dream and the narration was over- the imaginary girl he had been talking about had just walked into his life. I don't know why but Madhu looked very tragic and doomed as she stood at the bridge boring her eyes into RK. She looked sad , upset and there was some lyrical tragedy to her whole persona or maybe it was the ambience. RK was still in his dream world with this new mauve doe-eyed guest until Madhu clapped her hands in mock applause of his piano performance.
Madhu began her humiliation of RK but it was not aggressive or acidic – there was more of disappointment and tragedy on the realization that what kind of a man RK had turned out to be. But was RK even listening to what she was saying? I think not. Half the things that Madhu said did not even register with him because he had gotten up from the piano and walked up to her in a transition – from a dreamy mauve doll to a scathing tragic beauty. I don't know how to describe it and its better sitting in Mr.Dsena's head , but you just have to look at the way RK looks at her and keeps looking at her, and looking and looking until she goes out of his sight , leaving him standing alone at the bridge – grinning , still half in daze and her name on his lips…. Madhubala. Just the way he takes her name , it sounds all the more beautiful.
It took some time for RK to snap out of Madhu's lyrical beauty trance and ask her after half the gaalis were done – " Aap mujhse baat kar rahi hain?" And that loving soft tone would have continued if she wouldn't have told that she was Madhubala Malik. The moment she said her name, the "choodiyaan maar-kutaai" came back to his head and his facial contours went from dreamy to mocking , taunting and hard. Still, his eyes refused to leave her face – he simply could not take his eyes off her face as she continued with her typical soap like dialogues. RK really was half in dreams and half in reality throughout Madhu's band-bajaaoing of him….
But as long as Madhu was in front of him, anger didn't even touch him. Even when he claps his hands in retort to her dialogues of him being a danger to civil society- he is half besotted. When he says "wow" and "fabulous" , they sound more like his reactions to Madhubala , the woman rather than his taunt to her. When he tells her in front of the whole press that since she can learn dialogues so fast and well, she should star opposite him in " Ek gunehgaar, ek gawah" , you can see vintage RK in him but his eyes and his soft face say otherwise. And even though Madhu storms out , his eyes follow her and a small smile plays on his lips and he utters her name again….. Madhubala.
The facts of his surreal meeting with Madhu will hit him after the Madhu impact is gone and we can see in the precap that his aggression is back . His anger for Madhu is back. Aaj zara baat alag thi. Apni Madhu-PAUSE-Baala ko dekhke gussa to treadmill par daudne chalaa gaya tha. Still, the tharaki gang can relax. RK's nazar was both besotted and full of tharak. It did seem like that he had forgotten for a few minutes that ye ladki use jail ki hawaa khilwaane waali hai.
Madhu hates RK to the 'T' but her hatred is not aggressive or unreasonable. He has painted an image that she can only hate , infact ,any righteous person will hate.
There is no reason to think that RK has a soft side until you see him narrate and literally live his fave fairytale meeting with his ladylove to the press. I mean, he is a shameless , beastly , flamboyant star who openly seduces a journalist by showing off his body and getting hot and heavy with her in words while all the cameras are on. Ramaani seems to know some of the RK that we do not know – at least , she knows him better than others that we have seen so far. And from RK's subtle and well behaved invitation to her to his sets and the precap, it does seem that RK at least listens to her.
Anyway, Rishbala's first meeting looked and sounded like a fairytale where for 1/4th the time RK thought it was a dream. Madhubala looked like a tragic soft beauty and the way he said "Madhu-PAUSE-Baala" was enough to seal them as a love story of intensity , passion and perhaps tragedy.
All in all, RK narrated his film's story with so much love , passion and sensitivity that you could almost feel that his phantom heroine will materialize any moment – and she did. He was looking at the bridge , playing the piano and Madhubala floated in like a dream.
RK doesn't hate Madhubala – he hates what she has done to him . Madhubala hates RK because of the kind of man he has turned out to be. A megalomaniac who believes that the universe revolves around him forgot himself for a few seconds when he met his match in a tigress who came in the skin of a lamb to see him where he had been waiting. And the tigress has made him her center of existence without having realized it.
What a meeting. Surreal. Intense. Lyrical. TRAGIC.
Love and luck always,❤️
GOD bless everyone. 🤗
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