Before watching the episode, I told myself it is going to be yet another heartbreaking episode and regardless of whether he is doing it for a revenge or not and regardless of how they are going to justify his actions I am going to watch the episode with an open mind since ST did promise that the drama that will unfold will be gripping and he absolutely stood by his promise and consistently has been delivering some fantastic, mind blowing episodes. The show has one of the best gorgeous looking leads and the direction and dialogues have been stupendous. Despite the track being brought in to provide a twist or a high point in the show I have to admit that I still have a hard time coming to terms with the "Kameena" RK who has been portrayed over the past two days but I am not going to give up on the show yet. For some reason, I want to trust ST and give him the two weeks he had requested for the full and total revelation of this so called revenge act.
I liked today's episode for two straight forward reasons - the actors and the dialogues. The cast and crew had to work at wee hours in the morning with dipping temperatures just so they could provide us with an enthralling drama. They had to be applauded for that. Both DD and VD were fabulous today but VD rocked it. He has truly let himself get carried away with his character RK and it looked like the character has become more like his second skin. The finesse with which he delivered his dialogues was simply superb and despite his height of Kameenapan I couldn't stop admiring him. I actually was bewildered looking at the way he was methodically nullifying every single act of his which we all assumed as him being in love was only a ploy, a stepping stone for a bigger and better outcome, a cold ruthless revenge. I thought he took a cheap shot and clearly crossed the line when he mocked her selflessly giving up herself wanting to take their relationship to the next level. That was uncalled for and that is uncool. How would she ever be able to even touch him or come near him when he made such a comment about her selfless unconditional love. I say not cool! He should not get away with what he had said and done and MB should not forgive him under the name of love instead they should duly address the harassment that she endured is not a given for anyone who is or who will fall in love. I am also hoping for a long, drawn out repentance track if they are planning to redeem his character and I am pretty sure they would considering he is one of the main leads and is her hero as ST put it. There was already an article out that talked about redemption on the cards which I will not discuss here and will bring it up in the media articles thread.
I so wanted Madhu to ask him if he had ever loved her and she did and there was clearly uneasiness in him and just diverted his looks for a fraction of second before he continued his act. Also when she was in a state of shock and beyond belief he did look like he was trying to gauge her and actually softened a little when he saw her bangles break and spots of blood on her hand. That sight of her twisted my heart and I wanted to cry with her and cry for her for all the heartache and pain she has endured so far. DD was fabulous in that scene and she portrayed the shock, the disbelief and the pain brilliantly. The best creative and original dialogue to me was when he had used Newton and his gravitational pull theory with the apple hitting his head and drew an analogy as to how after getting hit by Malick's bullet his mind went on to work overtime just so he could lead her (his unsuspecting prey) up to a tenace as in the game of bridge in order to prevent her from winning the trick with an intermediate card. He claims that he clearly had a strategy in mind when he saw her winning in her relationships with everyone of them (his mom, Bittuji and himself included) and with each one of her wins it appeared that he was declining in his advantage of being the rude, crass, cold, heartless RK that he was and whom we know of. It was very sad to see him use love in his game of revenge and make a mockery of her unconditional and selfless love.
Today, his actions proved that "revenge is a dish best served cold". He made this unbearable to her in so many ways because she is in no way shape or form to retaliate and the worst of it is she was not prepared for any of this simply because he was her world and she was ready to walk away from everything that made her world so far and now her world is empty and she probably is like an empty shell void of any emotions with no idea as to what is real and what is not. He basically called her a stupid and emotional fool for falling in love with him and when she said that he saw love for her in his eyes he called it was all his acting skills doing overtime and putting up with her hugs and caresses which he never reciprocated whole heartedly to begin with. It clearly came as a shock for us viewers to comprehend if RK is for real then how on earth Madhu is not supposed to go into a shock and depression considering he called her useless and made her life worthless.
RK humiliating her publicly at the chawl did not go down well with me. She is devastated and zoned out because of all that he had said and done by the lakeside and what was the need for him to kick her when she is already down and broken beyond redemption. I guess he is known to create larger than life drama and Madhu as his only audience was not going to cut it for him. He needed a bigger audience for his act and hence ends up creating more drama at the chawl. I am not going to speculate his intentions behind stooping so low since I will go no where with it and hence will stick to what was shown today and that is the best explanation that I could come up with. No amount of good intention is going to cut it for his behavior at the chawl today and I am going to stop right there.
@most recent montage - Are they really confused as to what montage to use because I saw both montages in the video that I had watched today (the one where they look into each other's eyes and the other where they are facing with their backs). My two cents is that the montage before the most recent one might have been used to throw the viewers, news outlets and reporters off of the current twist/track. Even I was not buying the revenge promo, solely based on the montage which had them gazing into each others eyes. May be it is all a trick and publicity stunt they pulled to increase the curiosity of the viewers and keep the actual track under wraps. I say well done ST, mission accomplished as I have not given up yet and might I say my curiosity still exists for this show and the upcoming episodes.
Precap was heart wrenching seeing Padmini begging him to take Madhu back as he is her life and she cannot imagine a life without him. If it was any other time, Madhu would have retaliated and asked her mom not to plead infront of a monster like him but not today considering she is at a state where she does not comprehend what is real and what is not. So, it is all a plot by him and him only since no body else is involved. No Bittji, No Radha and no Dips. Atleast, that gives me some hope because once all of these people find out they all will be supporting Madhu and RK will be alienated for sure. If that was his plan to alienate himself from the rest of the world, then he has accomplished his mission gloriously.
Edited by kt25 - 12 years ago
Book Talk
Anupamaa
