Okay, finally here - didn't think I would get to this already, but chalo.
So A) my sentiments and reactions to all the scenes are pretty much ditto Nur's like most other people here and B) as Hope said in her post, the JGN combat mission had to be easily the most paisa vasool sequence of the SE. Given how derailed things were in recent times, I had apprehended slapstick scenes - but hoped at the same time to get NBT kinda stuff - and we got it! Somehow, as I laughed over and over at those 3 in full form - Jiji's tum ghar nahi aate ho, toh hi main so paati hun 😆 Nanhi's aur kitna dikhaaoge, jitna dikh ra hai, utna hi hai 🤣 specially the way she starts that sentence off a proper scoff 😆 and Guru's EPIC chintiyon se cheeni cheen cheen kar laa raha hun 🤣 🤣 🤣 ARE the kind of comic timing clinchers we've grown so fond of and accustomed to in the time that this show has taken to grow through the journey of its first 100 - that anything threatening to take away that touch is... well, more detrimental than any words or posts can say. Anyway - with the hope that the original duo is in fact back - I haven't had time all day to keep up with confirmation of the news - I'm going to move on from this OBVIOUSLY epic comeback of the "sidekicks" which was BEST described in Hope's post and I'd do not half the justice - I want to move onto what was my favorite scene of the episode...
The scene which started off as an MG with Mummy scene in Mohan villa. Everything about the scene was everything that NBT has ever been to me. The were the classic Mohanisms, and the classic Guru grunts and expressions to accompany - there was the classic slice of life feel to the very start of the scene with Guru the biwi beating up that shoddy excuse of an idiot box 😆 and Mohan in his usual languor cum concentration over his laptop. Somehow - just those first 5 seconds of that scene had me thinking - it isn't altogether in jest when I have moments thinking these two don't need anyone else 😆 And the very next moment I had the sobering thought - of how TRULY that statement DOES imply, and on that account then, how TRULY hard it is to cut through the comfort that THESE two have in "their setting" AND become an integral part of it! And of course, that brought rushing images of the few but prominent people who HAD managed the near impossible feat. When Indu entered the scene - I abruptly realized in light of this half a second past thought, that the reason she was somehow always an outsider in this place - even in times when her mother hen clucking wasn't such a bane for the love doves 😆 is because she truly has never managed to create a chink in the armor of self sufficiency that bubble envelopes Mohan's bahelorpad life with manservant Guru! They both respect her, and love her in different ways - and they both know without contention that she is a genuine well wisher like anyone could ever be - yet... blood, for all its running thicker than water, cannot always bridge some more ... let's say intuitive gaps. Mohan and his mother - for all her dulaar of only son and all his Mohan like boy love for his always-for-him Mommy - are on very different pages. And it's not just wrt to Megha. And it's not necessarily a bad thing, or a fault on anyone's part - but well, it does cause a disconnect at some level. So at the end of the day, even the house of her own son - somehow, Indu is an outsider. In his house, and in A LOT of ways, in his life. And so even though she has her very mother moments of speaking her mind out and out blunt and cutting Mohan no slack when she reproaches - she does have a strange caution around her, when she approaches him. Like in this scene - but not just here. The caution is not prudence, but hesitance and apprehension in KNOWING she's not really the puppeteer of Mohan's life, much as she would want to bring the world to his feet for his own good, if only he would let her! In many ways, she IS a normal mother in the normal world. It just so happens, that Mohan Bhatnagar himself is not such a normal guy.
Anyway - so when I saw her enter that scene, I found myself thinking, does she not see what she sees? The kind of partner her son needs is NOT someone who can walk into his life to change it for better whatever she thinks "better" is, but someone who can walk in to THIS life, THIS space, THIS setting, and make it HER own, while becoming a part OF it! Someone who can look BEYOND the "face" of this place and the mere packaging of Mohan Bhatnagar.
Indu is being a very normal mother in wanting better for her son - because if her son could make up his mind to reach for the stars tomorrow and they would be his. And she KNOWS that as a mother - it's such a normal thing for her to want to aspire as much FOR him, even if he wont. What she doesn't understand, is that Mohan doesn't reach out for the stars, not because he has any doubts about himself getting them if he set his mind to it - but because HIS priority in life is holding on - and holding on FIRMLY - to the ground beneath his feet. For someone who is single, a long time self sworn bachelor, with a job and priorities that will come off almost reckless in the face - Mohan is NOT someone who wants to fly. The wind beneath wings is NOT something that can given him any sense of power, like a FIRM FOOTING and control on the ground can! THAT is his place, his territory - and he feels power in THAT kind of SURE footing. And it's NOT LACK of any kind of adventurism that should be conceived in his being the ground guy - he's not grounded in a "guarded" or "prudent" sense - but freedom just has different ways of manifesting itself. For some, soaring in the sky may be a sense of release - the overwhelming surge of forces that you cannot control, but that let you fly! For Mohan, his freedom is something he wants to wield with his control. His sense of freedom IS in being control - not like a boss or a subordinate personally or professionally - but as an individual all unto himself! He wants to be free of ANYTHING that ties him down anywhere against his will, and wants to be the ONLY one controlling his gears. And somehow, a free fall, or flying - is NOT where he can control his freedom! Walking with his feet planted firmly on the ground is! He seeks out adventurism with such a surety about himself - that in a typical rule book way - you would almost think he regulated it to much! But fact is, his seeking out of adventures is a tendency that arises not out of need for "thrills" but out of constantly striving for accomplishment! Not to prove ANYONE any points, but to dwell in his own being and life with a sense of purpose to it. And for someone who makes his way with that kind of approach, flying is too vague a territory! He's dreamer of a real kind! His dreams don't involve chasing fancies of flight without knowing WHY or WHAT - his dreams involve compelling pursuits, the challenge of which will buy him out and he will approach them with a REAL head between his shoulders to ACCOMPLISH what he has set out to do!
But why have I run on and on about Mohan Bhatnagar - and what does it have to do with the scene I mention? For a change - I have a plan with where this post is going too 😆 So Indu in her all appeasing manner approaches well armed with sugar and spice to patao beta Mohan into the trap of shaadi - and the change in Mohan's body language - Kunal was SUCH AN ACE in this scene with NANOSECONDS of nuances 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 - the interesting thing is, unlike ALL other times, despite his not relenting to Indu's talk immediately, he is ALSO not just brushing it off! This is possibly THE most grave we have seen Mohan, when broached with a matter of marriage - and it's because unlike ALL the other times before, when Indu was chasing after him, this time Mohan - the real guy that he is, and the man who will NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES OF HIM always fight to confront himself and his bearings - KNOWS, that he HAD been ready for marriage. I wish the episodes of tomfoolery that have preceded this one had shown us not Mohan a fool in love, but Mohan goofy in love cum Mohan the excited new family man in the making who was TRULY looking forward to a new phase. What we'd gotten was just Mohan so overwhelmed with the possibility of reciprocation of love from Megha that he seemed devoid of any "future thinking". The chatt showdown between Mohan and Megha had in its own way tried to establish that Mohan was not just taking the whole marriage thing as something in the stride but something he WAS consciously thinking out - but well, the conviction just wasn't built.
Anywhooo - for now - the Mohan we see is the guy who (we assume) WAS taking the whole settling down idea very seriously. And so unlike all the other times, he KNOWS he'd lie if he said he wasn't ready! In his heart and mind he knows that being ready for a new phase and settling down had involved getting himself out of the past that he's carried around in baggage too long for no reason - and that he HAD come quite a long way from having extricated himself from that. Now, he was as ready as he could ever be. But of course - his being ready for marriage HAD involved the BIG TWIST of Megha will be my bride 😆 And to me, when I watched this part - with Indu's constant urging and imploring and what not - and Mohan's OBVIOUS to a blind man inner battle - he only came off as a man who knew a truth, and knew that facing it and standing up to it and moving on from it as he had decided to was going to be a MUCH HARDER FEAT than the pretense play of 6 years which had followed Rashmi and his break up. That escapism was ALWAYS more seemingly easier an option, than confronting was - even if the irony is, and he knows it now through a lesson learned hard, that escapism only festers in you in a constant everyday a burden like manner. While confronting - despite the mettle that it demands of you in bracing while it lasts - is like pulling off a band aid in one clean go! It resolves the matter for good.
So Mohan for me in this scene currently stands at split of these two paths that go in their own direction. When he told Guru the other day that he wanted everything back to normal, he wasn't talking about going back to the kind of "pretend" normal like he had after Rashmi. He was talking about facing it like a man, taking whatever storms would come in this confronting time of test, and brave through and past them into SOMEthing that he thinks and hopes and believes will be a point where he has genuinely moved on back to his normalcy. When Indu brings it up - he doesn't brush it off like always - NOT because he cannot just tell her his promise to her had been wrt Megha, but because he ASKS himself, knows within himself, that if he brushes this off again on the pretext of I was ready to marry, but only because marrying was about getting together with Megha - well, he's clearly NOT moving on. And in a strange strange manner - somehow, the fact that he's IN THIS DILEMMA establishes far more convincingly than ever before, that he HAD been ready for settling down and taking the responsibilities. That IN HIS MIND, there WAS serious thinking going on, even if all we could see was the lame fool in love doing everything stupid we'd never expect of him! (that was just BAD scripting and I'm currently assuming amends to the episodes of previous days while formulating this theory).
Anyway - obviously KNOWING things, and NEEDING to confront them, does not make confronting any easier or simpler and so Mohan all hassled drops off the laptop to the desk and walks to the window - of course not to view the Vyas home or a certain Mrs. Vyas - but because its a habit his feet just follow, and also because facing his inner battle is not getting any easier while SIMULTANEOUSLY facing his mother! It's like cutting his own space within that intruded space to clear the chaos in his head...
And lo and behold but who should he see, if not the inception of all this chaos? 😆 Such are lives ways Mohan babu, especially when you're a character in the hands of writers who like having fun at your expense 😆 Haha, jk!!! Of course he had to see her. The BEAUTY of the scene begins here and lasts for what I think was 10 seconds. Such.Sheer.Beauty. I watched those 10 some seconds on repeat over and over, and think I still can. There is just SO MUCH undercurrent to the moment - with the camera panning the faces of the two leads - and in these 10 seconds, both Kunal and Ak are AS GOOD AS THEY 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 Their eyes are telling ALL the stories that dialogues never could. And the reason I love this moment ALL THE MORE is because THIS is what I think justifies the title of the show - moments like THESE! I don't want to bring it up here, but I will, to draw the parallel - but when I said on Friday that I would have LOVED to see the Megha confession scene WITHOUT those words and dialogues jarring the beauty - THIS IS WHAT I was talking about!!! ANYONE who truly understands the making of this show does NOT need a single word in the span of these 10 seconds to be TOLD what's going on here! We have GREAT actors, and (thank all the gods) the return of SOME force in the team that prevails and gives us this moment. Mohan just happens to look up, and the transition in his thoughts and mind can be seen in NOTHING more the subtlety of the expressions changing in his eyes - WHAT FANTASTIC STUFF THAT WAS - the way he goes from accidentally spotting her, to registering the fact that he has - to taking in her OBVIOUSLY shattered frame and aura - to that ALMOST invisible yet VERY MUCH prevalent softening of in the eyes... It's AMAZING to me how his face hardly moves a muscle - its JUST THE EYES - and they just go from being cast in a chaos, to the surprise of a discovery, to a melancholic version of what the word serendipity stands for - in seeing Megha in that state - the chaos in his mind goes so seamlessly out of focus in the way his eyes soften almost imperceptibly at her condition... a woman who even when they were at ABSOLUTE loggerheads - was a force and power he believed was to be reckoned with. The inner strength in her that he knew and saw - openly and secretly - in SO many moments, in so many situations - sometimes by her side, sometimes from across the boundary ... he sees her now in a sense of resignation that is JUST not her. And somehow, JUST like that the sight of her being devoid of ANY fight whatsoever, for the briefest moment beats the fight out of HIM! Moahn has ALWAYS been that different kind of support system - the kind who will NOT offer crutches - and NOT feel sympathy for you - when he knows better than to mistake your strength for a vulnerability. But like he told her on the terrace, AT THIS POINT, Megha DOES evoke sympathy. Not for how broken she looks or is. But for how SHE herself breaks her own person and spirit bit by bit! When he told her on the terrace that she should feel bad for herself - it was out of NO SPITE - Mohan wouldn't know how to show spite, even if he WANTED! - it was as truth stands. Because for the first time since they somehow barged their ways into each other's lives, Mohan CAN find reason to pity Megha. Which is sad. And it shows on his face now. The fight goes out of him - because seeing her like that is NOT something he wants to see, ever. For a nanosecond in the softening of those eyes you can ALMOST see that Mohan's resolve to "move on" will be out of the window before he can say his own name 😆 because like in ALL the times when he's seen her almost give up, Mohan feels that intuitive and compulsive sting to jerk her up to her feet and chin her up to GO AND FIGHT IT OUT! Whatever it is!!! But the thought can hardly last or prosper... If it had prospered, Mohan would have possibly still been back to square one. Because the one Megha needs to fight THIS time, is SHE herself - and Mohan cannot possibly get that point across to her ANY MORE candidly than from the terrace! The "himmat" that she talks of to herself in her monologues with Mohan - IS what she needs to fight out to get some REAL kind! And I guess Mohan, if his thought had not been so unceremoniously interrupted would have touched that conclusion within seconds more to add - and then I wonder, ever so vaguely - how that scene could have gone. Because in the futility of his effort to get her to fight this time, he would have rounded back upto HIS chaos at hand - and then I wonder, how he would have tackled it. Somehow... I think, even if he HAD resorted to not answering Indu right up - he might not have managed to bring himself to escape his OWN resolve of moving on enough to say a no. It's the one challenging part of being Mohan Bhatnagar - he does NOT know a way to escape himself successfully! I'd say he needs lessons from Megha - but let's just say I'm TOO GLAD he's NOT her that way 😆 So no, thank you! I'll make hay watching Monu struggle with his unrelenting self confronting nature and watch him in sheer anguish over it - ANYDAY - over watching Mohan as a weak escapist! No, thank you! May the hawt and strong MEN of telly prosper in that trait - I find the "kiddult" Bhatnagar with his resolves and self confrontations MUCH stronger in ways that take MORE balls than the muskle men can have or show! 🤪 😆
Anyway - I digress! So yes - the unceremonious intrusion, which is also the point of the scene for which I wrote up that LONG LONG Mohan essay above 😆 Oh psst, not that I need excuses to fan-girl ramble about Mohan Bhatnagar ☺️☺️
Let's get into Mohan's head now, and see things from his eyes. It wasn't just a picture perfect family he saw out there. NOT after he'd JUST seen Megha in THAT state less than a second ago. And Mohan is neither amnesia hit to that extent, not imperceptive in anyway to have MISSED what Megha's solitude and frame had SCREAMED of, to anyone with ANY level of intercepting people! He didn't have to be a rocket scientist to fathom that one, although, Mohan IS a rocket scientist in his own way, so well 😎 Khair. So what he saw was not the picture perfect family he needed to be jealous or insecure of. What he saw was a new angle to the entire thing. One that - he may or may not deem THAT important, or even legit - but he realizes the extent to which Megha does and will. He saw a woman who was lonely enough to go back to being a little 15 year old girl locked accidentally in the pantry scared but resolving herself to be brave until someone would come to her rescue. He saw a woman who was an individual - a Megha, not a Mrs. Vyas - who was a spitting image of the dilemma her life had become, of the clash of what was right and what she thought was right and what, in the middle of that debate, she wanted... And then he saw a mother. A widow. A Mrs. Vyas - who had, in ways that were nearly impossible to alter, taken over "Megha". Who had come to be the dominant form of existence for this individual. As not being one. Who would, no matter what and how you tried to sell her better sense and logic - JUST NOT know a way to let Megha win over Mrs. Vyas... who had a long, long time ago conceded to being Mrs. Vyas - and for the long way she had come since then, she had learned to CARRY that responsibility - for good and for bad. He doesn't need to agree with her, or endorse her thought process. He obviously KNOWS better than her, that being Megha is NOT necessarily about forsaking the champion cause of being Mrs. Vyas. But he also sees in that moment that he cannot change her thought about. In seeing Megha vs Mrs. Vyas in the span of some seconds, and having those flashbacks from the terrace - Mohan KNOWS that is his love, which he knows is NOT unrequited inside of her - but if his love and sense put together could not change the mind of his woman from what she set herself to years ago - there is really nothing no more he can do about it. The blend of anguish and anger in him at the sight of that scene is NOT out of being provoked - to me that is - but out of this realization that Megha doesn't just stay in denial, no in fact she MAY no longer be in denial AT ALL; but that SHE herself can never find her way OUT of Mrs. Vyas. While on the terrace he had accused her of being in dishonest denial with herself - somewhere he knows now, that it is MUCH worse. A denial could have been altered in time - and has been - but what he cannot change, and knows she WILL NOT change, is dooming herself in ALL AWARENESS now! It anguishes him, as much as it angers him - and somehow, if I think from his POV as I understand it to be - what he's looking at is NOT a picture perfect scene, but a PERFECT pyre of self immolation she just threw herself into!!!
And WHAT kind of man who loves a woman the way Mohan loves Megha WOULD sustain the sight and revelation of SUCH a scene? You can't blame him, really! When he says yes to his mother in that moment, it is not so much "provoked" by the picture perfect family, or by any sentiments which go like - if she can move on, I will too - no! Mohan, like I implied in my long essay above - is NOT the kind of guy who proves points to ANYONE! Those are NOT the kind of chains he will or does bind his freedom down with! The reason he says yes to his mother, to me is this - if she will not move on, and perhaps she never will; I MUST keep my word to myself and move on... - he's not letting her go, his love is not shallow and didn't come with ANY kind of expiry dates - but in that moment, he stamps the chaos of his inner debate and proceeds with his I know the right thing and I WILL do it the right way - decision.
What I LOVE about Mohan in this ENTIRE episode is - as Nur made a brief mention of - the fact that he is NOT out their to settle scores with Megha! Not for a second. He's only being the man he is. He told her once, and again, and truly - all he did for her was in his love, and NOTHING else! Even when SHE cuts herself the sorry image, even now at this point of trying to detach himself from this hold, HE will NOT be the one to pity her. Because if he was ANY nicer to her than he was in the episode - it would be much more pity than love... Mohan is NOT someone who will go out of his way to be "nice" - he wasn't going OUT of his way to be RUDE to her either. Moving around her like she doesn't exist is HIS effort at TRULY making the plan of "moving on" work. It's not a romantic or thrilling adventure - but Mohan HAS cut himself a VERY hard task of self confrontation. And he IS doing EVERYTHING in a real sense to make it happen. NOT to hurt her. But to accomplish his OWN resolve. He knows if he was ready to settle with Megha - fact was, he IS ready to take on "settling" responsibility. So he TRULY DOES want to give this thing a shot now. It's PART of the self confronting task. Unlike Megha, he is NOT compromising himself to anything. He is just RAISING his bar beyond the "whims" of emotions which are as out of his league as the stars he never bothered about, and being REAL on the GROUND - so in his plan, he's not "sacrificing" his love and moving on with another - in the process making the NEW person a scapegoat. No. He is "discarding" a dream that he practically gauges is NOT real and getting back on the firm ground where HE knows his way about and finding himself a new "realistic dream" with this new person. He's not doing anything for his mother or on her bidding - contrary to what she assumes - but TRULY giving this a shot with the MOST of an open mind he can steadily work up while simultaneously tackling the move on phase. And even though he has set himself a task that we know as the audience of this show is impossible - if I think of a real world situation - it WOULD take a REALISTIC approach like Mohan's to actually deal with something like this on hand. And it doesn't always have to end up being a sad thing. As he said in the precap - somethings happen for the good. Again, in context of the show, we know he's going to come back. But in a real similar context, this could well have gone onto be a wedding - and it WOULD have taken someone LIKE Mohan, who was TRUE to his intention of moving on, to manage it, to step into a new life with - if not yet complete then at least EVERY intention of making it complete - open mind and perception of a fresh start. And with a right girl, he could have managed it too. If he could meet one right girl and lose her, it doesn't mean he can't meet another - and THAT is a lesson Mohan DID learn out of the Rashmi episode. He learned what was right in ONE moment, need not be right for the next. And in a real life context, Megha could have been just a second Rashmi even if a much better person for different reasons. And he could STILL have found a new Megha, who WOULD have wanted a life with him - and someone he COULD move on with. Interestingly, true to his character, Mohan is NOT using the new girl for a crutch to move on! Not as much to say about Megha of course! He is not USING her in any sense at all in fact - again, unlike Megha, whose great sacrifice finds a VERY convenient scapegoat in Manav that she has NOT bothered giving a thought to! Mohan HAS. He would NOT say yes to meeting a girl, if he did NOT have every intention of being fair to her. NOT just in responsibility as a "book husband" but fairness in GIVING her that chance in his life. Mohan unlike Megha - for all his mother's tantrums - is NOT compelled into this marriage thing by ANYTHING other than his OWN acceptance that A) he HAS to move on from Megha B) this is AS ready as he will ever be to start his life afresh and settle down, because he now KNOWS he's not shy of "commitment" per se! And so the decision is in MANY ways a very practically sorted out call. However the show may eventually show it as flawed vs true love and all that - I'm TRULY glad they have shown this side of Mohan - it is only becoming of a character like him to prove to be no less! 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
On a final note - I LOVED the symbolism of the office desk scene. Megha, in her now acquired from a while ago habit of somehow forgetting distinction between "Mohan and her own territory" piles her "wet rags" onto his space, while cleaning up. She isn't throwing her waste into his life - she's only gotten so used to "cleaning acts" WITH Mohan on her side! And in the intuitive and unassuming way that she uses "his resources" to do clean another act - is obvious the extent to which in this whole being a team thing, she has TRULY forgotten the sense of being individuals with boundaries - for times like now! When Mohan walks in and yells at her - it is true to his theory. He shared her life and its moments with her - the good and the grime - BECAUSE he loves her. But if that status is dismissed - NO, he's neither a saint, nor someone who will "pity" and help her out! There is no moral obligation he has EVER felt in just social serving people and he is NOT going to start NOW! He wasn't SOCIAL SERVING her at ANY point at all! And THAT'S ALL that I see in the scene - when I see him throw those sheets away. He has made a life for himself where HE decides WHAT obligations he wants to own and what not - and the one thing he has NEVER done is carry a burden JUST TO BE NICE... He makes that point. And that he looks on at her later as she collects the "scatter and ruins" by herself - is because, well, who said MAKING a resolve to move on was like a casting a charm and POOF, it's done? I think Mohan holds fort VERY well! It's such sheer brilliance to see him being TRUE to his character, in EVERY way! The love he has for Megha is not just going to die out. But the person he is, for the resolve he has made WITH HIMSELF - he WILL do EVERYTHING in his practical sense and power to SEE it through.
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Phew. I do have more to say, but I don't have anymore energy to 😆 My primary typing finger is like dented under the nail from how fast and furiously I've typed away the last HOUR I think 😆 So yeh - this will be it. Man - I don't even think you people are REAL to actually SIT through HOW much I write! Meri toh majburi hai - I can't possibly "sleep" unless I GET it out - it'll just keep doing rounds of my mind till I SAY it somewhere - but tum log to definitely masochistic ho 😆 Good luck with sitting through this one, if and when you try to! 😛 And MANY hugs for all the good things you STILL manage to say! I'm ridiculously opinionated and it may not always be an amicable trait of course - but for those of you who look beyond that glitch - thankoos 🤗🤗🤗
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*edited to add about this other thing I still had to say about Mohan from the last scene with Ridhima.
So there was this interesting part of Mohan's reaction to her "love is too complicated". Not just that he looks to Megha's direction, but how you don't really see a ready agreement on his face with the sentiment. And you've just GOT TO love that thing about Mohan! How he's actually GROWN with having been in love two times now, and he KNOWS the value of the lessons he has learned in the process ENOUGH, to value them to the extent that he will and cannot rue the "complication". That he doesn't grudge the feeling of having loved in his life is SUCH A wonderful nuance lent to his shade in this moment - 👏 - and again, something so IN character for him. Because he DID have his time and philosophy about how futile and fickle love is, and he HAS grown to know better from this entire Megha episode! I LOVE that he carries that lesson with him now, and for what its worth - which is A LOT OF GROWING UP - he regrets nothing!
Also. Ridhima's statement about "my parents have taught me to learn to live with a man as he does" - for ALL the headesking and facepalming that I could come up with in response, made me think inevitably of how Mohan's recent statements have ALL gone around "if you can take me as I am, do that. If not, then I'm going to be Rhett Butler's give no damn patron" 😆 So I was thinking of how interesting it is, that while Ridhima did say that sentence in the earnest, and possibly means to carry it through with whatever man she marries - the whole accept Mohan and his life as it is is NOT something that involves "subservience" that she exuded. When Mohan Bhatnagar says he needs the other person to embrace him as a full package deal, he is NOT talking about being accepted because it is the other person's "obligation" to accept him!!! NO! Mohan's sense of being accepted, is being cherished for the person he is - not being in awe or obligation of it - but being at this level where you SEE what makes him Mohan Bhatnagar and want to be a part of it as much as making HIM a part of your bearings! He wants to be accepted like a PROPER fitting piece of jigsaw fits its spot in a big puzzle. Where acceptance is about having a spot for himself in that big picture, where he fits - ALL CORNERS AND CUTS AND ANGLES - with ALL the surround pieces, where he fits those crevices and gaps, because HE is THE PERFECT fit for that spot!
And that is the kind of place he does have in Megha's life. Sadly of course, she wants to let her picture remain incomplete without letting this FINAL BIG piece fall in place to complete it!
Edited by without-fathom - 13 years ago
