Janhvi,
The flight will land in an hour so I had better hurry up with this. It is precisely because I care so much about Arjun that I do NOT want him to flap and panic. I would feel and say exactly the same if it was my Sasha, and I have tried to teach him that too, to some good effect.
If Arjun does not learn to cope with sudden crises now, in his mid-20s, when is he going to learn? And with a dad like DK behind him too. As for Uncle Manav's coattails, they are surely not available, and in any case, I would not like my boy to cling to anyone's coattails, but to stand up straight on his own two feet.
But he does say to Purvi, in that desperate one way phone call,
Tumhe dhoond nikaaloonga, which sounds better, even if it is partly whistling in the dark, and also hopeful about the new direction the story is going to take.
Well, now I really have to go. Take care, my dear.
Shyamala
And what are you talking of :"Is that censure I hear for our Arjun?" You have heard it often enough in the past, and most lately, I have wanted to give him the hiding of his life. Not just now, of course, and I am hoping and praying that he gathers his scattered wits and thinks of something effective to do, for Manav's grand plan to buy her freedom is going to go awry, I feel it in my bones.
Originally posted by: soapwatcher1
Shyamala, thanks, I have been busy on my phone today :) with PR postings. Is that censure I hear for our Arjun? I cannot believe the President of PAP is actually semi- dissatisfied with the poor boy. He is no Steve McQueen, he is just a young lad who has lost the girl he loves to a bunch of ruffians, his confusion is understandable so long as he can shake it off quickly, dad and uncle Manav available to hang on coat tails or not. I believe he won't disappoint.
Originally posted by: sashashyam
Janhvi,
Appreciation, a good bit of it, but qualified, and not for the part @red.
Vishnu will make sure the others do not molest Purvi, for he is not a sleaze ball, but he sees her as worthy of protection only because her folks are ready to pay up, not out of (rustic) chivalry. If they do not pay up, he seems quite ready to put a bullet thru her head, as he says himself.
As for Arjun, if he loses his head so easily that he goes around showing random people Purvi's dhaba picture and asking them whether they have seen her, when he has already been clearly told by Manav that she has been kidnapped instead of Ovi and that the kidnappers are asking for a ransom, one does not know what to think. He looks like a young Steve McQueen, and it is time he started acting like one. I do not like my boy to panic at the first real crisis he faces, and that too despite having such total backing from his dad.
If Manav does not listen to his eminently sensible suggestions, Arjun will have to find his own way to implement them, with the help of the police, for the ransom payment bid is going to fail, and then the only way out would be to locate Vishnu's (and Purvi's) location and get her out by main force.. The Indian police are usually very good at tackling interstate kidnappings successfully, for the coordination between the police forces of the various States in such cases is excellent.
As for Manav, I have written enough on that to you on my latest thread, Gathering momentum? so I will leave it at that.
As I noted in the above-mentioned post, if Varsha has to be brought front and centre into the main narrative - how else can Vishnu's real parentage be revealed - the action, and Purvi, will have to move to Balan's lair in Bihar. Have fun with all these and other complications, and bye for now.
Shyamala
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