you guys have said it all! What a triumphant episode today for Ovi, my fav character!
Very well directed, superb episode and absolutely real and heart touching episode. It helped that there was no purvi in it...and it was centered around a mature husband-wife relationship, something purvi sadly has no head or tail of.
Shruti Kanwari deserves a standing ovation for the past months...Her acting has all the versatality and shades that an actress must have and does full justice to each emotion...Today, she made me cry with her portrayal of a helpless wife and a love that was wasted...Her inner pain was so well acted out, it was hard not to feel it along with her. She truly is my ⭐️ of the show. Character and actress both!
Also, I must applaud Rithvik for his acting today. He has never before been as convincing as a husband today...He really amped up his acting and reminded me why I liked him in the first place...I wish he continues this earlier streak and I can see enjoying his character more. I noticed that his effort and convincing acting, made me see Arjun differently too. With his earlier blank and helpess face, I simply felt nothing. But today, his emotions while feeling the pain watching the video or his romantic little scene with Ovi today in the rain, all made me feel for Arjun and realize he is nothing but a flawed and helpless character too. sincere acting makes all the difference in getting the character across for what he/she is.
Ovi, when leaving the house and listening to Arjun's pleas today, staring straight at him and without wincing telling her father to leave as she decided to stay, was brilliant. She was trying to search the truth and his need in his eyes for her, the willingness or the love one last time, and she listened to her heart as usual and stayed back, even if just to collect happy memories instead of the heartbreak for the past whole year that she had. As everyone said, Arjun looked like finally he was whole heartedly giving this marriage a shot and so so so glad that there was no purvi or her orders involved this time, not even a thought about her or some stupid mind FB.
The rain scene, they both seemed so happy , so genuinely happy for once in that rain. They got a nice romantic number finally ( a bit too late) and their carefree bonding like friends and finally husband-wife was a very very well directed scene. I liked Arjun taking lead for Ovi for once. I liked him initiating the closeness or intimacy and brining her closer. It looked like a genuine attempt to keep his wife and marriage and give himself a chance at happiness too. I don't believe in the fact that if a man truly loves someone else he is not able to consummate with his wife, as most people say that on the forum about him. Yes, when he did it on purvi's orders, it was disgusting and pathetic, but today, it was genuine, as he looked like finally taking a step himself to his life and his marriage. The arjun that consummated with purvi in that shack was a young in love hormonally impulse lover and today this arjun was a mature, come of age, and finally a husband who understood what his wife meant to his life. This was maturity ( not the consummation but the understanding of his wife's importance) that was needed a year back after Purvi left town. I felt heartbroken that this realization in Arjun for Ovi's importance adn need in his life, came so late to him. So late that there is no return anymore for her into his life. I really felt they both would have made a wonderful and apt pair if this Arjun had come of age earlier. She loves him unconditionally and we know that he is capable of unconditional love himself. She compliments his young, naive, vulnerable and chauvinistic self with her own personality that is not perfect or claims to be golden girl. She has flaws and he has flaws and that is why they are so perfect together if Arjun was this Arjun a year back. They would have had a perfectly understanding and successful marriage if Purvi had not been the third wheel long back.
Today, after he wakes up, his subconscious calling out to Ovi, his wanting to see her first thing in the morning, his conversation with his dad, heck even his clothes and his relaxed self was a glimpse of the old Arjun, the one that had come from Canada. I always say Purvi grounded him and I won't take that away from her, but her love left inside him a vaccum that slowly inhaled him inside until only cinders were left of himself. Today, I saw the person he used to be in a glimpse of his morning scene and really I felt horrible. I can't beleive that I felt bad for Arjun. Really bad. and I agree with Kalapi, and Kools and Di, that DK failed Arjun as a father. DK was as non-chalant about bidding Ovi goodbye as he was when she decided to stay and also same reaction when he heard that she left with a suitcase. Arjun has always missed his mom and with good reason. Ashna being there would have made a world of a difference. Maybe she would have supported his decision to be with purvi ( archu jaap-er) but she had enough sense to know how an unloving and unfulfilled marriage feels like and she would have made that difference to his married life with Ovi. It would have never come to this stage.
The guys has lost his all, thanks to his blind unconditional love for Purvi, just as Ovi has lost her all thanks to her love for Arjun. Both, I feel sorry for today and I hope both get enough sense to move on and make something more worthy of their lives.
As for Ovi, her last video was the best part of today's episode. This girl has grown so much, it is unbelievable. It is almost unreal that a character in PR, has been shown to have such a tremendous growth and depth to them. She was outstanding in her dialogue to Arjun today. Her unconditional love was evident, as was her, maturity at finally seeing the situation as it was. She apologized to Arjun for causing him pain and that is her strenght as a person and a sign of how much she loves Arjun. She set him free, not just for herself but for him too. If she was labeled selfish for her deal, she has come to the point of being selflessly loving Arjun to the point that she moved out of his life and will be ok if he re-unites with Purvi. She understood sacrificing Pari was a big deal for Arjun, she acknowledged his sacrifices to make the marriage work and her happy (even though we did not see it at all) and that speaks volumes of how much she loved him versus how Purvi treats him. Purvi has never felt bad for Arjun, has never gained realization of what she made him do and what his life has come to because of listening to her. Ovi, gave him that understanding today, that she realized was important to cementing their broken pieces. She understands the heartbreak he has had, and she understands the heartbreak he has caused her. Not once does she blame him, accuses him or taunts him. She simply states what she saw, a love for Purvi, a compromise for her, and a self-respect that was lost in both of them. She played the wife today and the unconditional lover both to the T. The wife who realizes the sacrifices the husband has done, the effort he has put in this marriage and the realization of an unhappy marriage where she lost all her self-respect, even though she did not seem to regret it. She infact took in her stride. As a lover, she saw that he had given her pain, heartbreak and an irreparable loss. I loved that she said she wanted memories that would strenghten her and not the pain and that;s why she stayed back. Her acknowledgement of her own mistakes as well as appreciating whatever tiny effort he did as husband is what makes her so real and so unlike Purvi. Ovi touched my heart today with her honest, real and extremely loving confession. As a mother, she felt the pain of that dead child even now. Her mamta does not have an on off switch even for a child that is no more.
I think, Arjun realized it today how much Ovi did for him and how much Ovi meant to him. He seemed to realize the mistake he has made in his marriage and how he left her broken and shattered ( at least from his expressions) I want him to do justice to his own character now and as well as Ovi's. I want him to re-surrect himself too. I want him to gain that insight into the difference of an Ovi and a Purvi in his life, one who brought him down and inhaled his soul and one who always stood by to uplift it and be the shoulder that he needed when falling down. Make that distinction and give it back to Purvi, so she knows he is no fool anymore. There has to be realization on Arjun's part now to make his character redeem himself. This boy has so much potential, time they mended him now. There were glimpses today and I hope that CV's do justice to him too now.
Ovi's decision was applaud worthy. A woman has to be strong to make this decision and stronger when it is about leaving the man you love because you realize he doesn't love you. It is so so so hard to let go like this. Ovi is strong and takes decisions for herself, but atleast that is what everyone usually does. Her decisions are for herself and she does not think to make them on behalf of other people or their lives. This makes me love her, that she does what is best for her and sticks by them. No flippy floppy and no nonsense attitude. I am very eagerly waiting her track now to see where she goes from this crossroads. A career and a new man or a career and her baby with Arjun. Either way, now I know, what she decides will be mature and a thought out decision.
As for future track, I guess baby is inevitable. Every sex scene in shows leads to babies and it is always going to be an open track whenever CV's need to add twist or masala. As for aRVI getting closer, I think this track is headed for a Silsila. I think they will get closer to take care of Pari ( although why they should since Onir is all willing to be dad, is beyond me) but they will for carrots dangling purposes, and Onir will finally see his fate as a perpetual third wheel and let Purvi go, as he has loved her unconditionally too. Very soon, I am bound to see realization, hopelessness and helplessness in his eyes too. He will see what he has lost in love, his career, his self-respect, his life thrown away carelessly and nothing but a floor and the same roof as wife to boot. He is going to set his mishti free, ( as cutting off the poison is the first step to regaining health back) and this mishti is going to reject the idea of Arjun as soon as she realizes what Onir means to her. Arjun ,after this consummation scene with Ovi, it is hard to think that Purvi and he will get back together. There is no pavitrata in that love anymore as he willingly and happily showed his feelings for Ovi today. There is no way there is going to a re-union. Simply dangling carrots to make sure they don't lose some audience. He will realize his love for Ovi too and bring her back with the baby, if she has one and there is no man in her life.
I do think that if Arjun comes to full realization ( that is he sees Purvi for what she is, mainly not as a bad person or whatever, but mainly as the poisoned love that ate him away and the selfish and immature love they had and the fact that she has looted his self-respect, and even buried his dead baby without a thought for the parents ) and shows the door to Purvi, and has a confrontation scene with her where he brings these points to her face, sunaoes her about the loss of their baby and their right to mourn as parents, about keeping pari;s info secret from him, about always using him as bait for her next mahaanta, always keeping him on her leash while happily romancing her husband..all this I want to hear him accuse her of. This will bring high TRP's won't it? I think any high drama between leads makes for high TRP. This will be his redeeming factor in my eyes. Simple realization of Purvi, the way Ovi realized Arjun in her life.
Very interesting twist CV's have given by giving Ovi all the reigns of hr destiny in her hand and also making her the shining character of PR as of now. Too happy with them for that! Awaiting her track now. Manav, has been a dad to Ovi in the past one month, sometihng Archana has done for neither of her kids. Manav takes the cake in being a caring parent, much more than Archana does. The parents are all so screwed up, you simply feel sorry for all the kids because of the messed up upbringing, whether it is Soham, Sachin, twins or Purvi.
Edited by pari87 - 12 years ago
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