Kool's Commentary 4 : PR, Apr 19:Final Warning Pg100 - Page 52

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My dear Tejaswini,

Aap bulayein aur ham na aayein, yeh kabhi ho sakta hai kya? So here I am, though my eyes, which were dilated for a retina check up, are not back to normal yet and my vision is thus not clear. Still, as you want my comments, I will give it a shot, and if there are typos, you will know why.

Today the whole of PR belonged to Ovi. Not just the intensely moving farewell message, which was surprisingly well written, and very well delivered by Shruti, but also the calm sadness with which she tells Arjun the previous evening, that she was living in a dream world, and koyi baharwala aaya aur sab toot gaya. No anger, no bitterness, just a deep and lucid sadness. It was, in more senses than one, a coming of age for her.

It was the same with the farewell message. Though I would have preferred it if she had not given Arjun so much unalloyed credit for trying to make the marriage work, I could understand her decision to avoid even a single harsh note in what was, in her mind, the final goodbye to the man she has always loved and still loves very, very much. She says as much in the video, with a simple candour that is untainted by any tinge of ego or any need to get back at him.

She stays back for that one night because after listening to Arjun's desperate pleas to her to stay and his frantic explanations of how he was never unfaithful to her (technically only, but let that pass), she knows that he will make a special effort to woo her back, and she wants to be so wooed.

It is the deepest desire of her heart to have him care for her and need her for real, and perhaps she hopes, after listening to his desperation, and learning that he has given up Pari as well, that maybe, just maybe, he really wants her at long last (she thinks that he gave up Pari to persuade her to stay. I do not agree, for it was a case of force majeure. But what matters here is what Ovi believes. and not what I or we believe, even if we are right and she is wrong).

I would not fault for not having stuck to her original decision to leave with Manav. nor for having had that night with Arjun, for her reasons for doing both are the same, as per my understanding, as outlined above, and they are perfectly valid as seen thru her eyes.

When she leaves in the end, it was, I think. because she realises that while Arjun is trying the hardest he can to make things the way she would want it, it is still an act and not the real thing. She has, finally, grown up enough to understand the difference between what she wants and what she can get. and she is ready to walk out rather than settle for false coin, no matter that it is gilded.

If only she had seen things this clearly a year ago! She might have spared herself and others a great deal of unnecessary misery. But when things are fated to go one way, they go that way.

True to the PR rule re: babies, there is going to be another Arjun-Ovi baby on the way soon, that is a dead cert. All those claiming that the stillborn baby was not Arjun's (not that I ever understood how that would help bring their beloved amar premis together again, seeing that Onir is still among the living) because they had not shown them having a roll on satin sheets, will now have to eat their words, for this time it was all shown beyond any doubt, of course in a discreet fade out. Alas for the ArVi hopefuls!

It remains to be seen how things are developed from now on, including how Ovi manages to have the baby and earn her living as well. She will have 4 or 5 months to build up a nest egg before the baby claims her wholly, and perhaps that is what they will show happening.

However, one thing is certain, the CVs have decided to give Ovi's character an unambiguously positive spin. At one fell swoop, by having her clear the path for Arjun and Purvi to get together again if they want it (for Onir will let Purvi go the minute he senses that she wants that; that she won't is another matter altogether), they have wiped the slate clean for her.

Her serious mistakes and her follies of the past have been atoned for in this one act - of acknowledging the thing about which she was always in denial, that she could never achieve with Arjun the degree of closeness that he has with Purvi - and setting Arjun free.

And as I wrote once, of Soham can be so readily forgiven serious crimes like kidnapping and extortion, I fail to see why Ovi should be given no credit for the distance she has come from her earlier avatar.

Two days ago, I wrote on another thread:

I was pleased that Ovi had become practical, and had started thinking of something other than Arjun and motherhood. To my mind neither a man nor a child can be the be all and end all of a woman's life, to the exclusion of all else. It is a capital mistake to let this kind of mindset develop, for it cripples you, and does the man and the kid(s) no good either. As I noted, Ovi has come to this realisation far too late to go any good to anyone but herself, but...I for one hope she does not go back to Arjun, and gets a divorce, so that she is again marketable, and then sees what life has to offer her other than men and matrimony.

Today, she has done the first, and even if she does not say so explicitly, the second is implicit in her farewell to him. But what I did not anticipate was that she would carry away with her an ansh of her only love.

This is, on second thoughts, as it should be. Ovi, as I have always asserted, is a one man woman, and even if she does not get her man, she will now have something even better. Something that will be part of him but will belong to her alone, and will reciprocate her love as Arjun could never have done. Against this prospect. who are we to cavil and quibble?

Kools, I do not quite agree with your take on Arjun today - to me he seemed and sounded more frantic, for whatever reason, than convincing - but that hardly matters.

I would like to shift gear and end on a light note. I did not find anything much to make fun of today, but there were a couple of titbits.

_ HOW does Ovi prance around on that slippery ground in such very high heels?

- Manav looks on the verge of delivering all the slaps that Arjun had escaped at the anniversary party.

- Onir's friend, who declares that he has full faith in him - was shown making incomprehensible references to his believing that Onir could never be guilty of organ trafficking, The CVs, evidently exhausted by their labours on Ovi's farewell message, have clearly mixed up their cue sheets😉, for last I heard, he had been held guilty of baby swapping, not organ trafficking.

Ah yes, the high point of today's episode. We did not have to see Purvi at all, and thus were spared the ghastly wigs and all the rest.

Now howzzat? Up to the mark?

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: Dabulls23

A million $ Q...A general one outside of PR

Man loving his childhood best friend turned WIFI

Man Loving his Lover of 4 months and a mother of their child

Which love is true or real???

These are two types of love and are portrayed differently..

Is this possible?

Kalapi & Pari reading both your posts I wanted to post this here too...I posted same on Jhanvi's topic on new respect for Onir..

Pari superb post..👏