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If you've lived long enough, you've probably felt it the stabbing pain from that sharp knife in your heart that comes from being betrayed by someone you trusted reposed your complete faith in possibly your honor and life just like Paro followed by the disillusionment with life that comes from realizing that others will lie to you and about you to suit their own purposes without batting an eye. It's unfortunately a tangible part of life, a part that leaves scars and steals faith, engenders distrust, bitterness, fear, and suspicion.
In her eyes Paro has been betrayed thrice by 3 men whom she completely trusted and believed in her heart to protect her honor and dignity as a human being and a woman
Paro believed blindly in her fatherly figure The Thakur sa and assumed zealously he always had her best interests at heart and would never do anything that was contrary just like we would in our parents for which child would ever think their parents would deceive them in the worst possible way She was his sacrificial pawn in his delusion of keeping his family honor and name intact and Her father figure sold her honor off for guns and moolah Her soul must have recoiled in horror when the true colors were revealed
She weaved dreams over her to be husband Varun so much so she went running to her Higher Power in her excitement to thank that she feels so blessed now that she has found her Varun and to think that she cribbed all these years over her plight and now is showered with happiness But he was actually leading her up the garden path with his honeyed words matching interests and talk of a family that was just their own when clearly he had no intention of doing so and was actually planning to sell her off into the flesh trade as was the norm and her honor be damned and Paro would have been shattered completely inside if Operation Desert Storm had not happened by the idea that her husband who had sworn to protect and cherish her was responsible for her ultimate dishonor of being in the brothel
I perceive this as the soul singeing betrayal for Paro by a man who really did not give a damn for her as a human being and although she is thanking her lucky stars for her providential escape that horrific thought will remain But for the Grace of God go I
And now finally Rudra the man she believes to be her protector her savior her God has just sold her off to another man for the princely sum of 13 Lakhs to be his wife and carted off to Jaipur with no second thought to her honor and dignity as a woman and without so much as a by your leave (I know this is an intense love story but when reality collides in a daily dose of escapism sigh this act did not sit well with me considering the amount of flesh trading and Human trafficking that is happening around India Asia and the world in alarming proportions)
Yes one can call it a test of love dress it up with pretty prose but no denying this one leaves a very acrid taste in the mouth of the one being tested and soul crushing to say the very least and that you have no say in this game of manipulation with damned if you do and damned if you don't results
However RR has proven to be something of a revolution in terms of twists and turns so maybe she might just question his dubious ways and call him out to be a cad that he is now and no different from Thakur and Varun
Call it the romantic in me and for those who know me as the Grinch know how low my RQ is but Rudra has to repent later over this chauvinistic deed ala Khap Panchayat members who ruthlessly treat women as commodities and this act sadly taints/compromises his own image Conduct most unbecoming of an army officer and an otherwise modern-day man This blip in his radar has to have serious repercussions
I have an inkling although I may be wrong for this be a testosterone driven PH / writers and I don't think they have factored her 3 betrayals by the 3 men she felt for but if they do I think it would not just be Rudra and his trust issues with beautiful women but Paro with her own demons of faith and dependence issues with the people she considered worthy of her devotion which would truly make them equals in their emotional battles of loyalty love and expectation and a powerful weapon to be exploited by those intent on destroying them
Caveat: This is not a Rudra bashing post or some feminist rant just my view of yesterdays episode
In her eyes Paro has been betrayed thrice by 3 men whom she completely trusted and believed in her heart to protect her honor and dignity as a human being and a woman
Paro believed blindly in her fatherly figure The Thakur sa and assumed zealously he always had her best interests at heart and would never do anything that was contrary just like we would in our parents for which child would ever think their parents would deceive them in the worst possible way She was his sacrificial pawn in his delusion of keeping his family honor and name intact and Her father figure sold her honor off for guns and moolah Her soul must have recoiled in horror when the true colors were revealed
She weaved dreams over her to be husband Varun so much so she went running to her Higher Power in her excitement to thank that she feels so blessed now that she has found her Varun and to think that she cribbed all these years over her plight and now is showered with happiness But he was actually leading her up the garden path with his honeyed words matching interests and talk of a family that was just their own when clearly he had no intention of doing so and was actually planning to sell her off into the flesh trade as was the norm and her honor be damned and Paro would have been shattered completely inside if Operation Desert Storm had not happened by the idea that her husband who had sworn to protect and cherish her was responsible for her ultimate dishonor of being in the brothel
I perceive this as the soul singeing betrayal for Paro by a man who really did not give a damn for her as a human being and although she is thanking her lucky stars for her providential escape that horrific thought will remain But for the Grace of God go I
And now finally Rudra the man she believes to be her protector her savior her God has just sold her off to another man for the princely sum of 13 Lakhs to be his wife and carted off to Jaipur with no second thought to her honor and dignity as a woman and without so much as a by your leave (I know this is an intense love story but when reality collides in a daily dose of escapism sigh this act did not sit well with me considering the amount of flesh trading and Human trafficking that is happening around India Asia and the world in alarming proportions)
Yes one can call it a test of love dress it up with pretty prose but no denying this one leaves a very acrid taste in the mouth of the one being tested and soul crushing to say the very least and that you have no say in this game of manipulation with damned if you do and damned if you don't results
However RR has proven to be something of a revolution in terms of twists and turns so maybe she might just question his dubious ways and call him out to be a cad that he is now and no different from Thakur and Varun
Call it the romantic in me and for those who know me as the Grinch know how low my RQ is but Rudra has to repent later over this chauvinistic deed ala Khap Panchayat members who ruthlessly treat women as commodities and this act sadly taints/compromises his own image Conduct most unbecoming of an army officer and an otherwise modern-day man This blip in his radar has to have serious repercussions
I have an inkling although I may be wrong for this be a testosterone driven PH / writers and I don't think they have factored her 3 betrayals by the 3 men she felt for but if they do I think it would not just be Rudra and his trust issues with beautiful women but Paro with her own demons of faith and dependence issues with the people she considered worthy of her devotion which would truly make them equals in their emotional battles of loyalty love and expectation and a powerful weapon to be exploited by those intent on destroying them
Caveat: This is not a Rudra bashing post or some feminist rant just my view of yesterdays episode
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