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Diana 🤗Awesome take as always.Agree with you on all counts ... on first watch, I had a "what the ..." expression on my face through the episode ... but after thinking through it, and on second watch, it made sense.Yes, Paro has seen through Rudra completely ... his actions and words are all contradictory, and she has seen that easily. I was annoyed that she showed no upset that Rudra was forcing her into an unwanted marriage ... but of course his refusal to let Sumer near her, despite the fact that he himself had proposed Sumer as a husband, cleared up Rudra's intentions for her. Hence her statement to him ... 'your words and your eyes are saying different things.' And then he makes things clearer still ... with his desperation for her to leave ... and an equal desperation to believe his own creed 'beautiful women cannot be trusted'. That is why he has set up this test for her .. either she marries Sumer, so she is untrustworthy ... or she refuses, so she is lying about wanting forgiveness, hence is untrustworthy again. How much easier for Rudra to tell her ... yes, I forgive you, now leave ... but if he said that, she might really go, and that too, with her reputation intact. He has to break that illusion in his mind that she is trustworthy ... hence this elaborate set up.And again, his offering her the red lehnga was a sign that he did NOT want her to marry Sumer ... yet he claims that he does ... again he is lying, both to himself and to her.Paro will take the doll as a sign from Bholenath ... again Paro the nurturer. He tells her himself, that young girl was his only friend, his only consolation. So she will be his consolation again.Agree with you about the public proposal to ... he accepted her as his to-be wife in front of the entire village. She was the one who was reluctant then.And I really hope they do address the witness part tonight ... the whole tamasha happening in the BSD ceremony should be for a good reason.
@ddFan2012 and DiyaS,
All said and done, there had to be that one flare of indignation on Parvati's part before she went on to "understanding" him. A woman, however meek and submissive she may be, does feel that sense of indignation when she's treated like Rudra treated Paro. She almost worships him as her "Rakshak" and then he goes and almost makes the same deal that her father figure had made. Prima facie, it calls for a strong reaction from her, especially more if she's shown as prone to drawing the parallel between them and the Gods. Parvati, the Goddess, is no sacrificial Sita, she has always been depicted with a strong sense of self-worth. I wouldn't expect the CVs to show a strong verbal protest given that they would want to keep the character mellow, but a flash of anger at this despicable proposal by Rudra was indispensable. They could have then taken the route that you mentioned ... of analysing his plan and understanding him. But the first reaction should have necessarily been one of anger at being treated like this. It didn't come through at all, and now it's too late to show it.
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