Today's Take - Unique Suhaag Raat and the Morning After

Playing games, are we, Rudra banna? The way you feel, you won't be able to keep this facade of hatred up for too long ... the cracks are already showing.
I do wonder whether your brain has actually kicked into gear after seeing that envelope ... or will you accuse Paro of selling the standing on one leg story ... If you actually think she did that, your brain has definitely gone into the same black hole that a certain shatir dimaag did, never to re-emerge. However, I have hopes that you will be smarter than that.

The episode - The pace and intensity of the show has really picked up now ... things are becoming interesting.

So drunk Rudra issues worried Paro a challenge ... the start of the hate marriage and the hate-filled vows to make her life miserable. And he starts with forcing her to drink milk, if she really wants him not to drink his whiskey.
Now if he was really as terrible and evil as he claims to be, wouldn't he have forced Paro to drink the whiskey instead? 😛

Of course poor Paro obliges ... anything to stop him from getting more drunk ... even though she hates milk and it makes her ill. And it does ... he forces her to drink the whole jug, she does, and then promptly rushes to throw up.
Followed by Rudra ... who does exactly the same ... he had obviously reached his limit too.
And after throwing up, he promptly passes out ... on the floor, on top of Paro.
Leaving her to do what he has done on quite a few occasions earlier for her ... deal with an unconscious dead weight, and get him into bed.
It was obviously far easier to Rudra ... Paro is about half his weight!

But Paro manages to drag him to bed ... even manages to get him on it ... settles him for the night ... and makes her own bed on the floor.

Only to be thwarted by ... a mouse? 😲🤣

I actually don't blame Paro AT ALL for getting on to the bed ... I absolutely don't. And this has to be the first suhaag raat ever on TV where the couple actually spent their first night together, and on the same bed.
Anything more than that is asking for too much!

In the morning, all cuteness over ... Rudra's mind games start. First he scares Paro witless by pretending he doesn't remember anything that happened last night, including their marriage.
And when she runs to Maithili to confide in her, he reappears and casually asks his 'wife' for tea ... oh yes, he remembers everything that happened ... very clearly. Paro is flummoxed ... what is he up to?

In the meantime, Sumer gets his payment for his photograph and tidbit of news, and disposes of the envelope casually ... a shade too casually.

Rudra warns the rest of the family to stay out ... no interference between him and his wife. And where's his tea?
Mohini remarks he needs to keep his wife under control from the start, else she will go haywire. Rudra remarks it's a pity no one gave his kaakusa that advice.
I like it when Rudra manages to shut Mohini up 😃

And Rudra, restless already within ten minutes of not seeing Paro, goes hunting for his missing tea. Or rather, for his missing wife.

Only to find that Paro, far from making tea, is sitting huddled in the bedroom, in the middle of the pieces of the shattered mirror ... the enormity and the reality of the situation sinking in. Rudra did not do everything last night in a fit of drunken rage ... he will not repent in the morning, as soon as he is sober. He is as angry and bitter about the situation sober as he was drunk ... he is as vicious with her when sober in the morning, as he was last night when drunk.

But Paro is not one to sit and take everything lying down ... she asks him directly ... why are you doing this?
And he sits down and answers her truthfully ... or the truth as he is seeing it in his warped, twisted way ... because of you, I lost my rank, my honor ... so I will make your life miserable, as you have made mine. And get acquainted with tears, because you're going to be seeing a lot of them.

So this is to be her life now.

She moves away ... and cuts her hand on the glass.
In a second, Rudra is with her, holding her hand, tending to her cut, staunching the blood ...
She snatches her hand away ... when he's promised her tears and pain, why the need to soothe the pain?

But he's not listening ... she's hurt, she's bleeding ... he can't see that.
She tells him bitterly, tears are more painful than a mere cut ... but he doesn't care ... continues to bandage her wound.
And she stays silent, and stares at him ... this man, so contradictory, so difficult to fathom ... he gives her pain and hurt, and then stays to soothe the pain and bandage the hurt. He hides more than he reveals ... he means more than he says ... and sometimes says far more than he means, and reveals more than he hides.

Paro, the man is bipolar ... get him to a psychiatrist ... and fast!

Fortunately, on Monday, Rudra discovers the envelope Sumer threw in the dustbin. If he seriously thinks Paro is involved, I will lose all the sympathy for him that I am managing to retain right now! If on the other hand, he does discover the real culprit, I am looking forward to what he will do!

Will be back after watching the episode!

Sorry, for unresing this late. Watched the episode now.

Paro looked beautiful in her mother-in-law's saree. She is trying to settle herself in their room.. and didn't hesitate to too much to get onto the bed when she was scared of the mice. And slept peacefully. In the morning, her going to Maithili and sharing her disappointment was very much Paro-like. I liked it.. And then Rudra's appearance and reminder of all his vows.. Well, I don't like a lot of things about Rudra, and worst of all is, his physical advances to Paro in front of others.. like he was doing in front of Maithili with her magalsutra (made of red thread). Now that they are married.. these will increase..

I don't know whose idea it was to play the comic background music .. It sounded weird. More than that comedy, i liked Mohini's comedy.. When she was advising Rudra, 'Pathni pe kabu rakhna chahiye...'! I was like, says who??

Lets see what happens next week.

I'm enjoying the show a lot too ... sometimes the discussions here get too intense and people too rigid ... which is annoying. But I will try to post ... maybe not as regularly as before though.