So. Weekend. Lets do this thing, girls. Lets analyze where the hell we are.
Because poisoned tennis balls aside, (BTW--that was a laddoo? For whom? Godzilla?) I think it is time we spent a few minutes asking ourselves" what did the past week change? This entire week has been so delicious, I basically sent my bheja on vacation and kept my lady-parts on full duty. I think we all have. So today, as I had a very odd, misplaced feeling about the whole sorry bolo/nahi bolungi scene, my brain came back on duty and asked me--- "What show are we watching? I don't remember this hero! I was gone for a week, was there a time-leap in the show?"
I realized that while the sexual tension and chemistry we are seeing on-screen is the old Rangrasiya, the week has given us a completely different Parud as a couple. The whole loving, confident Paro is a creation of the soft, teasing Rudra. And its like we all missed about three months of episodes where they actually got to this comfort level with each other. Three more months of relationship building, and we could be here-- where Paro is sure of her love, when Rudra is her puppy dog. Not now, when he tossed her from his bed two nights ago. Not when he snarled at her, taking the worst meaning from her every action. Hurt her.
So what happened to change anything? Aside from watching his cute drunk wife, all that Rudra has learnt about Paro these past two days in Jaipur is--- she looks great in red, she's bhola-bhala, and she loves him. It hurts her when he's mean. She wishes he wasn't so mean, but she loves him anyways. She thinks far too much about their childhood.
That's IT. Not one of these revelations are new for him. So why the softening? As SerialJunkie said today-- its not like Paro's gotten uglier, so that the "khoobsuraat aurat syndrome" has gone away. Whats with overwhelming kindness towards the girl who has not done anything new to win his heart? When Mailthli asks Paro "Tune aise kya kiya that in two days, the man who hated you in looking for bangles for you?" Paro's answer, and ours, has to be---nothing. She's done nothing. And he has changed dramatically.
Now we all say that this is the magic of Paro, without doing anything she has changed him. Yes, she has made him care about someone other than Dilsher. But the patni who two days ago was not allowed to sleep on his bed is being bought bangles today?? Rudra is a silent, observant man. Of course he is protective. But this is also the man who has known for over a month now that the mother he despises brought his wife up, taught her everything she knows. And he has kept this information-- something vital to them both-- from Paro.
He is also a man who's character is so deeply ingrained with hatred, with the desire to never have a home or family, he is a "janwaar" to his own father. He wont let anyone harm Paro. But he lets himself out of that list--he can hurt her with impunity. He is the man who crumpled a picture of Paro and his mother, tossed it to the ground...and never brought it up again. He has much more reason to hate her because of this, certainly its a more solid reason than the whole "you burnt my dad" reason. But instead of taunting Paro about her relationship with Mala-- Rudra has never mentioned this to her. Instead, he married that traitorous auraat's protege---Paro.
When he is drunk, and Paro is babbling about how she wishes they had met as children, the one thing he says to her is --"I wish we had never met, that you had never met me, that my bus had never stopped next to yours." In essence he says--I wish I could wipe out the single most meaningful thing I've ever experienced--my one moment of innocence. Now that I know that little girl who was my closest friend is you, I wish I didn't have that little girl in my life. I wish I could give up that. That is a huge change -- he wishes he could undo not only meeting Paro now, but even meeting young Paro of the past.
That felt like the absolute truth to me--- he truly wishes, for her sake, that they had not met. Why? Because he will hurt this Paro, and regrets that that will mean hurting that little girl in the bus too? He's never once brought up the doll either--his most precious thing. That statement worried me. And the whole manana / churi / sorry scene was too much, too soon for this cynic. This much change is worrying in a man who is cruel, who has married the girl with a mockery of vows. And in a moment of weakness, drunk, he says--you should never have met me. Why not?
I am saying this because I believed Rudra when he made those marriage vows. The anger, the hatred, the feeling of being trapped by his enemy, a beautiful woman who had managed to get him --I believed the devil in his eyes. It's not true that the first time we saw him smile was yesterday. He smiled when he made her those vows. And that ugly smile, that hatred seemed real. When they danced, when he stared at her-- I believed the lust in his eyes. But I am having a hard time believing the softness, the warmth for a girl who has made him, essentially a prisoner of her love. And who is a representation of the mother he hates. The mother who is his enemy's wife. Mala is somewhere beyond Rudra's reach.
But Paro is right here, with her big eyes, with her open heart and her adoration. She is here, hero-worshiping him like her God, loving every second of his attention. Acting like a blushing bride because he is letting her. She is the innocent in his hands, who believes him unquestioningly. She is ready to shower him with love, with herself. No fear, no hesitation. He is everything for her.
I remember Madhubala and RK, Baisas, and I remember they were this Production House's story as well. I remember the devastation when RK's love was offered like a toy before Madhu, and then snatched away. The pain of betrayal is so much more, revenge and hurt is so much more when all that pain comes after the man gets the girl's trust, her worship. When she is completely, blindly his ---that is when he guarantees himself the deepest cut, the most pain for her when he slides in the knife of his hatred. We are three months in, and are already upto scenes of churi buying romance.
The eight vows, made from Rudra's life-long hate lie, seemingly forgotten by a man who (we have been shown again and again) forgets nothing. Paro has not done a single Prashchit, and Rudra has not done a single Tandev.
Seriously, is no one else uneasy?
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