Today's Take - The Truth is Out

Originally posted by: Snoowfall

I liked the fact she walked out on a abused marriage...and they showed it...loved that fact...

Originally posted by: Shweta1691

Awesome take. Loved how you kept everything in perspective.

I would like to add one thing here. I said this in another thread also and I don't know how right or wrong I am but this is how I feel. When Dilsher met paro he had nearly 30 years of poison inside. And so when he says that paro changed him I feel that even he doesn't realize that paro couldn't have done anything if he himself didn't want to let go of his anger. Paro didn't give him any major life lessons. She was busy handling a jallad. First as a murderer and later as a protector. I guess the love he saw in paro's eyes for Rudra was something he always wished his son would get. He failed to give Rudra the childhood he deserved and when he saw that finally Rudra can have every happiness in life with paro his anger at life and himself melted away. It must have paused him to rethink his life choices. I think this was also the reason why he was always so patient with Mohini after Rudra paro marriage. Maybe he realized that his anger has broken enough lives. But I agree with you that CVs didn't show a clear transformation . He was grumpy one day and sage like on another . Could have been dealt better.

Complicated characters I tell you 😊.

Thanks for your write-up. Was a pleasure to read it.👏

Originally posted by: dipali13

very nice and sensible post👏

Originally posted by: DiyaS

Diyaa!! Love your post!! 👏 And especially that you've taken the time to ponder the nuances of the situation from all sides.

Still doesn't explain why Mala left Rudra for so many years ... agreed, Dilsher didn't let her take him with her ... but did she make any attempts to find him later? Guess that part will come out tomorrow.

Think so too. And thanks for this very calm wait and watch before judging approach. Def needed!!

@ Mala's truth: The CVs whitewash of Mala is up to 75%. I'm waiting to see them give us a plausible explanation for why she was unable to find Rudra all these years, and then it will be complete. V. interesting that the CVs built her up into such a capable and creative woman, such an achiever who could write poetry, build a business and raise a son with love and care - essentially a superwoman. Saddled with an insecure, egotistical, abusive husband who could not stand her success and who tried at every turn to pull her down.

The contrast between Paro and Mala was shown up well ... Mala was weak, she put up with the abuse for fifteen years ... Paro is strong, she is stubborn, she answered Rudra back from day one ... and she doesn't take crap from him! Now the social worker, Damyanti's words make more sense, given the unpredictable temper that is Rudra's heritage from his dad. Even more glad that Paro has started anger management classes for Rudra, and that he is crazy enough about her to want to control his temper for her sake.

Hmmm, and thankfully Rudra was not Dilsher, vicious enough to incinerate her sense of self or to hit her until she bowed to him. In which case Paro's courage would have been moot. From Day One Rudra has protected Paro even from herself.

Though I did not understand how Dilsher's change of heart came about with Paro ... as I said earlier, that is a gap the cv's left ... they should have shown him slowly changing after his return. The abrupt change at virtually the first sight of Paro, was a bit difficult to fathom.

So true!! Dilsher was a vile, vicious drunk one day, and a soft-touch Bapusa the next the one we've come to have so much affection for!! Made his reality all the more shocking!! I'd expected him to be abusive but today we got the full-blown unsavoury details and they were gut-churning.

They did show Dilsher seeing Paro tackle Rudra head on, take him on in battle ... and then shower him with love, despite his bitter tongue ... I feel the bitter angry Rudra, and his lashing out at Paro, reminded Dilsher of himself and Mala, and from a distance, he could see more clearly the mistakes he made with her, his faults mirrored in Rudra's roughness with Paro.

👏 Brilliant insight.

Loved Paro's arguments to Rudra about how he spoke to his mother ... it's all in the perception of events, isn't it? To an outsider, she was a widow, who went off with a strange man, her husband's killer, and then lived in his room ... what does that make her look like? Rudra was quick to negate that ... that's not true, he won't allow anyone to say anything malicious about Paro ... not even Paro herself. But that's what the world would say. And Rudra knows what the truth is, so he can be indignant on Paro's behalf. But he doesn't know the truth in his mother's case, which is why he's saying what he does about her. Dilsher does ... that's why Dilsher fired up in Mala's defense. Interesting parallels drawn there ... well done by Paro ... only Rudra was still not ready to hear it.

But after eavesdropping on Mala's story, I think he finally will. And then his world will shatter all over again ... deserted by his mother, then fed lies by his father ... did either of his parents ever want him or love him at all?

That is the question!! Certainly, at this point, looks like neither loved him above themselves.

Interesting twist brought out by the cv's today ... while I was expecting Mala's story to justify her leaving, it was brave of the cv's to show a woman not putting up with abuse, and daring to leave her husband ... even more, daring to start a new life with another man. It would have been even better if they showed her happy with the second man, if he hadn't been a scoundrel like Tejawat, of course ... and returning to take her son back.

Hmm I think the CVs have hedged their bets here. They essentially took the decision off Mala's hands by having Dilsher push her out of the house without son, inspite of her stated intention to take Rudra with her. So they reduced it to Mala leaving abusive husband and not abandoning son (and I bet they'll have a convincing excuse to cement that takeout).

Still not clear how Mohini interfered between Mala and Dilsher ... or if she did at all. Or was her role limited to prodding Mala to leave, escape an abusive marriage ... and then prodding Dilsher to leave with Rudra before she came back? Dilsher lied to Mohini too, so Mohini did not know that he threw Mala out.

So far Mohini's role looks limited to opportunistic meddling and exploiting Dilsher's weakness - taunting him with his incapability and egging Mala on and praising her for hers.