Since the show is coming to an end this week I decided to make a post dedicated to the character that's going to be with me for a long, long time: Ranveer. It's hard to get over some people and things, and few stories are there to stay with you in the form of a faint glimmer that craves to shine brighter but you have to put it out because there is no hope. MATSH is one such story and its tragedy is another.
The show has given me more than one thing but what I hold the closest to my heart is Ranveer. Looking back into the past when my thoughts halt at the moment I first saw Meri Aashiqui I was arrested. The first episode that I saw was Chirag insulting Ranveer for having dinner in his party despite being the servant of the Parekhs. Chirag scolds Ranveer and Ranveer very politely admits he was wrong and shouldn't have crossed his limits. For the first time I wondered if he wasn't hurt at all or just pretended to be alright for Ishani's sake. But later I liked how he took it all with a pinch of salt and did not let Ishani take stress for anything that happened to him. He did not care what the world thought of him: the only two people that could break him were Ishani and her father, he admitted that to Ishani. That episode ended somewhere around their conversation and I realized I wanted to see more. Not out of curiosity but because something melted in my heart that day, and as Olaf would say, "Few people are worth melting for," Ranveer clearly was one of them. Worth melting for.
Watching the show became a routine and then a habit. It's not a surprising fact that MATSH comes as one of the most unique love stories and I personally find it hard to keep in the romance genre, for the word "romance" has been reduced to being the fluffy teenage thing and no one bothers to go deeper. Despite the hopeless saturnine feel in the story people fall in love with it like trying to pick up the roses in spite of the thorns pricking you. Funny. Probably it's because it has this emotion which lingers in your memories like the traces of the dew droplets on a fresh morning tree. No matter what we all said, none can deny it was a once in a lifetime thing.
Anyway, coming back to Ranveer, the most beautiful thing they successfully showed was his ability to feel and accept the sorrows that had no end. The little things that he sought happiness in were precious. His tender glances whenever Ishani was around and the nonchalant realization of the truth that he couldn't confess his feelings to her always carried an intoxicating magic (believe me, I'm not exaggerating). However tender the love could be, its agony was fierce. "Ishani ka hero toh koi aur hai..." he would tell his mother pensively as a drop of tear would escape his misty eyes. That was real Ranveer.
The days passed by, and Ranveer's life became harder and he himself more endearing. That intense anguish, those unsaid feelings that would certainly have let themselves be torn apart before Ishani had they been alive' when Ishani was to fall for someone else. Probably the toughest test someone could go through in their unrequited love. Never had I seen unrequited love be so real yet ironically so unreal at the same time. Ranveer definitely is one of my most favorite tortured heroes' that can teach you a thousands of lessons despite their intense sufferings.
Ranveer's ability to love deeply is another thing I have always marveled at. It's amazing to see how every inch of his body being broken, his heart having been shattered at every opportunity it got, he never stopped loving Ishani. I have said this hundreds of the times already and will repeat one last time again that Ranveer's love moved me the most because it was healing, and protective. In his hatred or love both only his love was visible.
It's awesome how Ranveer has been there whenever Ishani needed him. Either she needed to be guarded from Baa and Disha, Ranveer always remained by her side. Whenever she needed to be protected from Chirag, Ni or Milan, Ranveer protected her all the time. As they say, true love is when you love someone even though they've broken your heart. For Ranveer, his heart was broken again and again, and everytime so brutally that death could be the only refuge for him, yet his love never changed (One of the rarest things that remained intact throughout the while). Whatever might have happened in the show, Ranveer still remains the person most of us crave for in real life but tragedy of fiction is that it is not real.
Now a big shout out for the man behind Ranveer: Shakti Arora. For a long time Ranveer appeared to be like a blank paper and it was Shakti that filled him with the colours of the above mentioned emotions. Without him Ranveer would have died long ago; thanks to the creative team of our show.
Anyway, I know this post has been very long but seriously a book can be written on Ranveer. xD Still, thanks to all those who read it. The show is indeed a journey worth returning once again.
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