When Swara & Ragini became SwaRagini...
The first & foremost defining moment of the show, where both Swara & Ragini knew they are sisters who always felt a soul connection between them & finally they knew, why.Swara was delighted to have found a sister in Ragini and the a family through her which she craved the most throughout her life but it wasn't the same for Ragini, for she couldn't accept the fact that her father loved someone else too apart from her mother & despite her obvious fondness for Swara, she couldn't stop thinking of her as her father's betrayal towards her mother, which was further fueled by Daadi.Alas, the strings of hearts connected are too strong to be broken & it was for the first time when Ragini raised her voice against the mighty Durga Prasad Maheshwari, reprimanding him for trying to hurt her mother, Sharmishtha & her sister, the person who she always felt a soul connection with, Swara.Ragini gave up her love, her dreams, her future which she so fondly had thought of with the only person she ever felt attracted towards, fell deeply in love with, Lakshya only to stand by her new found family.The truly memorable day when Swara & Ragini became SwaRagini...
And then entered the silent storm...
Everything was pleasant again.Swara & Ragini became SwaRagini, Boses & Gadodia's were united again for the sake of their children & Lakshya had become an inseparable part of this small world, becoming Ragini's best friend while Ragini was now madly in love with him.So much so that she couldn't imagine a life without Lakshya by her side in it but he had other plans.Lakshya instead was steadily falling in love with the vibrant & chirpy Swara, the girl who had captured his attention by her cute, happy-go-lucky attitude.Sounds complicated right? It was nothing yet.The storm was still yet to enter and enter he did.The entry of the silent storm in a not so silent manner, who created havoc & entered with the intention to destroy the Maheshwari's.The ones who he believed were the reason for his misery.The fire of revenge burning him from within, he played his moves with finesse, not erring in his vengeful game.He vowed to destroy every single person who would try to intervene in his dangerous plans and came with a promise to go to any lengths to avenge the injustice endowed unfairly upon him, snatching away what he thought to be his most prized possession.The dark horse was here. Sanskaar Maheshwari was here...
Her foray into the dark world...
Ragini came to know Sanskaar's truth.Ragini, who Sanskaar befriended in order to get close to the Gadodias & put his plan to destroy the Maheshwari's into action, all while pretending to be mentally imbalanced.It was easy for him to trick Ragini into becoming his duppatewali dost' owing to Ragini's goodness & innocence and unknowingly, he actually started thinking of her as his friend, caring for her & emphasizing with her over the feeling of lost love. Lucky had chosen Swara over Ragini, a fact that Ragini couldn't handle & landed up in the hospital owing to her shock & grief.Sanskaar who started to genuinely care for Ragini, immediately gave up on his ruse to save her & his true colors were revealed to Ragini.Inspite of her good nature, Ragini was a highly vulnerable person who couldn't yet bear to lose Lakshya & instead of trying to pull her friend Sanskaar out of the dark pits, she herself decided to mark her entry into the dark world, her negative side rearing dominance over her.The two here joined hands, Sanskaar with the intention to destroy Lakshya & Durga Prasad and Ragini to separate Swara & Lakshya so that she could finally have her first love to herself.It was just the beginning...
Kuch toh hai tujhse raabta...
Swara fell in love with Lakshya, despite of her obvious resistance and she definitely couldn't see him suffering for a deed he didn't even commit but was accused of and thus began her mission to prove Lakshya innocent & free him from the MMS scandal by catching hold of the real culprit.She was the only one who always felt that Sanskaar is NOT what he seems & there's a lot more to him. His intentions are a lot more dangerous than he lets on.She almost got to the point of exposing him in front of everyone if not for Sanskaar's quick thinking and while she's leaving the Maheshwari House, Sanskaar looks down at her from his window, declaring her a worthy opponent but promising himself, that he will definitely tackle her. "Aaj tumhara din tha, lekin main tumhein nahi chodunga, Swara" , his words promising menace and revenge but carrying a slight hint of the future to come, a future both couldn't have imagined for themselves in their wildest of dreams.Swara feels that somebody called her, asking everyone around her if they took her name there, getting only a NO from them.Her eyes land up towards HIS window on their own accord & he quickly hid himself, shocked that she could hear him when he hadn't even voiced out her name out aloud.They both had established a raabta between them that only soulmates can have, a connection the whole world & they themselves were unaware of.Destiny surely had her own ways...
His foyer into HER light...
She knew it.She always had this presentiment that there is more to him, something far more dangerous that only she and nobody else could sense.He saved her life from a witch's clutches quite literally, the semblance of humanity that was hidden in the corner of his soul, taking full dominance over him & not letting to put an innocent life at risk for the sake of his revenge, the only thing he lived for all these years.He didn't care that his ruse could finally be up & he could face dire consequences for it, all he could think of was saving her.She accused him, taunted him, asked him the reason for such vile hatred towards his own family that he carried in his heart & most importantly, the reason why he played with her life, her reputation, her sanity and HER.Sanskaar couldn't take her accusations anymore & for the first time in all these years, he opened up his heart to her to tell her the tale of his lost love, his most prized possession at the hands of his own blood, his own family.When he finished recounting his past, he expected to see blazing hatred in her eyes for him but what he saw, shocked him to the core, dousing into his soul within.He saw her looking at him with care, empathy & kindness. The goodness reflecting from her was dousing into him, seeping him completely & listening to her made him see light again.He was now willing to mend his ways now, all set to enter her light... this time forever...
When her own soul killed her...
Ragini couldn't take it anymore.They say desperate times call for desperate measures & Ragini had never been so forlorn before.Sanskaar had backed out from helping her, having finally seen the light & was compliant to bear any punishment bestowed upon him for his deeds, willing to partake her share of the blame as well and lend her a helping hand to bring her back to light but he didn't realize that Ragini was too long gone into the evil abyss now, almost bordering on black.In her desperation to finally have Lakshya to herself, she pushed Swara into the river, mouthing a sorry' before doing it to assuage her guilt to some extent but in return killing Swara from within before she could even breathe her last.This incident gave killed the goodness within the innocent Ragini & a monster was born within her that day who could go to any lengths for Lakshya, her love. And Swara? Well she survived the betrayal physically, not dying but fighting back to live like the warrior she was but emotionally, it left scars on her soul that will never leave her having faced betrayal by a part of her.A part of her was as good as dead & Swara knew well that she'd never be the same again...
When the tables were turned completely...
She finally had what she desired for, what she completely changed for, her reason of existence, Lakshya. Mrs. Ragini Lakshya Maheshwari sounded absolutely musical to her, so much was she lost in her paradise that she didn't feel an ounce of remorse for what she had done to her dear sister, the girl who probably loved Ragini the most in the whole world.She didn't feel any guilt for killing her sister, literally afterall for her, everything was fair in love and war & she madly loved Lakshya, having combated a war with Swara, the unsuspecting one for whom this war didn't even exist.Swara survived but the one relationship that she held closest to herself fell apart due to misunderstandings; her maa-baba's marriage. Swara then decided to take a bold step in order to save her parent's marriage, she decided to enter the Maheshwari Mansion as their wait-for-it daughter in law! Proposing a fake marriage plan to a guilt ridden Sanskaar, who was willing to go to any lengths now to redeem himself & rectify the wrongs done to Swara from his side, reluctantly agreed to this plan of hers & thus entered Swara- Sanskaar into the Maheshwari household as Mrs & Mrs. Sanskaar Maheshwari, earning gobsmacked reactions from everybody present, quite literally.One of the most memorable face-off's ever!
The embarking of an epic love story...
He never imagined it will happen to him again.But it did and with much greater force & intensity this time around.She made it happen.Her goodness, innocence, candor, beauty, purity & everything that defined HER made him fall for her, head over heels.This ruse of acting as a happily married couple in order to divulge Ragini landed them both out of the house and into a cozy tiny tent where they spent some of their happiest moments and became best friends who were almost always together & quite inseparable.She enamored him with her chastity and Sanskaar Maheshwari just couldn't help his heart that fell deeper & deeper in love with her every passing moment they spent together and apart.He had become her confidant, the pillar of support she could rely on and her best friend, she was yet to heal and he knew he could wait for her to reciprocate his feeling all his lifetime and wouldn't mind even if she didn't.He just wanted her to be in his life in any capacity or else he wouldn't survive.Never the one to hide his feelings, he confessed his undying love for her in his drunken stupor one night along with baring the lost of Ragini's crimes that was growing with each passing day.Swara couldn't believe that her best friend had fallen so deep in love with her when she struggled to love herself after what she had become following the betrayals bared on her soul.She firmly rebuffed his feelings for her, even going to the extent of breaking all ties with him but in her heart she knew, the bond they had shaped between them was for a lifetime and beyond.They found love when they least expected it...
Sealed, signed and bonded for eternity...
They were married officially.The night before, he had to fill her head partition with the vermilion of his name in order to continue their ruse of fake marriage & he had done it against her wishes, sending her into a state of shock but with no other option left if they wanted to save her maa-baba's marriage.Ragini's manipulations had then taken them to the altar where they knew that this time, the sindoor couldn't be disavowed, this time all the rituals will be absolutely real & they'll be adhered into the sacred bond of matrimony for a lifetime.They had to do it but in order to save her dear mom's life which was held captive by Ragini.They knew she had fallen into the darkest pits & would actually not hesitate to make good of her threat which scared poor Swara out of her wits.She still tried to avoid doing this marriage and for the last time tried convincing Lakshya of her innocence, who till now had left no stone unturned to malign her and call her characterless at every instance.He again chose to turn a blind eye to her explanations, conveniently believing what was fed to him by his wife & his own biased self but destiny had other plans.Karma had decided to run its own course and bite him back, making him land into the same river where Swara did on her wedding day, making him experience the whole trauma faced by her that day and finally letting him see her truth.Lakshya did come to know the truth but he couldn't stop the marriage that was fated to happen and Swara-Sanskaar were sealed to each other in conjugality.
And her game was finally up...
They say, the life of crimes is short lived.It does end sooner or later and same had happened to Ragini where her crimes had spiraled out of their capacity and she dug a huge hole for Swara where it was her who ultimately land up.Her own love, the one who she did everything for, the one for whom she turned into a certified lunatic, had been the reason of her ugly face coming out in the open for everyone to see along with Swara and Sanskaar. Ragini lost all her relations in a single night and instead of choosing the path of atonement, that scorned woman further coiled into the world of darkness, her aspirations & the feeling of vengeance causing her to turn even more ominous towards the trio.The perilous game was about to begin.
Obliviously happily married...
Swara had landed up in the Maheshwari household again, owing to the manipulations laid by her dear sister which had made her come back to Sanskaar, this time as his legally wedded wife.She loved to live under the garb of just best friends' with him while getting to bask under his unconditional love & warmth which he showered upon her in his own subtle but effective ways that were slowly but steadily & permanently shaping a place in her heart, making her fall in love with him.The Karwachauth festival brought the two together, fasting for each other lives and unknowingly forming the base of their happily ever after.Nobody around could say they were just best friends' and not the quintessential happily married couple.On the other hand, Ragini was further losing her love for whom she had turned more vindictive now & Lakshya was slowly becoming a replica of the one person he claimed to abhor the most in this world, his wife Ragini.Such ironies!
Pot calling the kettle black...
Lakshya had finally become the replica of what he accused Ragini of.He claimed to hate her for his deeds & himself spiraled into the pit of obsession, making him lose his sanity & committing all crimes which he accused others of.He kidnapped, drugged, attempted to murder Ragini and at the same time, obsessed over, mentally harassed & forced Swara, who was now his sister-in-law as far as relationships were concerned.Swara had finally solved the mystery of Ragini's kidnapper and in the process even attempted to strangle Lakshya in order to save Ragini showing her obvious disgust at his shameful actions & looking at him with disdain.As you sow so shall you reap after all...
Deeply, madly, irrevocably she fell for him...
He was hurt.She had doubted him for kidnapping Ragini despite the honesty in his eyes and had dared to hand him over to the cops over her assumptions. The nerve of her to think the HE could actually send her behind the bars & let her get tortured for a crime he committed, is that the trust she has on him and his love? That he would let any harm or pain touch her? He was deeply hurt & rightfully so.After all she had jolted the foundation of their very relationship where he knew that if never love, there will always be this undying trust between them but she had proved him wrong.He couldn't put up the faade of just friends' anymore & asked her to leave him and his life forever.Swara had never felt so empty before.She craved for him desperately, clutching onto the memories spent with him, yearning to listen to his voice, see his face and feel his touch again. She was finally able to see what her heart had been telling her since the longest time ever, that she LOVED him.Deeply, madly & irrevocably.She had found her true love, her soulmate in him, the one she couldn't imagine her life without.She will win him back and they'll finally have their paradise filled with undying love for each other.She had finally come to love him unconditionally and with equal fervor & there was not a chance that she'd let go of him despite his resistance, he did still love her the same after all.Swara Maheshwari was all set to win her man back, to never let him go again.
The old flame re-enters and sets ablaze their paradise...
Kavita returning back in their life was one of the most painful moments, Swara ever witnessed.Seeing Kavita hug her husband like that it felt like somebody pushed her off that river again, maybe even worse and she was drowning with no hope to live again.There was nobody to come to her rescue this time cause the one who did last time, her only rescuer was unknowingly a part of the reason WHY she felt like drowning and giving up on life again. She could see the relief in his eyes at seeing his first love, fine and alive in front of him, the residual guilt of believing himself to partially be the reason of her death washing away from his conscience but Swara had never felt so much hatred for a person she had just met and she felt ashamed for it.She knew he loved only her now just as much as he did and still she knew that they were fated to be separated, for that would be the right thing to abide by and not let poor Kavita suffer because of them whose sole reason to exist till now was Sanskaar & his love.She had never hated her selfless nature this much ever before & cursed herself for rubbing it off on Sanskaar too.Can Kavita die for real please?
Despite all odds, their love will always triumph...
They couldn't keep up this ruse anymore.It was getting more and more difficult to survive without each other.Each passing moment reminded them of each other despite Sanskaar wanting to genuinely move on & Swara vowing to keep away from him.Fate brought them together again, marking her as his once again with the sacred vermilion under the almighty's blessings and even Kavita couldn't deny that they truly were made for each other and should not be separated for they were soulmates in the true sense.Sanskaar finally gave up & Swara too couldn't hold herself back anymore, finally finding bliss with each other and confessing their love in the holy temple.Sanskaar made her feel like a true princess that he fondly crowned her as and Swara couldn't help gushing at the charming prince who she had finally got after a lot of perseverance.They spent their pre-wedding days in complete bliss, away from all miseries in each other's arms and just enjoying under the blissful ambience that they created with their unconditional love. The Gerua and Shaayraana days will always remain legendary in the SwaRagini universe.
Love or Revenge...?
Ragini had crossed all limits with her maalkin drama & there was only so much Lakshya could take before finally attacking back staying true to his aggressive self but this time he decided that he won't let his impulsiveness come into his way of revenge.He would rather play with love, literally, this time around and so Lakshya began to make Ragini believe that he's really fallen in love with her, even going to the extent of consummating their relationship, all for the sake of his revenge and Ragini was overwhelmed at finally receiving what she craved for the most, Lakshya's love.She gave up her modern attire,maalkin mannerisms and vile ways for him, going back to her old loving self that she was before.The biggest shock of her life in the form of Lakshya's betrayal was yet to hit her in the face and Karma was going to play its part yet again! Nobody escapes it, really.
Old bonds reconciled...
Swara was falsely framed and accused for murdering Maasi by the loathsome Kavita, who had turned into Ragini 3.0 and got obsessed with attaining Sanskaar again despite her sacrificial drama just days ago all fueled by Ragini's encouraging words and her inherent obsessive nature.Sanskaar's soul, his Swara was being treated like a criminal despite her innocence which he couldn't bear and on the other hand, Ragini who had finally taken efforts to return back to her old self was scared to lose her sister again and thus, the two teamed up to join their hands and efforts to save their Swara again.
The ups and downs of relationships...
SwaRagini has always been famous for the rishto ke utaar chadhaav in the relationships between its leads & other characters and one such utaar chadhaav was recently witnessed in the show where Swara & Sanskaar after crossing all hurdles in their way, came together to finally be adhered into the sacred bond of matrimony again, with everyone's blessings this time and blissful happy faces of their own that reflected of pure love for each other. While on the other hand, Lakshya had reached the last stride of his revenge and betrayed Ragini on the wedding altar, making her face her old karma again.He took Ragini's signatures on divorce papers by deceit and replaced her with a bride of his own choice, marrying Kavya on the same mandap,much similar to what Ragini had done to Swara once.Karma definitely comes back to you in SwaRagini land and we are hoping for many more such memorable twists (the good entertaining ones of course!) to come our way from our loved show, for many more years to come.Cheers SwaRagians!
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