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Welcome again people. Okay admittedly I am today in a comprehensively better mood after the episode maybe because all our rants were heard and a little but visible change did creep as far as Shivaay and Anika are concerned. Can't say that I am happy with but yes, I do feel better with the way this seems to be progressing.
The flashback narration seriously needs to be done away with because it breaks the attention that episode aims at arresting. Also when the key element is already out in the open what is left to show apart from a few fillers here and there?
It began with Rudra apparently itching away like a Bhaaloo and prying Shivaay for a hot oil massage. God Leenesh rocks with his comic timing. You've got to give it to this guy for pulling off such antics and bring a smile on our faces. Please develop Rudra more; I certainly believe he has much more to offer than simply being a comic respite from the building drama. There has to be more beneath his fabric that can jolt us into thinking what might happen next. It then shifts to Om asking Shivaay to step back on Roop and analyze her course of action taken, in retrospect, to find the clear origin of the same. So another layer is peeled off him showing us a raw dermis underneath that believes in giving second chances. I am almost prophetic on this that it will be him who will face the exile, and if that happens he might do it for reasons opposite to what the family will choose to believe. He will do it to give that second chance now to whom that will again be a question we'd need our answers to. So getting back on the track, he wants Roop's reasons to be taken under scanner in order to get a clearer picture of her psyche and her functioning in such a nefarious manner. He wants her to be given an equal trial while Shivaay vehemently opposes the idea. He wants her punished because she dared hurt her family and his Badi Ma. This is the biggest problem with Shivaay is his anger clouding his judgments to an extent that he can never see beyond that smog of supposed scenarios. He is unable to make a decision with distilled conscious of his. That was the first reason why he dragged Anika into the line of fire and now is tampering with her still. This is a major flaw that he holds and it needs to be pried off him sooner because the ambience have begun taking a mammoth proportion; ultimately to end destroying it all.
So he gets called up by Anika and assumes it to be his victory bugle, welcoming him as the champion of this fall out. He goes up ahead and meets with Anika, who honestly is sight in white. Today after a long while did I like Anika. You could see the girl was struggling with the hardships that she was brought face to face with; but even in the face of the same she is not ready to bow down in order to let Shivaay Singh Oberoi have a last laugh. She clearly tells him that life has always been cruel to her; it has always been hard for to claw on and survive...but she has and now with his blow he things really do not change in a world-changing manner for her. If you ask me I rather enjoyed the scene with Anika's fire flaring in the grayish platter of the rain. That scene was shot artistically and I really liked it. It was a stark contrast of Anika's fire and a constant trial of dampening the same by Shivaay. So Shivaay's supposed victory isn't earned by him but is handed to him and The Alpha is not ready to cower behind the same.
He wants to earn the same, he wants his victory to be his by merit and not because the other accepted defeat by bowing down and not putting up a fight. He pulls up the harsh picture of life without basic amenities in front of Anika and forces her to retreat and let him claim the win. He pushes her over the edge so that she falters and free falls into that crater and allow him to savor his earned victory. And when finally Anika takes a thaw, he feels he has earned what he wanted and claims this to be a check mate where the opponent has surrendered their arms and now waits a humiliating experience as prisoner of war. This, unknown to Shivaay, is not the end. Battles are not over when you have nothing to fight for. It simply means that there is nothing to lose now. And when you have nothing to lose, you are at your boldest. Anika has been stripped clean of all that she held close. Her job, her house and her dreams...now she is left with a void. And since things have come to this, she can claw her way in his life and destroy the order that he has maintained up until now. Shivaay has unleashed a dragon upon himself. This magnificent beast might not hack him into pieces but its fiery breath will certainly char his ego and make him accept his first defeat. And once he is defeated, his ego will break and he will evolve into a man who is better than what he was. His character makeover is all set to happen and that seems like an exciting prospect to rejoice over. I am willingly skipping the manhandling-waala-conversation for the things look promising from now on.
One thing that I liked was there was tiny amount of remorse on Shivaay's face when he was leaving Anika behind on the road to pick up her fallen pieces. I had pointed it out once that he is essentially a good man whose learning phases has passed away so fast that he is unable to tap that with anyone who is not his family. He is no monster in breeding but a simple creature who hides underneath the mask of the same in order to avoid attacks or pain.
I found Nakul playing it out nice with his controlled expressions though Surbhi stole the scene with her subtle determination. I find her good when it comes to owning charged up scene where as she falters in the normal ones. Maybe she, like us, connects with Anika when she out bearing her claws to the world.
And the scene gets back to Ishana. I am now sure that the writers are high on something when they write her down. Otherwise there is no way you can explain majboori and fraudulent going hand-in-hand. Her father's dialogues coupled with Noni's assessment were a seal to the fact that these people have been serial offenders. They have looted people before with their connivance and haven't held remorse on that.
So why this sudden sea change for Omkara? Only because there is going to be a love story involved between the two? Remember when she had conned Rudra and gained fifty lakh rupees? Where exactly was her remorse of pain over playing on someone's innocence? If she harbors guilt of that order than it should transcend to every other victim she has had in her past. Why should Om be given a treatment of this sort specifically? Add to it, she finds Om genuine and that is the prime reason why she is hesitating in painting him black. What about Rudra then, that guy fell and fell hard into feeling bad for her...so why this different treatment for Omkara alone? Was Rudra's gullible nature not true enough to instigate guilt in her? Was the pain of heartbreak of her previous victim's not true enough for her to mend her ways? I mean what exactly are they trying to cook with Ishana in particular? So she is a con-artist because her father hasn't left any other options for her, care to explain her dialogue then : Ishana baalon mein laga vo chewing gum hai jo ek baar chipak jaye to pagal kar ke chodtii hain. A woman who until yesterday was enjoying the perks of her profession is now shying away only because she found good-listener in Omkara Singh Oberoi? Are you kidding me? This has to be the weirdest and weakest character that 4Lions have come up with. I used to think Seher from Qubool Hai as stupid entity in name of con-artist, all I can say now is Ishana takes the cake, the baker and the bakery on that front. If they are out of order then they should watch White Collar to derive inspiration for Ishana. A flawed woman is always preferable to a wannabe-good-thing. What is wrong with the writing team to swing her to and fro? Damn she is now irritating, the makers seriously need to sit and set this straight. I detest the 80's angle simply because we've have now moved over to a different era. Something new and original would be better than a same old drama that has been done to death.
The highlight of the day was our best ship ShivKara! I love the fact that Omkara is Shivaay's go to person when his mind ceases to hold the helm of his life together and tightly. He is somewhat perturbed at not being able to destroy Anika the way he had wanted to or maybe over the fact that he isn't as happy as he had thought he'd be. Obviously when you zealously invest your energies into a single outcome and then are not met with a result you had wanted to it comes across as a failure for not being able to tap things the way you had wanted to. Shivaay is going through similar crisis and that is the reason why he flocked to Omkara to vent out his suppressed frustration at not being able to pull out the expected emotions in him. Again as he is unable to express himself out he lets Omkara dissect him with whatever bits and chips he has allowed him to see. Omkara doesn't harp advises or instructions to him.
He simply asks him to acknowledge that bottled up force in him and see whether he is happy or not. And this one push sets Shivaay into thinking whether Anika carries innocence or artifice. Om might not have given him loads to listen to and act accordingly he readily did open a chasm for Shivaay to peep into. He was right when he said that every man is an artist when his pain is out his threshold. Shivaay so far hasn't reached that breaking point but I guess Shivaay will now begin understanding what deep waters Om wants him to tread and measure. I loved the ending note when Shivaay was standing beside an unfinished project of Om. It was symbolic that Shivaay's own projects, his own personality and his decisions are incomplete simply because he hasn't put his heart into the same. The moment he seeps deep into that, just the way Om does, he too would be able to complete his masterpieces and show his joy to everyone out in the open. The last scene of the episode was a definitive artistic stroke and was beautiful to look at as well.
Please don't shove in the female leads everywhere. I am more interested in seeing the Bromance than love stories that I am never able to enjoy. Let the boy time be solely theirs without any addition of another's existence.
Precap: Tia receives a facial and hola people it is IPKKND again. Remember Khushi Kumari Gupta's rendezvous with a certain Arnav Singh Raizada when he had been engaged to another woman?? It's okay if you don't for we'd see that here again.
And new missing report. After Soumya, Riddhima too is under the invisibility spell. Me thinks she is kidnapped by naxalites here in Jharkhand. Don't worry as soon as the news makes it to the local newspapers, I'll share it with you guys!
I so legit missed Jhanvi and Tej. Please show them more.
Okay then adios amigos!
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