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That saying has been a constant refrain in my mind since these last few episodes.
Dev, Sonakshi and Ishwari, they've each of them been playing a little (frequently more than a little) desperate and dirty with each other in the name of love or war.
So you have Dev, the loyal son, fighting dirty for Sona. What else do you call the stalking, the Facebook checking up, the investigator... Here's a man who's so in love and in so much pain that he can't eat, sleep or function right. A man so desperate that an angry recording of a rejection is invaluable treasure! A man who will cherish every hateful, hurtful word that Sona will ever say to him only because she spoke to him. Who will absorb every insult, if it means that he can see his love, breathe the same air he does, share the same space, connect once again with his love. A man unable to move on. And so a man who's fighting tooth and nail for his love however he can. To me, so far, these are the first steps. But the assault will gather steam.
Then there's Sona. She tried to hold on to Dev, but he wrenched himself away. She's trying to move on. But it's not working. Her heart won't let her. She may not be, but her heart is fighting for Dev. Telling her that all is not well with him. Overriding her self control to take her to Dev's house, giving her the strength to face-off with the enemy, to reinsert herself into Dev's life.
And finally there's Ishwari. She is fighting desperately for her son. And if that means fighting dirty, then so be it. Nullifying the threat Sona continues to be by getting her married off; erasing every trace of her in the house; psychological warfare against Sona... Ishwari doesn't care what she does as long as she gets back her son's love.
And in all of this I love how the CVs are showing the character growth of all three.
Sona becomes stronger. No more the bubbly, confident ,romantic open-hearted girl. But now slowly evolving because of the pain and anger and loss and the shattering of her beliefs and hopes into someone who's sterner, stronger, even bitter, with less confidence in her own decisions.
The old Dev is metamorphosing before our eyes into someone Who's less indulgent of his family's follies. Who tries his best to be the same son he was before Sona, but can't be. He can put his head down in his mother's lap, but can't stop himself getting angry at her dismissal of his care for her. Is not in the mood for his favorite halva, and most telling of all forgets to touch her feet, not because he didn't want to, but because It Slipped His Mind!! No he's no longer the same Dev, and I'm waiting to see what he grows into.
As for Ishwari, shes fighting a losing battle, and she knows it. The equations are changing. And the harder she tries, the faster the grains of the mother-son relationship slip through her fingers. She may turn a blind eye to the differences in Dev, but her mind won't let her sleep easy. That's why Sona's and Bijoy's remarks about wishing for Dev's happiness find their mark.
It's all building up nicely to the big turning point in the lives of all the three. I'm waiting for the day Sona realises (consciously) that she is not going to give up on Dev; for when Dev realises he can't give up on Sona, and when Ishwari realises her happiness is in her son's happiness, and that he is very unhappy. Waiting for the dhamakas towards which we're heading full steam ahead.
