Why Tia Matters to the Plot--AFTER she Exits the Story

Originally posted by: napstermonster

So why are we dragging out the Tia thing?? I think, ladies, that while we don't have the usual vamp here, what we have what is called the Pied Piper. She is the woman who who, even as she is caught and leaves, will expose the heroine to incredible pain--and change the Hero, permanently.

For the first time on a Gul Khan show, we don't have a girlfriend who is obviously a bad fit for the hero, but who genuinely loves him. Tia is no adoring Lavanya, from IPKKND, or Sahir's comatose but devoted wife from Humsafars. On the surface, Tia is not even threatening. She never shows up on screen and makes us do anything more than roll our eyes. Not the vamp with the obvious kitchen politics, or the femme fatale, with her slinky ways and habit of making the hero a slavering idiot. We have no real problems with her, do we? Rudra mocks her, even SSO kind of discounts her. She does not say stuff against Anika, she doesn't seem jealous by all the lifting and carrying, doctoring and loving going on.

If she didn't have her own boyfriend, Tia would have been a saint. But she is going to be the real challenge, though Shivaay knows he doesn't love her, though she has been pretty decent to Anika. She is that oddest of villains -- the Pied Piper, who will be calling out of the hero his deepest, darkest, ugliest fears. She wont cause the lasting damage--the hero will do it, FOR her. And once she brings the worst of Shivaay out to the surface BAM...she will leave, and behind her will be a wasteland where our happy love story once was.

Her job, all along, has been to expose the ugliest aspects of the Anika-Shivaay story. The Pied Piper, Ishqbaaz style.

Firstly, I think for the first time, Star Plus might actually have given us an accurate Promo, with true (or mostly true) plots. I'm going to talk on the Shivika thing here, so bear with me, and apologies for the length!

What bugged me over the Shivika portion of the promo was Anika's anger and rejection of SSO, and him using kids to woo her with roses-- roses she tosses. It meant he didn't have the guts, really, to come to her himself. But do you see SSO finding a bunch of kids to send flowers to his woman like some lame, 80s film romantic gesture? Whether these are actual kids or just a symbolic indication, the deliberate gap is telling--he knows he will be rejected. And he is. But why would Anika be rejecting him, when she basically depends on him now, to act as her tied-to-her anchal gravity stabilizer?

When you remember this is the guy who wont even allow his brothers to care for his woman, the diffidence on his part can only mean one thing--Mr Oberoi messed up. BAD. And she is not just hurt, she is indifferent, walking away. A very different Anika in the promo, from the one we have now. I think we will have to have a brand new love story, a kind of reset between Shivaay and Anika, before too long. Right now, we have the wide eyed, pouting, almost basking-in-his-attention girl, with the cute come backs and the wifely thing going on. With the certainty that the country's top businessman will drive her home and ice her head. Dont you think its too much, too soon? Too much love on his side, too much confidence on hers?

What will lead to her walking away, no turning back, leaving a Shivaay standing alone, like he always is? Moreover, turning him into man who wont chase after her himself to bring her back, when so far he basically has Anika ESP? I'm going to have to assume-- something worse than the khoon, khandaan, lakeer thing, yeah? And if what we see on screen is true, he already loves her, so why would he have to redo it all? Other posts (yehkyahorahahai has an excellent one up today) point out that Shivaay is in fact MORE in love than she is, and he is projecting onto her.

Anika right now is attracted, but is ashamed of her feelings. He is engaged, after all. But the onus is on him. She does not seek him out, does not follow him everywhere, waiting for a chance to have one more moment. He does. But Shivaay? Its worse for him. He is cheating emotionally on Tia, he is cheating on his beliefs, even his peace of mind is shot all to hell. And all through this Anika nonsense. I believe, if he gets the chance to blame her for his feelings, absolving himself of blame, he's exactly the kind of ass to do it. It would be too tempting to not try, one last time, to push it all away. And there, right there, is where the Pied Piper will strike.

I predict Tia's revelation will come--but with it, will be a blaming of Anika--WHY did she do this? In his embarrassment at being taken for such a ride by his perfect Tia, in his rage, Shivaay will attack HER, Anika, for putting him in this position. He will not feel grateful. He will demand-- What motivated her? Why did she do this? He might have proof of Tia's plans and a signed confession. The anger, the rage will still be for the person forcing him to see how bloody stupid he's been every time he's given Om and Rudra advice about love, holding Tia up as the example.

And who did this? Who brought him down? That interfering woman who wont stop coming into his head. So--what does Anika think? That Tia being out means Anika is in? Tia will bring out his demons, and his cruelty. And Shivaay is naturally cruel.

It will come down to Shivaay's assassination of Anika's character, that she is a nameless gold-digger, out to get herself the meal ticket of a lifetime. Maybe at the wedding itself. But she's suffered this before and shown up, you might argue. But back then she was not a woman who had already proved her loyalty. For a woman who gave up her "izzat" for this man, to have something like this thrown at her BY THAT MAN is the ultimate, unforgivable insult. especially given the fact--HE is the one chasing her.

And Tia's most important job here will be, to light this fire, and leave. That she might not be the right one for him, that she might be a gold digger, her mother too. But is Anika better, the orphan girl who threw water on her plans? Anika? Her servant, who wears her clothes, who is she, to dream this big? And Shivaay's answer, tinged by khoon, khandan, lakeer, and his own guilt, will be---nobody. Anika is nobody, and BEING nobody-- she is worse than the high class gold-digger, Tia, for making him want her.

Gul Khan likes to go to the darkest corners inside of her male heroes, and I cannot imagine anything darker from Shivaay than this. If Anika is already ashamed of her feelings, and he makes her feel cheap, and says she led him on, she will break. And if he blames her for his own feelings, and sees her efforts for him as proof of her cheap, low motives. she will do her job--save him. And then she will walk the HELL out.

Originally posted by: asya34

Yep! i can see some of this happening if Shivvay is clueless to Tia's truth.

But for some reason I keep playing back the conversation he had with Rudy in my head. Annika may reject him for all the reasons you said but it is not because SSO truly feels them but because he has to say it and has no other choice. He has to keep up the charade that he is not attracted to Annika in order to delve deeper into Tia's motive.
That is why he was so worried she would confess her feelings to him during KC and he would be left with no option but to reject.
He probably knows there are more people involved in Tia's game and of course we still do not know (and neither does he) who the other man is.
When he said "taking the lead from you I am going to do the right thing this time" maybe he meant looking at the truth for what it was and not letting Tia's name, family line and status cloud his judgement.
I cannot shake off the feeling that this man is up to something. His signature move after he spoke to Rudy was a puzzling. He would not do that if his plan was to hurt Annika on purpose by proposing to Tia.
Even today (while he was caring for her) he was upset that she was interfering in his well laid plans and not letting him take care of things. Remember when he was drugged with the painkiller he did tell OmRu that she would jump in and do the stuff and walk away with the credit of saving his family or his life.

Originally posted by: Arshi67

An excellent analysis. I hope Gul does explore that cruel streak. Tia's duplicity will be a huge blow to Shivaay's ego. You can just see him lashing out by first shooting the messenger. It will be interesting to see how he manages to redeem himself with Anika.