If one would follow the ancient Indian Philosophy there is this cycle of creation , nurturing and destruction.
Sometimes it takes complete
Annihilation for a better world to be regenerated because from that womb of destruction are born the seeds of change ,and the will to create again is resurrected.
What we witnessed yesterday was that annihilation/ destruction of what Shaurya and Mehak had so far built... a aadha adhoora toota foota zakhmo waala Rishta.
and Shaurya is mighty afraid .. he is dead scared .. that mere possibility of. Mehak leaving him forever is a anathema for him . His heart refuses to believe that possibility.
It is screaming out to Mehak "I feel like a part of my soul has always loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we are from the same star"
But the ego that need to show himself as invincible comes in between .
He behaves like a gambler trying desperately to win . One after another he is playing his hand ,
Hoping he will win , taunting her , provoking her , threatening her even trying to inspire her to not give up, to not leave .
He is being told that he has won when he desperately wants to hear that he has not . He abhors this victory.
He is trying to to tell her in his own way "I am often difficult to love . I go through dark periods like the moon and I hide from myself . But I promise I will kiss your wounds when they are hurting. Even if they are in our soul I will find them them with the light in my fingertips. ""
But what she hears is at the moment is his ego, but one day he will say to her and she will hear that "I will take you to the river so you can remember how beautiful it feels to be moved by something that is out of your control and when our dark periods match we can breathe with the grass and look at the night sky. The stars will remind us of beauty in our struggles and we won't feel lost""
Take a bow Samiksha Jaiswal, Karan Vohra and the CVs . Today you created magic . You enunciated every sliver of pain , of hurt , of fear , the impending doom , the separation the hopelessness with perfection.
I wanted to reach out to my screen and hug both of you .
Every creative person in their body of work has that one gem that they are always proud of you. You found that gem in your very first show .. you will be proud of this episode even 10 years from now .
CVs today you justified us sticking with this show even through all the crap we saw . We saw complete annihilation of the characters we loved but today that resurrection started.
The beauty has started killing the Beast.
Jinkuya for this beautiful episode .
Credits - the quoted text is from Emery Allen.
P.S.--- Chandrima you owe me big time for this ...

