JNDSD~ My take~ Saturday~ 11.3.17 ~ Like the phoenix rising from the ashes!
In Egyptian mythology, a phoenix is an immortal and fabulous bird that after a life span of centuries immolates itself on a pyre but rises up from the ashes to begin a new cycle of life. The bird's emblem portrays reborn idealism or hope. Seeing Atharv today in a way fight back Suman in the face of Vividha's sketches... reminds me of him , vaguely rising up slowly as a phoenix does from the ashes. Seeing Suman suffering setbacks, rekindles new hope in me for Atharv that his miraculous comeback is now underway ,despite existing loopholes..
With Vividha it's sleeplessness over what her son tells her about seeing Suman at Raghav's place. With Atharv it's a whole lot more, a desperate groping out for a slice of his past life. It's becoming more significant as she lies imbedded there.. he knows her not, yet his whole being knows her. The emotional wrestling forces him to revisit what he began a while ago. He open's once more the drawer, a section of his dormant, but recently twitching memories.. All he gets is this partly burnt sketch of Vividha on the floor at his feet . She belongs not at his feet ,but in his heart, her rightful place. To his heart this half charred sketch now gives a beat too. Out of the ashes, he begins his rise, retrieves the sketch..he has burned enough till now, his being turned to ashes! But out of the ashes of her sketch, Atharv still stares at Vividha's half a sketch and from her, their lies an acceptance for half Atharv . Really the other half is his blanked out memory, turned into ashes! controlled by Suman. But how can Suman completely keep in bondage the reams and reams of memories with that dreaded face on them. Vividha's complete face flies around him. A host of reminders this is the real Vividha, an extension of images already stored in the trove of his heart ,his mind and his soul. Such value every face of hers has, that he collects all the stray sheets of paper.It's her faces, he couldn't let them go astray..lest he lose her again..
The course of true love never runs smooth. Where Atharv enjoys a brief respite enveloped by some sweet memories. Suman's meditation with the dark forces shock her into realising what if the two meet? The warning of the medium rips through her. beware! virtuous forces act strongly to unite Atharv and Vividha, as much her evils forces act to keep the two apart! Beware! the curse, before it swallows you! Suman can feel the curse creeping in, towards her. Seeing Atharv holding the completed sketches of Vividha in hands, is the curse wafting for her. With her own hands she burnt his half a sketch and here the forces of heaven scoff her! She feels beaten already! Cower him down Suman! But before she can, the boyish Atharv questions his mother.. how did this happen? who is she? why he feels attracted to her? Where does she live? Suman wants to strike him! She hated him always, but Suman has to hold her piece, act calm.. to curb the emotional upheaval he feels. Befool him she does, the sketches are not his work, belongings of previous owners. But Suman is losing control as Atharv.. calmy insists a little lost.. trusting his enemy ,feels like he knows this girl. No! She affirms , his mind is playing tricks , he has never met this girl, it's just a figment of his imagination ,unreal, just an illusion. But with Atharv is left the thought, strange happenings, he only sketched half a face ,and here more many of his completed works have turned up? Baffling who is creator of all these sketches ? Suman too is equally at a loss to understand who is thwarting her plans? He needs sleep to rest his overheated mind and she'll see to the sketches! Suman hears anklets.. she needs to get a grip overself. Her game is to flush out! gouge out Vividha's memories out of his being! Suman knows she may have buried Vividha's memory from Atharv's whole being.. but where can she bury these images she has taken from him like a prized piece of china.. a tinkle ,a jiggle of an anklet and before her every eyes.. Vividha' sketches are slid across the floor by some unknown force and Suman faces another lost battle! But she will never let Vividha and Atharv meet.
Vividha's soul strangely thirsts, for whom? she daren't think .. her getting up for a drink , Madhav's waking up in a trance and sleep walking, and Atharv finding his half a sketch multiplied into many Vividha sketches, all point out to ensuing tension and tug a war between the powers of good and evil. Such is Suman's loathing for Vividha she that even picks on her child Madhav. like she controls Atharv's mind ,his memories Madhav's dilated pupils reveal too that some outside evil agencies control him too. Vividha chasing after her son in panic mode is similar to how she felt when Atharv walked out on her. Suman's vendetta appears equally for both and Atharv the pair of them, wronged her and her Ravish..
While Suman's son Ravish sleeps peacefully, Vividha seeks Madhav, finds her sleepwalking son in Suman's room!Half asleep he falls into his mother's arms mumbling grandma. Madhav's ending up in Suman's room , his fever, further jeopardizes Suman's plans. Instead of taking away Vividha's peace, she further confirms in Vividha that her son fears something, he named seeing grandma again ,and landed up in her room too..its like something led him there. Uma too serves a reminder tht Madhav did mention seeing her at Raghav's house. Once again Ravish gives the factual, objective view that its known that his mother is at some hermitage..besides he reiterates to Vividha, that children have vivid imaginations that easily takes the better of them. Hence he insinuates, it may be the case that Madhav is making up tall tales. How interestingly similar this sounds as Suman too tried to fob off Atharv when he reflects that seems like he knows and may have met Vividha.For the first time Ravish seems to be Suman's mouthpiece. Vividha is becoming more aware, if not accusing, since Madhav is repeatedly mentioning seeing Suman. Is Ravish deliberately keeping the mention of his mother low key?
Someone, a benign being. An apparition or reality? But somehow the tinkle of anklets, stirs a sleeping Atharv, he senses a spirit or is this a figment of his imagination? Not so apparently, it leaves him a hot simulating cup of morning tea..that is no figment of his mind. Atharv takes it as a welcoming gesture.
Not so for Guddi who comes bearing a double drug dose diluted cup of tea! to double Suman directed offensive against Atharv..mission to delete Vividha from Atharv's mind. But here it seems that the mystery of how the morning tea ended up before Atharv , despite his claim that he didn't throws the two she devils . He refers to some anklet sound..in horror both Suman and Guddi realize that the sound of the anklet that Atharv refers too is far from a mere figment of his imagination.. hamlet53 12.3.17
Overall for me an episode with tones of optimism.. seeing Suman losing the plot her behaviour shows nervous tension and frayed nerves. This benign presence is clearly a good omen for Atharv so far seems to be doing things for him.. also making the other two clever clogs look like a pair of buffoons! As they seem at their wits ends!!me chuckling about time some played mind games with you too Suman and Guddi!
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