As there are already quite a few posts about today's episode centered on Om, I thought about making this one about Queen GKS.
[Bashers please stay away :)]
"Baat band lo, gaath ho jo, Viswas hai loha, kaach guroor"
That day Gauri broke Om's guroor, and today she broke the guroor of all those who thought that a tiny girl was no threat to them.
But I get ahead of myself, let's start from where the episode left off yesterday.
Back in the rundown haveli, Gauri is persuading Om to give up the challenge. Obviously, the smart chiraiyaa has done her calculations, and the outcome of this dangal doesn't look too favorable for her jatadhaari. From taking to the hospital to not knowing how to drive a car, Gauri has tried all the arguments in the book but yahan toh uski daal nahi gali. Jatadhaari is adamant to make his granddad in heaven proud of him, toh who toh ladenge.
Resigned to the fate of watching this painful collision, GKS is ready with some bananas and lassi to toughen up her jatadhaari (btw ek din mein kya sehat banegi uski?). And here comes, Oberois ka ameer naukar (tell me again, why is he still employed by them after they found out he's a thief?), to drive in some home truths about "Balram, the undefeated." But hold up, its one thing for GKS to discourage her jatadhaari, par agar kisi aur ki majaal huyi aisa karne ki toh... both chiraiyaa and jatadhaari exchange looks, matlab ab toh naukar ki shaamat aayi.
GKS on full fangirling mode, cheering for jatadhaari, par ee ka, naukar toh dum dabaake bhaag gaya. Now what? Omkie ab kiske saath practice karega? Not to fear when Dabanng Gauri is here. "Hum aapko haarne nahi denge." Gauri is completely serious about helping her jatadhaari, but jatadhaari has other plans (for which Rikara fans are immensely thankful, dhanyavaad Omkaraji!). And welcome...duet Saathiya. (And Rikarians have lost their shit with the Chulkara FB's, bas ho gaya hum sab ka gangaram!)
Moment nikal gaya, and now back to Gauri waking up on the bed (when did she get promoted from the couch?), and discovering that jatadhaari is still air-wrestling. Now, the CleverRi awakens and immediately she calls up the Oberoi mansion resident dhobi-pachhaad expert, her future devrani. To what end? Obviously, to learn some jugaad moves (nice to know our chiraiyaa has still not forgotten her love for short-cuts).
Aa gaya D-Day...
Well, as usual Omkie doesn't listen to Chiraiyaa when she tries to give her advice, and unfortunately, we again have Omkie fainting (collective facepalm from Rikarians ).
But shit just got serious.
Just a recap of the mythological symbolism of Omkara and Gauri
Omkara represents that version of Shiva, which is meditating on Kailash, in pursuit of truth. Om', the word itself represents the universal truth, therefore the Omkara form of Shiva, is the Bairaag/Tapasvi form of Shiva, who has renounced the world, and is meditating in seclusion to find the universal truth. This is the form of Shiva with long, uncombed hair and tattered clothes (which is why our Omkie also has long hair and doesn't care two hoots about fashion sense)
As the story goes, Parvati was smitten by Shiva and wanted to impress him. Here there are two branches of the story. In the first version, she asks a boon from Brahma to make her pretty and fair, so that she can impress Shiva, and he grants her that boon in the form of Gauri. In the other version of the story, Parvati undertakes a difficult journey to reach Shiva, during which she is covered with dirt and in ragged condition. So, after she reaches Kailash, Brahma tells her to take bath in a holy lake. She does so, and the form that appears from the lake is Gauri, who so fair that she shines like gold. Gauri is the version of Parvati that emerged to please, to impress Shiva. (That's the reason behind her devotion and why she is always trying to please Omkara)
Now back to present day, Gauri has had enough of the crowd jeering at her and Om. So, till today I assumed that the mythological allusion for Om/Gauri was Bairaagi/Devotee (while the Shiv/Shakti analogy was for Shivika), but today cvs have pleasantly surprised me, and we see Shiv/Shakti parallels for Om/Gauri too.
"Basss!" she thundered and truly she has had enough. The crowd was mocking her husband's masculinity and she replied by taking off her own bangles. The sheer symbolism of this scene was unbelievable. The hands which wear bangles are not weak, and when these hands raise to confront, then the impact is double: ek thappad ki goonj, aur ek choodiyon ki goonj. "Darr gaye kya?"
So, now Gauri has entered the battlefield, this time not with boiling rage of Gauri Kumari Sharma, but the cold rage that emanated when she was forced to become Thakurain Gauri, those cold eyes made a come back today. And let the battle begin..
For all who thought how can a puny creature stand up to a hulk of a man, well she may not stand up to him, but she can surely dodge him, she can attack him like vetaal climbed up on Vikram, and she can totally kick him in the shins (I wish she had kicked him in the balls though, much more effective, if you ask me). And Gauri ne Balraam ko dhool chata di. Alas! It did not last for long, and Bhainsasur send her flying.
Now at this point, I confess, that I never knew the proper ending of the mythological story I narrated above: did Bairaagi Shiva ever get impressed with Gauri? Looks like he did, because finally our Bairaagi has broken his Jog, and he is ready to unleash his wrath on that fool who tried to harm his Sati. Not just that, he's also ready to admit to Gauri that seeing her in pain, makes his blood boil and phir toh khul gayi teesri aankh. Looks like finally Gauri's devotion, and "vishvaas" rang laayi, and her jatadhaari is showing her through his actions, if not words, that he cares!
There is another mythological tale about how Shiv-Parvati combined to form 'Ardhanareshwar' to defeat evil. Well, aaj humein who bhi dekhne ko mil gaya!
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