Hammie's Impression's ep 65 ~29.9.17. An organic repair
In this fast paced world there are pockets of disillusioned, disaffected, heartbroken souls..walking about in their private little worlds of unspoken disenchantment... It's not easy for such souls to let down their guard, to allow themselves respite from their discontentment. They follow the humdrum routine of life, hoodwinking themselves and the world around them into believing life is normal for them that they are coping. But blessed are those troubled souls who seek out those who hurt them once, now left at their mercy to pay back hurt for hurt!but even bigger blessing is to forgive.. Yes Advay has everything till date, but then Dev lost quite a bit. One expects time will be his healer but he discovers the callousness of time, its relative and fails to rid him off his emotional gremlins of his stormy past. Then she comes into his life.. because he sought her. It's his time to settle the score with her, of past trauma she caused him and his once happy family. But what hurt is this, that he inflicts on her, that makes him flinch too? Can this Chandni be the dreaded paradox before him.. the one who inflicted him the wound, comes to be the one to nurse it now? foe turned healer? It 's hard for Advay to accept repair from her.. he'd rather mete out his frustration upon her than receive her attempts to redeem him..
Purest turmeric cannot cleanse the internal warped blemishes of the Mirchandni's hearts and minds. How craftily they spin a web of lies and deceit around Advay.. However ,the blind Nani can see the sinful carbuncles on both Sasha and her father's faces. But Advay is only blinded by Dev's love for Chandni and his own perpetuated aloofness from Chandni. He fears her, she taps history with him which leaves a record behind.. still she can see he moves on ,and without her. Sasha's haldi carry's on purely as a ritual, with no other spiritual significance. Chandni's absence from the ceremony is noticed by Nani ..not that her presence is required by anyone else..
A friend's prerogative or a wife's plea?
Advay sit's alone in his room.. he conceals well, the pasts vows he carried out not so long ago. He reckons, what's underway is right. But somewhere, when the burns within him should cool off! he feels the fresh raze of something smoulder inside his heart.. Then she walks in like a cooling gel. She wears white, somehow unwittingly he accepts it .. her yellow chunni , ah yes! she glows like the pot of haldi she cups in her palms. One dirty look should tell her she's not welcome, a bit of peace and quiet for a guy.. why is it difficult to grasp that he needs space[lots of it , a vacuum where he can be away from it all] Chandni tells him straight thought I'd be the first one to apply haldi on you.. it 's the cheek of this girl that prompts him to be rude! Not interested! Don't want you laying your hands on me! he grumbles. Its in one ear and out the other! Advay stares at her as she dips the fingers tips of one hand in the yellow paste ..he watches in fascination how her haldi dipped fingers tips slide on her creamy smooth cheeks one by one.. rabba ve.. my very act has rubbed on her.. how she has taken to my tone, my mood that once was.. muses Advay.. his eyes soften as he stares into her eyes.. correction Advay.. you were fury filled ,but she brims with organic, unadulterated.. love? going all the way with you! just to see you happy.. Chandni puts her clean hand on his shoulder.. brings her face close to his.. and one at a time, rubs her haldi lined smooth skin against his prickly stubble..she holds her breath. but he hears the whining of her heart beats.. I too need healing Dev.. my heart too bleeds, it's not easy to give up that which once you began and now you break off.. she lingers her cheek against his longer than required.. Advay sits still, her haldi s residue on his stubble seems to act as a curative agent.. Chandni snaps out and pulls back.. and apologetically says, you said no hands..so did it your way.. Rabba ve.. he looks away from her.. he doesn't need reminders.. or healing for that matter, he grills inside. But Chandni needs her wounds to be cleansed by the healing agent..
The way we were a married couple in a glass snow globe...
locked away in our own little magical world, sealed away from the woes and worries of the outside.. Dev do you remember this.. you presented it to me when we were children? How the outside world saw us as Chandu and Dev.. utterly into each other, inseparable! locked away like this couple in a snowstorm glass globe.. neither knew of the plotting that went on outside.. Chandni smiles, Dev since you are getting married.. accept this as a befitting marriage gift.. we never worked as a bride and groom although the world saw us wife and man.. but you didn't .. so now best you give this to Sasha.. Chandni's spirit weeps.. Advay looks at her in utter disbelief .. Chandni is returning her childhood gift back to him!! she is letting go off him that easily! Rabba ve.. that bond of sixteen years, she's calling it off? Because of my marriage to Sasha!!! Well no friend ! especially an old one walks out on Advay Singh Raizada! damn you Dev and your soft touches!!! Advay s fury knows no bounds he takes the glass globe looks at it scoffing ,turns it upside down and lets go of it !!! Chandni sees his hurt ,his angst.. his helplessness in being in a situation where he cannot get out off!! smash on the floor.. and shatter into pieces.. the bride and groom figurines too lie on the floor.. Chandni's tearful eyes.. watch their glass globe fall apart!! but the figurines stay together.. hand in each other's hand.. Rabba ve.. her soul cries.. although Dev and Chandu's world has fallen apart.. does their bonding still exist?? Only Advay will decide..
Love is about taking risks!No one takes Chandni for a ride.. no she will not give up her Dev ,her husband that easily.. the time has come to fight guile with guile.. she will give Sasha a false sense of security by accepting her defeat..that Sasha wins .. part of no hard feelings she asks to play haldi with Sasha, smears her face with haldi! Provokes Sasha to strike her.. Chandni all part of her plan to expose Sasha before Advay , she feigns a fall! knocks her head.. passes out and is pronounced dead! As expected Chandni knew Jimmy and Sasha will hide her so to speak dead body! in the freezer till the marriage is done and dusted! When the dead come alive to scare the living day lights off tamasha..
Locked away in a freezer! But freed by Shilpa and Nani! They are all into Chandni's risky plan.. to show the real faces of Sasha and her pappa! In between Chandni's plan works well into turning Sasha off the rails! Chandni shows up before her in a cackling witch's avatar! Sasha begins to see things.. pro Chandni gang mocks at Sasha's scaredy cat behaviour. Jimmy cools her off by chilling his dimwit daughter.. when he shows her a cool chilled Chandni having heavenly rest in the freezer! At one point Advay too turns and looks at the father and daughter suspiciously, why the hell are they snooping around the freezer ,odd? Advay wonders...
An organic repair... of a mistake.. smashed glass is meant to be swept away.. but Advay wants to retrieve a long lasting bond.. I will mend the glass globe for you Chandni.. there! painstakingly I cellotape it back together.. I know Chandu.. you will not see the cracks in what once was our dream world.. but, now you have to see Chandni.. I am cracked inside.. by mending our unexplained existing bond your Dev seeks healing from you.. give me the balm of your perseverance, that will gradually clear away my moody blemishes and bad turns.. make me pure, cleanse me Chandni... Rabba ve... reflects Advay as he looks at the mended glass globe.. hamlet53 30.9.17 ... Rabbe ve have a good weekend dear all..
Friends.. I wrote this Chandni / Advay.. Chandu/Dev.. impression as I sensed it.. do pardon the tweaking.. the Barun/Shivani bits were nothing short of class that befits the pair in role.. the rest of the episode was as Advay says dryly... what ever...