Originally posted by: Natashapaul
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Then we see Prani beginning to break down. Reyansh had always mattered to her, be it in a good or bad way. He was her first and only love, the first man to break her heart, the man who had given her the biggest and most precious gift of her life, the father of her child and the man who had in a way broken her beyond repair.
Wanted to make a separate comment for this but since Natasha has already brought it up. We have always talked about and Pranati has pointed out today that Reyansh wears a mask in front of the world to hide who he truly is. The same fact is true for Pranati as well. Behind the ladaku,hard headed strong willed grown woman,she still is the broken vulnerable girl who wants to trust in love again.She isn't confused like Reyansh,knows what she wants and what she is doing in Khurana Mansion. Hardened by betrayal and forced by survival instincts,she fights head-on with the Khuranas. She expresses herself better than Rey,yet she wears a mask as well.
Reyansh has had and still has a major part in her life, and all this while she couldn't understand how she had let someone so vile and horrible as him impact her so much. She constantly had questioned herself how she had connected with and shared her life with someone like him.
She says that today that she is very happy because today Rey has finally showed her the truth, putting an end to the constant turmoil withing her, because if he was a wrong man like once he had made her believe, her heart would have never beat for him, implying that he was truly a good man and that she loved him and lived for him at some point.
Unable to face him directly (like Readlo, Parboni & Jey pointed out. Please read ReadLo & Jey's explanations for this bit in Pg 82 and/or 83 of the AT) and confess her side of the story we see Prani walking around him and finally behind him. As she moves, we see the shock and emotions finally getting the better of Rey and him breaking down, lips shivering and tears freely flowing out. He never imagined that he'd get to hear this, to have someone who knew him so well, to have someone who loved him, to have someone who just understood him for who he was.
Prani faces his back, still unable to face him directly to put out all that she had been holding in and overanalysing and bothering herself with, with regards to him. She continues how she (her brain) constantly questioned herself thinking how she couldn't understand a person and who he was but her heart had always fought against the thought and told her she was right, she did identify Rey for the real him and not his masked personality. We see a Prani, with eyes full of admiration admit how that he was not a bad man at all, that he was good at acting like one and he had a clean heart. Prani still behind Rey as he continues to break down.
Prani done with her hearfelt thoughts moves back to stand right in front of Rey and tell him that he in fact is a 'really really nice guy'. Rey who till then had his head down, faces her shocked and trying to comprehend the acceptance he had just received from the person he had wanted it from, a mixed expression of confusion and 'you know me too well' and I din't see this acceptance coming from you. Prani doesn't want to stop there, she wants the world to get to know the good man Rey that she knows! He still can't believe what she is saying, he expresses shock, he is not able to process or understand the confession that had just happened. It was the shock that she knew him so well and could see through him just like that, like no one ever has done or could! (Parboni I felt that it was more this way than the fear of revealing himself to the world).
Okay,I get your perception as well.👍🏼
Prani continues that this is the real Rey, the good Rey, that is the true Rey. She says that it is time to bring out the real Rey and not hide behind the mask. I believe Rey clearly wasn't ready for this conversation, he clearly din't know how much Prani knew, he din't know she had so much respect and such a high place for him, he had wanted her to see him that way, but to know that she already knew so much and saw him in an even better way than he wanted to and that someone (also, someone that mattered) to understand him in a way that no one else did was too much for him to process and reacr to at that moment.