Originally posted by: mistofshadows
The epsiode was eye opening.
Thank you for a fantastic review.
Thank you. Appreciate it, Niki.😊
Is it wrong for me to say that I can understand Bani clearly now!😅
Veer has as expected become a mixture of Aakesh and Veer. His obsession, love, devotion is still the same. I am sure his edge will reappear again. Except this time Bani will meet a wall instead of him thawing at her attempts to leave him.
Could you explain better? I did not understand the meaning here.
But Bani....man she is such a complicates character that I cannot help but adore her. She is flawed, shallow at times as many have mentioned, short sighted, impulsive and of course add many adjectives.
But her capability lies in her ability to stand her ground. No one can force her do something, not even love or fear. No one can genuinely intimidate her. After all, everyone tends to forget that all are alive again in Kalyug because she had paid the price for it by suffering a curse of 10,000 Divya Varsh.
Her stubbornness stems from the fact that she has suffered the most in all this. Sab to tapak gaye the, lekin usne 10,000 saal ka shraap bhugta hai. Aur woh bhulna to easy nahi. Lekin mujhko samajh nahi aata, that shraap se objectively sochne ka kya lena dena. Woh to Cheelo ke saath nipatne me bhi objective nahi hai. Blind trust ya blind hate ko side me rakhke also, she doesn't convince me in any way that she is the Adi Naagin. Her characterization needs to be fleshed out further.
The curse is an integral part of her. Every other soul left the body, and was reincarnated again after ages. Nageshwari meanwhile took the brunt and her soul remained trapped after which she told her story to Brinda and finally her soul was reincarnated and suppressed.
Even suppressing didn't help much and Bani would get dreams and experience weird happenings. Her uncommon life, emotional abuse from her Chachi took route and when she met Veer, her danger radar got activated. Just few days later she finally found her truth and old hatred ran back in her veins.
Is it easy to forget that?
The fact that one decision, single handedly killed her entire race is a guilt she had to live with for eons. It festered and the result is clear. Being a Psychology student, I would have expected her to react worse. In fact she should have torn them apart and maybe that's why Lord Shiva had been adamant about the condition of attack as defense only.
How much did she get as a Shapeshifter in Satyug?
A mere day or at least two.
But then she had to face something she had never felt. Many will say attraction to Aakesh. I agree it was there. But I am more interested in another emotion that is buried underneath Aakesh's obsession and Nageshwari's hatred - Betrayal.
Yes, it is Aakesh's betrayal of the small trust that Nageshwari offered to him that made her into the Bani that rebuffs Veer's efforts.
She had barely managed to feel human emotions when Aakesh had single handedly destroyed her existence. It is not something that can be forgotten so fast.
That betrayal coupled with the reason that his intention was to gain her, probably made her suffer an intense guilt complex or survivor's complex during her curse. Broken, battered and barely sane, it was probably that hatred that was her sole companion; the only powerful emotion she could tether herself too in the abyss of loneliness during the cursed years.
It is this that inhibits Bani.
In Kalyug, Bani has started trusting Veer. And therein her inner Nageshwari starts to froth and struggle. Love is not the question here. Nageshwari definitely did not love Aakesh and neither does Bani love Veer. Yet it is trust that is important because Bani's trust means her entire self. Which is why she keeps on getting mercurial temper changes whenever she takes Veer's side and next second jumps to the opposite side. Nageshwari does not inhibit Bani in loving Veer; she inhibits Bani in trusting Veer.
Otherwise Bani wouldn't have asked Meera to take Veer's help and in the next day half heartedly agree to Jay's plan.
What would have happened had Veer not told his story to Bani? Would he have died?
I would say yes.
Bani doesn't and never had any qualms in committing to big decisions. She is fearless in the face of consequences and would have throttled Veer to death herself had she been the Bani that married Veer just after she had a fight with Teer.
This Bani is different. The change cannot be overnight. She symbolises the light but her Roshni has been shadowed by her hatred, rage and helplessness that the Darkness (Aakesh) had gifted her with in Satyug.
In Kalyug, she needs to find that light inside herself, move away from the Darkness to understand that Veer is not the same Aakesh and Jay is not Hriday.
@bold: I agree word by word. This doesn't need any comment.👏
In fact the story of the Adi Naagin Nageshwari had started with the betrayal of Aakesh and will end with the betrayal of Jay.
@bold: Bang on! Agreed.
Only then the story of Adi Naagin Bani will start for it will mean a closure to the past that Bani had never received.
True that!
- Niki
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