Originally posted by: spidie
Which episode is this? Is it when Krishna is leaving Vrindavan? They did a role reversal from the first episode scenes , love how you have captured these parallels in GIFs !
Yeah, this is the epi (It's epi 361 on Hotstar) when Krishna is about to (FINALLY😆) leave Barsana to go kill Kans😆....basically Radha makes three promises to him about how she will bid him farewell by doing his tilak, then sakhiyon ke saath wala goodbye, and then finally this goodbye with colors.
Basically around this phase, we see a Radha who has fully accepted her eternal love for him, knows he's divya/supernatural but doesn't know that he is Narayan or that she is Prem ki Devi Radha😆....she just seems to think that he is a great figure who can do supernatural things and who is meant to go and kill Kans to save his birth parents. So she's all sad about him leaving, but doesn't want her love to hold him back.....so they had this whole series of emotional goodbye epis....ek mein Tilak kiya (Krishna stopped time with a snap of his fingers and Radha restarted time with a snap of her fingers😆), then one Viraah raas with all the gopis and finally this rangon wala goodbye. I liked the combo of bittersweet playfulness and then the transition to heartbroken goodbye in this scene.....yep, they did a bit of a role reversal from the first epi ka goodbye scene....in this one, Krishna became the one saying goodbye instead of Radha like it happened in the first epi.
One of the reasons I wanted to do the rewatch was also to get clarity on what they showed in the epis when Radha crosses those 7 steps of love and accepts her love for Krishna😆. In the build up to that, they kept showing Krishna saying that Radha will know his full truth, she will know her own full truth....toh it seemed like it would mean everything including that they are Laxmi-Narayan, that they lived in Golok, then the curse etc.....but the only "full truth" Radha learnt in that bit was that Krishna is "divya", and that he has helped her discover her own "divyata" and it's all cuz they are anant premi😆....so she learns that she too can snap her fingers and do magic....but she doesn't associate that magic with being fully divine herself😆.
This is the reason why the makers keep things vague about the level to which Radha understands the full scope of Krishna's divinity😆.....they never show her participating in the talks between Mahadev-Krishna-Parvati when they are all in "Godly discussion" mode😆.....she is still shown mostly as a human who gets their darshan sometimes but doesn't talk to them like a peer Goddess😆.....isliye woh recent epi mein when Krishna stopped time while Saambh was falling down that cliff, toh Radha bhi freeze ho gayi thi😆.....Krishna hasn't let her onto the full truth yet. The makers are likely saving that for the last epi😆.
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