Originally posted by: mahiwayyy
You know what, ganga heavily influenced raya that he is not able to function without her.thats why that final scene in ice ganga was crying seeing his present reality. I felt he put all the blame/responsibility on nadia for her unforgivable act. he didnt even think about her being a mother protecting her unborn kid and ganga herself told her to shoot. He put entire blame on nadia and escaped to face from reality. I thought he seriously took his sister word of ruling the world and went to macau. That aaradhya song very much holds true as he embarrasses pain more than the love which should be healing and forgiving.
You know this movie is sooo much psychologically layered that there can be multiple interpretations and nobody is right/wrong...
For me Raya's abandonment of Nadia is even more tragic, because his staying away is not really punishment...it is avoidance.
Somewhere, Raya knew Nadia was not truly responsible for Ganga's death. He knows the circumstances. He knows Elizabeth manipulated and coerced her. Hence he killed her ..He knew Nadia never would have killed Ganga willingly, especially after coming to respect the woman who had sacrificed almost everything for him.
But knowing that intellectually is very different from being emotionally capable of looking at Nadia.
Because Nadia had become inseparable from the memory of Ganga.
Every time Raya looked at Nadia, he didn't merely see the woman he loved. He saw the last moment of his sister's life.
And Raya could not bear that.
So he did something deeply human but devastatingly cruel... he removed the reminder instead of confronting the grief.
He didn't leave Nadia because he had stopped loving her.
He left because he loved her and could not survive what her presence made him remember.
The ugly truth was Raya was afraid of grieving.
Because if he went back to Nadia, he had to accept that Ganga is dead.
He had to remember that he failed to protect the woman who raised him.
He had to confront his own choices.
He had to acknowledge that his violent world consumed both women who loved him and whom he loved.
So he ran....as he had done in his entire life...
And the tragedy is that his absence became another form of violence against Nadia.
He thought distance would spare both of them.
Instead, Nadia spent years interpreting that distance as hatred.
And Raya spent years interpreting his inability to return as love expressed through sacrifice.
That is the terrible misunderstanding at the centre of them.
Nadia thinks:
"He hates me because I killed Ganga."
Raya thinks:
"I cannot return because Nadia will always remind me of Ganga."
Neither is actually saying what they feel.
And Nadia pays the greater price.
Because Raya gets to run.
Nadia has to stay.She has the pregnancy.She has the child.She has the memories.She has the guilt.She has the loneliness.
She cannot escape into another country or another identity. She has to wake up every morning and continue being a mother while believing the father of her child wants nothing to do with her.
And there is something particularly heartbreaking about Raya knowing, somewhere inside himself, that Nadia did not deserve this and still not going back.
He isn't cruel because he doesn't care.He is cruel because his grief is bigger than his capacity to face it...He was drowning in his grief to have any humane empathy
And perhaps years later, when he finally returns and discovers Nadia had anhilatd herself, there is a terrible realization waiting for him:
He thought he had been protecting himself from the memory of Ganga.
But he had actually been punishing Nadia for surviving it.
And by the time he understands that, the woman who had spent years waiting for him has already disappeared.
That makes their relationship so much more painful than a simple "star-crossed lovers" story.
Raya loved Nadia.Nadia loved Raya.
Neither stopped loving the other.
But Raya couldn't separate Nadia from the woman he had lost.
And Nadia couldn't separate Raya from the man she had spent her entire life waiting to come home.
So they remained connected by love and separated by grief.
Remember that scene when in confrontation between Raya and ticket... Ticket had said, " Nooo nooo not my mother..but you had killed Ganga...you killed Ganga and you killed my mother..you destroyed the life of every women who came into your life..."
Ticket at the end of the day is his guilt and his alternate self only....So it's Raya himself who believes it about himself....
Edited by asmitamohanty - 3 hours ago
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