Birju-Bela (Mohit-Tanvi) Fan Corner #1

Hi everyone!

This is the official appreciation thread for Birju and Bela (played by Mohit and Tanvi).
Feel free to join and post/discuss regarding the two here.



Birju
Birju is the son of Satpal and Chitra and has been brought up by Kanta as her own son. Birju,an 18 year old boy is very unlike other boys his age. He lives in a hamlet of low caste people in Ambakhedi. Kanta brings him up as a farmer, despite herself being a loharin. Birju has immense love & respect for Kanta & wishes to rid her of her worries & troubles. As a young adult, Birju has now started getting questions in his mind about the disparities between the upper and lower castes though he is still too young and powerless to challenge the situation.
Birju,though not violent by nature, does not hesitate to protect the downtrodden from any sort of atrocities meted out by the upper castes. He is a strong & very balanced individual, thanks to the upbringing given by Kanta. He is always the thinker in his group of friends, as he has many questions about this so called caste divide & the tyranny that is rampant in the village. He cannot see another human suffer and is not one to turn his eyes away from another human being's pain and will go out his way to help or protect the weaker sect.
When Birju meets Bela, he is drawn to sheer purity and joy of her being. Birju has lived in a world where he has seen hatred, disparity and a lot of sorrow. Bela is untouched by all such things, and inexplicably, Birju feels a sense of joy and peace around her. He is taken aback by the unquestioning love that Bela has towards the animals and birds of Chor Bada, and he is enamoured by her genuine innocence and purity. He feels protective towards Bela, and will always do whatever it takes to protect when she is faced with the harshness of the "real" world.


Bela
Bela has been brought up by her mother Sargam in isolation, in an old tumbledown house in the midst of the jungle, called Chor Bada. Having been raised in complete solitude amongst nature, the only world she knows is that of trees, birds and animals. Her nurturing nature is evident in the way she is with them. Since she has never ever met another human, she knows no one and thus has no curiosity for the outside world.
Bela's world is filled with just two entities, the first being her mother Sargam. Sargam has taught Bela how to live by herself – has trained her to cook, clean, tend to animals, look after herself – and has prepared her to be a good home maker in the hope that one day she will be able to marry her off to a good man with whom she will have a family and home. Although Sargam has brought up Bela in a protected environment, she has exposed her to basic religious texts and scriptures - the only window through which Bela gets to know about the world outside her own.. So Bela's mind is still uncorrupted and she takes people on face value when she meets them after she comes out of isolation. Bela takes all that Sargam says as gospel and never questions her words. Sargam's promise that she will take her out into the real world at the right time becomes Bela's lakshman rekha that she never thinks of crossing.
Like Sargam, Bela is an ardent devotee of Shri Krishna, who is the only entity she knows of and feels for apart from her mother. Sargam had entrusted Bela in Shri Krishna's care when she had first left the new born Bela with Him 16 years back. Sargam believes that it is He who has looked after her child for all these years. And the same belief in Shri Krishna has passed on to Bela.Shri Krishna personifies strength, virtue and love for her and she has immense sense of reverence and adoration for Him.Bela personifies "innocence". She is truly untouched by the world and is pure of heart. It is this purity of heart that will eventually help her surmount all the odds that the "real" world will throw at her.