I haven't done a full blown analysis for some time, so please bare with me.
What a heart wrenchingly emotional episode. Mindlbowing, B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T performance from Iqbal once again.
Kripa did what perhaps, she herself never though possible………..she utterly and completely broke Angad…….the Angad of old no longer exists……..all that is left is a silent, empty, broken shell.
Shabir is a gem of a man, being there for Angad through thick and thin………comforting in his presence, encouraging Angad and last night holding him up as much as he could. Karthik was being his old, nasty self, Manek and Prithvi were competing as to who has the most evil and cocky smirk, Naina was the concerned and protective mom.
Onto the show:
The episode takes off with Kripa dedicating her song to Prithvi, all the while looking directly at a devastated Angad……..a mental slap if I've ever seen one. I have to say this………this part, I did not have to see again……especially that smug tilt of Prithvi's head when Kripa dedicated the song to him…….I wanted to slap that cocky smile off his face (And I usually do not have any violent tendencies).
Hearing Kripa sing after what she just said was too much for Angad to bare as he closes his eyes and turns away from the stage, memories of happier times playing like a slide show in his mind, as the tears run down his cheeks……..Him and Kripa at Josh's party, on the camping trip, at the beach, in the car after dropping her parents at the airport, the bond-fire, the time on the bridge at the Khanna house……….all the while Angad's back is turned from the stage, not once showing Kripa his tears…..until he leaves the concert hall, and as he numbly walks the corridors out to the car park, the memories continue to haunt him……all the good times intermingled with the bad……..Tadap, Tadap playing in the background.
Cut to Karthik, constantly phoning Angad as his show is about to start, but with no luck as Angad is drowning in his anguish…………..when Shabir appears……..what a great friend Angad has in Shabir……….and with a single gesture of placing his hand on Angads shoulder in comfort and support……….Angad still in a state of numbness, pours his heart out, his inner most torment………telling Shabir that Kripa only loves Prithvi….that he….and then she….and unable to coherently finish, he falls to his knees, the anguish too heavy, too much, for him to shoulder………he continues to say that Kripa only love Prithvi, not him …….oh, my poor baby, if only you knew how wrong you are…….and that under the veil of hate, he thought that Kripa loved him and that he would regain her love, that Kripa trifled with his emotions…..and as he spoke the floodgates opened and Angad broke down completely, sobbing openly under the strain of his heart break, no longer the strong man, but a shattered lover, who can't even fathom the idea of performing when there is nothing left alive inside of him.
Naina blew me away yesterday……….the concerned mom who wants to protect her son from his pain, who stands by him, trying to comfort him and prop him up to perform for his fans……livid when she finds out that Kripa is performing for Prithvi……you could see that Angads heart ache scarred her as well…..She really treid to get Angad out there to perform, if not for himself than for all his loyal fans….telling him for now to forget that he is Angad Khanna and that Kripa is his wife…..and through all this, Angad is silent and defeated, until she tells him to forget about Kripa completely……….the piercing pain in his eyes reflecting the impossiblilty of that statement as he turned to his mom when she said that was the only reaction we got in this entire conversation.
Karthik was back to his old mean, insensitive self, seeing that Angad is hurting, yet only worried about the bottom line and te financial downfall should Angad not perform…….Why could he not think of this before he went to spill the beans to Prithvi, in an attempt to mend fences between Prithvi and Kripa??? He must have known that Prithvi would not let this opportunity to rub it in Angads face, slip through his fingers………or did he honestly think that Angad would not be affected by Kripa's actions, to the point that nothing mattered anymore???
The last set begins with Angad's concert………….a miserable Angad pouring all his feelings into the song, which, despite its toe tapping beat, had such appropriate lyrics…."Zahreeli Raatein, Neend Oorjaati hai, bulu tujhe to, yaad to aati hai……" (from the movie Chocolate, should enquiring minds want to know)……and as the events of the night come rushing back to Angad, he closes his eyes in utter torment, once again falling to his knees…………..we see Kripa finishing her song, getting the thumbs up from Prithvi, but not looking too happy………..humph!!!! I know that yesterday I said not to play the blame game, but I was mighty peeved at Kripa for what she did………she was not happy, so what……she finally defeated Angad in one blow, bringing him to his knees, with one lousy action……….so much so that he is haunted by it to the point that he covers his eyes and ears to block the images and words…….broken to the point that he can't perform any more.
At the Khanna house we have Angads entire parivaar puzzled, but more so, angry at Kripa's actions, with Manek, being the snake that he is, smirking all the way as he achieved what he set out to do…..turn the Khanna family against Kripa, Karthik looking on silently…..umm……where was his defense of Kripa now, huh??.....and Daadi being a silent witness to it all.
My poor baby Angu……….having been though hell, has retreated into himself, he has gone completely silent……………no emotions, no visible signs of his anguish and heartbreak except for the closing of his eyes when Naina said that Kripa is not meant for him.
Daadi finally puts a stop to the conversation by once again coming to Kripa's defense……….sigh!!! Why am I not surprised!!! She is after all, Kripa's champion, her defender and protector, unwilling to see her faults while remaining blind to Angad's pain.
However, as Rakhee suggested to me via sms last night, maybe daadi knows the true reason behind Kripa's marriage to Prithvi, and this is how the whole story will come to light……….I really hope so, because right now, this thought is daadi's only saving grace in my books.
Sigh!!! I really can't take more of this.........to see Angad broken so completely, to see him so devestated brought back memories of the time he told his parents that Kripa had a miscarraige......the same anguish. I need Angad and Kripa to get back together, and for it to happen soon, for their sakes as well as for my sanity, my heart and my sore-from-crying eyes.
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Hafsa