Naku's essence is destroyed. That's no longer Nakusha Dutta Patil on TV anymore. It's a stranger. It's a woman that has lost/abandoned everything that made her unique, beautiful, loved, and cherished. It is not our Naku and it certainly isn't Dutta's Naku anymore. She is nameless, baseless, and belongs to no one - anyone can take her.
Having said that, what Naku was and always will remain for me in my memories of her is a woman of substance. A woman who was made of the same hard skin as her mother. A woman with a quiet, but obvious strength that sustained throughout the most terrible times in her life. A woman with an inner beauty so unearthly that she broke through the walls of a cold-hearted gangster and melted his heart, showed him solid love, true love, showed him how to live and live beautifully.
Nakusha was the kind of woman who couldn't have been loved by any other man but Dutta. Being non-beautiful on the outside, being odd in her mannerisms, and just being Nakusha - no man would have fallen in love with her, none other than Dutta. She was one of a kind. A woman who could only be wanted and loved by Dutta Sriram Patil. He was the only man who could ever see how beautiful she was even when she wasn't.
Nakusha to me is the woman who was made for Dutta and always will be. The woman whose purpose in life was to meet Dutta and find love with him, change him, show him his future in a new light while at the same time shape her own intertwined with his. She would be incomplete without him. She was the most persistent woman I've ever seen on TV. Persistently sticking by Dutta's side through all times, be it his cold-hearted phase or his gentle phase. A woman who loved only one man and loved him with everything that she had in her. Could love no other but him. She was a strong woman. A gentle woman. A tough woman. She was supporting, caring, trusting, sacrificing, selfless in her love and she never asked for anything in return. She just wanted to be allowed to love Dutta till her last breath.
There are two lines that she has said that struck me hard and I won't ever forget them:
1) "Bappa kasam. Woh mujhe jungle mein chod ke jayenge toh bhi mujhe bura nahi lagega."
2) "Maine aapse pyaar kiya hai. Yehi mera sabse bara gunnah hai. Aur yeh gunnah main baar baar karegi. Marte dam tak karegi."
It was her purity, her persistence, her sweet and subtle innocence that made her Nakusha to me. It was her strength, her complete faith in the righteousness and goodness of her Bappa, her complete trust in Dutta's good heart that made her Nakusha to me. It was how she'd always be his, stay his, through better and worse, how even the rumours of his death kept her persistently searching for him that made her Nakusha to me.
That Nakusha could never even glance at another man. That Nakusha felt only comfort, only loved, only wanted and only respected when Dutta touched her, when Dutta looked at her. That Nakusha was Nakusha in her true form, in reality, in her complete essence. The Nakusha who never doubted to do right, who always felt her Saab's pain first, who wanted just to love him and be in his presence and nothing more - but her Bappa gave her so much more than she'd ever dreamed of.
I refuse to believe that the same God would snatch Dutta from her, throw her in the arms of another man, and destroy her essence. No, that was Colors. And they conveniently used the God's name in it all by showing how she was stripped of her mangalsutr and sindoor and bangles - as if raped.
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