6 minutes left - Bani begs her husband to spill the secret
4 minutes left - Jai pushes her away and takes her place on the box of death
60 seconds left - There are no secrets between the two anymore
40 seconds left - Bani rushes in to Jai's arms, leaving no distance or space between them
20 seconds - Bani and Jai have chosen death over a lifetime of grief and loneliness
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BLAST!
It's all over. Two names called Jai and Bani just got erased from the face of this earth, leaving behind no sign no name no indication of what they were and what they meant to each other. And all for the sake of love!
There is nothing more beautiful than love nor is there anything more terrible than love.
Two people; a man and a woman become one for at least seven births, after a handful of rites pronounce them as husband and wife.
Two people; a man and a woman become one after they take seven turns around the fire and make vows.
Two people; a man and a woman, children of different parents, different backgrounds, different upbringings, different tastes, like and dislikes become one after a pinch of red powder is slapped on the woman's forehead and the mangal sutra is tied around her neck.
Two people; a man and a woman become one after a night on the nuptial bed.
Is this all marriage about? Is this; marriage, the final culmination of love? Just a bodily union, sanctioned by a handful of priest chanting?
Jai and Bani just proved it is not.
Theirs was not a marriage that was born out of love. Neither was theirs a marriage born out of convenience. Their marriage just happened. Their marriage happened because two people in love decided they cannot live without the other, caring neither for their own reputation nor for the feelings of their loved ones, compelling Jai and Bani to get in to a bond they thought was never meant to exist between them.
This marriage destroyed Jai and Bani. It dashed all their hopes and their pre-conceived ideas and expectations from marriage and love and left them disillusioned about the same. It was as if fate meant them to start from the scratch, meant them to be exposed to the best and worst in each other, meant them to burn in the sins of their past so they became purified and worthy of the other, meant them to experience pain as the healer and teacher and become one in the true sense of the word.
As every second brings Jai closer to his death, he stands there probably regretting every second that he had wasted in hating, hurting and attempting to destroy his wife's happiness and peace of mind. He tells her she will not die because he will not let her. His one sentence is understood by both of them. That one sentence conveys what three magical words or a cauldron of kisses or a night together cannot. As they gaze at each other sorrowfully, 'Jiya dhadak dhadak' plays on. How true that our sweetest songs are those that tell us of the saddest thoughts. That one song is the essence of the Jai Bani love. Her answer to every wound, every hurt of his was understanding, patience and Love; unconditional love. That night, he finally became ready to understand that love and acknowledge it too, without any qualms or fear, and it was this acceptance that gave him the strength to open up his heart to her, about the most disturbing secret of his life.
As he tells her that on that fateful night, he had accidentally killed her mother, Bani is shocked beyond belief. The black and white pattern behind her zooms and the effect is such that you feel Bani has been trapped inside the chakravyuh. Jai goes back in time and relives that one night that turned his world upside down and snatched his happiness forever. Incidentally it was the also night when probably the best thing happened to him when his relationship with Roshni was getting snapped, ripped in to two because they were never meant to be and had their marriage happened, it would have become a living hell for both of them.
The frighteningly intense and profound fear and horror of the night is brought out in the form of the deserted street, the incessant rain, the furiously swinging wipers and the fateful turn of Jai's car towards Park road, as the light flashes on the ominous 'Park Road' sign.
As Roshni tells him to drop her by Park Street where she has asked her brother to wait for her and he barks at her that it is fine by him to end their relationship, another car is sown from the opposite end and as the two cars head on a collision course, a bijli ka kambha is seen to fall down in slow motion and everything is suddenly over. There is blood all over Roshni's face and she stares at Jai in shock. Jai gets down and surveys the damage. Suddenly his eyes fall on the woman, lying in a pool of blood and he mutters horror struck "O my god! O my God!" Roshni comes out to join him and is appalled at Jai's handiwork. Superb piece of acting by both Ram Kapoor and Rakshanda Khan. Watch the episode and you'll get what I mean. It helped that they were looking their best. It added to the pathos and the horror of the scene. Jai recognizes the woman as Kiran who created a scandal by running way with somebody some time back. Nishikant's voice is heard and the two stand frozen.
I somehow was not able to make out how the whole thing happened. What happened to the other car? Was it Kiran's tormentor? What about the lamp post that fell down? Did it kill Kiran? What about Nishikant? Why wasn't he with Kiran? Why did he come shouting after her? Were they having a row? Had they left the children alone at home? At this unearthly hour? And how exactly did Kiran come in the car's way? I think they have deliberately left loose ends because this has another face to it, I am sure. The accident is through Jai's eyes. I believe this is not an accident at all but murder and my Munna merely a scapegoat.
What's commendable is that Jai didn't run away but he had the guts to face his mistake and try and fix it. As Nishikant accuses him of killing his wife, and Roshni stands paralyzed with fear and shock, he takes the matter in his hands and says that there is still life in Kiran and she can be saved. I love this quality about Munna that he faces his mistakes like a man. Admirable! But it's of no use. Kiran is gone and she takes along Jai's peace of mind and happiness too as her amanat that will be restored to him only when her daughter comes in to his life and wipes out the stain of murder from his soul.
I don't have words to describe Ram's fabulous performance. Mind-blasting! Just look at his expressions. Right from the time when he is having an altercation with Cobra; young and angry, he realizes he has hurt somebody; shock, guilt and anxiety to set that right, appalled that the victim died at his hands and then his walking over to Nishikant with a heavy heart and handing him the cheque; his face full of unbridled guilt interfused with his knowledge that his cheque is an insult to the life he has taken and can be no compensation whatsoever and he will only earn a husband's Hai. It was like he felt he deserved the curse and tried to pay Nishikant just to earn his Hai so at least some part of his guilt will be satisfied. As Nishikant throws the cheque on his face and curses him that the court of God will take care of his sins, you can see Jai Walia has started dying. His eyes, his face, his body language- they all spell defeat ay the hands of fate. He can never be the same again. In one jhatka, Jai walia's life got over or so he thought.
It is scandalous that they couldn't get hold of the original actor playing Nishikant Dixit. The susbstitute and the dubbing was a jarring aspect. They could have at least replaced Dixit with a good actor. It would have been priceless to have a good actor throw out that curse at Munna. Roshni's attitude was disgusting. While they are waiting for the woman to be saved, Roshni demands of Munna about what will happen if the woman died. Pay attention to her tone. Accusatory and inhuman. That's when.. .. Prrrrrr I dearly feel the deficiency of lacking behind in the expletives department now. Gosh! That that creepy stinking third rate jamadar Sandy Bhalu overhears them and he slips away. Look at the look of greed in his eyes when the nurse asks him if his blood is B+. Money hungry. Silly beast. Ruk abhi tera satkar karna baki hai. Last scene tak ruk.
Points to be pondered are, why did Papa Dixit shy away from a court case and apprising his daughters about the trus nature of their mother's death? I have a feeling Papa Dixit has a part to play here. Wasn't papa Cobra supposed to be at Park Road, waiting for Cobra? He was nowhere in the picture? If there was no case, why P.K Sandhu and why did that Srivastava get transferred? How come no one from the Walia family knows anything about this? They don't even know anything about Roshni? Remember Dadi says Roshni is one of those unanswered questions? Strange. One thing I am sure about is that my Munna's only a scapegoat. Either somebody else killed Kiran or her body was already there. My Munna is innocent. I am relieved. That look on his face when he is cursed- awww turns and twists your heart. Fabulous Ram. Keep it up. And Raksha too.
Back to the present, Munna stands in front of Bani waiting for her verdict. Compare this lost defeated 40 year old, pre-maturely aged man on the brink of death to the confident, rearing to go young man bickering with his girlfriend; responsible for bestowing on somebody - you can see that Nishikant's curse has indeed taken its toll. These seven years, Munna had just existed. He had stopped living. Everything was gone. There was no reason to live but he went on, pushing all the hurt, all the guilt in to somewhere deep in to his heart and preserving it there, allowing it to eat him up, slowly painfully.. .. ..Pia seemed to be a way to numb that pain and guilt but not erase it completely. It was never love. Bani was the only person in the whole world who brought him to terms with the fact that he was still alive and I guess that infuriated him. He hurt her, punished her because somewhere he understood that she was a part of him and he was a part of her and hurting her meant hurting himself and thus punishing himself for snatching away her most precious relationship. And somehow Bani felt this and she strove to become a part of the pain by unearthing the cause of it so the pain that stood between them would become a reason for their love to succeed.
I believe that pain and suffering can teach you what a life of normalcy and happiness cannot. Pain brought these two together, pain taught them the meaning of love, pain made them see what they meant to each other and finally pain sealed the never breakable bond between them.
It is ironical that the embittered Jai Walia could be redeemed only by love and only by the love of that sole woman whose young life had been pushed in to peril, due to a mistake committed by him seven years ago. Even more ironical that he understood this love, only when on the brink of death.
If you are in love, show me…I am a woman and I'll show you how…
This long suffering sorrowful man has nothing more to say. Time is ticking away and the woman he loves more than his life is right in front of him.. ..he has so many things to say to her but he is afraid to face hatred in her eyes for him, scared to hear words of hatred and disgust for him yet there is hope in his breast that she will understand and forgive him for all the misery he had put her through, understand what he has been through, understand what she means to him, understand he was a dead corpse until she entered his life and breathed life in to him again.. .. .. and it is obvious in his eyes, in the way he says "Main ja raha hoon Bani!"
Bani, with his gift around her neck and the Sindoor spelling his name, stands there too stunned to react. Her love is so great, so selfless that she feels his pain and has in fact experienced all the hell he had been through all these years. "Main ja raha hoon Bani!" stirs her back to their present and it takes her hardly a second to realize that their lives start and end with each other, that she is as empty without him as he is without her. Defying fate, defying the sacred vow "Till death do us part", she runs in to his arms, that were half expecting her but not completely because jai felt he didn't deserve her love, but by defying the sacred vow, she only glorifies the creator who had meant them to be and proves that nihswarth love is the highest form of worship and even God cannot have the heart to hurt or sully such a love. Jai is so overwhelmed and emotional that he makes no effort to tear her a way from him and in to safety. He has realized that they are two bodies, one soul and there is no life without the other. Dying together in each others' arms is every true lover's ultimate prize. Die we all have to one fine day. What better way to shed your body than in the warmth of your dearest one, basking in the knowledge that even death could not do you part? Beautiful! Preciously beautiful!
The background music, the angles and the fantastic superlative acting from Ram and Prachi nullified all the previous bloopers and inversions. You could see, hear and feel nothing but pure selfless love. You understood the power of love and that it can crumble even mountains and stone hearts.
But where God made Eden with Adam and Eve, he also made Satan.
Welcome hairy Ape. I hope you had a nice meal? Now kindly turn around. Maharaj, zara jhukna please? Yes that's right. Now here's a great solid kick from me to you, you silly creep, you sada hua kheera, you burnt milk, you rotten egg, you squirrel waste, you stinking nala, you filthy animal! Gosh! Ek haathme jhadu aur doosreme balti thamado he makes a perfect third rate jamadar. Dirty waste. He is supposed to be The Rockstar, then why go dhum hilaying behind Roshni? Even if it's a case of 'Honey money talks', I cannot believe he actually loves watching two humans getting exploded to death. So cruel, so inhuman, so sadistic-shocking! He has to be mental to be enjoying this. And Cobra doesn't even deserve my anger or hatered. She is and has always been a rotten egg. So White gloves is Sandy Bhalu and Cobra's been behind all this? Munna's been right all along. But I have this feeling that there is more to this. I hope so. I hope there's a first rate murder mystery but Amma you stay out of it this time. I'd rather you use Anu's slant roof greenhouse with your husband. We IFians won't mind that at all!
As the camera zooms on the two wrapped around each other, waiting for their life to end and their love a new beginning, that hairy crack starts the count down and the spinning effect adding to the magic of the pathos, "10, 9, 8…3,2, 1'
BLAST!
It is obvious that our love birds are alive. I cannot imagine how nor do I care. All that I care about is that nihswarth love triumphed tonight, washing way past sins, gulits, mistakes everything! Bani's love gave a new birth to Jai;she made him worthy of her by making him share with her the darkest secret of his life that had been the only obstacle that had stood between him and her. I forgive Jai for that piece of nonsense he uttered after The night. It's now possible to guess why he felt guilty and why he felt he was taking advantage of her and why he kept pushing his true feelings for her, under the carpet. My poor poor Munna! Son it's all over. Even if bani decides to have a mood swing and starts behaving funny with you, she is your own, a part of you. Now no more are you under the beck and call of that amba; Cobra and that skunk brother of hers. Jai is finally redeemed. He can look at himself in the mirror now and fulfill the duties of a husband and if you please put your double bed to good use too! Funny they slashed a very touchig dialogue hearing which it's not surprising bani went straight in to his arms. Maybe like before, they would replay the whole scene with all the dialogues and the heart wrenching bg. I am not complaining. I am sitting ready with a huge bunch of tissues. I am wondering how they will take it from here. One thing is almost certain that JB will nor part ways. See what I said that like J is meant for B, Cobra's plans w.r.t separating JB is meant to backfire. I love her actually. If not for her ingenious piece of dirt, my moron Munna would still be living in hell. I was perhaps one of those very few whow ere not disappointed with the previous episode. I was hoping the next episode will make up for it. Boy! It did and how! Kudos! All the melodrama paid. Beautiful! Precious! That's all!
God works in mysterious ways. Seven years back, would Munna or Nishikant Dixit have ever thought that Bani Dixit would one day not only become Mrs.Bnai walia but also Jai Walia's sole redeemer? That's my eesh for you. It was a dirty joke on his part that where Mumbai and Srinagar were in hell and reeling under the afthermath of the bomb blsts, JN were ona live bomb, waiting to get blown up in to smithrenns. I nearly lost my relatives to the bomb and I have still not got over that shock. Just one second and everything is gone? Not even a piece of bone to lament their last seconds? Shocking disgusting! I thank Eesh for sparing my loved ones and pray to him to bestow strength on the affected rest the souls of the departed ones in peace. No words can offer solace but hope is everything 'Allah ke bandh has de jo bhi khoya phir payega.. .. ..'
I salute the spirit of the city and our policemen and God, please be with them. Amen
Three cheers to my Munna and his bahu. Hey! It will hardly be Raaga if she doesn't mention a word or two on how Munna looked today, na?
Gosh re! Ye kya hai bhai; purush hai ki dev? Gosh! Baby pink shirt, black hair, that wonderful ugly scowl gosh! I dies out of ecstacy and attained heaven but came back for my next installment of my desi Adonis! Gosh! Looks lik the accident was taken a while back, before Ram fell sick. He looks hatta katta and Roshni too looks fresher and she's a stunning beauty, really. The last scene when munna says "Min jar aha hoon Bani!". Ouch so heart wrenching he tore my heart out…And he looked so awesome - so regal aman who has come off clean and is at peace that now he can die without any fear or guilt but an inexpressible sorrow that when he is yearning to spend his entire life with the one woman he has truly loved, he has no time. The tick tick tick gosh! It made the whole thing all the more scary all the more pathetic. Brilliant! Just brilliant! I can just go on and on and on but don't want you yawning, do we?
Red Cards to:
1. Ancestor of Satan; Creepy crappy Sandy Bhalu. Mere samne aa to zara .. ..
2. Cobra. Eeeeps! Tub hi mere samne aa
Yellow Cards to
1. That silly lamp post. I don't know why as yet.
2. Papa Cobra. Where was this loafing about?
3. All of you who condemned my poor KS for the previous episode!😛😆
Goals to:
1. The KS creative team. Bravo! All is forgiven. You rock!
2. Munna. He doesn't run away.
3. Dhak dhak dubba. Thanks honey. You literally brought the duffer couple together.
Golden Ball to:
1. Ram and Prachi.
2. Rakshanda.
3. The cameraman and the entire creative team.
4. To me. For having faith in me Munna and JB and my favorite show.😛
5. Bani and Jai. For that last scene. Awesome!👏
Raaga's secret urge:
Gosh! Munna looked like a healthy pink Roshgulla! I just wanted to pop him in me mouth and suck and suck and .. .. censored! I also wanted to empty ccraters and craters of white wash on that Prrrrr even taking his name is abshagun I think you know whom I mean.
Best answer to yesterday's teaser was Tisha's. Congrats dear.👏
Today's teaser:
Why did Amma hug Munna?😉
Well folks! Our JB have made us very proud. I cannot wait to see Cobra's sick face when Jai announces Chhota Munna's on the way. We can safely expect that now, na?😉😛
Have a great day dears.
-Raaga
