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While Purvi is going to meet Arjun at the airport only in tomorrow's episode (it seems to be quite dark, and so it is probably an early morning flight), today's PR episode had an incredibly sweet and moving scene between Arjun and Purvi that is perhaps the best I have ever seen on Indian TV. Those who have already seen the episode will, I am sure, agree with me. This post is really for the benefit of those who have not seen it.
It is at the mandir. Arjun has just finished tying the bell on the tree when he hears the temple sevak, who had earlier given him his bell, talking to Purvi. Purvi tries to leave without attracting his attention, but he goes after her and tells her that there is no need for her to go away like this.
He knows that she is trying to stay away from him, but he is in any case leaving India and going far away from her. All his life, he had been able to get whatever he wanted, but this was the one time when his heart sought something that he was unable to give it. He thanked Purvi for having made him realise that he was not God, and that he could not have everything he wanted. Aise thode hi hota hai ! He could not force her to love him, but neither could he stop himself from loving her.
He was going away, but he would never forget this place and all this - he means India - for it had given him the most beautiful gift of his life. "You". He thanks her profusely, saying that the happiness she had given him was more than he had ever experienced before.
He had wanted - and here he smiles, saying 'selfish hoon na' - to meet her once more before leaving, just to see her one last time. Today had been a good day for him, since he had been able to meet her here.
He then tells her that some people from the office would be coming to meet her the next day; he had executed a Power of Attorney in her favour and made over the control of the company to her (so that she could run it in his absence) because there was no one else here whom he could trust.
At this point, the CVs give Purvi, who is otherwise looking stricken and ready to cry any second, a fit of foot in the mouth. She says, in her standard abrupt tone, that though she has worked in the company for some years, she has her principles (usool), and she cannot depart from them. I do not know what she was supposed to mean.
Arjun responds by saying that her problem was with him, and now that he would no longer be there to trouble her and torture her, there was no need for her to leave the company. He was sure she would look after it well.
He then tells her to take care of herself and turns to go. Purvi stands there as if turned to stone, and watches as Arjun turns at the car door for one last look at her, and then is driven off. Purvi is still standing there wiping a tear from her face.
You would agree that this is an incredibly generous speech. I was particularly struck by how hard he tries to make sure that Purvi does not feel guilty for not loving him.
Now the above is as close to a trancription of the scene as I could manage without watching the episode once again. However, the text gives NO idea of how wonderfully enacted it was. Mindblowing. Arjun is pitch perfect while making this speech - and it is practically a monologue, for Purvi never says anything except that once. He never becomes maudlin or excessively sentimental , while every shade of expression in his face, and every tone change in his voice, reinforce the pathos of what he cannot help feeling for her. He is self-deprecating and avoids the slightest note of tragedy, but that makes it all sadder to watch.
Purvi does not have as much scope, for the scene practically belongs to Arjun. But she pitches in well too despite this limitation. At the beginning, when he comes up to her, she looks hunted and ready to run away. But as the scene unfolds, her face looks more and more stricken and anguished; she does not know what to say or do in the face of a love so deep and so unselfish, and that comes thru clearly.
All in all, it was a tour de force; a very difficult scene made to seem easy.It went straight to one's heart.
The rest of the episode, apart from some blessedly warm (for a change) conversation between Manav and Archana, has only one important section. This is when Purvi, by now driven to desperation with all that Arjun had said to her ringing in her head, goes to Archana for advice. She invents a friend who was supposedly unable to confess her love for a man because of the way she was brought up ( for once she did not say 'middle class', obviously because Archana and she all belong there).What should she do?
She gets some good sense drilled into her head: that love is the most precious of gifts, and it should never be wasted. Purvi's (imaginary) friend should, Archana emphasises, acknowledge her love to the man who loved her, unless she wanted to spend the rest of her life regretting her not having done so, and thus having driven him away. it is at this point that the conversation shown in yesterday's precap comes up.
Purvi then gets up in great haste and leaves, saying she wanted to advise her 'friend' at once, lest it become too late.
Finally, in the precap,we see Purvi in the road, hunting for a cab, while Arjun is sitting in his car looking fondly at the (dhaba) picture of him and Purvi. The car begins to move and Purvi is still searching for a cab.
The scene shown on SBS will obviously be shown tomorrow. I did not regret that it did not come up today, however, for the Arjun-Purvi scene today was truly a marvellous one, and it would be difficult even for Purvi's confession scene tomorrow to top it. Ekta's writing team for the Arjun-Purvi track is something else again!
Shyamala B.Cowsik
It is at the mandir. Arjun has just finished tying the bell on the tree when he hears the temple sevak, who had earlier given him his bell, talking to Purvi. Purvi tries to leave without attracting his attention, but he goes after her and tells her that there is no need for her to go away like this.
He knows that she is trying to stay away from him, but he is in any case leaving India and going far away from her. All his life, he had been able to get whatever he wanted, but this was the one time when his heart sought something that he was unable to give it. He thanked Purvi for having made him realise that he was not God, and that he could not have everything he wanted. Aise thode hi hota hai ! He could not force her to love him, but neither could he stop himself from loving her.
He was going away, but he would never forget this place and all this - he means India - for it had given him the most beautiful gift of his life. "You". He thanks her profusely, saying that the happiness she had given him was more than he had ever experienced before.
He had wanted - and here he smiles, saying 'selfish hoon na' - to meet her once more before leaving, just to see her one last time. Today had been a good day for him, since he had been able to meet her here.
He then tells her that some people from the office would be coming to meet her the next day; he had executed a Power of Attorney in her favour and made over the control of the company to her (so that she could run it in his absence) because there was no one else here whom he could trust.
At this point, the CVs give Purvi, who is otherwise looking stricken and ready to cry any second, a fit of foot in the mouth. She says, in her standard abrupt tone, that though she has worked in the company for some years, she has her principles (usool), and she cannot depart from them. I do not know what she was supposed to mean.
Arjun responds by saying that her problem was with him, and now that he would no longer be there to trouble her and torture her, there was no need for her to leave the company. He was sure she would look after it well.
He then tells her to take care of herself and turns to go. Purvi stands there as if turned to stone, and watches as Arjun turns at the car door for one last look at her, and then is driven off. Purvi is still standing there wiping a tear from her face.
You would agree that this is an incredibly generous speech. I was particularly struck by how hard he tries to make sure that Purvi does not feel guilty for not loving him.
Now the above is as close to a trancription of the scene as I could manage without watching the episode once again. However, the text gives NO idea of how wonderfully enacted it was. Mindblowing. Arjun is pitch perfect while making this speech - and it is practically a monologue, for Purvi never says anything except that once. He never becomes maudlin or excessively sentimental , while every shade of expression in his face, and every tone change in his voice, reinforce the pathos of what he cannot help feeling for her. He is self-deprecating and avoids the slightest note of tragedy, but that makes it all sadder to watch.
Purvi does not have as much scope, for the scene practically belongs to Arjun. But she pitches in well too despite this limitation. At the beginning, when he comes up to her, she looks hunted and ready to run away. But as the scene unfolds, her face looks more and more stricken and anguished; she does not know what to say or do in the face of a love so deep and so unselfish, and that comes thru clearly.
All in all, it was a tour de force; a very difficult scene made to seem easy.It went straight to one's heart.
The rest of the episode, apart from some blessedly warm (for a change) conversation between Manav and Archana, has only one important section. This is when Purvi, by now driven to desperation with all that Arjun had said to her ringing in her head, goes to Archana for advice. She invents a friend who was supposedly unable to confess her love for a man because of the way she was brought up ( for once she did not say 'middle class', obviously because Archana and she all belong there).What should she do?
She gets some good sense drilled into her head: that love is the most precious of gifts, and it should never be wasted. Purvi's (imaginary) friend should, Archana emphasises, acknowledge her love to the man who loved her, unless she wanted to spend the rest of her life regretting her not having done so, and thus having driven him away. it is at this point that the conversation shown in yesterday's precap comes up.
Purvi then gets up in great haste and leaves, saying she wanted to advise her 'friend' at once, lest it become too late.
Finally, in the precap,we see Purvi in the road, hunting for a cab, while Arjun is sitting in his car looking fondly at the (dhaba) picture of him and Purvi. The car begins to move and Purvi is still searching for a cab.
The scene shown on SBS will obviously be shown tomorrow. I did not regret that it did not come up today, however, for the Arjun-Purvi scene today was truly a marvellous one, and it would be difficult even for Purvi's confession scene tomorrow to top it. Ekta's writing team for the Arjun-Purvi track is something else again!
Shyamala B.Cowsik
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