Trish is, with justification, lamenting the breaking up of ArVi. After seeing today's episode, and the show Purvi put up, I feel that it is better that way. The sad part is that it will NOT stay that way, it will be resurrected, patched together, and passed off as Pavitra Rishta II. But it will be a shabby, refurbished rishta at best; broken china can be glued together, but the cracks always show.
Purvi got on my nerves so much today it was all that I could do to last thru the segment.She was infinitely worse than after his confession; now she thinks she can be as rude as possible to him since he has shown her his weakness for her. There was not an iota of understanding for Arjun's obvious misery and his pathetic attempts to get her to listen to him. She was so relentlessly aggressive that he seemed to lose his nerve completely and did not manage to say even a fraction of what he could and should have told her.
Not that she would have listened She was hellbent on hectoring him, did not let him get a word in edgeways, lambasted him in high decibels, and finally announced in stentorian tones that she had not come there to listen to him, but "mera faisla sunane ke liye. To kan kholke suno". (I have come to announce my decision, so listen carefully). She treated him as if he was a beggar at her door, and the way he pleaded with her still even in the face of such treatment, he probably deserves it.
There was none of the talk of a sacrifice for Ovi that we had expected, only an unending and unrelenting stream of vituperation. Her arrogance and harshness were unbelievable. After this, as far as I am concerned, it is not a question of whether Arjun should or should not say "I love you" to her while looking at Ovi. He should not say it at all. What she deserves (for she does not deserve Arjun any more) is for him to actually get married to Ovi, who at least loves him and will be kind and affectionate to him. How long can a man take this kind of ill treatment and still run after woman? It is totally demeaning. If I had been Arjun I would have said, enough is enough, and got out of this mess pronto.
But of course he is not going to do that. He seems to be blind, deaf and dumb where she is concerned: blind because he cannot see anything beyond her, deaf to even the worst insults she hurls at him, and dumb because today he became terminally inarticulate and did not manage a single cohesive sentence; he did not even tell her he has already spoken to his dad. Not that she would have paid any attention even to that.
So, when Ovi chews Purvi out tomorrow at the restaurant, I will be applauding, not because it was the proper thing for Ovi to do, but because I think Purvi deserves it for her behaviour towards poor Arjun today.
It is all of a piece; I always felt that Purvi had a tendency to bully those she can, like Vinay (before the MMS scene) and Arjun. She is continuing in the same vein now, and because Arjun is so guilt-ridden, he does not snap back and tell her where to get off.
I do not know how much of Archana's sanskar Purvi has absorbed; Archana would never have handled this situation the way Purvi does. And I don't buy the argument that her harshness is meant to push Arjun away from her.
I never dreamt that I would welcome a shift from Arjun-Purvi to scenes of Ovi and Teju or Manav and Archana, but that was exactly how it was. And if we have a few episodes sans Arjun (who will be in the depths of despair, staring at Aashana's photo for inspiration, with Hai Rabba playing in the background) or Purvi (staring into space with a long face), I shall be more than glad. Anything but these horrible scenes between a virago in full force and a man who seems to be a glutton for punishment, the more he gets of it the more determined he seems to not let go of her and to get some more.
Purvi has announced also that from now on, there is no relationship between them, she does not know him and she does not talk to strangers, and he better not dare to meet her or talk to her. I hope this means that she will tear up the PoA and sit at home listening to her aai and her aaji sing praises of Ovi and cosset her every chance they get.
That way, Arjun will at least be spared the misery of having her around him. If he has so little self-respect as to set himself up for any more such scenes with her, I shall wash my hands off him. It is all right, as Archana (our Archana) said so well, to put up with humiliation, rejection, pain, for love. But there are limits to everything, and today, we have reached the limit.
Romeo and Juliet this pair is not, and there is no chance of a tragic end either, so I am now stuck with this distortion of a love story. This, it seems to me, is going to be the real Tar Baby, for the two HAVE to end up together, and so God knows how many more such ugly episodes we shall have to endure. By the time it all pans out, the magic would have long vanished, and I shall be glad to be liberated from Arjun-Purvi and from PR.
I am very sorry if I sound almost as vituperative as Purvi was today, and the above gets on your nerves. There must be many of you who can find excuses for what Purvi did today, and you have every right to do so. I apologise if I upset any of you, but to me, the scene between them today was truly intolerable. Nothing excuses such behaviour, nothing at all – whether it was Purvi's shrill shrewishness or Arjun's appalling spinelessness.
Shyamala B.Cowsik
Naagin 7
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