Today's episode had made me think very deeply about what has happened regarding the "big lie" that Aarti was struggling wth all these days. She did not know whether to tell Yash or not that she was a divorcee and not a widow. The Creatives of the serial also put this out as a question to the audience. And from the precap today we hear from Aarti herself that the audience reaction gave her the courage and new direction for her life.
From this we have to assume that the audiences reaction was largely that Aarti should not tell Yash her background. And therefore between them all – Shobha, Aarti and Dubey and the Creatives – they have all done a virtual "antim sanskaar" of Prashanth so that Aarti can be "morally" considered a "widow" in a greater sense than before.
Not only has Shobha literally done the last rites of her son with that pot of water, but she has also told Aarti that the falling and breaking of that windchime is an omen from the Pir Baba that Prashanth is dead, for all intents and purposes!
I am at this stage worrying over three big questions in my mind. Here they are!
1. HAS PRASHANTH NOT ONLY BEEN FINISHED OFF FROM AARTI'S LIFE, BUT HAS HE BEEN FINISHED OFF FROM THE SERIAL ITSELF?
2. IF PRASHANTH IS TO CONTINUE IN THE SERIAL, WILL HE NOW MORPH INTO A WORSE MONSTER AS A RESULT OF ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED?
3. WOULD REVEALING THE "LIE" HAVE BEEN EASIER AS A SHORT TERM PROBLEM, RATHER THAN HANDLING PRASHANTH AS A LONGTERM PROBLEM?
Though the Creatives want us to audiences to feel that they have listened to popular opinion and taken this step of conducting Prashanth's last rites and declared him "dead", I am personally wondering if he has been finished off from the story itself (i.e. he will be gaayab hereafter) or whether he will continue to be in the storyline.
And if he is going to continue in the storyline, I am wondering if somehow all that happened yesterday and today to Prashanth will put Aarti's life with Yash even more in danger than before!
Can it be that telling Yash about the "talaaqshuda" lie would have been easier and better for Aarti? If the lie had come out maybe there would have been some turbulence in the Punar Vivah, but things could have been solved within their family unit by just the two people Aarti and Yash. The problem would have been short term and not long term.
Now I fear that the lives of Aarti and Yash will have to live long term with the presence of a third entity constantly baying for their blood: Prashanth!
Shobha and Aarti have, I feel, now succeeded in re-creating Prashanth into an even bigger and worse monster than ever before. Part of it was Prashanth's own overstepping of the lines of decency. Part of it was Shobha and Aarti's humiliation and "writing him off". And part of it was Dubey's few but forthright words that told Prashanth in no uncertain terms that even his father has now turned against him.
So far, this Prashanth was just a mean-minded man who had ill-treated Aarti and shamed his parents. But after so many words were exchanged yesterday and today, and after the humiliations of two tight slaps, and after the questioning of his moral quotient, his manhood and his very existence by both Aarti and Shobha, Prashanth has become an "destruction-minded active enemy".
This change that has now come over Prashanth is not a small change to be ignored. There is a very thin line between a man who is "merely mean-minded" and a man who is "actively destruction-minded", and today Prashanth has been allowed to cross that line. This is not at all good for the marriage of Yash and Aarti.
My feeling is that Aarti may have been saved from revealing that "big lie" to Yash, but she may have acquired something of even greater danger: an enemy for life!
If Prashanth had remained a bad but benign presence in the past life of Aarti, it would have been sufficient if Aarti had told Yash about her status as a divorcee and not a widow, and once that lie had been patched over, Aarti's life could have been peaceful.
But now, I fear Prashanth is going to be hell-bent on the destruction of everything Aarti holds as precious. And his thirst for revenge and his active hatred of Aarti may never be quenched. In fact he may become a constant and continuous presence in the lives of Aarti and Yash, and he is going to leave no stone unturned to spoil their lives. I can say, "ruining Aarti's life" will now become Prashanth's mission!
This is how Fate sometimes turns what is "ordinarily bad" into something that is "spectacularly and eternally sour".
I fear that as a result of Prashanth's own self-goals, and then Shobha and Aarti's humiliation of Prashanth, and the unfavourable comparison of Prashanth with Yash, they have created a monster that may keep on eating all their lives without respite!
Edited by skanda12 - 13 years ago