for a glimpse of you.
My beloved, since You parted from me,
I have never had a moment's peace
When I hear thy voice
my heart beats faster
for your voice is so sweet
I gaze fixedly at the path which you will come by,
Each night without Thee seems like six months..
To whom shall I express my sorrow?
cutting through my heart?
Meera says, Oh my Lord, when will You meet me again!
Today was a fantastic episode ...or perhaps made fantastic after the the weak episodes telecast so far ...An episode which made U sympathetic to both Shyam and Khushi ...
A Man about to be torn asunder bec of his Obsession, Khushi who is abou to gain her love braving the darkness surrounding her, braving the evil which has touched her , is trying to corrupt her but the powerful beacon of Love keeps her pure, Her devotion to Arnav cleanses her of any slurs or taints that is cast about on her body, Her tears washing off her sins ...She is a Jogan in search of her Kanha ..She is the Meera in search of her Arnav , lost in the world of her Arnav, oblivious of the derision of her near ones, ignorant of the peril that lurks close by, impervious of the .. Her eyes seeking only her Krishna, Her heart longing to hear the loving voice of her Murari , Her soul wanting to be entwined with the soul of Arnav , to become one with him, attuned to him, lost in him, his love..her love transcending dimensions ...There she sits at his foot...awaiting his arrival , sure of her love , confident about their love ..
Detailed Analysis
Will, Knowledge,Action...The 3 points of Trident ,Khushi,Maami and NK ..yes, the weapon is being readied and deployed as we saw from the opening scene ... Knowledge is a dangerous thing to possess , It can save or destroy life...Maami is that dangerous powder Keg who might actually cause a immense explosion destroying many lifes , The Knowledge has to handled tactfully , with respect and firmness for it to be effective and that calls for will, a strong will that will rein in the knowledge , to be deployed at a later date ..when the knowledge has been contained time comes for action, time for the next step to reach their goal ..Action will take care of it...This was exemplified in the opening scene between the three , Khushi [Will] controlling the flow of Knowledge [Mami], and action [ NK] resuming its work as soon as the the threat is contained...
Mami leaves but does she go into the night quietly..No she says one sentence, one ominous sentence.. "She will not rest until she unearths the truth"..The Devil's advocate at play here, Why am I saying Devils Advocate and not Trident ...Note the positioning when she says so ... She is away from the other two points of the trident, She stands independent , right at the door, neither going out nor coming in, She has kept a open front ..her back is not turned to Khushi/NK nor to the truth that lies outside the room...There she stands , alone, independent, impartial as she collates her own evidence, uninfluenced by events , guided only by the passion to root out the truth...A force to be reckoned !!
Shyam sits ensconced n his room, unaware that the first kindle to his destruction has been lit , In the security of his room, he sits unconscious of the eye that sees it all, unenlightened that his deception will not remain in the dark any longer..The voice is weak still but the mask he had been wearing has begun to disintegrate and the picture has begun to get clearer !!
When NK came into the room, excitedly calling out to Khushi to switch on the lap top and informing Khushi that They are connected to Shyamu ..I was unaccountably taken to Labyrinth ..I think it was in Labyrinth that I had mentioned that Khushi was lost in a Maze , today she has found the string that will lead her out of the convoluted maze... the invisible string that had kept her fate twined with Shyam, A string that will release her from him ..
Tiny Tiny..Tinytots ..Yes, they will be the Brahma astra that will finally vanquish the evil Shyam , send him to the point of insanity , ridding the Raizada's of the menace of Shyam ...
Chottu sa camera which was provided by security ...which will clear the hazy mist clouding the eyes and the mind of the inhabitants ..would it be the baby or the Arnav...me thinks it will be Arnav/Chotte who will be the person who will clear the suspicion and the misjudgements providing the security to Khushi...
Shyam sits on the chair , His hands poised over the keys , Keys which hold the seed to his destruction ...Drunk on his own ego, fed by the apparent conquest of a forbidden fruit and with a junkies craving to see the the objects of his conquest..Shyam types in the fatal words which will provide the keys to his vault, Vault which has kept his secret face hidden, A vault which store many of his heinous crimes ...
When Shyam sits so comfortably and types the password... I was like , there U go, Shyam...U have unlocked the key to ur Doom ... U have given the first proof of Khushi's innocence !! ILOVEYOUKHUSHI ...The Mantra that will spell the end of Shyam ..There he sits in front of the laptop..wealth and lass in his grasp or so he thinks but little does he realize that the chain that he is wearing around the neck will turn into a noose that is going to strangle him...
I dunno whether Doods had associated Khushi with the WILL [yet to read the analysis 😳 ] ..But when we were chatting online and she used to tell me the episode highlights or the messages ..I would be passing my own comments based on the description she would give me and whilst during one of our chit chats.. she was speaking about the Havan episode and told me that today there was a Triangle shot * Doods knows my love for Triangle 😆 and how much I love to pontificate on it * ..Luckily for me, that was the day, I had watched the episode intermittently and the Havan seq uninterruptedly So when she said that Triangle shot had come into play, I was reluctant to jump in cos although she was indeed right that it was a triangle shot...I was not seeing the triangle for it reminded me of TRIDENT and I told her so ...There in I had Associated Khushi with WILL /drive ..Today when I saw Shyam holding onto Devi Mayya's pendent and saying I Love You Khushi n looking at WILL in bold letters ... I was taken to that day ..Yes, Khushi the Devi Mayya's daughter will be the one who will lead him to his inglorious ...The WILL stands before him, A wall to his ambition, but the pendent has thrown a mist of illusion in front of him that he stays there lulled into complacency as the key holding his treasure slips down and falls the way his chain fell on that day !!
I also loved the part of Ghadi or the time...Time is drawing closer for Shyam , Time is drawing closer for Arnav..Time has begun to tick !! Shyam is caught in the quicksands of time !!
The fact that Shyam utters the words I Love U khushi will definitely go against him when he is defending himself for Khushi did not force him to state that and it was his own will..Haven't we been saying that Shyam always overplays his hands and the I Love U K was one such instance ...
Sanaya Irani was adequate when comprehension dawns on what Shyam has actually written ...
Loved the fact that it is Mami who opens the Box or can of worms ...
Meanwhile here in the other room, Khushi finally is laying out another layer of truth to NK ... She reveals to NK that Shyam has been making advances and she had to stay quiet bec of Anjali ...Khushi has also made Nk aware that there are problems between Arnav and Khushi solely due to the meddling of Shyam ... NK's typical reaction ..Lets go to the Police !!
The witness is being primed with truth..There is some one besides Arnav who knows the truth about Shyam-Khushi dynamics ...The ever sensible, sharp, perceptive NK.. who will be the voice of reason when tempers run high who will defuse the situation with his sane, grounded counsel.. A Man who is not afraid of Arnav !! ..NK also witnesses the depth of love for Arnav and the revulsion of Khushi towards Shyam ** SI could have done much better IMO **
The fate of Shyam has been revealed in this sequence as also the fact that Khushi holds Shyam as the culprit and does not hold Arnav as a man who caused her grief ..
The Brief interlude of PAYASH ..with their talk on Party and getting ready on 8..The Number of party has increased has it, Akash..parties or Parleys !! and the 8 ..the slot is still kept reserved for U..Is it and U will not disappoint this time ..wah !! Dil Garden Garden Hogaya yeh Sunkar ...
Also the Number 8 stands for resurrection and regeneration ..resurrection of the Show and regeneration of the characters...
8 The Number that denotes new beginning ..of Paradise regained ..what follows 8..Khushi holding on to the gift of love from Arnav [ the chit] , tightly clasped to her bosom and walking past the doors of Shyam in an affected state ..Shyam observes her distress, follows her trails and neatly falls into the trap set by Khushi ...
Quite interesting progression of the scene ... what does Shyam say on the phone when Khushi walks by his door..."Rani Saheba, I am coming down" ..Down from the Titanic heights he had climbed , Down from the pedestal on which the Raizada People had placed him and who will lead him to his downfall ???Khushi Singh Raizada , a Woman in Love, A avenging Angel, A fury released ..The enchantress will lead the marked man to his doom and the doomed Man shall follow her beguiled !!
I remember telling long back in a post that Shyam will lead Khushi to Arnav , while Khushi will lead Shyam to his destruction and Arnav will lead them both through Fire .. The fire serving different purpose .One will be purified and the other will be annihilated ...Khushi will not be cast alone in that fire , Her Arnav will be there every step of the way ...
Khushi goes into the seemingly deserted room ,quickly followed by Shyam ..Khushi is outraged by the seeming callousness of the kidnapper, exclaims that she is unable to take the pressure anymore and has reached her limits ... She mourns the fact that she is all alone in this venture ..Predictably, Shyam reacts in the desired way ...
Aise Tohfe bhejne ka Kya matlab hai ..Jaise ki Arnav can send any gifts to ME, as if Arnav ever will think good for me !!
What I loved were the dialogues, the clever use of words and the picture it draws ..On one hand we have a genuinely distressed wife who wants her husband by her side at all costs and the hollow gifts is a scythe that cuts her heart to pieces while the words draw a different picture for Shyam who will understand that Arnav and Khushi never had the intimacy nor the closeness where there was any exchange of Gifts ..
The second aspect that I liked was the choice of color of Arnav's gift ..Color blue/Purple suggesting Royalty , the King Arnav Singh Raizada .. Shyam gifts Arnav to Khushi while Arnav gifts himself to Khushi !! Khushi clutches them both to her self cos both are precious to her !!
A few days back I had said that NK is the Lakshman, today we saw that Happening ..He was there .. Guarding her, protecting her , watching over her but not intruding into her privacy ..
The rejection of Shyam's kerchief, rejecting him and moving away from the revolting man ..
Hum Akele Padgaye ...How Ironic this was , until few days back.Arnav would be saying that You can't do everything alone Khushi and today she is using that as a weapon ..It was also an augury..Khushi has taken the onerous task of exposing Shyam ..as we saw Previously n the Haldi Rasam Episode ...She will save herself, her honor and her life from Shyam in the nick of time , just when shyam was on the verge of destroying it but Khushi has taken on more than she can chew ...The fall out of Shyam will not be limited to her only..It is a widening circle that will gradually pull in all the members , altering their life ... This reminded me of the GH track where Khushi takes on the huge task of repairing the Generator [family] but fails miserably ... it is then Arnav who has followed her , who picks up the tools and begin to rectify the errors , in the process he also removes the stain on Khushi acquired while cleaning the Generator ..Although the 'Alone " factor has been used as a weapon to draw in Shyam into the trap..it also presages that Arnav will work in tandem with Khushi ...
Khushi throws down the Gift and walks towards the bed and sits on it , Shyam goes by her side ..Khushi laments the fact that she has none with whom she can confide , none with whom she can share her grief ...Shyam, the obsessed man, immediately tries to assuage her feelings, reassure her that He is with her ...Khushi plays her card well
What I loved , loved very much was that it was happening in Arnav's room, the stronghold of the King so to speak ...The court-martial will happen in this very room , overseen by Arnav ...I absly loved the positioning of the characters ..Arnav on his fav reclining chair , where he normally is found *Glad that the CV's have not forgotten that *, Khushi on the bed and the condemned Man on His knees, bowing before the King & the Queen !!
It Begun with the Mobile Phone and the signal for the end has come with the introduction of the Mobile Phone back into the Picture ...The evidence are piling up against Shyam ..Shyam has many escape routes lined up but his very own glib tongue will prosecute him, His tongue has betrayed him and the words coming Out of the silver tongued mouth has been stored and has been heard by a third witness ...
Then comes the most damning statement which will indict Shyam .. His confession of Love and the fact that he will not let go of Anjali in a hurry when Shyam says "Kaash Aap Humari Mohabbat pehle ban pati" ..The confession with the presence of Arnav in the form of the chit in between them was Good..
The Last Shot but the finest shot according to Me ...Previously we saw Shyam bowed and humbled on his knees , at the Knees of Arnav & Khushi ... Now Khushi has given him more rope , has kept the enchantment on and he derives his solace from it, His confidence bolstered he walks away from her, Shutting the door leaving them alone ..What Does Khushi Do, ?? repulsed by the advances of a amoral Man, revulsion at her own self for stooping so low, helpless, devastated , yet a puppet in the hands of Love..She moves Blindly, unconsciously towards the recliner , The seat of her Lord !! The Man who holds the string to her happiness , the Man who has been installed in her Heart ...She goes towards him and SITS DOWN , below him , not on par with him but beneath HIM for she holds herself a sinner, a tainted woman and not an equal. The tears trying to wash the stains off her , Tears that will clear the eyes off her lover ..Tears that will redeem her .. ..She sits there,close to him .. her sanctuary ,her home awaiting her judgement , awaiting her master !! ..
My strength, my crown,
I am empty of virtues,
You, the ocean of them.
My heart's music, you help me
In my world-crossing.
You protected the king of the elephants.
You dissolve the fear of the terrified.
Where can I go? Save my honour
For I have dedicated myself to you
And now there is no one else for me.