IP REDUX; Nutcracker !!

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but no one in Raizada mansion believes in this, infact they are full in support to the glass dreams which Anjali has, the brother in Arnav, is bleeding with pain looking his support system crumble, he is scared, lost for the only mother figure is disintegrating and then finally Anajli asks him, cries in his lap and she is blinded by her perfect world and the illusions and unknowingly she nudges him in a direction which is incorrect

I realised anji tonite asked chote restore her/our world to glory at the cost of his life/love. The price for her happiness is his life/ dreams and she very conviently has asked him to restore that without realising that he mite have to pay a pound of his own flesh, infact I am sure she knows this but she doesnt want accept the truth and hence the blindfold of the perfect world illusion

This is the only lines which came to my mind when I saw Arnav unleashing a torment of pain. anger to khushi, hasnt he learnt until now that this gal carries a golden heart arnd which can not see anyone in pain, and for her if someone gives an ounce of love she returns in 10fold and tonite she had done the same and this was same Arnav who a few hrs back wanted to do anything for just a smile on her face and than he lashes out like a animal in pain, who has crushed her with his own claws, he was broken, disgusted with himself tonite for not able to fix his Di world, A brother who has lived bt the adage " Main Di ki Khushi ke liye Apni Khushi Kurbaan kar doonga" A man wh has lived by " ASR kuch bhi kar sakta hai" "Arnav Singh Raizada Apni Kistmat Khud banata hai" Tonite he cant fix the world for his Di, the helpness the pain is eating his soul and in comes his lil miss sunshine who has opened the world to the Truth of light, Like a child who is afraid to face his fear, Arnav is scared to loose his Di and he lashes to Khushi...

Tonite he is frustrated for being a Man of the house, who is used to shoulder all the resposiblities A tough exterior and a Hard head but MS Sunshine has introduced him to the heart in him, the child in him who needs support assurance and has been gving him that since she came into his life, she has cracked the shakles holding his heart and for the first time he is failing to fix his world, the world has to accept the Truth and there is no way out yet he cant force the truth and so he is burning & the heat burnt the sunshine,

He uttered the most disgusting thing ever,

I wish destiny would hv been different had he not been there, khushi would hv never meet Shyam, her life her dreams would hv been so different, I wish khushi would hv given him a equal or a better bitter answer But Khushi my Golden Gal has always been a self sacrificing piegon, she takes all blows, A heart broken crushed once agn..

"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."
--Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

She falls, everytime when she has found him, he himself has made a effort to loose him, he is nastier than bile and each time after this he has been gentle but tonite he crossed the line of being a man/ lover.

Arnav as man has been strong who looks aheads , the past has been left where in belongs

Khushi is strong, she has accepted what fate has given her, she believes in moving ahead for the sake of her loved ones, she forgets and forgive,

but both of them are broken somewhere which they hide from the world and have been able to raech that hurt heart, they heal each other and they fulfull each other.

A man like Arnav for a moment has closed his eyes and behaved like an ostrich, the cost for this act will be so high has he imagined no,

He would hv to learn to balance the world with the two axis he has now, he wasnt forced to take it, he took it by choice now he has to live it ,,,,

Tonite no one would like to be in the shoes of ARNAV/ASR bcz he is in a tough spot. My heart went out for his agony for the first time in his life someone had loved him unconditionally & undemandingly and he is on the verge on loosing it

& The Drive bought the him the realisation what he was abt to loose, what he lost and agn what he had nearly lost, the moment his consiocus touch the nearly lost, he knows he had done a grave mistake tonite, he has nearly done the very same thing which lead to nearly lost and he decides to head back home,

In the past we have seen Arnav always realised that he had hurt khushi, whenevr he did it and he went to chck upon her but never tendered a apology to her, in case he did apologise it was silent a gesture which she always whole heartedly accepted but tonite he is heading back home, to her

My hope he apologies, infact he grovels before she forgives him.

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She was already embarking on a journey of guilt trip. Khushi is that sort of a person who bends behind her back to keep everyone happy. That's her given nature. Her characteristic trait. Selfless to core or can be self pleasure quotient here. If everyone around her have a happy smile on their face, she smiles naturally. And if her radar picks up any distress signal, there she goes with her ammunitions intact to solve the problem. May be at the cost of sparing her own happiness to the extent of giving up her life. And today the pivot on which her life balances, the man who she deeply loves, the center of her small universe, the only person on whose shoulder she shares her burden and only source which enlivens her dark space literally questioned her reason for existence. She was accused of ruining his sister's life because a pervert lusted after her. She was said had she not crossed the path with the love of her life, his sister's happiness could be intact. All this while not even giving her a chance to explain herself.

The girl's very soul ripped .It was shredded into pieces which is beyond recognition that it once was a crystal soul. It was a sure shot death knell. She could have any day preferred death then stand there and listen to those noxious words. Sometimes physical injury can be dealt with but not mentally inflicted wounds. Because physical injuries heal. But not mental wounds. It takes a great deal of effort to forgive when abused for no reason. When you are a victim but you are put in the bracket of suspect. Its like she is seeking validation about herself. Tell me who I am. Tell me what am I worth. Because she truly loved him and she knows he truly loves her. This time she was very confident that he loved her and she didn't fool herself. She also knows that he gives himself to anger more often than not.

And thus the road for redemption to Mr.Arnav Singh Raizada opens. But this time he literally has to crawl on his knees on a stony and thorny path to win her back.

But as Gandhiji said

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

-Mahatma Gandhi.

She will forgive him because she in a league of her own.

The episode was good, Anjali as usual in denial, and wanting to be saved from her confusion. Clues: not paying the auto-wallah, her voice going softer, unsure, and hesitant when the doctor repeatedly tells her that she doesn't really want to abort the child.

Khushi, the ever genuine, emotional girl preaches what she practices to Anjali - that one should move forward, and not backward, that one should think about others too and not just about ones own self, that life is for living in the present and not in the past.

Khushi is doing what the RM members should have done ages and ages back... make Anjali come face to face with reality! Khushi knows how to face and tackle reality, it would be cool if she taught Anjali some tricks of the trade to face reality/truth head on, challenge it, and overcome it!! Today Khushi did just that... albeit unintentionally... it's just Khushi's motto/way of living life to look forward and not backward - and says the same to Anjali.

On the day after the day when everything went to hell in a basket for Anjali Jha, Arnav had a cutsie-footsie moment with wifey. And he asked her to walk towards him and with him as they explored this thing called love (and) marriage. He was starting to take his first steps away from Mommy.

Only he didn't know he was going to get waylaid by the Queen Bee when he came home that evening. She was not in the hive!

The newbie (new bee) had come in and talked to her, wanting to help her heal. All she heard (again, she suffers from selective deafness) is that this baby is the cause of all her problems. Somewhere she has registered that her brother has not revealed all to her because of the baby. The Queen Bee is on the verge of a mental breakdown - heck I think she is already having one, and the entire bee hive is buzzing and frantic because they dont know what to do. Once more they make the wrong decision, blame the two outsiders because that will keep her happy!

Meanwhile baby bro finds her with a blunt pair of scissors (sorry they were rusty!) ready to do...what? Stab herself in the stomach with it? Nope. That is not how the Queen plays the game. Bro finds her, tries to stop her and what comes out of her mouth are as cliched as cliches can be.

Because as soon as little bro comes in, she knows that she has won the game. She allows him to hold her - remember she had withdrawn when he had approached her last night. She clings to him.

He takes her home, and the whole hive gathers around her - with the two newbies standing apart and looking lost. The Queen has been reinstated in the hive and in her brother's life.

He is now allowed to carry her to her bed. That is how much he is in her favour. And poor little bro is once again twisted round her long elegant fingers. Their conversation brings a bad taste to the mouth. Her pleading with him to get back her husband. 'Can you do me one favour?' (Get back the man into the house who almost killed your own brother? Woman, what is WRONG with you?). She wants her hive to be the way it was before. Her brother was right, she is the one who lives in the past! She asks him - 'Who's the reason why we are where we are today? Who is the reason why all our happiness is shattered?' If you can get Shyam to come back - ergo send Khushi away - then things will be back to normal.

Notice her questions are all directed OUTSIDE of her. Never for a moment does she ask, why did I not see anything? She hasn't come to the point of self-realization. All her brother can do is say 'i'm sorry'.

Back in his room, alone, he probably has his sister's words still ringing in his ears.. Make things as they were, then I will not be so sad anymore and you will not be so sad anymore, because your happiness lies in me being happy. Khushi Kumari Gupta is no longer even a part of the equation.

He is interrupted by the dowager-lady-in-waiting - Mamiji, who wastes no time in pointing fingers at Phatti Sari for the day's debacle. The poor man has gone through a rough 15/16 days and now this.

Arnav Singh Raizada never thinks with his head when it comes to his sister and his wife (or whatever it was that she was before). He not only suffers from amnesia, he also forgets to think when he is emotional. And so he finds little wifey and drags her out to the pool side where not so many hours ago, he was playing cutsie-footsie with the same wife. This time he is furious, because right now he is in brother mode. He forgets that he has a husband mode too. Too late, he slips into the familiar vicious cycle of abusing her first and regretting it later. 'I wish I'd never met you'. In a calmer moment, he will be the first to admit that things would have turned out worse had Khushi never entered his life. And the hateful hate-filled words have been said.

For now, the little boy who walked into his mommy's room this morning is back. Arnav has regressed into ASR again. He takes the finger that his sister had pointed at her, then Mamiji had and joins with them to continue to point it at Khushi. The thinking husband of a day ago has vanished. In his place is the brother - an angry, sad, confused, bewildered brother.

Theirs has always been a volatile equation. Volcano and Tornado. She has her tears. He has his long drive, They dont talk when they burn. For him, its been two agony packed days. And he remembers how his sister first threatened to harm herself and her baby - just to get her husband back. How his mother died on that same sister's first marriage night. How he told Khushi 'I love you' and how Khushi reciprocated that love - with actions - she almost gave her life for him not once but twice. Regret sets in. He must go home. He has lost the first test of his balancing act.

In defence of those that bashed ASR today - he deserved it. But...

And this is a BIG but - remember he is still new to the whole marriage thing, with the added element of love. He's never been in love before. He doesn't know how to act - because he doesn't know the game - at all. Period. It was he who played the farq padta hai game, it was he who played the I can do it better than you games. And although she played along with him - when it was time to call a halt, she did. He still has to understand that with Khushi there are no games. Which is why he lost every time! She is all heart and everything is upfront.

The Queen Bee sitting in her gorgeous cell has played the game and won this round. The worker bee is humming around her.

But, he has to call a stop to the game, before he loses a bigger one. He has to grow up and let go his mama's umbilical cord. He has to learn to take baby steps away from his mama, before he can ask Khushi to take them with him towards a newer, happier life.

Also for those of you who think I am increasingly cynical about the Queen Bee - I am.. Because I am waiting for her to self-realization and acceptance - that she was the one who was used and abused.

Enjoy..

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Three people, Three lives and all on a route that is curved because of one person. An episode that conveyed intensity wrapped in emotions.

A man who has claimed to lost his conscious, a man who had never given much importance to anything besides his sister, a man who had promised to sacrifice his happiness for his sister, a man who is in today because of his cruel past.

Just a day before his wife has died in his arms. Her cold, lifeless form had laid in his warm arms and the only thing that brought her back was the power of her love for him and his love for him. Today, he once again witnessed his sister putting her life in danger. A lump formed in his throat again and once again he saved the most important woman in his life.

And Arnav Singh Raizada chooses none other than his Mami to ask the reason of Anjali leaving. Mami, true to her nature blurts out the truth fully aware that Khushi does everything out of good heart. The heart that has just witnessed the breaking down of his sister is reclined completely towards her.

The anger builds up and he lashes out on Khushi. It is not only that he is angry but also sad, sad that love for her has turned him into a man like this. That if only he could use her as a bait more and all that is between them doesn't exist.

A man who never believed in love and thought of it merely as a destruction would obviously lash out on his love in the same way but later to realize that maybe love isn't really all destruction. that maybe there's another side of love thats comforting and healing.

The episode was lovely and well sketched. i loved the build up and the start of redemption for Arnav. I honestly have more to say but the words seem to have stopped coming. Maybe I should try updating earlier. Concluding the fact that episode was brilliant.

It poured our sympathy for all three characters and obviously made us hate Shyam more for what he had done to these lives.

"So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."
? E.A. Bucchianeri

Anjali Manohar Jha

A woman to whom her husband was GOD.. A woman who did everything in her power to keep her world intact.. who prayed day in and day out to keep her husband safe and remain by her side.. Who wanted to spend her life with him FOREVER and for all ETERNITY.. wanted him to be her husband.. not only in this lifetime but every birth she was given

She dreamed of a family.. her PERFECT family.. She, her HUSBAND and their baby..

Her dreams were shattered.. Her world broke.. Her HUSBAND was cast away from her life, leaving her and her baby alone.. She was left alone on an ISLAND with no land in sight.. How far was she supposed to swim in the ocean in search of land..

How will she bring this baby in to the world? What will she tell her baby that her father was hated and disrespected by all? How will she survive that? How will the baby survive that? Who will accept them.. All these questions clogged her brain.. And she reached a decision..

Either she will have her WORLD back.. or she will have NOTHING..

In this moment of despair, she turns to one person whom she can always rely on.. One person who has vowed time and again to keep her safe.. One person for whom her happiness is the ONLY reality.. And she asks him for one thing that broke HIS HEART..

She knows, he is the only one who can right the wrongs.. the only one who can bring the happiness back to her world.. The only one who can mend the pieces.. in her selfish desire to cling to her past.. she did not spare a second's thought, what she was asking him to do.. She did not recall what her husband was accused of.. All that matters was, that her world was stitched back..

What did love for her husband bring her?? GRIEF..

Daljeet Banot: Awesome acting.. Lifeless, empty in a moment.. to raging, desperate, in the next.. Pleading, begging, broken.. 👏👏

Arnav Singh Raizada

He has come face to face with his deepest fears over the past few days..

Today he saw his Di hell bent on taking away her life for what he did to her husband.. His action to protect his sister, led his sister to inflict harm upon herself.. He whose whole world is his di, was again faced with the threat of losing that world..

His heart broke thrice in a matter of hours.. First when he saw her sister break down in the clinic.. her grief so profound that his very soul cried for her.. Second when his Di asked him to do one thing for her.. Bring back her SHYAM Ji.. Bring back the person who was the reason for his sorrow.. Bring back the person who was responsible for his recent brush with death..Bring back the person who was the reason he almost lost his LOVE, his WIFE.. Bring back the person who does not love her, only her money.. Bring back the person who would have left her in the blink of a moment.. How can he give her this wish when he knows that it will only bring more sorrows? How can he let such an amorale person in his sister's life whom swore to protect forever..

Third, when he lashed out on his wife.. not able to think clearly, holding her responsible for his di's actions.. Tells her that she is in fact responsible for everything that is happening..

"Yeh sab tumhaari wajah se hua hai, jabse tum aayee ho tab se..tum meri zindagi mein aayee kyun? Main tumse mila hi kyun? Sab kuch kitna achcha tha.. Aur sabse important baat.. Di khush thi.. Sab tumhaari galti hai Khushi..Kyunki agar tum nahi aati, to Shyam aisi harqat na karta.. Aur di aaj bhi khush hoti..

It's the biggest mistake of my life Khushi Kumari Gupta.. Kaash main tumse kabhi mila hi nahi hota.."

He said the words and left the house to clear his mind.. 3 memories haunting him..

What his sister almost did to herself in her grief..

What his mother had done to herself..

What his wife did to trigger her di into this? And What his wife had gone through to get him home safely.. I loved this flashback particularly.. He remembered every moment spent with her after he was kidnapped..

The first time he acknowledged his love for her..

Her overwhelming relief when she hugged him after she found him..

He shielded her, protected her in his arms..

She protected him from hurting himself..

Both fighting to be with each other..

The moment she was falling down the cliff..

The time when she was lifeless in his arms..

and finally what he said to her today.. "tum meri zindagi mein aayee kyun? Yeh sab tumhaari wajah se hua hai" and how severely his words must have hurt her..

He realises his fault and turns back to go home..

What did love for his wife and sister bring him?? A place in life where whatever step he takes, he will risk losing one of them.. How can he let Di go who is his world... And how can he let Khushi go, who is his very heart and soul..

Barun Sobti: ⭐️⭐️you leave me speechless every time.. Broken at your sister's pain, your grief, helplessness.. Surprise and confusion at what mami was saying.. and iron hot anger at Khushi's fault.. AMAZING!!! then the fear and pain in the SUV, and painful realisatoin of what u have done again in your anger.. 👏👏👏

Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada became Khushi Kumari Gupta

This girls heart has been breaking ever since the day she got married.. On the day of her marriage, she was dreaming about being united with her rajkumar.. but all she got was a union with the shaitaan..

She constantly tried hard to glue the pieces back and was succeeding in her efforts till she came to know the reason behind her hasty marriage.. A reason and an accusation she could not bear.. Cos the moment she heard the truth she realised 2 things.. Her silence in the past was the reason for her husband's heart ache.. and that she loved her husband' Knowing this her heart broke once again..

Then her husband told her he loved her.. and she realised though he loved her, he was lost to her.. He was in grave danger.. and she moved heaven and earth to get him back safely' She brought him back safely, only to do one thing she never wanted to do.. break the family.. telling them the truth behind the face of SHYAM MANOHAR JHA, which hurt everyone to the core.. and one person, Anjali Manohar Jha the most..

She still carried on bravely because if her heart was breaking in one corner, her husband was mending it at the same time.. His trust in her.. and his admission that she was one of the 2 most important person in his life.. mended her heart..

Only to be broken into a MILLION pieces.. With no idea where the pieces fell.. She told him that she did everything because she cares about di as much as he does.. Loves her as much as he does.. But he said something that shattered her heart beyond repair and mending'

"tum meri zindagi mein aayee kyun? Main tumse mila hi kyun? Sab tumhaari galti hai Khushi..Kyunki agar tum nahi aati, to Shyam aisi harqat nahi karta.. Aur di aaj bhi khush hoti.. It's the biggest mistake of my life Khushi Kumari Gupta.. Kaash main tumse kabhi mila hi nahi hota.."

In one sentence he ripped her soul apart.. She who was surviving this ordeal only because he was with her.. because she could lean on him.. In a moment he separated her from himself.. She became Khushi Kumari Gupta from Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada.. A title though was unwelcome in the beginning had become her identity.. She was proud to be his wife.. A person who wanted her to learn to walk with him, has now asked her to walk away from him..

She could have withstood anything but going away from him.. She could have tolerated anything but being responsible for his sorrows, misery and being the biggest mistake of his life?? She can bear anything except being the reason for his pain.. And there by the poolside where they had time and again said I love you in their language, not in so many words.. which was a witness of their growing bonds.. She broke down.. letting the pieces of her heart fall to the ground.. Pained beyond belief to be the cause of his emotional hell..

What did love for her husband and everyone else bring her?? GRIEF.. multiple heart breaks.. Every time she gets up, someone trips her.. and she falls down, to pick herself again..