"This was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own." ? Melissa de la Cruz, Lost in Time
Madhu's ultimate sacrifice of smothering her wishes and desires , to reluctantly become the puppet bride that RK desired, in exchange for Mallik's life , Trish's career , Roma's dream and Padmini's happiness, well portrays her selfless love and dedication for her family.
Madhu's pleas to RK to let her go for Mallik's operation and her promise to return afterwards , reminded me of a scene out of "Beauty and the Beast". But unlike the story, the egotistical beast in RK , wouldn't trust nor allow him to let Madhu go , before ensuring that she was bound to him for life . It seemed as if RK was looking for the inner spark and spunk that he had seen in Madhu's eyes before and was rather irked and disappointed by her lackluster and wooden responses to his drunken barbs . Madhu on the other hand was so numbed by the cruel hand that fate had dealt her, that she was oblivious to all the activity around her, starting from the moment that she so symbolically walked in out of the light into the darkness of the film studio, till the moment she walked behind a drunken RK , orbiting around a makeshift mandap, with a pundit chanting the mantras which seemed empty and meaningless, through the din of the band-baja-----all she had on her mind was saving her loved ones from the wrath of the beast. The presence of the filmy baaraatis , the very people in front of whom Madhu had slapped RK, suggested that despite his damn care attitude , he really did care what people thought of him in the end ( btw the "Pundit asli ya filmy" question by RK was ROFL). I'm puzzled as to whether the four pheras and vachans are applicable to RK only, since he was the one leading , and it would be interesting to see if any of the vachans had registered in his drunken stupor. I'm still at a loss to understand his need to drink so much ----was it because he didn't have the guts to face Madhu sober , as he knows that he's wrong ? Some good advice to the helpless Madhu in the words of Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged) :"Do not let your fire go out………….Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours." I do hope Madhu regains her inner strength and spirit and gives RK a dose of his own medicine because "I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." ? Maya Angelou
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