The Beast Palace: Until one of them collapses…
Human nature- perhaps the most basic grey streak of human nature. Whenever you have to go all out and defeat an enemy , you look for their weak spots. Find something , some chink in their armour , some weakness that can bring them down like a pack of cards. Rishabh and Maddy are victims of that grey streak – where you will go all out to defeat your adversary.
Yesterday, we all felt that Maddy should play fair and square with Rishabh. Why? Because she is righteous , honest , compassionate – but today , after you have seen the show, you realize that she is mortal as well – human, fallible , and perhaps conscious of her Ballu genes. She refuses to play a fair game with Rishabh who himself never played it fair with her except the wedding business deal.
Rishabh broke her and her family's trust , belied the Mallik family's faith in him, broke her engagement by sheer sly play of the brain and manipulating emotions. Maddy too explored a side of hers with Rishabh that can be egoistic ( remember how she turned that FIR into a personal ego war with Rishabh) , aggressive ( the slapathon on Rishabh in the studios ) , hurtful ( the infamous jaanwar lecture last week) and perhaps vindictive and almost villain-ish- the open blackmail today regarding pictures.
Perhaps, there is no fair play, no fair game or objectivity in this war of Rishabh and Maddy. They evoke each-other's dark side while giving glimpses of hope of peace to each-other. Quite a psycho-emotional oxymoron this is – where your nemesis is your healer as well.
Maddy's mother and her honour are prime to her and Rishabh has to apologize to her , come what may. Anyone will do what Maddy did today – find a twisted way of restoring her mother's respect. Rishabh is secondary as of now. His feelings , his sentiments , what goes on inside him registers with Maddy , rings in her ears but its 'secondary' to her mother , her mother's humiliation and her tears. If she has to sacrifice Rishabh's sensitive spots for Paddy's self respect , so be it. Fair enough. Almost on the lines of what Rishabh did – use emotions to make Maddy kneel. Maddy is giving it back to him.
Those photographs are nothing to be ashamed of – they are just a beautiful adorable memory that is very very private and evokes pain and grief in Rishabh. He would never want the world to see what he was , what he lost or share his pained memories with public and media. Maddy knows it and understands it just as Kukkuji has conveyed to her- but she understands it the other way. She understands it as a weapon to hurt Rishabh and not as a memory that Rishabh runs away from.
I am not saying that Maddy was super elated to blackmail Rishabh with those pictures - or had some fiendish grin on her face like Rishabh often carries when he wins over her. She was not very proud of what she was doing , she was a tad cautious of his temper as well as it flared like a growling dragon – but she couldn't help it. Rishabh pushes her to the kind of edges where she becomes a toned down version of Rishabh Kundra himself.
He was shocked, devastated , furious , traumatized and Maddy is only lucky that Rishabh didn't bang her head with the very food bowls that she had brought. But he reacted menacingly unlike going on a violent spree like last time. He grabbed her arm, twisted it until she told him how she got these pictures and what she intended to do. But Maddy didn't break or groan in pain – they are on a meeting point as far as pain is concerned – be it physical, emotional, psychological, they both are coming to a meeting ground where they both know that their relationship is fraught with pain. She was prepared for Rishabh's reaction and she had her 'Darr gaye na?' speech ready jo sunaake usne Rishabh ko dho daala.
The precap says a lot of things. Maddy is using Rishabh's troubled past against him and Rishabh is actually going insane as she is literally putting her claws into his chest and pulling out his heart. Maddy doesn't know Rishabh's story as it was or what he suffered to the extent of zipping himself up. But sooner or later she will realize the impact of what she said to him and how her words and her actions linked to his past traumatized him. Rishabh is living in a champagne bubble and everytime Maddy threatens to prick it , he goes crazy in order to protect himself and hurts her with an extra dose. In short, they both are hurting but unless the pain of one hurts the other , they will continue ruining each-other.
Don't judge Maddy or Rishabh at this point- Maddy is only giving Rishabh what he gave her. Where they stand today and from the paths they have come from, you cannot categorize them as good or bad , as right or wrong. Maddy is doing what Rishabh did to her – he bought her at the cost of emotions and Maddy is threatening to sell his emotions. Scores settled. Or are they? Remember how you guys used to discuss that someday Maddy will become Rishabh's female version – well, you get the glimpse of the same today.
Rishabh and Maddy are embroiled in a war of emotions for a lifetime and maybe more. It's a vicious circle where they will keep on hurting each-other , even if it kills them – until one of them collapses completely and the other realizes that he/she cannot let the other one collapse.
P.S- For me, Kukku Bhatia was the star today.Perfection.
Love and luck always to all,❤️
GOD bless everyone. 🤗
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