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This analysis is a continuation of my 9th October 2012 analysis. The parts until My Qualms are thoughts on 10th October 2012 episode's analysis. I included 9th October's analysis too as it was necessary to highlight Shyam's character today too.
JUDGEMENT DAY!!! (Part 2)
Definitely! Indeed! Needless to Say!
The very-much awaited JUDGEMENT DAY for a certain Shyam Manohar Jha, which up until yesterday was considered an unfulfilled and foolish thought by audiences, was finally announced today with proofs and evidences that will ensure he will be punished for the unpardonable sin of killing an innocent unborn baby of his.
In today's episode, rather than the evidences of the video, we were showed that what brought about the downfall of Shyam Manohar Jha was his very own tongue that boasted about his pride, ego and self-love. This guy proves time and time again that he only loves himself, and considers his brain and intellectual ability beyond anyone else.
The character growth of this individual has been mesmerizing since the start of this story. He was introduced as a saint, the hero who comes to save the damsel in distress from thugs who were trying to violate her innocence. He fought off the thugs, restored the honour of the girl by returning back her dupatta and needless to say, became the hero who saved the day. When he laid eyes on that very girl, he immediately started liking her. Shayad Love at First Sight!
We again see him in Delhi, when the girl stays there with her aunty. We begin to see him as a nice and decent guy who has started to love her and only wants to see her happiness and does not want anything else. He gets for her a job, that shows he cares for her. He stays at her aunt's place as a paying guest and embraces her family as his very own. He could not tolerate it when she is hurt, angry or upset, especially when she starts making jalebis.
Everything seemed picture perfect. A decent guy, an innocent girl, a love story in the making, a fairy tale…. Shayad!
Little did we know, the person who manifested being a humble, caring and loveable person was actually a monster, a beast in disguise.
This very man was already married to a beautiful angel. He was already part of a family that worshipped the land he walked in; there were no counter arguments for the words uttered by him in that household. He was placed next to God by the family and revered as God too by his wife.
One mistake committed by him (lusting for another woman), and he fell down the pedestal, like the very angel that fell from grace in the eyes of God!
His true nature was revealed during Teej to the audience but not to the girl, who cared for him as a friend. She did not reiterate the love of this guy as she was already falling for another guy who hurt her beyond anything else in the world.
He maliciously tried to kill the girl's father, who found out the truth about him being married. He forced her engagement to him by stating her ill father's health.
He maniacally beat up a person on the roads when his very wife wanted the girl to tie Rakhi for him and to acknowledge him as her brother.
Through these scenes, we saw the inner beast that lied dormant within him all these years, come alive within just a few moments interval of each other!
A person who will resort to any ill ways be it betrayal of the highest accord to his wife for the lust of another woman, deceit of the family that cares for him, crimes that can be punished by the law, for example kidnapping his brother-in-law, switching wills under his name, and the most potent of all…his numerous murder plans that have failed all this while. However, not all of a villan's plans fail and the moment that you desperately pray should never happen, happened for all gathered to witness.
The murder of an innocent life, that was still yet to see sunlight!
Needless to say, the inner beast that lied dormant yet again surfaced in today's judgment trial when he willingly confessed to all his crimes that he committed and classified himself as a very very bad man. The confessions of his every crime elicited an inner joy of accomplishment from him. The inner beast that lied sleeping within him surfaced and the heartbreak of his innocent wife was evident.
Shyam, the moment you confessed the truth, your faade was unveiled to the whole world, there is no point in taking back your words claiming you were forced to say it. Nobody placed Veritaserum in your food or drink to confess the truth.
The Devil Rises and Will Fall
Highlighted by the lights that turned on, signifying Shyam's cover was lost on the 9th Otober's episode.
"To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business" Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy.
This is what exactly Shyam Manohar Jha did.
He justified his sin of killing his own child by his own hands for his own selfish gains.
During my Friday's analysis, I wrote Shyam only loves and trusts himself. This was exactly what happened yesterday, he proved he only loved himself and he came back into Shantivan to facilitatae his luxurious lifestyle. He never thought even a second for the pain caused to his wife or the death of his unborn child. He only thought and thinks about himself.
During the previous Shyam revelation track, his punishment was not meted out in full as the only person who will be justified to do the full honour of it can only be his wife Anjali.
As the person who worshipped him as God previously, to the true nature of this beast standing before her, only she has the full rights to state the sentence for all the injustice, pain and betrayal brought upon her by him.
Today 10th October, we witnessed the devil's befall.
During the initial episodes, when the very same Mangalsutra broke, we audiences witnessed how it broke Anjali's heart and she was panic-stricken for the safety of her husband as she thought of it as an "abhsagun". Today the very same Mangalsutra was broken by Anjali herself after hearing the confessions of her husband's every crime done to her and her brother and the satisfaction he derived from every bit of the cruel actions. The maniac laughter when he confesses killing his child with his own hands, the madness, psychotic behaviour of his when he claimed he could have killed her brother long time back, who is none other than another child for her. Anjali at this point of time was numbed from within, her tears stopped running, she had no clue what to feel anymore and she could only see what was happening…reality slowly seeping into her. When she finally accepted what was happening, her hands slowly moved up her neck to her Mangalsutra and she broke it with just one pull! Wow how strong is Anjali Singh Raizada!
Mangalsutra, a sacred thread that binds a man and a woman in marital bonds for eternity was broken and the beads scattered everywhere signifying the bond between the man and the woman broken forever. What is significant here is that…
1) When the beads are broken, even if they are rejoined together, the initial glory will cease to exist. As such, even if Shyam repents and changes, will Anjali accept him back?
2) The very same girl who caught Anjali's mangalsutra when it broke during the very first time is the one who was behind the whole drama to unveil the true nature of her husband to her as she believed it was priority for Anjali to know the truth. I love Khushi's sorry at this point of time as she knows how happy Anjali was, and what she is going through now after hearing the truth. However Khushi was right, Anjali would have never believed Shyam until she hears it from his very own mouth.
At that point of time, the woman who fell was Anjali Jha but the woman who stood up again as a fortress hereafter was Anjali Singh Raizada! I particularly loved the camera angle that showed Anjali sidestepping the broken Mangalsutra! This Anjali Singh Raizada who rose was strong and capable of handling her own problems and to face reality. She does not need anyone to take care of her or to hold her, she can hold herself, her life and her world on her own (signified brilliantly by her rejecting both Arnav's and Akash's help).
There is a saying in Tamil,
When a woman is patient,
She signifies Mother Earth
When the very same woman is angry,
She can change herself into Devi Maiyya and burn the whole world with her angst.
Today Shyam saw the angst of Anjali which he never ever thought or even contemplated resided in her. He was shown the Anjali Singh Raizada's actual roop. Shocked he was, beyond words.
He only thought of Anjali as his wife who will blindly accept all his words as Mantras and to follow everything he says. But he clearly forgot that Anjali was not only his wife but was a 'soon-to-be' mother. The pain she suffered when she lost the child she ever dreamt of is more than anything she can bear. Shyam clearly downplayed her emotions when he spoke of their daughter, but that painful emotions were the one that sparked Anjali to avenge her daughter's soul.
An earth-shaking slap to the person who killed her child.
A moment where all the bonds between her and Shyam were broken forever.
A moment when she faced reality, Anjali made coherent decision of throwing evil out from both hers and her family's life.
Who else will do the honours?
The brother who made her face reality by standing beside her like a rock. The person who lost confidence in his sister when she walked away from him. The person who was silently trying to communicate with his sister not to believe one word of what the treacherous person was telling her. The person who was shocked to see his sister slap the person. The very person whose face was filled with pride looking at his sister claiming she hated her husband.
The Great Arnav Singh Raizada.
Having heard the final judgment from his sister, he swiftly moved forward to take action by evicting the evil forever from their lives.
As I have said before, both Arnav and Anjali are each other's strength and weakness. One ceases to exist without the constant support of the other.
The hug that was followed hereafter between Anjali and Arnav shows the bond that they cherish and the strength they evoke within one another everytime a tragedy strikes them. The smiles of the family seeing the siblings show how a family always stands by each other during the various trials. Arnav's words are right bad times are indeed over.
Therapeutic Method!
One of my friends after a bitter heartbreak acted just like how Anjali did. She could not take the guy's presence before her in terms of photos, gifts and the worst part memories. She broke all the gifts he gave her, burned all the photos that she has taken with him and the lone pictures of him. And, after all these actions, she emerged as a new person who wanted to move on in life and forget about the guy and just concentrate on her life and her present and future.
As such, I totally understand what compelled Anjali to burn all the memories of Shyam. It helps her to move from the buri nazar that stagnated her life for the past 4 years. Thank you Arnav for stopping Nani and understanding that Anjali has to do this.
Fire!
One of the 5 elements.
One that has a cleansing power.
One that is considered pure.
One that eradicates all the bad things in life and allows new things to flourish.
Anjali as a phoenix, one that died and one that was born again.
The end of Shyam….For the time-being.
If Anjali's blind love can move mountains, then Anjali's known hatred can burn the whole 7 worlds.
If Shyam has any brains, he will never come face to face either with an Arnav Singh Raizada or an Anjali Singh Raizada.
However, this is a story, and without a negative character it does not progress. So he will certainly come back.
My Qualms
Arnav!! WHY?? WHY?? WHY??
Why couldn't you stop Shyam from the dishonour he brought your wife? Why did you keep quiet? I wished I had seen a furious Arnav here!!! I wish!
9th October's Episode
This episode proved how much far this character Shyam Manohar Jha has progressed or grown from being shown as a humble and caring person to a psychopath, that he actually was, and who will resort to any terms to fulfill his own selfish desires.
The episode can be seen as the culmination of all the plans laid out by Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada and Arnav Singh Raizada, accompanied by their very own partner-in-crime Nk, to reveal the deeds of the devil through its own mouth to ensure the devil does not escape or slither away from its punishment this time around.
The fourth plan (crying sounds of the baby and the sonogram) played out at the start of the episode. A murderer was haunted by the memories of his unborn child which he killed brutally and without any conscience.
What is amazing to know is that a murderer of Shyam Manohar Jha has a conscience…now! He fears the soul of his baby that came to haunt him to death. He was petrified by hearing the sounds of a baby crying, he was shocked, trembling and shivering in horror (symptoms of being in fear) to see the sonogram video that started to play on its own (thanks to NK who was hiding). And what does he do? He tries to find the source but to no avail and the fear of imagining all these incidents and the fear that he will slowly but surely is going mad, makes him run for his dear life down the stairs.
His constant action of looking back behind his shoulder, his jerky behaviour to every action tells us how scared and fearful he is of his own actions.
Plan Number 5 – The Skit Performance
The ultimate plan to unveil the devil in disguise in front of his wife, who refuses to believe her husband, is anything but a good soul.
NK's words, "It is not a drama, but a blast". It truly will be a blast that will shake and break the world of Anjali and her happiness to pieces. It will be a blast that the family, who are all smiles up till now, will witness yet again, having not even recovered from the previous ones, for their tears to be shed again.
You really showed you need to be scared Shyam Manohar Jha at NK's words, you had no idea that the blast will burn you to ashes and shake your world, and it surely did.
In my 8th October's analysis, I wrote the fight has come between a brother VS a husband. The scene where Anjali sits between Shyam and Arnav, says it all.
The anguish of a brother to see his sister happy without knowing that the next thing she is going to witness will shake the whole ground that she was now standing on. And all the brother can do will be to lend her his support and give her his strength to face the inevitable head on, thus sitting next to her.
The lights dimmed and the drama started with the perfect reenactment of Anjali Singh Raizada and Shyam Manohar Jha's love story. The small moments of their cherished love life….their chanced collision at the temple step where they fell in love…. a wish of the woman fulfilled by God yearning for a special someone… a
slow walk down memory lane where the exchanges of two hearts in love took place with a red rose… a love that united the two hearts as one life through marriage… a moment where he proclaims his undying love for his jeevan saathi standing next to him …
"If only the love story was as perfect as what was seen in the drama" the tears, sadness and expressions of the broken soul of her brother spoke!
[On a side note, I would like to express the amazing camera angles that showed the happiness of Anjali foreshadowed by the sadness of Arnav during this whole scene…it totally reflected the inevitable tragedy that was going to strike any moment. Cheers to the camera man and director sir…simply amazing!!!]
Moving on, the only missing joy in Anjali's life, a chotti si rakjumari…the symbolization of hers and her husband's joy and happiness in their marital bliss…
But fate had other plans to not only not give her this bundle of joy but to shatter all the other joys that she closely guarded in her life. And the worst stroke, the murderer of all her dreams was sitting beside her.
The day of Godhbaraayi
"A moment where happiness was alive…a moment later every happiness was stifled" Khushi's poem
A day that every woman waits eagerly for before holding her baby in her hands. A day where blessings for the protection of the baby from any harm are conveyed by the guests.
A day for all the mother's wishes to be fulfilled. A day of celebrations.
A day the mother feels all the happiness descended into her life through her husband.
A day that led to the misery of a mother only because of her husband.
A stranger who entered the house with evil intentions because of the very mother.
A wife who cared more about her husband than her child.
A wife who paved the way for her child to be brutally murdered.
A wife who while trying to save her husband neglected her unborn child.
And what are we left with?
The murder of an innocent, unborn baby.
A mother's dream that will always only remain as a dream forever.
A wife who will be punished for her actions for neglecting her child.
Moral of the day
What you sow is what you reap…alas! No one has said the time period for it
For the actions sown by Shyam Manohar Jha on Godhbaraayi day, he is reaping the results on his Marriage Anniversary day.
Moving Back in History
We witnessed battle lines being drawn when Dadi entered the Raizada mansion. Her quest: To bring the son-in-law of the house back home
The Godhbaraayi and the miscarriage led to him being back in the house, Dadi's mission accomplished.
However, justice can never be stopped before being meted out.
A crime done will be subjected to punishment whether it takes only a day or even 50 years.
Today- When judgment was going to be passed
Today was declared to be Judgement Day of Shyam Manohar Jha and all his wrongdoings will be revealed in front of the Judge, Anjali Singh Raizada.
NK's portrayal of playing the dhol made us witness to the start of the battle.
The sound of the dhol ultimately refers to the Battle Cry, where the party that is ready for battle blows the conch first
Khushi's poem:
I accepted that I was deceived
I accepted that I wept
I accepted that I walked on thorns
But what was the price of love
I got an injury and I knew (Anjali knew)
But there was still a wife residing in Anjali who did not want to know the truth…she wanted everything to be stopped right then for her to live in a comfortable bubble.
However, the strength of her existence, her brother wants her to face the whole truth and he made her face it by holding onto her.
And she witnesses how she finally fell down the stairs and lost her child.
A mother's world broke yet again witnessing the crime committed to her child
Khushi's poem said it all:
Everything was over
The little princess went away forever
And the dream of a baby's laughter at home
Ceased as it is.
The haunting of the baby's soul returned back as a curse for Shyam again.
Thoughts to ponder:
The little princess died, will a new Anjali surface??
Answer: Yes she did, amidst her trial emerged Anjali Singh Raizada
When the dolls fell
Shyam's faade was unveiled; his screaming brought Arnav Singh Raizada into action.
When Khushi uttered the line, "Everything was over"..the camera panned towards Shyam… rightly indicating his fall.
Shoved to the edge of the mountain, a person has no choice but to tell the truth losing all logic and mental preparations. All the previous 4 plans led to Shyam losing all his logical explanations and this 5th plan brought him to lose himself and panic, which he did.
Last nail in the coffin
Rightly it was Arnav's all the way.
Khushi's plans worked to get Shyam agitated and to lose his mental thoughts halfway through. However Shyam was still calm and could have slithered out of this scenario too if it was not for Arnav's statement that he tried to kill Anjali by changing the medicines when he uttered out the truth in despair that it was to kill the baby.
Check Mate
During Friday's analysis, I mentioned who will be checkmated and which king will fall. Answer: Shyam Manohar Jha
Deed done by: Arnav Singh Raizada
Abhaas Mehta: Your portrayal of Shyam is too good!! I have never hated any fictional character like how I hate you! You are really the best villan ever. I heard 'daiyyo ho song' in tamil and I got reminded of you. That's how good you are!!A par beyond excellence!!Your shocked expressions of being caught in his disguise as a dhol-waala was awesome, huge gulping, maniac laughter gave me shivers, the way you showed yourself as a psychopath enjoying the moments you killed your baby…oh my goodness!!no words to describe…you are too good! You being dumbfounded hearing Anjali speak, your craziness and everything..you are simply awesome!
Barun Sobti: Thank you for bringing Arnav to life! Arnav's anxiety towards Anjali, and the way he called her and held her strongly in his arms for her not to break down made me wish for a brother like him. Not that I want you, Barun as a brother (I will kill myself then). You only had a few dialogs today, but your expressions and eyes spoke a thousand words!! Anyway when did you exactly need words to convey your thoughts…your eyes speak for you! Your stride, your walk, you dragging Shyam..excellent!
Daljeet: It was totally your day! You ruled it! I loved the subtle changes of facial expression you portrayed. Anjali's recognition of Shyam's bracelet and the utter shock she received because of it, the numbed expression after finding out the truth. Your no more tears made my day!!! You emerging as a strong individual made my day too! Please carry on like this. Your acting today was awesome! Your anger, hatred, resolve..you portrayed it beautifully!
Sanaya: What do I tell you? Or rather where do I start?? You looked like an ethereal beauty today! Your voice-over brought me right into the fairy tale making me even believe for one moment all that you said were true. Girl you rock always!!! You standing by the family as a rock says so much about you!
Akshay: Oh My Goodness!! I especially loved you today!! Please be this angry I will love you even more!!!! Shyam's escape plan was foiled by you, Akash Singh Raizada, whose blood also runs in the lion Arnav Singh Raizada's blood. Special mention: I love your smile when Anjali slapped Shyam and when Shyam called Khushi names, your anger was solid!
Naniji: Your heartbreaking tears for your grand-daughter was very sad! And the way you stood up for your grandson's dignity. Kudos to you! I love you!!!
Mamiji: Your anger portrayal was good too!!! One of the lionesses of the house!
Payal: I can understand your shock, trust me!
NK: No words to describe you! You are a true Laxman to Arnav who is Ram! And the best friend of Khushi always, loved your anger when Khushi was bad-named yet again.
Lalit Mohan Sir: The slanted camera angle when Anjali found out she was electrocuted..was beyond excellent! Your direction is superb!! Thank God you are staying back. I can't imagine IPK now without you!
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