Originally posted by: angake
Priyasi,
This was the crux of our show. That you can fall in love twice and that when you fall in love again that doesn't mean you have to completely forget or erase the memories of your first love. They can coexist. Love has so many facets and so many different meanings. I think Yash loved different things about Arpita and Aarti because both the women were very different in the way they dealt with life. He probably admired and respected different things about Arpita and Aarti. Falling in love does not mean there is only one set defined way to fall in love. Similarly the reasons for which Aarti fell in love with Prashant and why she fell in love with Yash were entirely different based on circumstances as well as her maturity and what she wanted from life at that point.
Prashant did wrong by Aarti but I can never say Aarti's love for him was fake. I completely disagree with this argument that Yash and Aarti's love was the true love and not their first loves. I do believe Yash and Aarti were soul mates (that is if you believe in the existence of soul mates) but their first love with Arpita and Prashant respectively was just as much real and true as their love for each other was. One of my favorite Yash-Aarti interactions of the show was during the Diwali episodes. Prashant instigates Yash by saying that Aarti will never be happy that he still loves Arpita. Yash then confronts Aarti about it and asks her if it is necessary that he will have to erase Arpita's memories to make place for new memories. And Aarti retorts angrily saying that she has never ever asked that of him and no outsider should dictate how their relationship should be. That to me defined Yash and Aarti's relationship that they loved each other immensely, they were soul mates but they didn't have to trivialize their first relationships to prove that their relationship was the true one. I think the creatives showed this message beautifully with Arpita-Yash-Aarti triangle. But alas, before they could do it for Prashant-Aarti-Yash triangle, the channel interfered and that story was cut short.
I thought the BMT track was very important. I know a lot of viewers were pissed at Aarti for interacting with Prashant during the BMT track. But I loved it because I thought Aarti was going through two monumental realizations with regards to her relationship with Prashant as well as Yash.
Realization 1: She for the longest time was holding herself responsible for hers and Prashant's break up and she was finally seeing that she was not the only one at fault. I especially remember the scene where she takes Ansh for a transfusion and Prashant then drives her home and their car gets stuck and she has this conversation with Prashant about love and Nida and such. During that time she tells Prashant how he never valued relationships. It was so beautiful because I could see an evolution in Aarti's thought process. She always thought that Prashant did his parents a disservice as well as Ansh but for their relationship breaking up I think she took most of the blame. But I think during the BMT track was when she came to the full realization that she needn't put all the blame on herself for her disastrous relationship with Prashant. Because by then she had come to realize how beautiful a person Yash was and how he valued relationships like she did and if her relationship with Prashant broke up, she wasn't solely responsible for it and Prashant was equally or in my opinion more so to be blamed than her.
Realization 2: I think she also felt that she had to hate Prashant to completely fall in love with Yash and I think she would have eventually figured out that her feelings for Prashant who is the biological father of her son and her feelings for Yash who is the man she has given herself to physically and emotionally as well as the man who is the real father of her son in every way that matters, can coexist. She didn't have to deny Prashant his child to prove the fact that Yash was Ansh's father now or that it was Yash who she loved now. I think that was where the track was eventually leading to.
But so sad that the audience could only see Aarti lying to Yash during the BMT track. Yes, on a superficial level that is what was happening but on a deeper level there was so much more happening. The audience couldn't pick up on the subtler emotions and realizations that the CVs were making their female protagonist go through. No, I am not blaming the general TRP audience at all but just the realization that this show was certainly ahead of its times and maybe one of the reasons why the TRP audience- who seems to like everything explicitly spelled out to them- couldn't accept that track. đ
Fantastic post, Priyasi. đ
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