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ALL of these creations are credited to -Vanshikaa-
I was talking to Koyel (Escape.My.Love) on her post "Amazing Episode" when I had the idea of writing this post. Seeing as I've started this show at least twenty episodes afterwards, I decided to go back and actually watch the promos properly. And from what I understood, the main story has not yet begun. See, it's not about Antara and Raghu falling in love, but how their love will affect xyz amount of people - their lovestory is volatile. And you know what, watching yesterday's episode with the balcony scene reminded me of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. There, two people from two different families fall in love but their love is cursed from the start as both of them end up dying. I'm not saying that's what is going to happen but the jist of it has inspired 'Jaan'.
See, Raghu always mentions that 'this is not your Kashmir', whilst in Romeo and Juliet, the two families was the Montague's and the Capulet's, here it's Kashmir and Mumbai. Two complete diverse places where Antara does not fit in Mumbai and I'm pretty sure, Raghu will not fit in Kashmir. The balcony scene was actually pretty much highlighting this, because although the dupatta scene was a little cringeworthy even in other shows, I thought here it had a little significance. I've watched a few episodes back, and saw that even when Antara glanced over at Raghu over the balcony, it was always positioned sideways, so that it doesn't exactly look like the houses are in front of each other (Well, they're not but anyway), I guess this specific scene was needed to show that Antara and Raghu would always be in front of each other, much like in Romeo and Juliet and the warring families. I've also mentioned this to Koyel, that the dupatta is symbolical to their love going from one place to another, ie, Raghu and Antara or Mumbai and Kashmir.
They are both diverse but yet are attracted, and it's this which will be their biggest downfall. We haven't actually met Dayimai (I'm going to use DM for her) but already we know that Raghu has immense respect for her. Through the way Raghu helped Antara in the car scene only because she helped him with the medication, showed that despite who helps him, he will always help them back. Which is probably why he respects DM because she helped him from the streets. Now this will affect him because he will have to choose between his love and his respect for the woman who adopted him? And that's where the promo's make complete sense:
One of my favourite scene of the promos is when Antara is sewing Raghu's name and Raghu is using the gun to write Antara's name. It actually makes sense for their characterisation because both will love each other in their own ways.
Finally, there are numerous scenes of them running to each other and then running together. Like I said before, the main story will only begin when both fall in love and their love is tested. Their volatile love.
For me, this shows that they will be separated at some point maybe because of DM or circumstances but they will always try to come together (the running into the hug scene) and the part where Raghu and Antara are running together, with him slightly in front and her looking at him shows that despite what, Raghu will try to protect her always but I feel he won't be able to. And then the biggest obstacle, their warring families (Mumbai/Kashmir or DM and the terrorists) that will seperate them.
I really hope the Kashmir storyline isn't over and taht those who murdered her dad actually does get punished! But this particular scene intrigued me because the last time we saw the burning guitar was back when the accident happened - does this mean, the events of Kashmir comes back?
Really cannot wait for this show to progress!
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