Today's Take - The Serpent and the Storm -edt

Edited

She saw the storm approach in her nightmares ... a menacing silhouette, leaping flames, red-rimmed burning eyes ...
The storm hit the way her dreams had foretold ... but with a twist ... the menacing silhouette turned rescuer ... her saviour, her protector ... the burning flames heralded his entry like a storm sweeping into her life, a storm which would engulf her ...

The doll marked their first meeting ...
The twin mirrors marked their next ...

An episode where there was poetry in the midst of mayhem ... succour in the middle of a storm ... and the serpent in the deserts of the Rann.

The episode ...

Rudra is posted to Beerpur ... close to his birthplace, a place he has spent the last fifteen years 'trying to forget' ...

The thakur's true colors are revealed very quickly, all his loyal subjects are no more than pawns, the two girls included. A snake indeed ... the serpent in the garden of Eden ... or rather, the rattlesnake in the desert of the Rann.
Will the BSD officers who raided Kesari's shop recognise Paro later? Kesari is not taking any chances ... his life is on the line here.

Impetuous easily tired Bindi accepts a life, even though the more mature quiet Paro warns her against strangers ...

With good reason, as it turns out ...

Glinting mirrors signal a connection between two halves of a single soul ... the fire of the sun striking off the twin surfaces draws the two together ...

Nirbhaya re-visited, or almost ... now these scenes I find far more disturbing than the gun-toting violence ... because these are actually real ... they happen

Paro left in the rickety rickshaw, fighting for her virtue and her life ...

And the man from her nightmares rides in to save her life ... demon turned devta ... rakshas turned rescuer ... her own personal Rudra-ksha ... He will ride through storms, cause destruction and devastation to the world ... but not let a hair of her head be harmed ...

A cracker of an episode ... am still trying to find the words to write ... but this has to be seen, not read.

PaRud and SanIsh ... you rock!!!

Both San and Ashish did not speak a word for the second half...but they managed to put forth all the emotions needed...

Note keeping count,,, this is the second set of glasses that Ashish baba has lost.. Ray ban had better open a shop in rajaasthan for him ... His.cool factor will go down otherwise...😉

The episode was so good that i didn't mind flying of man here and there😆

Sanaya baby you were too good today as the damsel in distress😳

Ashish you are my new Cowboy😳, Oh man, he has style, the twisting of moustache( may be the reason for the long one)😆 and the way he threw the rayban

It was like a well directed movie, the heroine crying, hero ignoring, than coming back, fighting, saving the girl. Simply Wow

These two gonna surely burn the screen

This is my favourite episode of the show so far and for obvious reasons 😉 Sanaya and ashish are scorchingly hot together and here's to many more of such scenes / episodes.

The ball has started rolling ...and paro is getting caught deeper in the web. The bdf officer saw her in the shop and is already suspicious ...later when the groom is shot , rudraa and bdf will not look at her as an innocent bystander but a willing participant in the whole gun smuggling racket ..

Wrote this in NB's post also ...

anyway - here is my take loved all the lovely reviews

wonderfully put Diya - I can hardly find the words for the episode myself - even after watching on repeat - especially the roll - who thought a simple tumble in the desert sands could be so hot!

I loved the symbolism - puppets , now mirrors and of course the fire,

the nightmare turned to a dream as i read on another post

fire is both destructive and protective and of course lets not forget that the union of two souls has to be done by walking 7 times around the fire - the most powerful binding agent there is

My favourite bit was when Sanaya ran towards Rudra and he hid her behind him - I loved the way they naturally fitted into the roles or protector and protected without a second thought and of course i loved the way she slowly looks in the mirror then at him and then realises what situation she is in and lets go of his shoulder slowly - beautifully done Sanaya!

Rudra was his usual hot self and so intent on protecting her and not letting the baddies get away - a wonderfully portrayed and of course the gentle but passionate way they looked at each other after all that tumbling was

How the villagers and especially the women seem such pawns for the men is heartbreaking ( agreed with your previous post Sunara)- the callous way the shopkeeper told them to get rid of the girls and the men were harassing Paro was shocking, but i was most shocked when Rudra drove past past and ignored her pleas - unfortunately that was too real

As i said before i would have been glad that Rudra saved her for that reason alone - just to illustrate that you should never turn a blind eye to injustice, Rudra was protecting her due to tackling injustice and doing his duty not because he was in love with her - he had not even looked at her then

but that it was also their first meeting as adults was beautiful - and echo Guinea and many others - it was the best way I have seen of two leads meeting!

Obviously the bike exploded at the hotness that we witnessed on our screen - long may it continue