Today's Take - Rann ki reth par rakth hi rakth -updt

Bloodshed at the Border

The doli leaves for the border amidst tears of farewell ... Paro remembering Bindi every step of the way...

The border guards wait in anticipation for the kill ...

Tejawat is confident his plan has succeeded ...

The bridal party tries to get away with humble pleas, folded hands, calls to tradition ... the border guards are unmoved ... and Paro recognises her nemesis Rudra ... and the same conundrum ... protector or destroyer?

Rather sloppy search on the part of the BSD ... they didn't catch any of the guns hidden under the saddle bags? It takes a rather obvious attempt to hide the cash boxes to draw the BSD's attention.

Bloodshed at the border ... rann ki rath par rakth se rachi ... nafrat ki dastaan starts ... as a flummoxed Rudra confronts a terrified Paro ... did Rudra forget that Paro was to be the dulhan? Or did he not connect that she was the bride in this particular ill-fated wedding?

And Rudra stops in his tracks ... stops and stares ... as Paro stares back ... as time stops ... as guns explode while they stand enveloped in deafening silence ... and stare at each other ... one in shock, dawning recognition and confusion ... as he remembers a fragile terrified woman on the desert sands ... one in terrified fascinated hate ... as she faces the embodiment of her nightmares ... the living fire, the dreaded destroyer ...
And we get that haunting melody again ...
yeh bhi hai kuch aadha aadha
Woh bhi rahe adhoori

... till Paro drops to the ground in a dead faint.

Where is Varun?! After promising to protect her for seven janams, he took off and didn't come back ...

Today the episode belonged to the creative team ... director, editor, Action director, cinematographer, DOP ... the scale on which this episode was shot was nothing less than a movie 👏👏👏 The vast desert as backdrop ... the guns, the camels, the jeeps, the military men and the villagers ... the action sequences ...

And the last ... the Rudra-Paro meeting ... again in the middle of violence ... a shifting kaleidoscope of men and animals around them, gunfire blazing ... yet the two stand enveloped in deafening silence ...

Ashish tweeted something about the deafening silence in the middle of gunfire ... I wonder if this was the sequence he was referring to.

Paro/Rudra scene was fantastic. Loved the world slowing down around them.

The scene where paro thnks abt bindi gave tears to my eyes...

bindi wa svery close to apro..and the way bindi told aftr ur marriage we can meet only in dreams has come true..as bindi dies and she can no longer meet paro...

Thakursa pretends as if he is also missing bindoi...

in return he tells paro BSD had done somehting to her...

Paro leaves her house..with Varun

enroute thy meet BSd men..who are suspicous abt varun's uncle...

when BSd men start searching..men start firing..and fight starts...

paro is afraid to see blood everwhere

and when she sees rudra she remembers abt her dream and what thakursa told abt thm...

good entertaining...

loved parud..

Today's episode was epic..Loved it!👏👏..The direction is awesome

He's been attacked n dragged for d kill...heartrenching...Now the million dollar question " how will love blossom"...answer "look at the spoiler pic...the look in rudra's eyes tell it all😊

Good catch, Diya! Rudra did know that Paro was the dulhan, he was there during the engagement ceremony .. then why did he look so surprised at the sight of Paro??

May be the surprise was not caused by the acquaintance, it was caused by the sheer beauty and innocence of Paro! You see, may be Rudra knew that Paro is the bride in this ill-fated wedding, but he thought he was indifferent.. But then, when he actually faced her he was so captivated that he forgot everything he learnt in his entire life, about his job as well as about beautiful women. 😊

This scene reminds me of our imaginations we shared in the CC forum when the promo was out.. what could be the meaning of this?? whether they were past lovers?? whether Rudra proposed Paro and Paro refused .. etc etc! 😆 So finally the scene is here and we are dumbstruck... just like Rudra!

I loved the way you described it .."And Rudra stops in his tracks ... stops and stares ... as Paro stares back ... as time stops ... as guns explode while they stand enveloped in deafening silence ... and stare at each other ... one in shock, dawning recognition and confusion ... as he remembers a fragile terrified woman on the desert sands ... one in terrified fascinated hate ... as she faces the embodiment of her nightmares ... the living fire, the dreaded destroyer ...
And we get that haunting melody again ...
yeh bhi hai kuch aadha aadha
Woh bhi rahe adhoori

... till Paro drops to the ground in a dead faint."

All I can say is - 👏👏👏

Regarding this deafening silence and Ashish's tweet, i think you are right. He must have meant this scene. Like the show itself, Ashish's tweets are making lot of sense now.. And I am loving him more and more, not just as Rudra, as Ashish, too!

It looked as if they kept it slow for 20 odd mins and packed all the action into the last 5 minutes... but then it wasn't what we expected... varun sa is not to be seen and Paro and Rudra meet yet again...

The defining moment -- Rudra stops , stops ... he who does not care for anyone or anything stops... he has his weak moment...that was all that mattered to me ... and while the Rang Rasiya song did the moment justice... this is what was running in my mind - Desert Rose by Sting ..

This desert rose

Whose shadow bears the secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

And now she turns
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams
This fire burns
I realize that nothing is as it seems

She is beyond logic...and he is moved...Paro stops him in his tracks...

The moment stayed forever ...

Edit. I saw man lying dead with blue kurta and white lungi in the precap, may be its Varunsa