(Long post - bring your coffee😛)
Just for my own clarity I thought I would brainstorm the various skeins of story that the CVs have in front of them and try and peer into their minds to see what they have in store for us.
Here are the various threads and plot motivations already laid and how they're placed now:
1. Guruji's incarceration – finished.
2. Angadwa's villainy – dead and gone; hopefully not resurrectable.
3. Drive to Kill Pratigya – started, but aborted. On simmer.
4. Mission Bring Krishna home – accomplished.
5. Krishna's reaction to the Angad secret – end of phase one (numb hurt withdrawal), start of phase two (lashing out in anger)
6. Pratigya softening towards Krishna – begun. To realise she's in love in SUCH circs – poor girl. She's feeling tender, guilty, vulnerable, protective, loving – all one mess inside her heart.
7. Disappearance of Senior Thakurs as WELL AS Piyasia – sudden new development 😲
8. Introduction of Aman as potential damad – freshly laid.
9. Shaktiya's lechery – clues laid long ago, now invoked.🤢
10. Kesar's illness – ongoing.
11. Kriya Milan – track laid (errrr. ... excuse the pun) the minute they set eyes on each other – the carrot that has brought us here across several months.😍
12. Aarushi's visit to Thakur Niwas – very sudden.😲
What are the developments or personalities that will further thicken this already fairly complicated broth?
1. Introduction of Aman's family – will they be brave like Aman and Pratigya or too 'sanskari' and need to be "handled" by the Saxenas?
2. Shakti's attempt to rape Arushi
3. Chandu/Tunna telling Krishna something about Bhabhi Ma that he didn't know. Alternatively a run-in into Lucky-Jugnu who can tell Krishna exactly what Angad did throughout to muddy the Kriya interchange.
4. Change in Krishna's mood – he's probably now ready for a clearing the air discussion and that's his way of announcing it – by poking and prodding Pratigya with references to her bewafai.
5. Kesar's reaction to Shakti's lechery
6. And in the midst of all this – Impending Kriya Milan.
Discussion (yep, this is like a classroom)
When the Thakurs were sent off, many of us were like YAY, Kriya C of M – FINALLY. But now it doesn't seem as if it's going to be that simple. 😕
First of all, Krishna still has these persistent doubts – looks like he needs something really SOLID to make him change his mind and genuinely think – 'so what if my wife was kidnapped? It was not her fault and she was the victim of that situation, so I'll jolly well stop rubbing her nose in it.'
Now he's made a few statements to Pratigya. One of the most significant ones, to my mind was: "Aarushi se kehna ke ookre paas bhi kouno raaz ho to shaadi se pehle apne pati to bataide."
"Koi bhi aadmi, pada likha hi kyon na ho, apni biwi ke bewafai bardasht nahi kar sakta."
First I was like huh! Arushi doesn't have a secret. But see how the plot develops.
Suppose Shakti tries to molest Arushi. Somehow Kesar or Krishna or Pratigya – somehow she's saved but it is still a fairly big incident. Krishna is horrified by his brother's behaviour and very mortified and ashamed that his saali had to endure such humiliation in his house. Now Arushi is almost engaged. There is Aman who is a factor and there is also HIS family which may be status conscious and not particularly keen on marrying a girl who's just endured an attempted rape attack.
What will Krishna's reaction be? Will he still advise Arushi to go running to Aman and tell him all that happened because the man needs to know he's getting slightly soiled goods? Will he expect Arushi to divulge everything to his family as well? Will he expect Arushi to heap insult to injury on herself and make a public display of what happened to her by telling people who won't be sensitive or sympathetic? I mean, so easy for Aman's parents to say – arre, she must've invited it – why would her BIL molest her?
What will Krishna's reaction be then? Because Arushi is like a sister to him, plus the incident happened in HIS house, under HIS protection. He is responsible for her to an extent.
Also, If Aman does come to know I feel quite sure that he would NOT reject ARushi – simply because he's that kind of guy. Whether Krishna likes it or not, Aman is more liberal in his thinking – it's not a question of education but it IS a matter of thinking liberally. Plus Aman knows Shakti too well to believe that he must've attacked ARushi.
So Krishna is about to be challenged on both his statements – that no man would want to accept such a woman, and that Arushi must make a full disclosure. Challenged enough to question his OWN reactions to Pratigya and her supposed 'bewafai' at a deeper level. Soul search and come up with answers to: why is he punishing his wife for something she didn't do; even if the kidnapping took place, is it SOOO important that it should forever sour their happiness, which is now his for the taking?
Yes, it is a bit galling for us Krishna fans to see Krishna learning something from Aman – but I think he needs to. Back on his honnymoon, he encountered Varun Badola who told him a few things about women, love and coercion. Krishna did listen to him – he does want to grasp ideas that are outside his ken. Krishna's greatness will come in admitting his thinking was faulty – in learning very quickly from anyone who has to teach – even a rival. To hold on to such ideas, to be too proud may satisfy him for a day but to grow into his own he needs to learn.
Please, your bolbos?😳
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