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I've watched this episode a couple of times, and I don't like this feeling I have in my stomach. But I thought it was a brilliant one! The Tom and Jerry relationship is going to take a more sinister turn...
Aside from feeling betrayed, Vikrant is burning with jealousy because he is now convinced he can never have Sarita's love. All his insecurities from the early days of their marriage have come back to him, despite Sarita saying she doesn't hate him. I really hope that if Vikrant is going to play games with Sarita, he won't throw her to the wolves-in-law. He'd better not!! Sarita is in lala land, so is unable to gauge the seriousness of his sarcasm and his double-meanings. This is perfect for Vandana...I suspect Sheila could be an unexpected ally if she ends up in Vikrant's mansion with Rohan somehow.
Now that his haze of anger has lifted, Vikrant is able to coolly consider all the possibilities in his arsenal. The way Vikrant is behaving, his scheming, his steely determination is exactly what I would expect of him in a situation like this. Kudos to the CVs for being consistent with his character. As some people have speculated on this forum, this could be a twisted form of the Humraaz outcome. He will not murder her, that would be too easy a punishment in his books. What he will do, though, is put her through a lot of trials and tribulations, so that she experiences the same sort of suffocation which he is. His hands are tied in terms of taking direct action because of his son, but he has the cunning to create situations that appear ordinary on the surface, yet have several levels of complexity. I can totally see him blindfold his trusting wife and leave her in the middle of a labyrinth, with no way to get out, while he watches her from the outside.
It is possible that he will try and do something along the lines of what Raj did...keep exposing Sarita to Raj and Divya together as a couple, in an effort to torture her. Then, seeing her guileless smile out of genuine happiness for her friends, will think she's an even bigger player than he realized. Vikrant will scrutinize every word and action of hers and read into things that aren't there. A simple explanation will never be sufficient for him anymore. She says she's tired but he believes she's escaping.
Vikrant's tears...I think he's already grieving the 'death' of his new wife, because her status and image in his mind has been diminished, but his heart still yearns for her. I think the more he tries to hurt her, the more he will feel tortured. His heart will ache due to the pain she feels, and his soul will be constantly battling with his intentions, because he and Sarita have long ago become one. I believe he has been tormented at various stages of his life, most recently watching his son's deteriorating health before meeting Sarita. This can't be easy for him either. Ironically, Sarita believes these tears are because of his worry for Abhi, because in some way that is bothering Vikrant too. He was thrilled to have a good woman raise Abhi, but now that he thinks she's a b****, he probably laments the fact that like him, his son may grow up "motherless".
I don't know how, but the CVs have managed to make Sarita seem literally like an angel, while she looks upon a sleeping Vikrant...People look innocent when they sleep because all their worries and negativities are asleep too. That scene to me felt like an angel was visiting a little child, and showering her love on him. She IS his angel, his subconscious knows that. But when he wakes, all the negativity comes back again to blind him to the truth. I believe Vikrant was knocked about as he grew up, and learned to steel himself against the cruelty of the world; Sarita was the first person who broke through his defenses. His previous self-thoughts confirmed that he'd never been so generous with anyone, and I'm pretty sure that includes Jahnvi too.
Vikrant's ego cannot handle that she only came back because she had nowhere else to go, and he is going to use to his advantage what he believes is her helplessness. He is incredulous that she can be cocky and ask him what mistake she's made and look so convincingly innocent. I am wondering if he will bring her parents back into the picture too in order to hurt her. They will give her shelter when she has nowhere to go. I am hoping these things will come back to haunt him later on.
This track could go many ways. Vikrant may discover the truth through Sarita herself and then a confrontation will spill everything. Or he may find out the truth while he's playing his games and then back off. He will try to be extra nice to over-compensate, but Sarita finds out what he tried to do (including the gun) and then want to leave. Only to remain behind because of Abhi, because of her sense of duty. And then Vikrant would know the difference between her staying back for love versus why he thinks she's stayed back now.
I will absolutely side with Sarita if she chooses to cast him out completely, and be steel-hearted for a change. She will continue to be a perfect mother to Abhi and cordial to him in front of their son, but alone, he has no importance in her life. She needs to show Vikrant how it feels to be on the receiving end of real malice, disguised by saccharine sweetness. It would be amazing if the CVs went with a cold war where Vikrant is too guilt-ridden to approach her or mend fences, and Sarita is too heart-broken to feel like a wife any more. I want to see her lose hope and go into the depths of despair. He will need to learn how to break down her walls and I am sure it will be no mean feat. That would be his redemption.
The last scene was sheer brilliance! Creepy to say the least, and left me feeling a little sad. What could and should have been their first playful romantic encounter, their first embrace, was tarnished by a misconception by both parties. Sarita believing she was finally home and Vikrant believing his home of hopes and dreams has been shattered. Vikrant should have been putting his arm around her as a caring husband, instead he was taking sadistic pleasure out of seeing her miserable, or so he thought. All his dialogues, which would create a toofan in any wife's heart, are just part of his process of sharpening his knives.
The little parody where Vikrant says "don't tell me you've got something in your eye" and blows into her eyes was a fantastic idea by the CVs. This is a common thing in serials, but they used it wonderfully in this scene to show Vikrant's burning jealousy and racing mind. Any fool would know right away that Sarita was shedding tears of happiness! Sarita does the typical wifely nakhra, which would have once amused him, but now he just reads something else into it. Loved, loved, loved the "she loves me, she loves me not" game.
Raj's PV promise to Divya seemed foreboding. He promised never to let her be humiliated, yet I feel this is precisely what will happen. At this stage, I'm unsure if this will be due to her in-laws or some other issue. Perhaps Raj jumping in to help Sarita against Vikrant's machinations will make Divya insecure again.
Sarita dear, you've got to stop promising people to keep things secret. You won't have anyone to back you when you really need it. I know this is to prolong the suspense and drama, but I wish the CVs had thought of some other way of keeping this truth from Vikrant.
I'm beginning to wonder if any of the four characters really understands what love is. I wonder if what Vikrant had been feeling for Sarita all these days was love, because trust is a major component of that feeling, one he seems to have overlooked. I know it applies to Sarita too, but Vikrant has started walking down a path of self-destruction that could cause irreversible damage to those around him. This is not love!
In a twisted way, the anguish and madness Vikrant is going through now may be fate's way of punishing him for forcing Sarita to marry him. I can see an Othello in the making, though I hope the outcome is different!
There's so much that they can do with this track. I hope the CVs maximize it and that that in the hunger for ratings, they don't end up giving a message about PV that is counter to the tagline of the show.
(On a side note, I loved Sarita's hairstyles in this episode, plus Vikrant's sherwani!)
Dialog of the day:
Aap kisi toofan se kam hain, Mr. Suryavanshi?
Aap kisi toofan se kam hain, Mr. Suryavanshi?
PS Sorry this post became so long, I had so much to say!
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