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"Bahot koshish ki hai, bhulaane ke liyye."
-Rudra.
He has tried his best to forget the betrayal of his mother , the ghoulish nightmares of stab-in-the-back beautiful women. But all the kilometers from Chandangarh to Jaipur and the 15 years could not erase the agony that he suffers- the wound is a septic today and its still leaking. Rudra only promises RESULT to his CO as he heads to Beerpur , but he makes no false promises of being a goody-goody well-behaved officer . And with his ' its either my way or the highway' , he walks out of the HQs...
He walks towards Beerpur - a few kilometers from the village where he had endured the betrayal of a beautiful woman. For what? To step into the sands, and walk into the life of another beautiful woman- to re-live his agony of supposed betrayal and backstab of a bottled beauty. Fate snatched him from a beautiful mother and now, plunges him into the arms of a beautiful soulmate. Can Rudra see the game and the labyrinth that destiny is weaving for him. No. Not yet. If only he knew, that his life is actually turning into a chessboard where his past and present are going to collide... and its Rudra's response that will carve the FUTURE. Its not just his fate. Its Paro's fate that is going to fall into his hands. SOON.
And Paro? Forget everything. You just have to see her cling to Rudra for her dear life , shivering like a winter leaf , as he shields her behind him ( without even once looking at her face ) ...her terrified innocent lamb like eyes adjacent to his ruthless and angry ones. Paro is in trauma - she holds on to Rudra as a bee holds on to a leaf in a waterfall - and when does her trauma trance break? When she sees Rudra's face in the mirror...this is the FIRST time, she actually sees what Rudra looks like. Realization dawns, and slowly, she lets go off Rudra's arm and moves an inch away from him. She is clinging to a man. Someone as naive, pure and pious as Paro who has never looked at a man, even in this precarious situation becomes conscious of her physical proximity to the tall rugged stranger and moves away from him...But does Rudra let that happen? No. The moment she moves away from him, a baddie lifts a gun to kill her and Rudra engulfs her again. And Paro? ... She clings to him again...
And Rudra? Oh, well, he may be struck and confused by this bottled beauty but he is a man on job! Staying true to his name , fame , and 'aada se majboor' attitude , Rudra ensures that nobody gets out alive - he just has to go after the baddies again...Reminds you of 300... Fight to finish.
This is when the MASTERSTROKE of writing comes. Paro's nightmare begins to come alive . The baddies blast the fuel tank of the motorbike and a wall of flames rises like a tsunami... not trapping Paro , but surely sending her into trauma again. Paro recalls the shrouded man in her nightmare who had come to 'kill' her... Juxtaposed with that nightmare, Rudra comes running through the fire...just like that man in shrouds...and Paro faints ... before she can realize that her NIGHTMARE IS ACTUALLY A DREAM INVERTED. Point being , that Paro will never know anytime soon that what she believes to be an abyss of darkness is actually a burst of light. Fate was laughing all the way today while Paro was in some real big mess.
Precap? If eyes could melt, Paro would have a hole burnt through her body , looking at the way Rudra saw her face in the mirror. No emotions and no awe of her beauty. But a gaze that would surely make you feel like checking if you are properly clothed or not.
I don't have to describe much - because if i do, it will take away the beauty of the visual and the sensitive writing comprising of mirrors, reflections, metaphors , similies and above all INNOCENCE and INTENSITY of love. You just have to see the episode to know what am trying to say...Rudra is such a counterfoil to Paro... every inch of it... seriously.
BTW, Rudra is a WALKING AUDIO-VISUAL BOOK in 'STYLE'. A hot guy is more trouble to your knees if he happens to be rugged as well... umm... and maybe a little ruthless too?
Apart from the above ramblings, following points are important to note:
1. Paro is in some real deep dungeon. A BSD officer has seen Paro with bags at Kesari's shop. When layers of the arms deal begin to drop, and Paro comes into the suspicion circle, Rudra will be told that " Yahee hai, yahee hai, yahee toh hai wo!"
2. Always remember what our parents tell us- NEVER TAKE LIFT FROM STRANGERS. Binduri needs to grow up. Paro maybe delicate but she is sane and mature.
3. I agree that there is a big possibility that Thakurain aunty is Rudra's mother. And that means a little more ruthless Rudra.
4. Thakur Uncle is clinical. Completely.
5. The mirror metaphor was BEAUTIFUL. Paro and Rudra are each-other's inverted mirror images.
6. The contrast between Rudra's eyes and Paro's eyes in the same frame when she hides behind him is NOT to be missed. The camera has caught it beautifully.
P.S- The best moment of the episode is Paro seeing Rudra's face in the fallen mirror. Its such a classic thing to show in a love story - so romantic with a vintage old world charm. Rudra is definitely the manifestation of a Rangrasiya... but Manbasiya banne mein ek umar guzarne waali hai. 😉
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