Originally posted by: Couch_Potato
Uff! I'm sooo late. Res.
Unres.
WOW.
You know MKM? I have always come to your posts armed with logic and perspectives and then I read your post and go into this little trance. When I break out of it, my points never seem to matter but I share them anyway just because.
Thank you. Its my fault. I am extremely emotionally manipulative when it comes to writing. You are right - pls stick to what you think and DON'T BE SWAYED BY WHAT I SAY. 😃
You have a way of making the reader fall for the male lead and reach out and hug the girl. And this post just screams Rudra. I give up. I forfeit. I LOVE HIM or rather this version of him you have painted.
Lol. I can only enhance what exists already. Grey people are a put-off but they are the ones who are in need of help the most.
Now that the daze is clearing, here's what I carried in my kitty from today's epi.
1. Mirrors vs. Fire:
You know until yesterday I was all pleased with the mirrors and reflections and symbolism until today happened. Then I realised how we got tricked. So yesterday we thought those mirrors were all them? Well we were so wrong cuz those mirrors were all Paro. The fragility, the naivety, the purity. It was all Paro yesterday. And today it was all about Flames. The only instance we actually ever see a mirror is in Thakurain's room. When she leaves Paro alone to get water. In every other instance, there is always fire and flames. And that's all Rudra.
True. Rudra is all fire and flames while Paro is as flawless as a mirror. Still, you can say that Rudra will see his reflection in Paro someday and realize that he doesn't want to look like what he is .
Yes, I know it's funny that you compared him to ice and I talk of him as fire but it was just the motifs I noticed throughout. Right from Thakur's declaration of fire aiding in last rites to Maami's version of fire being sacred. Not to mention that ring of fire that brought her nightmare (he's burning her) face to face with he reality (he rescues her).👍🏼
2. Ranawaat:
For a man that is as bottled up and closed off as Rudra, it is actually a very huge tell that he addresses his father by his name. He could have easily followed convention and avoided those regular confrontations (I have a feeling that wasn't the only time his father corrected him!) but he doesn't. Him offering his sullen father the meal, repeating the same words and then testing out the roti? That's like things coming a full circle. It's a beautiful role reversal. Today he is in the position of power and his father isn't. Today he's looking after the father that can't forget his mother. A far cry from the hungry boy sulking after the mother who abandoned him. THAT is perhaps why he calls him by his name now. That was what I had thought until I read your take and realised maybe, maybe he also calls him by his name because his father made him feel like he was a part of his mother not him. His father Othered him, treated him as 'hers' and so now he wants nothing to do with his father. Perhaps to please him, perhaps to appease him, or perhaps to remind him. I don't know for sure but it sure is VERY telling.
Honestly speaking, it seems like Rudra has a love-hate relationship with his father. He loves him because he is his father and all that he has in this world. He is crude and cold because his father gave him a harsh upbringing and never allowed him to forget his mother.
3. Claim:
Now I am going to go into fangirl speculative mode a little so excuse me. Lekin, we had a leap over fire and blood on the clothes. Which somehow in my head equal to dil ka rishta. Because since that moment, since he shoves her behind him, she's his responsibility. He lets two guys get away so she isn't harmed. Then he stays until she regains consciousness and only then walks away coldly and then turns back once he realises she's the bride-to-be. Then when he realises the dog-with-a-bone attitude of his troublesome jawaan, he finds a way to make sure she gets home safe by traveling with them. All this happens, mind you in the Rudra way.
True. Rudra , or rather something inside Rudra wanted to stay with Paro until she was out of his sight and safely at home...in no hopes of seeing her again but definitely making a memory, no matter how short it is.
Jahan tak Paro ki baat hai, I don't think she'll love him. I don't think she will stand a chance. Like you correctly said - he's ALL CONSUMING. He's going to engulf her and she will have no out, no one to turn to and no where to go. And he will be her everything. And that is it. That is all. He's too formidable a force to be tackled head on and a mirror never did clash with fire and win. She'll have to lose herself in him to find them both. There is clearly no other way.
I disagree . Paro will love Rudra someday because that is who she is - compassionate and emotionally fertile. She can't be barren because that's Rudra's deptt. The problem lies with Rudra... because it will never be enough for him.
I loved the whole, whole thing so much saachi but this bit especially because this is Rudra in a short scene, one line:
Rudra ko zakham bharne ki nahiin, zakham jalaane ki aadat hai.
Thank you for an amazing write-up. Bas aise hi keep making us fall for these larger than life, too complex to be true characters.
Have a great weekend MKM! It's surely going to be a long one for me! 😉