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First things, first.
A round of applause to the director, ADs, DOP, Production unit and the actors for managing the shootout scene WITH CAMELS in the scene. Viewers have no idea that how tough it is to shoot with animals , even a normal scene. And here, the team managed an ACTION SCENE with camels and all that action. It takes some real patience and sense of execution to can such scenes. GO TEAM RR! And i am referring more to the people behind the camera.
Coming to the episode today, can i just divide it into symbolism/culmination and then, Rudra-Paro? Thank you.
Symbolism/ Culmination:
You know the writing of this show is well-rounded when:
1. You see Paro look at the BSD men draped in shawls , riding on camels, towards her. The slipping of her nightmare into reality. Not to forget that the shot of camels' legs was RUSTIC BEAUTY.
2. You see Rudra appear on the horizon to stop Paro's baraat on the dialogue cut of Thakur Sa that nobody can stop this baraat from crossing the border now. The dialogue cut and Rudra's instant appearance is good and thoughtful editing.
3. When Rudra and team stand as a blockade between Paro's baraat and the exit gate. Symbolic of the original plot that how Rudra spawns Paro's entire existence.
4. Varun's uncle's dialogue - " Ro lenne de issne. Sab kucch peecche chhoot rahaa hai bechaari ka. Ek nayi duniya mein kadam rakhne jaa rahee hai." This dialogue is the drumroll to Paro's entry into Rudra life and how her entire life will turn into before-Rudra and after-Rudra.
5. Paro craning her neck out to see Rudra and all the good memories of him saving her being marred by the instilled and instinctive fear of Rudra as a man in uniform.
6. The sad full circle of Paro and Bindi where all of Paro's time that was spent with Bindi was turned into a flashback and WITHOUT melodrama.
7. Rudra neither acknowledging nor even looking at Varun when the latter spoke to him and requested him. Says a lot. Perhaps you will never know what Rudra exactly felt for Varun.
8. Rudra charging towards the bridal trousseau inspite of protests . Its symbolic of how Rudra has just invaded Paro's life and what he has invaded can never become 'untouched' again.
9. The bloodshed. Drum rolls for a LAAL-ISHQ for Rudra-Paro. I have always felt that the song Laal Ishq should be Rudra-Paro's signature song.
10. Paro's eyes were on Rudra - all the time. He is the manifestation of her fear psychosis - but its cool to realize that you can be obsessed and fixated with what you fear and hate. Human nature is very very FASCINATING.
And, now, Rudra-Paro and the unsaid exchange.
"Wo bhi rahhe aadha-aadha sa
Aur wo bhi hai Adhoori."
What shot stands out for you?...Its not Rudra's slow change of expression from anger to confused emotion when he sees himself pointing a gun at Paro. Its not Paro's terrified face and the superimposition of her paradoxical psychological state that weighs Rudra as a saviour and as a killer. Its not Paro collapsing into a heap of red crumbs. Its not Rudra being back-stabbed and being dragged in blood laden sands... Effective within the scene but this is not what you will remember...
You will only remember the fact that Rudra, who had been gunning people right, left and center... who pointed a gun at Paro... He could NOT shoot her. The only image he remembered of her was the fragile woman who had enveloped him in her warmth on the sun-kissed sand... Yes. A cruel, ruthless, heartless man with a loaded gun could NOT shoot a suggested vamp from the enemy party... Because he remembered her as something beautiful and fragile. The reflexes , the neurons and perhaps a heartbeat REFUSED to gun her down...
And this is what you will always slap in Rudra's face when he will refuse to embrace Paro.
Laal Ishq.
Truly.
