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Arrogance. Aggression. Megalomania. Ego. Pride. The Snob Nose. These are very volatile vices and the first thing they teach you is that you are not malleable , that you were born a steel rod and you will die a steel rod - never bending , never melting and always vertical, even when age bends your spine.
Do such people bend at all in their lives? Do they ever drop their arrogant eyebrows for a few seconds? Well, they do. At times. For someone they hold affection for. For someone who is more important than their ego. For someone who will never be told that they are melting points, but the snobs will melt for sure. Why? Just so that the loved one in question is safe, protected and wrapped in warmth. Most of the time in such cases, the protected one doesn't know that the rod had bent . No surprises. Even to admit that you bent a little for someone is a question of ego for the melting snobs.
Today, Rudra has done exactly what I have mentioned above. He melted, he bent , he calmed, he became elastic - For Paro. He apologized to the workers, touched Mausam aunty's feet in pseudo-apology , bound himself back to the haweli and family , just so that Paro can live. Rudra would never do it , but the Rudra who wanted to protect Paro did it. Against his ego, his personality, his character - he behaved like a wolf in fake sheep skin . For Paro. Its another thing that you can see it on Rudra's face and his body language that all this Golden Globe winning performance is a farce , and that he will take his canine teeth and claws the moment Paro settles in the house as his fiancee , but for Rudra to even pretend to be a mythical loving son of the house is a Herculean Effort.
But he has done it for someone he claims to hate , someone he says he doesn't care about , someone whom he equates the same as cattle in his backyard verbally. Is it love? No. Not yet. Its his passionate protective instinct for a woman he is beginning to get attached to. Tejawat and story have long gone into the backburner - its more about the emotional tension that he feels between her and himself.
That said, we are still not at that point where Rudra's steel rod would stay bent for a long time. His oh-so-fake " Aaiye aapse kucch baat karnee hai" soon turns into an aggressive and intense pinning to wall and locking position exercise, where he reminds Paro that she should keep shut , not talk to anyone and better not step out of the house. The sheep skin takes a backseat and the conditioned predator comes to fore.
And Paro? Silent but strong. Staying true to her strong spirit , inspite of being terrified of Rudra , she reminds Rudra that she is not the one to run away. She tells him that she will do what he says because she knows that her silence will kill him , one day, and he will be on his knees. She is still waiting for the day when he will be kneeling defenceless in front of her. But you can see it on her face and the way the story is going , that even if that day comes, she herself is not sure what she will do. ...Just to remind you about Paro's sleeping beauty act during the Veer-Zara sequence . Paro was not awake to see how Rudra looked after her , she did not see that there was no anger or hatred in his eyes. That is why she can tell Rudra today that his only fear is that she will run away . If only she knew that its so not true. He is doing all this tooth and nail fight so that she stays alive. And no, her being the prime witness is a plastic reason. Paro thinks she is being caged and Rudra is trying to protect her. How different is the situation and Paro's inference of it. Not her fault. Rudra does not wear the sheep skin in front of her.
Anyway, the most foreshadowing part was Maithli and Sunehri telling Paro that she and Rudra were always meant to be. And Paro, even with the most gloomy thoughts , realizes that she has Rudra in her life because she asked for him from Lord Shiva. This truth will remain but as we move ahead, Paro's reading of it will change.
For the rest, i loved Maithli's happy and mischievous run and chase play with Sunehri in the haweli - she looked as happy and free as you want to see Paro. Sunehri's innocent wait for the boy in the picture was awww. She loves her weight in a cute manner. Mausam aunty's and Rudra's eye-war was explosive. It seemed Rudra was insulting her by touching her feet if you see the snobbish wave on his face. Samrat was useless but kind of happy to see Rudra and Paro back. Mausam aunty wants to play saas-bahu with Rudra, not Paro. Its only going to help the two of them.
Chaachu Sa should stop trying to suffocate Rudra with a re-make of Sooraj Barjataya's "Hum Saath Saath Hain" , because he knows why Rudra has returned to the haweli with Paro.
Aman was supercool. He admitted that their plan has gone for a swing , and is full of loopholes , but whatever damage control they can do , they must do.It makes you think that the operation was fine in thought and strategy, its the execution which went haywire - and Paro's take on Tejawat only made it worse for Rudra. But then, that was Providence. It was never about the arms smuggle or Tejawat. It was about Rudra and Paro crossing paths to be tied forever, and guide each-other to the sunlight.
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