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She tries to dissuade him from putting burnol on her burnt palms. Harsh looks, anger, disdain , attitude , bitter words - the regular weaponry that she uses on her captor. But when his care, concern, persistence with a dash of character arrogance overrules her temper, she sits like a little confused baby - no longer trying to wriggle out of his gentle grip, no longer flinching at his touch - looking into his pleading and vulnerable eyes that are almost screaming at her that don't push me and yourself into that fire. A little head of instinctive trust taps at her heart and asks her if there is a chance that she can trust him? She desperately tries to hold on to her weakening defence of her stance - hiding behind the emotional jacket that Thakur Sa wove for her. And when her captor drifts away from pleading to retrospection of his own broken trust mirroring her impending one, she forgets that she hates him. Her face and eyes melt and once again she hopes to find the wax beneath the granite.
Paro , unknown to herself and unknown to Rudra, continues to wait for the man that she believes Rudra is. A beautiful boy with a heart full of love.
He is a thousand shades of the human spectrum and you can never tell when he is pretending and when he is not and when he is feeling and when he is hiding. But those eyes always give him away. He may tell her that he saved her hands for the signature , but his actions and gestures say otherwise. He knows that she hates the very sight of him and is never going to believe him. But her intrinsic goodness and purity gives him hope that even if in the nth hour, she will listen to him and save both herself and him. He takes care of her against her will - he has learnt to both grip her wrists and hold them. When he sees that nothing is breaking her , he drops his defences and his aura - and shows her what vulnerability is. He forgets they are enemies and like a BFF warns her in the warmest way possible that where she is going and where she is taking him with her - there will only be regret and pathos. When she hides behind the emotional jacket to avoid being swayed by him, he laughs sardonically and equating his and her childhood, he tells her that she is going to repeat history- a child's trust has no value. He walks out of her room , so that she doesn't apply her own brand of burnol on him.
Rudra, unknown to him and unknown to Paro, has found a confidante , a moral compass , a sponge in Paro. A beautiful woman and his beautiful missing other half.
Point?
Well, we have always said and I say it again that Rudra and Paro do not hate each-other. Their hatred is superficial, circumstantial, triggered by misunderstandings and its completely situation-based.When they had met each-other for the first time, there had been a connection and that connection is what has kept them together , TBH, not this stupid and 'desperate times - desperate measures' mutual challenge of marriage.
They both know that they are fighting a war that is fast reaching its high-point where they both will have to take a decision. When Paro had told Rudra that she will marry him, she had not thought how far this will go - there was no foresight to it. When Rudra had proudly announced that he will marry Paro, he had no idea that this girl will be willing to go through everything and even reach the Mandap to marry him.
So, now, when destiny has put her trump card forward with neither of the two backing out, they both are at tenterhooks. Rudra has taken a decision - if Paro does not save him and the honour of his men, he will marry her and punish her for destroying him. Paro , she may not have said it , somewhere knows that irrespective of what she will do at the last minute, she will not marry him. And now, armed with their weaponry and guts, they are reaching the high point of what they started.
Its stupid, silly, immature, suicidal and a mockery of marriage, but they both have come too far in this now - solely due to their stubborn faith and rigidity.
But this fiance and fiancee relationship has woven Rudra and Paro together. This relationship has shown Rudra what a gentle and yet strong soul Paro is. That how she puts everyone's happiness first . That what an exceptional woman she is. And that is why he tells her today that had they met in different circumstances ,and had she been on the side of right people, he would have admired her guts, courage and spirited spirit.
This relationship has shown Paro, inspite of her Jallaad poetry , that how vulnerable Rudra really is and how he is her fort. That in every crisis , she can always count on him. That he will always be this mix of granite and wax , but she will always figure out his compassionate side and she will never back off from trying to unravel it. That is why she goes after Rudra today and tells him with a strange emotional confidence that he is a good man, right? All this darkness and cruelty is superficial - tell, tell, tell!
Result?
Paro does not once free her hands from his pleading hands and his un-shed tears well up in her eyes. Rudra runs away like a scared goat the moment Paro tries to touch the good man inside him.
The fact is that today, for a few minutes, both Rudra and Paro had their guard down. They were tired of fighting a war that is perhaps not even their war. After the initial verbal and physical combat , they both had a heart-to-heart talk. Sticking to their rigid stance, but letting the other person look into their insides.
Rudra seemed tired of convincing Paro to trust him. So, he , shedding all his shields, pleaded with her to stop the tragedy that is coming up. He knows that she is pure soul , just misguided. And that is why he told her that she will not be able to take the guilt of her unintentional damaging handiwork.
Paro seemed tired of hating Rudra and doing wrist combats with him. So, the moment she saw Rudra drift into his soft vulnerability, she tried to grab the little boy and spread his compassion to this so-called cruel man.
Tomorrow, they may and they will go back to their mortal combat , but those rare moments when your guards are down and you are tired of fighting wars, someone gets to see who you really are.
That is what happened with Rudra and Paro today.
To see that , you have to only see how the mood of whole conversation between Rudra and Paro changes when Paro mentions" bacche ka vishwaas". She and Rudra go somewhere else totally - to a place where they are not enemies, but confidantes amused at the dark humour of fate.
They do not hate each-other. But hatred is their test of fire.
Abb baataao- Ye rishta kya kehlaata hai?
Boojho to jaanoon.
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