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Lovely post as always, Sabs ... you make the episode complete with your take. ⭐️
Good taut writing and screenplay from start to finish ... the cvs chose a good time for Dilsher's re-entry. I was hoping Mohini would lie low for a while after the epic fail of her scheme ... but no such luck ... we have Laila back already!
I guess all those people close to Rudra can read him better than he realises ... his completely uncharacteristic behaviour towards Paro, his over-protectiveness ... and the final straw of course, the fact that he called for her when he woke up ... in a room full of people who care for him. Not much left to decipher ... as Aman and Dilsher are quick to point out to him 😆 So Rudra is forced to wonder ... are they all correct? Is his concern for Paro more than just concern for a witness?
Well duh ... Rudra banna! 😆
I loved the little scene in the office when Paro comes bursting in, and his first question is 'are you all right?' That is one thing that never changes. And he took a couple of steps forward, when he asked her how she would go back, and thanked her ...
As Paro told him, she had done all she could, now it was his turn to make the effort.
Love your interpretation of the last scene ...
At first he denied that anything was wrong, that he was in pain, that his world had turned upside-down. He turned his face away. And then when her concerned eyes went to his trembling right hand, he gratefully seized at the excuse and offered up the hand in place of his heart for her sympathy, her attention. Anything to hide the quake in his heart. And then she said "Take my hand. Keep trying. Don't let it defeat you." Words that flicked him on the raw, made him think she'd read his mind and his heart. So he whipped out his rejection: "Stop talking nonsense. Go from here."
But Paro was not so easily shaken off. She placed his hand on her arm and urged him to grip it with all his might as he'd hold on to an enemy trying to cross the border. But try as he might, Rudra could not comply. Still she squeezed her eyes shut, making him ask her if it hurt. A smile and the shake of her head were all the answer he got. He must think of someone else he hated, she urged. But switched tactics at his anguish and lack of response. He could think of her, of holding on to her and not letting her go - not just today but forever, Paro told him. Told him even as the light died out her eyes, the storm built in his, and he held on finally as though he'd never let her go.
I felt Paro was also preparing him for her own departure ... telling him not to let her go ... to hold on to her ... reminding him of how many times he held on to her, chased after her ... first as captive, then as a woman he hated ... and now, she says, forget all that ... just hold my hand and don't let me go.
She gave him up, but she never asked him to give up on her. And she hopes that he won't ... that he will find the strength and the faith to hold on to her.
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