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Hi Guys! 😆
I am writing a proper post on the two asteroid-accidental alligators Sid-Riddz after a loooooong time. Lagta hai last post picchle janam mein likhi ti. 😆....
Okay , back to post. Little free from work. Kya pata kal chance mile na mile.
Riddhima.... sanity restored , heart restored , sensitivity restored. As the loser inspector ( am gonna make him watch 40 episodes of CID so that the loser knows what an enquiry is all about!😡) took Riddhima away , she blatantly and impulsively asked the inspector that he can speak to Dr. Siddhanth - he knows she is innocent. Somewhere , it has registered in her head that the man is her saviour - not a friend yet , not an enemy anymore - but her Man Friday who would stand by her.
As she was taken away through the corridors by the loser inspector , a voice put full stops to her another round of shame. Sid , as always , always her protector , bound in a strange strange nameless bond with her came to her rescue. As he told the inspector that Riddhima was innocent and gave a statement in her favour , the look on both their faces was something. Riddhima had an instant look of confident relief on her face - even before Sid opened his mouth, she knew he would save her. And Sid - he looked at Riddhima with a subtle reassurance that everything will be alright - he will make everything alright for her.
It is a strange equation and the creatives haven't lost the grip of it yet - the stranded vulnerable lamb and her guardian angel. Words are not necessary - most of it is left unsaid and there lies the beauty of this vague vague relationship between Siddhanth and Riddhima.
Later , as expected and as it should be , Riddhima went to see Siddhanth personally who was being showered with affection by his friends. She stood at the door , looking at the small party and unlike her earlier aggressive marching into Sid's space , today ,she subtly asked if she could come in. The gang was angry with her now but Yuvi saw reason and quietly took everyone away with him.
Riddhima , still reeling under the shock of whatever happened and her guilt had to wipe her tears behind that fall of hair so that Sid doesn't see them. He tried to sit up for her with a smile and instinctively , the original caring and kind Riddhima having returned , she bent down to help him. And Sid , who is HUMANELY touched by this soft and sensitive side of Riddhima looked at her in warm disbelief again - the girl maybe a little cuckoo but she is not heartless - she can care - she can be kind - and with that the awkwardness crept in again. Riddhima pulled away and Sid just blew it off. Like always.
Kaisi ho? 😆.... sweet ,sweet Sid.
Riddhima really did not know how to start talking to Sid - say sorry? say thank you? Sid , his humane compassion for this lost soul gushed to the surface and he just told her to cool it . He did not want her to go into explanations and apologies , so he immediately diverted the conversation to the BORING FOOD of the hospital and he will be glad if she can do something about it.....
Riddhima's face broke into a smile and with the sweetest tone possible she told him that he can give his order - she will try and arrange the best that she can - burgers and fries are not happening....
Everything became normal - all the apologies , dramatic explanations were faded in that simple conversation which seemed as though it had been dying to happen. Nobody could tell that so much , so much had happened between Sid -Riddz.
Later , as Sid takes Riddhima's hand and goes to confront the super-cuckoo Stella, you understand that it has somehow percolated into his very being that Riddhima is his responsibility - a responsibility he is attached to and feels fiercely about. He has seen her at her vulnerable worst, witnessed her hopeless love and yearning for Armaan and her worst times - his innate goodness does not allow him to see Riddhima suffer.He has been the closest to her as her guardian and confidante in these few weeks and that has bound him to her in a nameless way.
Riddhima , on the other hand has got it finally in her head that Sid is her guardian angel - that he will always be there to stand up for her - give her a comforting hug and pat her head telling her that it is okay , if it is not , it is going to be okay. She trusts him and that is the beginning of a new bond. 👏
Siddhant and Riddhima symbolize a strange , intensely disoriented but riveting facet of a man-woman relationship where there is no love , no attraction , no interest .......but there is still something that puts Siddhant to sleep every night with the thought that Riddhima is okay and Riddhima with the belief that if at all something goes wrong.... Sid will make it okay. 😊
NEXT WEEK, Siddhant tells Shankypanks that he is ready to marry Riddhima. I saw some posts saying that it is out of character for Sid.
No, it is not.
The nail in the coffin of Riddhima's by-now-mutilated "honour" are the photographs of herself and Sid that Sid had taken in passionate and thoughtless fury. The rape allegation came much later and only worsened the situation.
Remember Dr. Keerti telling Sid that the photos had done permanent damage , his apologies wouldn't change anything and today , it held true.
Riddhima is stained , Shashank is stained and no matter what Sid's thought and hurt condition at the time , the photographs were his doing. And Sid , being a man of goodness and honour cannot be giving false assurances to Shashank. - he has to do something that will restore Shashank's name and Riddhima's honour.....Because he feels responsible for it - It is my mistake - i took those pictures - nobody will believe that these pictures are big lie - i must do what i can to make everything alright for Riddhima and Shankypanks.
And by now , Riddhima and Siddhant's characters have been given black stars by society - you can't shut their mouths - you can't explain to them what the situation was and you cannot tell them what happened between the two of them. And the kind of society that we are , Sid is doing what any man of honour would do - put that shawl of honour on Riddhima - marry her because nobody else will.
Siddhant is only conforming to the stone age rules of society - clean Riddhima's name by joining it with his. Parameters of morals! Urghs!😡
And now , together - bound in something that they will perhaps never understand... they are going to take a walk in the mud that was splashed on them today. Someday , all this is going to make sense. Someday.
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