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Sid is still coming to grips with the situation of having his mother in front of him who has perhaps only seen Ekta Kapoor serials all her life and is a rather irritating woman who happened to give births to adorable kids like Siddhanth and Suvarna by sheer stroke of luck or else her husband's genes.
Riddhima looks at Auntyji with the most lamb like expression , anticipating that Sid will introduce her to her mom-in-law any given moment now but Sid punches her in the gut - She is my friend's wife and she will live with me in this house for sometime. And as Sid's and Sue's distracting affection towards their nautanki-ki-dukaan mother , Riddhima can see no more , she can hear no more.... her eyes filled with tears do not leave Sid's face ...."my friend's wife" ....the slap that Sid has delivered on her heart does not leave her and she goes away leaving Sid to bask in his mom's affection. Riddhima - her expressions frozen and tears brimming in her eyes sees Sid and Sue warm up to their Mom and a small smile creeps over her face .... maybe it was a fleeting thought of comfort seeing him happy and sweet again, minus the bitterness that he harbours....
Later, as Sue removes Riddhima's things from Sid's room , Sid shows up - the sugary sweetness that he displayed in front of his super cuckoo Mom gone and a very grim expression on his face. Sue questions him immediately - What is wrong with you, superboy? Why did you lie to Mom? Riddhima is your wife. Sid just holds up his hand and says - Don't ask me any questions. I know what I am doing . .... and as if actually knowing where he is heading, he tells her he knows exactly where he is heading....Sue doesn't ask anymore questions hearing that tone from Sid......
Kekta Mom appears again and since she has been paid by the CVs only to abuse Riddhhima , that is what she does. KM's opinion of Riddhima as a married woman living in another man's house irks Sid and he gets irritated and angry as well but he keeps quiet . He is paving way for something because he has something stuck in his head - and we soon know what.
Sue brings Riddhima to the terrace where Sid is having a tense thoughtful walk. A million questions on Riddhima's face and visible hurt written all over her face comes and stands in front of him. Sid tells Sue to leave - he needs to speak to Riddhima alone. Sue goes out and we have a hurt Riddhima standing face-to-face with her determined husband Sid. The first thing that shoots off Riddhima's ready-to-cry face is - Why did you lie to your Mom, Siddhanth? There is so much of sting in her question that it takes Sid fleetingly by surprise....
Why should it matter to her? Why at all? She doesn't love me and this marriage is going to end sooner or later. Isn't that what we have decided once her Dad is fine?
Sid goes on a defensive and tells Riddhima that what were you expecting me to tell Mom? That you love someone else and not me? That this marriage has no future? That we will be going to speak to your Dad regarding ending this marriage once his health is better? How am i ever going to explain this crumbling marriage to my Mom and introduce her to a daughter-in-law who will no longer be my wife in sometime?
Riddhima feels punched again and lashes back at Sid raising her voice - Is that so? Then, why even wait for this one month? Let's go and tell your Mom and my Dad everything rightaway?
Sid argues back - Riddhima , it is just a facade - we have to put it up. And you have to just pretend , like we have been doing all this time.... save my Mom from unnecessary heartbreak over a marriage that is not there and save your Dad as well...
We are going to part ways , Riddhima....then, why invite unnecessary angst for anyone?
Riddhima just stands there - STUNG , STUNG , STUNG. He is letting me go.... he is not telling anything to his Mom because he thinks am going to leave him! He has no faith in me and this marriage because he believes that I will never love him? That he will never matter to me?
And as a stung and crumbling Riddhima hears Sid weave another lie to his Mom in a pseudo-comic manner that how Riddhima is not the kind of a woman that Sid would be with.... she goes away lest her tears and her stung heart fail her and Sid sees how badly he has ripped open her heart.....
The ending was poignant as Sid - devoid of any dreams , any emotion , any hope nods to his cuckoo Mom that he will go and see the girl that she has selected for him. Riddhima doesn't want me anyway and this marriage is breathing it's last.... the shocked tears that sting Riddhima's eyes , the falling of the flower pot in that stunned moment.... Riddhima listening to her Kekta mom-in-law's grand wedding plans ... and those tears refuse to leave Riddhima's eyes ..... and she doesn't know why.....
Siddhanth rejected Riddhima and the strange pain doesn't leave her heart. Why it is there , she doesn't know. Sid is closing the doors on Riddhima and she doesn't want them to close.....
The precap is heartbreaking. A pensive unsettled Sid tells Riddhima that he is going to see a girl ... the girl that his Mom has selected - he did something on his own will and belief and it supposedly did not work out - it is better to give his life in his Mom's hands , wherever it goes now , he will go with the flow and wave Riddhima a goodbye with a heavy heart.... he has decided that him and Riddhima are not meant to be.....and he thinks he is ready for it...
And as Sid takes a bow from Riddhima's life , she calls out to him through tearful eyes, tears that Sid cannot see and your heart comes to your mouth as she asks him with a shaky voice - Sid, agar tumhe ladki pasand aayegi... to tum mujhe usse milwaaoge na?
And those words from Riddhima stop Sid in his tracks and a strange angst rises in his eyes.....and looking beyond Sid who has stopped his heart from beating anymore , your feelings go to Riddhima who is seeing Sid exit with tearful eyes and a troubled heart - she wants to stop him but she doesn't know it yet.
SAD. As somebody had rightfully said, it has to be something drastic that will rip either Sid open or Riddhima open so that one of them can plunge into the other like a boomerang and never let go. The time is now if it has to happen....
Life is strange. When Sid wanted to take all the steps towards Riddhima into the future , she told him there was no time . And now, when Riddhima wants to walk into the future with Sid, he has told her there is no heart. Yesterday , she broke his heart and today , he broke her heart. They keep exchanging shoes ... don't they?
Sid is not a coward and he is not cuckoo. He knows that Riddhima is suffocating in this marriage and she will never love him and that is why he is opening all the doors that read EXIT from his life. Had Riddhima been the wife that he had pictured, KM would have been chasing her son and daughter-in-law around tables for having the guts to get married without her permission. But for Sid, Riddhima is a distant dream and he refuses to be vulnerable. He has given up on everything , including life and that shows in the way he wears the garb of a cow and see the girl his mother has selected.
Riddhima is not a cuckoo either. She feels for Sid and was beaten wounded by Sid today on an emotional level - it hurt her when he said she is not his wife , it stung her when Sid refused to believe in her commitment to their marriage , it wounded her when Sid told his mother that Riddhima is not the kind of woman he would marry and it killed her when the topic of Sid's marriage came up. Sid is letting go but Riddhima wants to cling on.....
Speak up, now, Riddhima. If you tell him once what he is to you , all the ice walls will melt and he will not let you go. But then.... do you feel enough?
Riddhima has sent Sid in the stone tower that he has shut himself in and it's only Riddhima who can bring him out to see the sunshine. The key to the doors that Sid has closed lie with Riddhima.....
Love and luck always,🤗
God bless everyone.
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