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Sid gives a side glare and i-give-a-damn-about-you attitude to Riddz and walks..... okay , sorry...... limps out of the room inspite of Riddz warning him with fiery eyes that he cannot walk out on her. Modi V/s. Modi it is for sure. Sid with a broken heart , an enraged soul and a bleeding ego and Riddhima with shocked senses , a compassionate caring heart and neurons working overtime wondering how to put full stops on Sid's formula 1 racing like temper.
Riddz is as feisty with Sid as bratty he is with her. Worried, upset , Riddz follows Sid out of the orphanage premises - Sid is bitter , spewing venom as he limps to his car and Riddz is pleading with him to listen to her , stop being foolish and come back right now. At this moment , or rather from the moment Riddz saw Sid get into an accident , her thought has been Siddhanth. You are not okay , your leg is only going to get worse. Riddz doesn't care two hoots about her own injury which is perhaps not serious as she is able to walk properly once they are back in Sanjivani.
Sid doesn't want Riddz to come after him , show pity or look after him. He tells her the most frigid and sarcastic words possible in regards to the disturbing spectacle he saw . Riddz does get angry but she shuts her eyes and controls the urge to fight with Sid. This is no time to lose head , he is upset, he is injured and he is alone - and there is no way am letting him get away with his 'Dennis The Menace' behaviour.
Riddz has realized by now that if you have to get through to Sid in his temper , you cannot cry and sob - the tears don't hit him and he gets angrier. You have to talk in his language to make him listen to you - You have to get as bratty as him to cool his temperature. Riddz stops pleading and categorically tells Sid that he is not going anywhere and she will not let him go anywhere without her - For the very first time , she not only voices rights over her husband but exercises them too by grabbing his arm. Sid is further triggered by Riddzie's feisty avatar and he challenges her back - Is that so? Let me see how you stop me?
Riddz loses her momentum a little as the word 'stop' hits her and the painful thought comes gushing back to her that whatever is happening today - the burning that Sid is feeling inside and the helpless condition she herself is in is only because she signed those freakin' divorce papers....... yes , she has forgotten that it was Sid who sent those divorce papers and that he is equally to blame. But no... she only remembers Sid's shocking and heartbreaking outburst that she had deleted him out of her life. Sometimes you come to attach affection and yourself to a person to such an extent that at an impulse you only remember your mistakes and not their faults.....
Anyway , Riddz snaps out of this introspection and retrospection and goes and stands in front of Sid's car. Sid is not too shocked but he is affected for sure - wifey refuses to budge from the front of his car and he looks at her in silent irritation - he is not all that angry as of now. Riddz gets into the Modi mode that she has picked from her husband in these few months of marriage and tells him firmly that if he wants to go , he has to run the car over her. Sid is teased but he says nothing and tries to go from her right but she steps in front of the car again. Sid cannot run a car over a housefly , hurting his wife is like... a light year away? Furious, he tells her that she is being kiddish but there is no moving this Riddhima. It is either my way or else no other way. Riddhima keeps standing like a mountain and Sid keeps struggling with his temper at the accelerator and Mrs. Modi wins round 3.
Sid , with a sullen bratty face goes and sits on the other side and Riddz takes on the wheel. It is rather symbolic in an amusing way. Sid is the one without any faith , without any hope now and his heart under ice slabs and it's Riddhima who is going to build what she has lost in Siddhanth and their marriage brick-by-brick - she is the one with hope , with determination and re-discovered feelings for Sid. Riddz not only took over the wheel of the car , she will also take over the wheel of her marriage and win Sid back.
And as they drive back to Mumbai, Sid's mental and emotional condition is a heartbreaking revelation to Riddhima. When she tries to lighten the atmosphere by teasing him in the most subtle manner that did he really think he would have been able to drive back to Sanjivani in this condition, Sid doesn't snap back at her. He tells her with a pensive bitterness that it is not a big deal really. I have always managed alone , infact , i think i am the only one in this marriage , maybe i have always been - i should be getting used to doing things alone. Riddhima looks hurt and mortified as she looks at Sid's tired wounded expressions , his arms crossed against his chest as though he is shutting out the world and stepping into shadows and Sid's constant looking out of the window as though he doesn't want to look again at Riddhima lest his heart melts again. Tears well up in Riddhima's eyes as she shuts her eyes in regret , wondering what in the world made Sid think that she is not with him? That she would leave him. Did she really keep Sid so lonely in this marriage? You can see that at this moment Riddz would do anything to make Sid believe in her again , convince him that she is with him and that she always will be.......she just can't seem to find the right words and keeps cursing the divorce papers in her mind. Yet , she tells him that those papers don't stand in their way and they never will. Sid turns his face towards her struck - no , not struck by sudden hope or faith - struck by Riddz' tearful eyes and her pleading face...... was there a flicker of hope in those blank and bitter eyes? Perhaps.
Back at Sanjivani, Riddhima sees or hears nothing apart from Siddhanth. No , not because she is going to confess or profess her love for him from rooftops. It's because Sid's outburst in Lonavla has woken up her heart instincts towards Sid and her dormant fear as well that she could lose him - lose him to his fears , lose him to the dark terrains where she has sent him unintentionally. The same fear that we had seen when Sid had gone to see a girl and Riddz had followed him and broken down later. In the ward, Sid sits on the bed like a bitter brat , least concerned about his injury while Riddz , worried sick pleads with Armaan to see why Sid is not okay. There she is not the calm and composed Dr. Riddhima and Sid is not her patient. The concern is too glaring and compassion too visible to be termed not-personal.
From what we saw today, Sid knows that there is nothing between his wife and Armaan but it is the disturbing visual that does not leave him in peace - that Armaan told him he had no rights to speak to Riddhima like that kills him every minute - it is like some nightmare that you keep questioning yourself about that doesn't spare him. Whatever Sid held inside all this time was unleashed in that one outburst and when you shred the skin away , the blood sprouts on tissues - painful, vulnerable and difficult to deal with. Sid said that he never felt this wounded in his life before and that shows not only how much he loves Riddhima but also how close he thinks he had come to losing her.
With all his emotional numb-ness gone , Sid and his emotions are raw and like always , bitterness and fury are his favourite defenses. They seem terrible to Armaan and you don't blame him. Only Riddz knows the troubled heart behind that bitter face that is refusing to hug her.
Riddhima's feelings for Sid , her understanding of what he is going through , her resolve to stay firm by Sid's side and look after him touches not only Shashank but the audience as well.
With emotion-wrought eyes and a tender smile on her face she tells her Dad that Sid is a gem at heart - he has the heart of a child and she says this not to highlight now immature or how naive he is - she says this to indicate that how sensitive and vulnerable he is if you take away his defenses.This is Siddhanth's Riddhima who has seen the worst and best of Sid and knows him like no other.Everybody sees his flaws and his faults but she only sees the heart whose goodness and warmth took away the winter of her life.
Riddz further explains Sid's condition to her Dad........
He is upset , Papa. Upset because i signed those divorce papers ( after all this drama i think i need brain mapping done to understand why i signed those papers...... ughs! why didn't they just disappear from that envelope?) ...... he is bitter and so angry about those damned signatures of mine. But am not going to leave him alone in this condition. I am his wife and I will look after him , be with him. When I was at the lowest in my life , he held my hand , then how can I not be there with him and for him?
And as a touched Riddhima goes out to search for Sid frantically , a smile plays upon her father's lips as he realizes that this relationship , this marriage is Riddhima's world and that for her , all roads lead to Sid where she will find him..... and realize one fine day that she and Siddhanth were just meant to be.
Love and luck to everyone always,❤️
GOD bless everyone. 🤗
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