Symbolism Behind White Sari (04/06/12 - UPDATED)

I'm sure you're sick of my posts by now but I noticed some stuff about the white sari that some people here have highlighted, and I wanted to add my own take on it. Now, obviously I don't need to go into the symbolism of the intimate scenes - we all know our Arnie was a little deprived of action, and it was too hard to resist his lady love 😉

First of all, white sari - purity, innocence, we've seen all of this symbolism before so I'm not going to go into tons of detail over it. But the colour white just shows how pure both of them are.

But anyway, I wanted to focus on the last scene, where Arnav hits Khushi and she loses consciousness. A lot of people are saying it could have been done in different ways, but I think that this way was effective. As I said in another post, Arnav here was performing the lesser of two evils - he knew that she wasn't going to listen to him so he could either hit her, therefore saving her (and hurting himself in the process, because he can't take it when anyone lays a finger on her so imagine how bad he must be feeling), or he could let the gundas take her and do all sorts of batameezi. And who knows what they would've done? 5 grown men against Khushi. Arnav didn't like the fact that Khushi had put herself in danger for him at all, and he wasn't going to allow her to do it again so he stopped her the only way he could think. And yes, it could have been done in other ways - but there wasn't time. He had to make a split-second decision, and he saw the stick there and just acted. Sometimes, as we've seen before, he acts before his mind can catch up with him.

Now to when he laid her down on the hay and started covering her. As someone else mentioned, it's like when a wife dies (I'm sorry, I know very little about Hindu customs), and she's dressed in white and they cover the body. Here, rather than foreshadowing Khushi's death (they've used death before, remember Heer-Ranjha?), they've used it to symbolise something else. I think this was meant to symbolise sacrifice. Arnav has previously sacrificed Khushi, or his feelings for her, by mistreating her. He has hurt her so many times. Like the symbolism from Heer-Ranjha, how both of them 'died' on their wedding day. He is now sacrificing his love for her in order to save her. He thinks that he'll never see her again, so this is the ultimate sacrifice. He is sacrificing his happiness to save the one he loves. You know what they say - If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. At the back of his mind, he still feels that his love for her is stronger than her love for him. But he has acknowledged that he is deeply in love with her, and we have seen how he hurts himself to protect the ones he loves.

There is a lot of symbolism behind yesterday's episode, and it would take me forever if I was to highlight it all. Of course, I may just be over-analysing but let me know your thoughts anyway!

Aw, thank you! I'm glad you found my symbolism interesting 😊