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Tez tha chhonka kya karoon?
See see kartee main maroon
Jabaan pe laaga re laaga re ...
...NAMAK ISHQ KA .
Raat bhar chhaana , chhaana re... namak tere ishq ka...
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I WILL BE BACK SOONER THAN YOU THINK.
And if you are planning to vent , rage and rant, don't wait for my post. 😆The story and characters are clear to me, so i cannot contribute to the beauty of the forum.
Aate hain! ❤️
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The song that I have mentioned means - " The love of my lover is like burning salt on my tongue. The love of my lover is like the fumes of the spices that burn my whole being with their heat once put on fire. Now, I am just running helter-skelter burned by the salt and spice of his love."
Hmmm... tell me. What stood out for you from the entire Rudra-style wedding that Rudra carried out with Paro? The surface mockery of the institution of marriage? The silent and tearful resistance of Paro who had wanted a fairytale wedding and voices it with a ' aisse nahiin" to Rudra? The darker and cynical version of the seven vows that Rudra promised Paro? The sindoor and the laal mouli mangalsutra with which Rudra marked Paro as his own for seven lives or maybe more? I mean, of course, all this holds meaning only if you were not busy squirming in your seats hoping for a 'Kucch Kucch Hotaa Hai" and finding an intense and passionate " Bahot Kucch Hotaa Hai" instead.
Anyway, sarcasm aside ( forum ittna negative ho saktaa hai, toh ek-do chatkhaare lenne ka chance to bantaa hai, yaar)... what stood out in today's episode is the EIGHTH VOW.
" Rudra tera kabhi nahin hoga, Paro." ... Rudra promised this to Paro. How? By almost pasting her body against his own , holding her as though he would suffocate her with his possessiveness , by looking into her eyes without batting an eyelid and completing that last pheraa TOGETHER. A verbal and emotional oxymoron where his words were in direct contrast with his visible actions. He committed emotional abandonment to Paro by holding her as close as his own breath.
Now, turn around. This oxymoron logic applies to all the seven vows that he gave Paro. VERBALLY, he promised torture, tears, terror and all that jazz to Paro. The cynical and darker version of all of Paro's pure feelings and promises. But all these cynical vows that have sprung from his anger ( not hatred - he doesn't hate Paro and its oh-so-visible ) have a future too. From his anger will spring his calmness. From his disdain for her beauty will spring his lovestruck admiration for her inner and outer beauty. From his psychological cruelty will spring his own defencelessness against her perseverance and resolve. All the cynical vows, AFTER REACHING THEIR WORLDLY CRESCENDO, will turn divine and soulful.
Why? Because this is the reason that Rudra's physical self promised Paro that he will never be hers while his soulful self made his muscles embrace Paro while making this promise.
And its proven true within 10 minutes. Jo Rudra Paro ka kabhi nahin hogaa, that same Rudra does a U-Turn and comes running back to snatch Paro away from the world - gathers her up in his arms , VOICES his right over her and takes her away to his world- you cannot miss the possessive and territorial body language and voice modulation of Rudra here . Rudra's 'Shrimatee' in all his soul-cuteness is brought into his world , with utter care that nothing hurts her.
This is the JUXTAPOSITION AND CONFLICT of what Rudra is thinking and what he is feeling. Rudra's mind abandoned Paro and Rudra's heart sent him running back to the dehleez to gather his Paro in his arms and bring her where he is. Now, place this image next to Rudra engulfing Paro while taking the 8th pheraa and the 8th vow. Its pretty transparent.
Rudra Paro ka jab hogaa so hogaa, but as of now, Rudra only knows that Paro Rudra ki hai. Customized ownership, thank you very much. Contact any NGO you want. Yours truly, Rudra Pratap Ranaawat.
Now, as we give Rudra a breather to make sense of his own physical, verbal and emotional reactions while taking the eighth vow , lets shift our focus to Paro.
I don't mind sounding rude because I am rude and in-your-face. Those who know me from before are well aware of my vamp-ish talents. So, keep that in mind when I tell you that i really don't bother or care how the forum perceives Paro. I am only going to write what has been shown and told beforehand.
Paro is the whitest character in this story and she is your modern day Desdemona with some renovation. So, usski zaroorat se zyada acchaai aur zaroorat se zyaada mohabbat aapko bewakoofi dikhti hai. And since we are modern, educated , urbanized women who have their own definitions of feminism and society-bred ideas of rights, freedom, liberty, am not surprised that everyday a zillion essays are written on Paro's characterization.
Excuse Moi? What exactly is characteriZATION? Characterization is the genesis, building, cementing , growth and evolution of a CHARACTER. Paro is a character in her own right - she is perfectly fine within the parameters and frame of the story for which she has been created. So, your problem is not her characterization. Your problem is her CHARACTER simply because she is not a reflection of how you have been taught to be a or see a woman.
I am sorry. Paro is not a vestigial organ of us " liberated" women and she is not an additional attachment / extension of our sense of identity of women. If you start your day by " I cannot relate to Paro's character" , you are never going to fathom her as another entity who may not be from your world , BUT SHE IS STILL AN ENTITY. Her actions, reactions , feelings are HERS and why should she get a clearance certificate on that from us?
Paro is Paro. An individual. Maybe from another world, another era , yet AN INDIVIDUAL.
Keeping that in our minds, lets travel to her take on this marriage. Do a little flashback here. Do you remember her little conversation with her doll? Do you remember her promise to herself and to Dilshoo?
Paro had COMMITTED to Lord Shiva that she will do anything for Rudra's forgiveness. She had promised her doll that come what may, she will find that lovely boy in Rudra and teach him to live, love and laugh. She had promised Rudra and Dilshoo that she will never let this relationship break and no matter what happens, she will never leave Rudra.
She had challenged Rudra that just like Maa Parwati , she will clear all tests and she will win him , just like Maa Parwati had won Lord Shiva's heart and his companionship as HIS Wife.
Today, she is pained by what Rudra is doing, the way he is marrying her ( her tears, her feeble " aise nahiin", her physical resistance that is just as confused as her bruised heart ) ...but HOW can that change the way she feels about Rudra? If Rudra's act of anger , thoughtless temper and pseudo-hatred riles up Paro, makes her voice the dialogues of all naari-emancipation and storm off , then, the work that the writers have done on her on making her this virginal and this white , on making her believe in the Lord Shiva and Maa Parwati soulmate saga stands like a brick wall in this style of storytelling.
Paro's deal with Rudra was always of PASSING ALL TESTS OF FIRE and never of turning around and asking him HOW DARE YOU PUT ME IN THIS TEST?
Paro is upset about the way Rudra has married her and not the fact that Rudra has married her. She is still staunch in her faith that her nurturing will evolve Rudra into the man that he really is and that she can save him from himself. That is why her first thought is not " ye mere saath kya ho gayaa" when he plops her on the bed and collapses on the floor. Her first thought is still Rudra...
Its as simple as that.
And if you are waiting for Paro's breakdown and her vulnerable sobs... don't wait. Her destruction will come very very slowly... in small measures... as she puts Rudra back to life brick by brick...
Baat nikli hai toh bahot door tak jaayegi...😉
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