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* UPDATE *
A lot of people seem to think this is a review thread, which it is not 😳
This is solely about Adi - his journey from where he was a year and half ago, to where he is today. The progression of his character graph and his growth into one of the emotional anchors that he has proven to be today 😳 😃
My detailed take on the entire episode - All scenes included (IshRa, Precap, Toshi-Sarika-ACP) - is in another thread here.
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I wrote a part of this in today's review thread by Akanksha (gravity23), but then thought this deserves a post of its own. Its about Adi, the boy Raman pined for, the boy we all hated, the boy who has come so far from being his biological mother's shadow that now I feel happy he's a part of IshRa's family.
I always felt IshRaRu were a single unit, because they've always been so. When Adi came back to Raman and decided to stay in Bhalla house, when he became friends with Ishita, when he called her Ishima, I saw those as signs of progression in his character sure, but never could make him a part of IshRaRu in my mind, despite having cute family moments. But today, Adi became a part of this single unit in such a beautiful way that it touched my heart. The unit is now IshRaRuDi in all senses.
Aditya Raman Bhalla:
Adi is the one who suffered the most because of Shagun-Raman's divorce. Had he been as young as Ruhi, he would have been moulded in a single pattern. Had he been older, he would have been able to manage his thoughts. He was a small kid when his parents separated, but not as small as to not recognise his father, or fall prey to his mother's tears. He was brought up in a joint family with certain ideology for the first 4-5 years, and then with some other ideology but lots of material possessions for the next 6 years. He disrespected his father because his mother taught him so, he found a new father. AND then, he was betrayed brutally by the man he considered his dad. AND then figured that his real dad wasn't that bad. But by then, there was no place for his mother in his father's family, or his heart. Imagine a child spending the first 10 years of his life the way he was made to. Its terrible, hence the psycho ideas and psychological impact later when he came back to Bhalla house. Add to that the swapping story by his own mother. Then the fire accident. This boy has suffered even more than Raman, I'd say.
Adi - Ishita Relationship:
He was always Ishita's second child, Ruhi always came first for Ishima, because she was the child that made her a mother for the very first time. Similarly Ishita was always Adi's second mother, Shagun always came first for him. She brought him up, and she did love him very much. Even after Adi had come to Bhalla house and accepted Ishita as his Ishima, the bond that Ishita-Ruhi have, or Shagun-Adi had was missing. I always felt that when Ishita gets pregnant, Ruhi would get ecstatic, but Adi will become uncertain, uncertain about his place in the family, uncertain about his importance in Raman's heart, uncertain about his priority in Ishita's life. And the only person who could remove his uncertainty was Ishita. Only she could tell him what he meant to her.
The Adi - Ishita scene today is one of the best mother-child scenes in YHM, including the one with Raman - Toshi and numerous Ishita - Ruhi scenes. The fact that he owed up to her about his feelings - his negative thoughts about the baby, his doubts about her love, his pain - showed how much he has experienced in his short span of life, and how much he loves and trusts her. His asking her to promise him to love him forever was an authority over a woman he hated initially, but now has come to whole-heartedly accept her as his mother, despite loving Shagun even today. I loved how Ishita explained her love to him as well, how she put him and Ruhi on an equal footing today. True, for her Ruhi will always be special, in the same way Adi is more special to Raman. That doesn't mean she can't love him equally. I loved how she acknowledged to him, and herself, that this new baby is her THIRD baby, because she already has him and Ruhi. I loved how she shared with him the taunts and the miseries she had to go through when she couldn't be a mother. Ruhi has seen her go through that phase multiple times, but Adi hasn't, and so it was important to tell him that even for her, he means a lot because he became her only son.
It was one plot that I desperately wanted to see in YHM and it got fulfilled so beautifully, and so realistically these past few days that I felt like crying. And the entire credit goes to Gautam for this 👏 👏 👏 DT, we know, is a super actress, esp. in emotional scenes. But Gautam stole my heart in this plot. He has come a long way ahead, and, at the expense of sounding like his mother, I kind of feel proud of him 👏 😃 😆 😆
Adi - Raman Relationship:
There was a father, who yearned so much for his son, that he asked his wife to apologize for no fault of hers, that he neglected his daughter while lost in his memories, that he bore his wife's insult in his own house just so that his son could stay with him. It hated him to do all those things, but he did, in the hopes of hearing 'Papa' from his first born. Then there was a boy who hated his father, left no stone unturned in disrespecting him, who believed his mother so much so that despite staying in his father's home with his paternal family, he believed him to be a liar. These were 2 unique individuals, tied by blood, yet far apart.
But today, I saw a REAL father and son moment. Teenage son, perceptive enough to understand his father's anger by his behavior, responsibly promising him to take care of his mother and his yet-to-be-born sibling, communicating via his eyes & expressions to control his anger in front of his pregnant mother. Worried father, treating his son like a friend and cribbing about his mother's carelessness to him, like he would to his brother-cum-confidante, understanding his son's concern and hugging him thankful for his love, lovingly promising him not to lash out on his mother.
Today I saw the son Raman longed for, the one who would be his shadow in the future, who would step-up when his family needs him, and take care of everything and everyone around, just like his father. Today I saw the father Adi always needed, the one who would treat him as an equal, the one who would confide in him as his friend, the one who would trust him with responsibility and guide him every step of the way.
How far have these two come from those hateful days!
Adi - Ruhi Relationship:
A boy who never met his little sister for the longest of time, who never cared for her feelings, who considered her stupid and not good enough even to play with, who taunted her in school with the horrible newspaper reports
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A boy who felt disheartened when his sister didn't tie rakhi on his hand the first thing, who knew what his sister liked and how much, who wanted to buy her a gift from his own pocket money, who felt so relieved at her liking and accepting the gift.
How he made me wish today I had an elder brother like him!
Adi has done some real weird things in the past. His feelings have been tossed around everywhere like they didn't mean anything. He has lost family multiple times. And then, he emerges stronger than ever. I believe this is one character that has shown maximum growth in YHM, and Gautam is the one who has brought Adi to life, even when we hated him, even now when we're liking him so much.
Kudos to Adi's journey and Gautam's portrayal of the same! 👏 👏
👏 👏 👏THIS is what is called realistic progression. He went from being a complete spoilt brat to scared to spiteful to mellowed to hopeful to trusting to insecure to lovable to responsible 👏 👏
(P.S. I wish they showed the same trajectory with Shagun's character, and I'd have whole-heartedly accepted her transformation into the saint she's now.)
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