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I told myself I'm banking my episodes till Raman and Ishita find happiness again. I'm an emotional fool. Aur Jab tak happy ending na Ho, picture abhi baaki hai mere dost...
I can't inflict torture of them being apart on myself until a reunion is on the horizon!
But having said that, I couldn't stop myself after hearing Ishita and Adi 's half reunion scene was amazing, by making a post on the fact that everyone thinks Ishita forgot Adi. Everyone is welcome to their opinion. Of course they are. Are you willing to hear mine?
Firstly, I couldn't stop myself from watching just that scene at the moment. It was breath taking. I Simply loved it. It was sweet, yet somber. And weirdly, it was dramatic, but not dramatic. I say this because there was no heavy music, no over the top reactions. the background score was perfection. In that minute Adi wasn't grown up Adi. In that moment he was the Adi of seven years ago that Ishita had cocooned in her blanket of love. This coming together of mother and son was beautiful.
I love that Adi was restrained. He is after all Ishita's son. His eyes told a thousand stories. His lips didn't have to say much. And that's Ishita, down to a tee. She lets her eyes do the talking, and apparently aditya does too. Often we have seen Ishita's pain through her eyes, because otherwise she hides it the best she can. Adi does the same. And What he does say to her, just invokes this reaction where we then come to have unreasonable expectations about men. He tells his mother, standing in front of him, how much he misses her. That he has been living with her memories. And Ishita in essence tells her own Adi, without knowing, that she is always, always with him. They both lay their cards on the table, without even knowing it. And it's heartbreaking, and heart warming, all at the same time.
And yes, until now, we have not heard a mention of Adi. But that does not mean Ishita doesn't miss him. Of course she does. But this Ishita also lost a child, and was subsequently told how terrible she is. How then, could she stay, and subject her other child to what she herself has come to believe. Raman told her to leave because she was 'manhoos'. And as some of my new friends on this forum have pointed out, and as I agree, she came to believe it. I am definitely not turning this into Raman vs. Ishita. No way. Raman, on self preservation mode said terrible things and didn't realise he had the ability to affect her this much. He underestimated how vulnerable she was with him, because usually she attempts to mask that.
Ishita, in a way once again played the self sacrificing martyr she always did. She thought Adi would be safer, better without her. In her way, her thought process, her act was not selfish, yet it was. Because she thought now, once again, this is the only way she mattered. By giving up everything. And this included her son.
Love, I think, speaks louder in the unsaid things. Sometimes, in unshed tears. And I think that's how Ishita's love for Adi is. She doesn't need to say anything. Ruhi was taken from the world according to her, and so that overpowering guilt is focused on. But with Adi, who Ishita claimed was the other half of her heart remained with the family. It was Ishita who separated herself. So in her mind, she did what any mother would do. She protected him from herself after she too believed she was good for nothing. It was the mother in her, that separated her from her son, and I truly think that Ishita believes this.
I am in no way saying she is right. But humans do not always walk the path of right or wrong. Life is messy, and people are grey, not black or white. We react in different ways. And Ishita always felt needed when she sacrificed herself. In a twisted way, it's her way of feeling loved. And I think this is why she kept her being alive a secret from her son as well as everyone else. For her, this was an ultimate act of love.
Advocate Anjali Awasthi
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