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Ever since Shiv has been introduced in the show we have seen many facets to his personality which have piqued our curiosity regarding the nature of the character. Not much has been revealed so far but whatever snippets have been offered have lent a definite thrill quotient to the plot. Who is shiv...is he the menacing entity from another realm refusing to leave the physical plain just so that he can wreck havoc in people's lives or is there more to it than meets the eye?
He is a restless spirit, strong yet broken lurking around and in, the hospital room of a woman Sharanya, lying unresponsive in the bed after a debilitating accident which rendered her bed ridden and unconscious for two long years. She comes back to life, miraculously, even after doctors give up hope of her survival. Then one evening she bares her heart to her mother in a conversation while sitting with her, when she admits that the only thing she ever sensed during those two years in oblivion was a soothing hand that held her. Her mother smiles,says it must have been vyom her fiance, she looks at her mother and confidently refutes her belief saying she had felt vyom's touch but she doesn't feel the connection with him. This realisation...does it stem from the fact that she suffers from amnesia and has forgotten the years spent with vyom or is there a more pressing underlying reason to it. IT is eventually revealed that the hand that held her night after night was that of the soul following her like a shadow now.
Shiv looms large in her life, at first she is nonplussed by everything that is happening around her but as her suspicion gains strength that, it's not her mind playing games but something more, something beyond reasoning she at once decides to take matters in her own hands trying every possible means to find the cause of the absurdity that has become a regular in her life.
Shiv scares the living daylights out of Sharanya, she smells stargazers all of a sudden, feels a chilling cold threatening to engulf her in cold despair and then she senses...she is not alone...a silhouette at close range is looking at her or is it looking upon her.
Shiv is extremely compelling and mystical. He is a spirit a soul who is not bound by the vagaries of fate like we mortals do, then why does he prowl the plane of us mortals what chains him to the our world refusing to let him free...is he an anguished soul searching the road to Salvation...does he want to convey something to Sharanya..his behaviour is equally perplexing...he scares sharanya to the bone yet saves her from an amorous lecher trying to make an advance at her. Shivs story...is it a tale forgotten by few and purposely buried by the others remains to be seen...his persistent struggle to get Sharanya to acknowledge his presence is sometimes scary sometimes heartbreaking...the tumult that shiv feels at times is enough to elicit sympathy for the character .
Shivs musings at the end of each episode is perceived to have a connection to his life story and is goosebump inducing and keeps the suspense going.
The other characters in the story are intriguing. It seems like a big masquerade party where everyone has their masks on concealing their real motive behind the facade not willing to show their real faces in turn giving the feeling that no one can be taken at face value...
Hopefully the show will do justice to one of the most Interesting characters in the world of hindi daily soaps...shiv our supposedly desi demon with his black attire, intense black eyes and deep baritone..
Hola guys...this is a little write-up about shiv from my perspective...it in no way undermines other characters or actors for that matter who are actually doing a great job, all of them..It is merely my POV of the character I find the most fascinating in the show...
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