Bepannah My thoughts~ ep 178 20.11.18 Between the devil and the deep blue sea!
We find Zoya caught up in a dilemmas, predicaments, traps posing two equally dangerous alternatives. She is meant to choose between two issues which are equally as bad as each other. I see this episode as Zoya's virtue both morally and physically being tempted and enticed by evil principalities. Before evil forces, she is visible as the sole virtuous one, fighting for Aditya Hooda. She fights rather staunchly, intrepid in the wake of briskly creeping and mounting up evil forces.
Zoya has to be struck down from her bold position ,to further weaken a fallen Aditya. One of the most poignant images caught on camera is Zoya touching Adi's shoulder to ensure him that she is his strong pillar that holds him from crashing to ruination.
From start to finish, the episode shows Zoya go through the unacceptable and non-negotiable. She finally grasps the truth that the likes of Rajveer has one aim. To ultimately break the established relationship between her and Adi .
For Zoya too discovers that her unconditional goodness does falters at times. Rajveer for whom she held compassion, due to the manner in which destiny treated him, turns around and offers her an indecent proposal beyond her imagination.
The scene is a learning curve , she has to learn that the devil, Rakhsas that she labels Rajveer, dons many faces and plays with human weaknesses and frailties, because this evil spirit is to defy the gods and torture gods creation.
The cremation scene is humbling, for humans. All who taste birth go through death as well. It's the natural phenomena the cosmos practices with every living species.
Adi comes in as the condemned one, fallen from grace by his very own family. Yet he is far from the anti- hero. In the vision of the easily duped eyes of the two families present, he is the rejected and excluded one! but the divinities are familiar that like Zoya too he is one good soul stitched up by his righteousness, when it comes in contact with guile of evil!
Even at the moment of lighting the pyre, due to his righteousness Adi himself judges him self in wake of public opinion and forfeits his birth right of being the eldest son. This is how evil operates, goodness itself is its worst critic and as such, Adi does exactly as Rajveer expects him to do, disgrace himself publicly, bid farewell to his father with a grieving heart and guilty torturing conscience.
Still moral justice need not always be seen, upon this sinful earth as the deities in heaven are aware Adi is innocent. That also on earth when all close to him turn their backs upon him, Adi's life partner continues to show both him and the world that she sides her husband!
Arjun has to light his fathers pyre, alongside Rajveer being the eldest. Arjun accepts the truth where as Adi negates it.Arjun appears positioned between the two brothers.. older than him brothers! Adi and Rajveer! Arjun positioning within Harsh's issues is clear, that Arjun remains the youngest out of Harsh's fold. He too, is in the painful situation of being caught up between two older brothers! Adi who he grew up with, and Rajveer whom he barely knows, except by the revised power he now holds.
Zoya too is pushed aside harshly as an outsider, who only sides her criminal husband Adi. Sadly the faithful Arjun, is overwhelmed by the issue of blood is thicker than water.
Arjun too is ripped between several predicaments, look to his estranged mother or to the woman he called his sister? should he lean towards his beloved bhai who had no crooked bone in his body! or to his mother about whom Arjun really does not really known the whole truth?
But in all this landscape of tedious human blood bonds and other frail human relationships. Rajveer and his Naani act as the emissaries and ambassadors of the evil one. Both thrive upon the goodness of the pure souls and works of Adi. Zoya and Arjun. like Naani quoted earlier, they needn't get their hands soiled.. the virtuous will do it for them , in the name of fighting for truth and justice!
They say do not judge others as all will be judged in due course! and none one is without a blemish. Yet Naani appears to be the judgement giver. She is the one who predicts, in the episode, how the the estranged and partly insane Anjana will end up scouring the streets like a madwoman! who loses two important men in her life. Her husband and her son! Naani brings out the chilling similarity between her daughter Pallavi's fate and that soon which Anjana is about to face..
Rajveer's scene with Zoya is typical of a degenerate man who targets women to mentally cripple a vumerable man by casting an evil eye on the foes wife, mother, sister or daughter! to dishonour the enemy. Rajveer to me appears to be the true son of Harshvardhan Hooda, like his father, he lacks respect of woman and treats them like a means to an end, be it for pleasure or business. Rajveer though, even crosses the boundaries of obscenity, decency, one expect towards women in civilized societies let along within the family code of conduct.
In comparison Adi as much as we see, is Harsh's son who does honour and respect women, be it his wicked mother or his wife Zoya who not so long ago was the widow of the man who ran away with Adi's wife Pooja! Maybe Adi inherits Harsh mellowed mature properties after Harsh began to mend his ways?
But there is marked difference of how both brothers treat women. Adi treats a woman as the mother goddess , mother earth that sustains creation. Rajveer treats a woman as the mother earth whose soil should be ravaged and desecrated to stop it from sustaining new life! just like his mother was treated and left by the way side by one man's selfishness
Rajveer's suggestion to Zoya his brothers wife, to sleep with him if she wants her husband set free, is an option he puts before Zoya. I am unsure if all this is to do with loving, fantasizing, about Zoya? or simply playing politically motivated war games? How like a deadly siper he allures Zoya in his web by cajoling her, would she rather save her honour? Than lose her husbands life? its her decision upon which he eagerly awaits upon. The manner in which he raises and loosely crosses his tattooed arms above his head shows the high he gets from seeing Zoya caught between two equation. Which he sees her losing! in which ever option she chooses!
I see it as a moment when even the godly are not spared from the temptations and enticement that evil offer them as an easy option, to scale through a challenging situation. But then these are times to test one's virtue.
Not only does Rajveer tempt Zoya's virtue, but her own father Waseem too, tempts her to come away home with him! walk away from her shallow ,meaning less relationship with Aditya by seeking divorce.
Where ever Zoya turns, all doors and options seem to close upon her as she faces Adi going down with life imprisonment. What the world fails to perceive is that her second true love marriage of mutual consent with Adi is a life imprisonment of their souls quite boundless and limitless.
Its sad to note that Waseem rejects a daughter who knows how to protect both her husband and both their virtues from the evil eyes of the world. We see in the episode, that this time Zoya forever alienates herself from her father, to be at par with Adi who stands disaffected and disillusioned by his family.
The analogy of Ram , Sita and Ravan is aptly used by the cv's to highlight Zoya being caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.. even the boundary etched by her Lakshman, Arjun, appears faint now.. making it easier for Rajveer the modern day Ravan to defile the virtue of Zoya..
Like Sita,Zoya too will have to justify the choices she makes..especially if she choses to protect her honour in place of her Ram's, Adi's life. In a way Rajveer manipulates her yet shows her how the world is likely to judge her for being a woman! One more time the world will mock her as jinxed, an evil soul who kills her husbands! Yash first and now Adi! Rajveer ,true to his nature will use all means fair or foul to dishonour his adversary Adi by tainting his wife's virtue!
Zoya will have to cross the river of fire, walk on the burning embers of coal to safeguard both Adi and her credit and honour from Rajveer! Also in the scenario of even being maligned or implicated to being with Rajveer, will she uphold her pure reputation before her Adi?? just like in the faith story of Rama and Sita the cv's refer too.
I suppose this is where their complete and Bepannah trust in each other will come to surface. The precap is evil hovers over virtue ,regardless.. both reside side by side in this world, ready to overpower each other.
Harshad chopra, as Adi the disaffected vulnerable Hooda son, Jennifer Winget as Zoya. his back up strong virtuous wife, Parineeti as Anjana ,the mentally unstable traumatized Harsh s widow ,and Apurva Agnihoti as Rajveer the eldest devil incarnate son of Harsh Hooda! Are all magnificent in the episode. They together give us more reason than ever before to keep Bepannah up and running as the best show on ITV... Hamlet53. 21.11.18
Keep watching Bepannah! all is not lost... Love hammie
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