SPM ~My Musings 2.9.19~ Engraved memories..
Memory or the mental faculty of retaining andrecalling past experiences is of great significance to the identity of any person. The episode touches upon the impact of memory upon certain characters. As the audience we learn quite a bit of the characters past and how it relates to their present.
Madhav Sharma continues his worship along with his family to celebrate the birth of lord Krishna. The scene is apt, as it is in keeping with the actual event of Janamsthami. I recall also how in the programme earlier, the Shah family celebrated the event of Eid ul Fitr. Such events serve to bring diverse faiths together,and extend the flavour of how communities live and interact.
Madhav Sharma as a devotee is sceptical of deities. He sees them as being powerful, yet their intervention to expedite his cause of seeking justice for his sister Sakshi appears nil to him. Yet as a contrite soul,his memory brings back his dead sister to his mind, and his mission to avengeher killing. One thing interesting to note is the value Sakshi occupies in hislife. Like Krishna was brought up by two mothers, Devaki his biological mother and Yashoda his foster mother. Madhav too attached maternal sentiments towards two women. One towards Indu his biological mother and the, other towards Sakshi his eldest sister who clearly he was more attached to him as his FB’sreveal. He even reveres her place as a deity in his life. No wonder her loss leaves a significant gap in his life.
His memory leads me to believe that probably Indu being a socialite was too caught up in her life, leaving Sakshi to fillthe gap of a mother in her younger siblings lives. Thus the only supplication he has before Krishna/Sakshi is to revive his captive Kainat!
In keeping with lord Krishna’s life , a young boy Krish ,apparently Madhav’s son , arrives in answer to Madhav’s prayers and miraculously saves Kainat from an electrocution death by catching the lowering , live bulb in his bowl of butter knobs! Instead of water! . Earlier the child pastes butter on Madhav’s stubble cheek as a symbol of his prayers being answered! coming to life of Kainat! but only just! Madhav will have to persevere perhaps??
Krish makes Kainat snap out of her coma, but as a person she is a nonentity. She loses her memory, is petrified of her surroundings and her whole question mark existence proceeds in a scream of horror!
Madhav ‘s victim is alive and kicking! Only has no recollection of who she is? Kainat ends up as a pretty young woman in Madhav’s bedroom A hot subject for guests tongue wagging! Indu insinuates they are together,soonto be married! Only to this no memory person Kainat ! it puts her mind in a spiral even more! Madhav too lies to cover up for her which further confuses her.
Madhav’s scenes with his prey are volatile and roughly tactile. Its obvious she may be conscious but his thrill to kill her! continues to be incomplete! He wants her memory back. So he can kill her by reminding her of each segment, of the foul manner in which, she killed her mother like sister Sakshi! The scenes that follow between them begin to show some emotional connection other than his murderous fury towards her, churning up in the future! How she trips and he is there to catch her in his arms, and the eye locks between them, almost insinuate that they may get married as Indu told the nosey women who found Kainat in Madhav’s room! What of Zaroon??? The more she protests of memory loss, the more violent he gets.. Madhav realizes he has to back off if he wants her to remember her past.. this seems like a long haul, is it amnesia..? or something more grave....twelve years Madhav waited.. how much longer???
Within Kainat who is really Saltanat, some vague recollections make her queryher relationship with this strange burly wild man! as for her name! he almosttells her.. K… but instead, christens this minus identity girl with a new name, Kashish! Which really means anattraction!! Madhav Sharma is swiftly becoming putty in hisprey’s hands. Is he hopelessly being drawn towards this killer, yet elusivebeauty? Hark! It’s a case of mistaken identity.. Madhav cannot tell Kainat fromSaltanat! however Zaroon senses some eerie difference between Saltanat his wife and the spectacled Kainat!
As for the real nasty Kainat who is as coiled and rounded like the jalebi’s she makes for the mourning Zaroon so she can entwine him in her web of obsessive love.. she is roughly shunned by Zaroon most cruelly andviciously! The last person he wants tosee is Saltanat as she reminds him of his mother’s killer Kainat! There is nothing but profound loathing in Zaroon’s heart for her! the scene contrastswith Madhav Kainat scene.. where Madhav’s revenge syndrome is fast changing into a strange magnetic pull towards his victim!
Nadeem and Rubina’s scene was endearing.. they do not deserve to be duped by Kainat who poses as theirdaughter Saltanat. Rubina clearly is god fearing,loyal to her family. Whereas ,Nadeem still believes the wicked Kainat may be alive.. that she put Zainab inher present state, as Zainab stumbled across Kainat’ truth. Nadeem seems more realistic, whereas Rubina reacts as a mother.
Kainat seeks support from her mother Rubina, but eventually as expected she does lose the plot! For she knows fullwell all her ways are coiled like the spring and how she bounces people out oftheir very lives! when ever the need arises!
The episode shows strong scenes between, Kainat/Saltanat and Madhav; and Saltanat/Kainat and Zaroon. Madhav’s Kainat has no recollection, of past experience.. has to be that way for the plot to continue in a jalebi typestyle! Zaroon’s Kainat has all her wits about her, and successfully weaves her web around Zaroon under a the false identity of the beautiful twin Saltanat!
Saltanat ,loses her memories.. Zaroon cannot get Kainat out of his head! What a spiralling point the plot has come to! 3.9.19 hamlet53
Thanks Irshita, lonelythots andSwansong!! Wonderful to see you.. come again.. love hammie… sorry for late postwas rushed off my feet yesterday! Tried to post earlier, site showing errors!
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