If people bear with me, I would like to talk about some psychology here đ. RK/Pakhi is one complex character and her progression/digression is also very complex but the way Leena showed her arc gives an amazing peek into human psychology which is troubled. I am doing this analysis on her, keeping in mind RK's character. I had so much sympathy and rooting for Pakhi's character when I started the show. If you go back to my initial days in the forum, I have written posts and OSs on her trying to understand her.đ˛ During ousting track, I started watching KD and I could understand RK better than Pakhi. I disconnected with Pakhi during AJ track where she showed no remorse or regret. RK had both in that track. OK let me start from the beginning to understand why Pakhi behaves the way she does.
Pakhi and Virat are passionate people. In a sense, they are both very sensitive and emotional. For Virat, being a man and Police training has made him guard his emotions better. He can reign them in. The difference between the two is that Virat has wisdom. He learns and grows. His strict adherence to what is right and wrong that will make him re-train his brain into accepting things that come his way. He has understanding of life, he is mature and he is compassionate. Compassionate means he has an understanding that people falter, they do mistakes just like he does. There is acceptance of his situations and the people around him. He is not rigid to his beliefs/ideas, such people grow continuously. Pakhi has no maturity, no acceptance, and no learning. She is very rigid. She gets stuck.
When two such people meet and get attracted, the effect must have been really strong. Imagine a girl who has not fallen in love or attracted to any man for 26 years! Finds this attractive person, well educated, soft and well behaved, handsome etc., and for a passionate person like Pakhi, he must have imprinted on her mind. In her mind, she already priced him invaluable. Similar'y, for Virat, Pakhi might be that woman who had equally strong effect on him. Thats why such an incredible Vaada. He did not, obviously know how Pakhi as a person. She seemed sweet girl, nice and calm, extremely beautiful. He had not seen yet, that the beauty of a woman is her intelligence, kindness and confidence till he started to live with Sai. Thats where his wisdom helps. His way of seeing things, learning from them has made him receptive to Sai instantly. Sai's effect on him made Pakhi's image in his mind dull.
For Pakhi, Samrat could have been a Sai! Thats exactly what Virat hoped for. And thats exactly why he was too forgiving around Pakhi after Sammy left her. He knows his brother is a good man. And Pakhi will learn to love him. With that understanding, he imagined Pakhi would move on. But due to her own mindless passionate yelling, she drove Samrat away. For Virat, she never had a chance to KNOW Samrat. But for Pakhi, Seeing Virat who is still 'the invaluable' person in front of her eyes, every day getting lost to this new woman would be difficult. Unable to express her desire and passion for him within the strict covenants of the soceity and familial propriety, her passion turned into resentment. She could not believe Virat can move on so easily!! the person who promised to remain alone for her sake, the passion that made him do that promise can fade so easily. Hence her denial that he did move on, not fully.
Thats why, she tried everything possible to turn Virat's attention towards her thinking that she can reignite some feelings for her from the past. She doesn't realize that Virat has erased the memories long ago. Because what she feels for herself, she projects it on Virat. Again she doesnt understand that people are different. People change . If she cannot forget her past easily, she thinks Virat also cannot. Cafe meet is thus a turning point in her life. In KD, that is the first time RK breaks down completely. Rono clearly tells her there is nothing between them. For RK, that is the last opportunity to turn Rono towards her. because 1. Baadshah wanted divorce 2. Emon turned anniversary upside down meaning that Emon doesnt want this relationship. 3. Rono is pissed off at Emon. 4. Family knows about their past. All 4 reasons, made her believe that if Baadshah and Emon agree for divorce, there should be no blockers. Rono can fulfill his promise towards Emon's father and after few years they can marry. It is a valid hope to have. But on that day in cafe, Rono not only said he doesn't have anything to do with the past, but also declares his eternal love for Emon unequivocally. That he loves Emon, irrespective of the outcome of their marriage or Emon's acceptance for him. It shatters her hopes on him completely. Thats why the breakdown. in KD, you can see RK accepting that Rono is a dead end from that incident. Here Pakhi is shown begging him, meek and weak, turning into a stalker. There RK had accepted completely that Rono is not coming back. From here she targets Emon and changed her motive from getting Rono to breaking him with Emon.
She made sure If Rono is not hers, then she will make sure he will not get his love. After this, she started troubling Emon. The entire track of moving on with Baadshah, trying to be close to Rono during second accident etc is to sow the seeds of distrust in Emon's mind. She played with Emon's insecurities. It got worser and worser till she resorted to equating their love to sibling love. By then Emon accepted Rono completely so it did not work. But look how RK is getting disintegrated in mind. She is losing it completely. Her only hope was to break Emon, and she knows if they consummate, then it is sealed from Emon's end. Thats why she turned more desperate after their consummation.
She resorted to downright uncouth ways. This is her falling to her lowest form. Faking pregnancy!!! She is trading her own self, her image and her future to break this couple. How low can she go, only worser thing than this could be killing Emon. You can see a completely disintegrated human mind. She also tried to trouble her a bit during Jagtap track where she tries to plant the seed of distrust in Rono's mind that she could be violated. She is till not completely over the hatred, but not in a full blown way like before. Obviously you could not reset to 0 and start afresh. So now and then, she spewed venom on them even after her redemption. Very realistic in that way.
So when she reaches that rock bottom, and when Baadshah stood by her, thats when she 'SEES' him. Till then he was irrelevant to her. And Baadshah knows that she is not innocent. Other family members might have fallen for her story that she was trying to test Rono and Emon. Not Baadshah. He is a wise man, and he tracked RKs behavior closely. Still he choses to give her a chance. For Pakhi kind of a person, she has to undergo this complete catharsis. she has to be undone to see life with new perspective. RK burnt herself down in her passion for Rono before rebuilding herself up. It is a complete psychological breakdown shown beautifully. To erase the image of Rono, she has to burn her mind down. there is no other way.
Thats why fake pregnancy track is important. This is the only way, she could move on. She has to see what Samrat is, his love for her is! That he can do the most difficult thing for a man. Accept her by overcoming his male instinct to shun a woman who loves another man. It is big step and a man doing it for her sake will change her. From then she starts seeing things clearly. May be her acceptance of Emon also comes naturally, though there will be some jealousy because she is more loved, more successful. RK kind of people take A LOT OF TIME to change. They are not mature, wise and compassionate to embrace life as it is and cant take when life throws stones at them.
With the amount of hurdles Sai had in her life, RK would have crumbled into pieces. Sai and Virat though opposite in their nature, have one thing in common. Wisdom to accept life.
In short: RK/Pakhi is a complex human. She needs time and drastic situations in life to change her mindset. She could be redeemed but at a high price! Fake pregnancy is the potential plot. But not sure what else Vankar has under his sleeves to redeem her. I cant believe she changed. Not after seeing RK in KD who had this kind of apt transformation.
PS: While watching KD is a good experience for me, watching Ghum with KD playing in mind, is definitely not helping :)
Edited by sadiltl - 2 years ago
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