After-thoughts
Yesterday was the first full break Sunday for me in ages, and what better way to spend it than watch and re-watch YHM 😆
So while watching this episode, some more thoughts originated, related to all the life-threatening situations Ishita has been in, and the cost & value of a human life.
A. Ishita's Live-or-die moments: Riots. Earthquake. Bus Bomb. + IshRa during the three phases
There are some similarities, and a progression of sorts of her life throughout these 3 situations. IshRa have been hand-in-hand, working their way out of difficulty together as a team, but their level of involvement and support with each other clearly reflects the status of their relationship at that stage.
During the riots, Raman was outside the situation, at level zero, trying to help her from where he was. He was neither stuck with her, nor was present to help her recover. Just like their relationship at the moment. He was concerned and worried sick, but from a distance. Two unique individuals coming together for a cause.
During the earthquake, he was at level one, communicating, helping but via phone, was not present with her during the time of calamity, but immediately after, looking for her. He loved her, and dreaded losing her, but was not in the thick of things. They were both trying to fix the problem on their own, keeping each other apprised. Two people who fit in perfectly like the pieces of an unresolved puzzle.
With the recent happenings, he was at level two, as involved in the disaster as she was, operating with her as a team. He not only became entangled in the situation with her, but also was / will be present to see her take the brunt of it all. This time, they were glued together, understanding each other, sharing responsibilities, like a SINGLE UNIT. Two halves of one single being.
It also shows development of Ishita's family. From Raman-Ruhi during the riots, to Raman-Ruhi-Adi during earthquake, to Raman-Ruhi-Adi-Baby during the bus accident.
Also, the reasons behind these 3 situations also seems to have progressed. External factors in riots, to Shagun in earthquake-fire (but unintentional), to Ashok / Driver in bus bomb (intentional). Its like as IshRa are climbing up the steps of their happiness, things / people / circumstances are becoming more desperate to torture them, each time enhancing the intensity of pain caused, testing their relationship against hardships they never even imagined.
B. Cost and value of every human life
Animals are selfless creatures. That's because of survival instinct. Fight-or-Flight. Self-preservation. Human-beings, though animals intrinsically, are a step ahead. Because they are a species that CAN form emotional bonds, their instincts change in the face of a disaster. This is what makes family bonding so unique and special. This is what made a grandmother berate herself for saving herself before her grandkids, a sister help her brother's wife get out of the disaster before she could, a man rescue his niece & nephew before he could rush to his own son and daughter, and an unborn child at the moment.
But what makes humans, truly human, is the concern, empathy and help they show for people not bonded by kinship. In Saturday's episode, these people were Neelu, Lata and Chand Singh - The driver.
Ashok, as an employer, neither cared about his employee or his troubles, nor about a dying kid whom he could have saved. Rather, he showed disgust and anger, treating the man as a mere object instead of a human. Thereby depriving a poor man of his only child, his son, his ray of hope, which made the man deranged.
Bhallas, on the other hand, respected their employees, their house-helps - Neelu & Lata - that they saved them, before they saved their own lives. When Simmi realized an elder would be needed on the jeep to take Rohit and Ananya, she could have easily stepped out herself, or could have sent Sarika. But neither of these two women, Simmi & Sarika, did the expected. Instead, they asked Neelu to step forward, thereby making her the first person to get saved. Later, when Toshi, Adi, and Ruhi were adamant on not getting down, the kids without their Ishima, and the grandmother without her grandkids, she sent Lata ahead, so as to at least save her before they could safeguard one of their own.
Makes one wonder, what is the cost of a human life, and how is the value of one life different from other!
Edited by -Nidoo- - 10 years ago