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Ishita is alive.
Ishita Bhalla is alive.
Ishita Raman Bhalla is alive.
My wife, Ishita Raman Bhalla is alive.
Shocked, happy, ecstatic, angry, relieved, alive. She's alive. It means I'm alive. I'm not seeing things am I? Have I finally gone crazy?
These must be all the inner workings of our beloved hero. The love of his life, the one he has constantly pined for these seven years. I saw bits and pieces of the episode and this is what I saw written all over Raman's face.
Raman Kumar Bhalla was a broken man. Until a certain Ishita Iyer walked into his life. She resurrected him. Everyone saw the unraveling of the angry young man. Suddenly he wasn't so angry anymore. Suddenly he didn't keep his family at arms length. Suddenly, Ruhi wasn't a painful reminder of his past, rather she was his wife's shadow. Then came Adi, and the transformation from Raman's spiteful son to Ishita's stooge in training. Life revolved around one person, Ishita Raman Bhalla.
And then the world came crashing down. Ishita wasn't in the world anymore. And Raman couldn't be Raman without his wife. As insecure as they are, and as clueless about the depth of the others love for each other, Raman and Ishita became part of each other. So when Ishita left his world, Raman essentially died too. And so walls Ishita broke down came back up a thousand times stronger. No one else is worthy of resurrecting the man he is with Ishita by his side. This right belongs to only one. His Ishita.
And so Ishita waltzed back into his life today. And we saw Raman smile. And we saw this while he was sober. The minute he sees her, we see a small glimmer of Ishita's Raman. She's alive, so now he's alive.
And then, as we dreaded, he sees mani. The mani that encapsulates everything that defines the perfect partner, on paper for Ishita. Mani would have been the perfect choice had Raman not walked into Ishita's life.
So Raman, impulsive, angry, possessive, jealous Raman resurrects those walls despite Ishita being alive. Because yes she is alive, but why the hell is she with mani? The mani who thinks Raman was never good enough for Ishita. I think the reason mani has always gotten to Raman had nothing to do with the fact that he's always questioning Raman about his not being good enough, rather Raman himself saw in the past that on paper, this man is a perfect fit for his wife.
Raman and mani both forget Ishita doesn't live her life on paper though. But the minute therefore, mani makes an entrance, Raman's mind starts working. So yet again, she leaned on her friend for support for seven years, and didn't even contact her own husband. And the walls are now resurrected.
The walls that can be broken by one person in this whole entire universe are staying up because Raman is angry and hurt and yet again, feels like he was not good enough. Why didn't Ishita come back? Didn't they get past 'Siri Ruhi ke liye'?
Raman just went from existing in constant agony to living, now Ishita is alive, in a hurricane of anger, pain, jealousy, envy, and love. Crazy, unpredictable love and jealousy are the ingredients that are going to make Raman Kumar Bhalla 2.0 more ruthless, angry and spiteful.
Because he is in pain and had been for years, while she was alive and with someone else. So now, he'll make her experience what he had been for years.
But why? He'll only be giving himself more pain. We know hurting her will hurt him more.
But they'll be hurting together. After all these years, at least they will share something together. And this way, the only person in the world that can bring these walls crashing down won't. Because he'll hurt her too much. This version of Raman is so broken that it will take even more to break him. And yes, Ishita has that power. But this time he thinks he won't let her use it. He'll keep her close enough to keep hurting her, but far enough so she doesn't crack the wall.
RKB, ladies and gentleman, at his volatile, jealous, possessive, crazy, insane best.
