Originally posted by: -Nidoo-
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It is funny how I mindlessly reserve a post on your thread without reading it or even watching the episode 😆 😆 In the hope of finding something really amazing here 😳 And never have I been proven wrong 😳
I have a lot of things to say about today's episode, but will focus on the subject of this thread for this post - Raman Kumar Bhalla.
First of all, I really don't get the hue and cry on his today's dialogue. He has said far worse and far illogical stuff than this. Does this mean it made sense? No.
In fact what followed after his statement is what ACTUALLY makes sense. That he can't see Ishita die.
Because he simply can't.
Because he loves her. He won't accept it now, but he knows he does. The man who wished her to die a few weeks ago, the man who barred her from taking Ruhi's name, the same man wants her to live now, wants her to see her Ruhi once.
To be honest, even I am a little biased towards Raman. That does not guarantee that I blindly follow him and his deeds. It just means that I understand him, maybe better than a lot of other people. And that, you do too 😊 I love your theory of Raman's self-preservation, by hurting others before he's hurt, shooting multiple daggers before even a single arrow is shot towards him. I believe it too, sometimes.
What I permanently believe in though - is the heavily flawed man, scorned time and again, who hides into his shell at the faintest of movement around him, like a scared turtle. His shell is his armor. And his armor, which he assumed to be impenetrable, has started to show chinks.
Why I don't completely believe your theory this time is because he's not vying for power here. When he lost Ruhi all those years ago, he lost that first person who loved him selflessly, unconditionally, even when he couldn't reciprocate the love back. He lost the daughter who used to wait to talk to her father, but her father was too busy to call her back. He lost the daughter who made him feel loved, much before true love walked into his psyche in the form of Ishita. And that's a huge loss. When he lost her, suddenly everything was hazy, and chaotic, and painful. And to cope up with that loss, he pinned the blame on the first person he could pin it on, because even though he knows and believes Ishita could do no harm to Ruhi, he did believe that hers was the final nail in the coffin of a series of mistakes.
Was he right? Absolutely not.
Probably he does know it all, but needs an external form to shove into his face for the realization to finally break through. That today was Ruhi first, and Romi later. Because if Ishita's mistake caused Niddhi to flee, it was HIS mistake that got them all there in the first place, and that is something that has been thrown at him for the very first time.
When he said - Nobody could be angrier than I was with Ishita, because of what happened to Ruhi. He meant that he has always blamed her for Ruhi's demise (or kidnap here), tried to hate her, but to see her die for Ruhi, is beyond even his capacity to handle things. And that's as close to I love her damitt! as it he could say right now.