Hi guys,
Posting on this forum after ages. I made a new VM on Raghu - Aarti. It's a little complex but I hope you guys like it.
To break it down, this video explores two things. The first is love; the second is an existential crisis of sorts.
In what is not a very normal love triangle, we see three characters come together, two of which happen to be twin sisters. Ayesha Sareen, Raghuvendre Raj Singh and Aarti Roy.
When Raghu first meets Aarti, he assumes her to be her twin sister, Ayesha Sareen. Confused by the stark contrasts in their personalities he wonders if he were wrong about the actress he had so unceremoniously kicked out of his party. He continues to have these moments of confusion as he meets Ayesha, whom he feels nothing for mixed with which are instances where she seemingly manages to invoke something within him. Unknown to him ofcourse, these instances actually involve Aarti
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In all likelihood, Raghu would have probably never met Aarti again and would have finally made up his mind about Ayesha and cut her out of his life due to his personal grievances and despise for film actresses. However when Aarti ends up impersonating her sister for a brief period of 7 days, everything changes.
Raghu, still oblivious to the fact that the girl he is spending all this time with is infact Aarti, falls in love with her. However, once that period is over, Ayesha steps back in. Disconcerted and bewildered by the shifts in Ayesha's' personality, Raghu still ends up confessing that he is in love with her. And then the moment of truth happens.
Raghu comes face to face with Aarti.
And everything falls in place. Like a curtain has been lifted. His moments of confusion and wonder over two such strikingly different personalities residing in the same person are over. The girl he fell in love with is infact a whole different person. She was not a figment of his imagination... she is real. She is a living, breathing individual. And his happiness knows no bounds.
The most interesting aspect of this entire turn of events and also the reason why I made this VM is that Raghu doesn't ask Aarti who she is. Instead he turns around and questions Ayesha. For all of Ayesha's claims that Aarti has no identity of her own, that Raghu doesn't even know who she is and that she is nothing and no one, it is now infact Ayesha herself who doesn't exist for Raghu. As far as he is concerned, Aarti is the only Ayesha he knows. She is his reality.
Aarti however, is bound by the promise she made to her sister and denies having ever met him. Raghu refuses to believe her though and this is where Aarti's dilemma comes into focus. Who is she? Is she what Ayesha declared her to be? All her life, she has been nothing but someone who looks like Ayesha. For a long time, she was abused and crippled in her mind of any personal freedom, rid of her own individuality. So does she have no existence of her own? And does Raghu really not see her for her and is only in love with The Ayesha Sareen'? Perhaps she really is nothing but a shadow of her twin. Throwback to the dream she had of Raghu where he tells her, that she is real for him.. She is not Ayesha.. she is Aarti and he loves her.
That dream has just become her reality. Raghu really is truly in love with her. She exists. She is real. And yet, she still doesn't tell him the truth.
"Main kahin nahi thi." She says. I was nowhere. I am no one.
Raghu however is left unconvinced.
Inspite of the short period they spent together, they did come to know each other in an almost intimate way. Their dynamic is not purely physical, he knows her in her soul and so does she. And that is why he can tell her and Ayesha apart, he could feel the difference even when he didn't entirely understand it.
Kudos to Sudeep and Shraddha for the way they have worked this triangle and portrayed these characters. Special mention to this particular scene.. Sudeep was absolutely brilliant as Raghu and I was amazed by the subtlety with which Shraddha communicated Aarti's dilemma regarding her own existence.
Thank you for inspiring me to vid. It's been a really long time since I felt that inspired. Lots of love to you both!
Love,
Maham
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