Originally posted by: Taiyo
I have been stalking this forum for the last few days and have fallen in love with all the posts here, which have pushed me to write my own thoughts on this forum after years. [Janaki, Pepper, and Sherlocked, I love reading your brilliant dissection of characters and scenes].
I like to see things from both sides, so this post is for Patralekha, who is evolving into the chief antagonist of this drama.
[We often want characters to behave according to our moral compass, but then they have a mind of their own and their own red lines]
A couple of years ago, I saw a Chinese drama where the male lead tells the second female lead that when you meet THE ONE, no one else matches up. He refused to move on despite being separated from the female lead for years. That is what happened in the case of Patralekha – though the Chinesecouple’s story was not a two-day love story. You can feel a connection with someone in a trice, and with someone, you might never even if he/she is the best man/woman in the world.
When I think about her character, it is not yoga camp that I revisit. It is the first meeting between her and Virat. She sat on the steps and watched Virat in awe, seeing him tell the nakshatra of his family members. The man had an aura and came across as an honest, family man. It was a great first impression, and when she met him again at the camp, she could not stop herself but fall for him. And, it was for the first time in her life that she had met a man with whom she could see a future together. [Can we make such a conclusion in two-day time? Well, a short meeting is often the beginning of long conversations.]
Virat and Patralekha’s story is of two complete strangers who were attracted to each other but were not meant to be. We cannot tell whether they would have worked as a couple or not, because they never got that chance. “WHAT IF?” will always be there, especially in the mind of Patralekha.
It takes time, sometimes even years, to move on from the person who you believe is THE ONE. Both Virat and Patralekha never got that time. In the case of Virat, he met Sai soon after meeting Patralekha, and with her, he probably felt a connection. He was not attracted to Sai, but he could not ignore her or stop himself from admiring her. She didn’t see him as perfection personified or expected him to behave in a Chavan-family-son proper way. Also, the mission to save her saved him from the pain of watching the so-called love of his life entering his house as his cousin's wife.
Returning to Patralekha, she did not get a chance to interact with Samrat. Her fault, yes, but then, she did not get the much-needed time to accept the new reality. And, why is she holding on to Virat and his promise? For her, he is THE ONE. No one and nothing else matters.
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