Tuesday, August 19, 2014

KumKum Bhagya : Abhi and his Wont to Adulation

He is a Rockstar. Has a huge fan-following across all generations of people. Old to Young.  He has got accustomed to admiration, adoration and adulation.  It has become his wont to see all these things everywhere around him. Even his close family adores him, if not showing admiration or adulation. People like Taiji and Mitali adulate him for their own selfish reasons.
And here begins his tryst with his Pragya. Someone who is least bothered to attend to him, forget admiring him for starters that he is so habituated to. Pragya ignores him without hurting his ego. Which is loveable. It does not breed any animosity between them. Pragya keeps her self-respect and self-interest alive through her inattentive persona to Abhi. But has she really been inattentive to him?

Today's drunk episode with Pragya taking up all bits and pieces of her husband's vanity and displaying it to the fullest and loudest may have been an angst and frustration release for Pragya, a hilarious episode for the viewers, but certainly it was not cute display for Abhi. He felt mocked, he felt snubbed by Pragya with his Rockstar persona dismissed as Funny. And this was not funny at all to Abhi.

I saw Abhi first looking for attention and admiration from Pragya in the Reception beginning scene when both get ready in their room. Abhi all dressed, notices Pragya dressing up. He wants her to react, say something, but Nope, Pragya does not even bother to look up and is fiddling with her getting ready. If that scene is disturbed with her attention to details of his collar and asking him to correct something and him again falsely assuming that she is admiring him, it is again corrected to the fact that he does register why she called him a cartoon. But then back on staircase, while he again for second time admires her get-up and change to the other saree, the tiny detail that she listened to him, heeded him, he in the same manner, wants her to look at him and show something that she likes his avatar. Nope Pragya does not even entertain him a bit.

Now in Mehndi ceremony, she again called his songs as without sur and Taal. And in her capacity she sang something which Abhi actually liked. Cut to drunkenness of Pragya and all that is pent up within her coming out, we now have Pragya ridiculing him what can hurt Abhi most. Pragya dismisses his face saying, its not worth commenting.
She ridicules his style and accessories, the earrings, the rings on his fingers, the wristbands, the lockets, the hair-style.
Finally she ridicules even his bread and butter earning occupation with mocking his work, the way he croons and the way he asks his fans to follow him.

Ofcourse all of this is very cute when a cutefaced Pragya says it. Even Abhi cannot get mad at her. Its obvious she is not his fan and hence cannot like him or understand his style. He can understand where she comes from. But keeping all that logic apart, we do see a bit of Abhi, with his heart not liking the fact that Pragya does not even think it worth to look at him. And this she is not even saying to him to spite him. It is coming out naturally in response to his tackling her. He himself is being responsible for her revelations on him of what she thinks of him. I feel bad for him that, once the reality comes out, its going to be a 360 degrees pain for him, for making a mocking of marriage for Pragya, because then it would dawn on him, that he gave enough reason for Pragya to ignore and be indifferent to him with resolution, when atleast in her subconscious she found him funny with his wierd style and uninteresting face, enough to mock him, to dismiss him.

Though it is wonderful to see an Abhi who dismisses Pragya for being a Chashmish and ordinary, and yet admiring her beautiful eyes so much so that he gets lost in adulating those eyes as mesmerisings and magical, provoked enough to call her hynotist,  admiring her occasional display or perkiness in witty comebacks, admiring her slender figure, admiring her singing skills, admiring her gorgeous look when she dresses up for the occassion, we can also feel the pain for him about his simultaneous need to denounce the next moment of his realization owing to his misunderstanding and also fired by her ignoring him completely. It has not become an overt display yet, but I am already guessing Abhi's hurt face when Pragya would not bother to acknowledge him more than is needed to keep the semblance of their relationship.

All this is just revealing Abhi's wont to adulation around him. 

He would need to come out of that shell to be really admired by Pragya. For a change, he needs to be a fan. She would not care for his occupational perks, not care for his style, not for his looks. But she would still take care of him for all his tiniest details just like she is doing today. But that day is not far off when she would fall for him when she sees not just admiration for her but a streak of madness about her from him. But what is going to make it endearing for her is the pain of separation from him, as she would have fallen in love with his company so much. There is no doubt both are going to support each other, but his return to her is what would make her believe in love again and how much she is capable of loving him. 

Haha! one could write all this just going by the comment we hear in today's episode..."Aapka chehra he toh...kuch bolne laayak hi nahin!!!" [Episode on 11th August 2014]

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@mina, @Tia,
Wonderful to read the continuations on this topic. :) Agree

Though, I must say that Pragya's kind of going to get baffled at her own feelings once she discovers how much Abhi means to her. Her definition of love is very inadequate or rather too practical and boring to begin with. To not to see into each other, but to see in the same direction, with like-mindness is actually a lot of progression with sense, which gives an all round satisfaction of accomplishments along the journey, but it cannot be denied that seeing into each other and discovering ourselves being lost in there, is another kind of emotional excitement which would take of heart's longing. I cant wait for Pragya's definition of love to change and accommodate looking into each other's eyes too.  Because though she undermines the importance of it, Pragya likes that kind of falling in love.

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