Abhay & Piya

Abhay Raichand

Abhay Raichand. At the beginning of the series we meet Abhay as the strange guy who rescues Piya when she trips and is about to fall off the cliff. Since then his family - dad Chand (moon), mum Haseena (beauty) - and himself have moved to Dehradoon officially, upset the local order and managed to place themselves at the top of the pecking order. Before the Raichands arrival, the Dobrials had been at the top of the rich list in Dehradoon, a relatively smallish city, however their arrival and consequent purchase of a leading business and the largest old manor in the area creates a rift in many of the circles where the Dobrials are used to ruling. Interestingly, Arnab Dobrial and Chand Raichand take an instant dislike to one another. We have also recently learnt that Arnab is very interested in vampire mythology and he shares this interest with Piya.

Abhay likes Piya. This much even blind folks can see. The interesting part is that 300 years ago Abhay was a stable boy for a Princess Maithili who he fell in love with. Abhay’s reaction and attraction to Piya can be understood to some extent as Maithili and Piya share the same face. Piya realises this when she begins delving into Abhay’s past and secret. We’ve now reached the point where Piya knows Abhay is a vampire, she’s tricked him into revealing the fangs and blue eyes. Piya goes to the old cottage where Maithili had been burned down for loving a man beneath her by her father, and she recreates the whole horrible night for Abhay. She goes into the cottage and sets fire to it with herself inside hoping Abhay will come to her like he did for Maithili.




He does of course, and in his human form he simply doesnt have the strength to battle the fires and save her - so after a struggle within himselh he bares the fangs and blue eyes and picks her up and carries her out. She meanwhile, freaks, calls for help and runs away from him. Poor Abhay looks stunned and heartbroken and all he can say is that ‘You’re asking to be saved from me?!’  Poor thing. 



She freaks out - as is expected I suppose and runs away, going a step further with leaving Dehradoon the following night. I love the scenes where Abhay arrives at the bus stop as she’s leaving and they have this intense eye contact conversation. He’s angry, she’s upset - no longer afraid, just wary - he picks up her bag, flings it on the roof racks as if daring her to leave him. And she does! *tear* He gets back into his car and drives off as she boards the bus and leaves the other way.

Half way from the city, the bus stops for a break. All through the journey she’s been having flash backs about all the times he’s saved. Most important of all, she remembers that just two days ago he brought her back from being mostly dead with a kiss... Going to take a second now and go back an episode or two..

This was the best episode. She’s been hit by a maniac driver (Danesh, although no one but viewers know this) and is in hospital, with collapsed lungs, bleeding that won’t stop and he is miles away in a different city. This was his crazy effort at going away from her - that and his parents know she’s trouble - so they all up and leave Dehradoon for the other side of the country. Anyway, he’s sitting in his rocking chair and all of sudden he feels as if she’s calling, as if she needs him. So he does this fantastic rewind of events thing in his head - he tries to see where she is and what’s happening and he see’s her come out of her hostel, and a car head towards her and then run over her and speed off. That’s all it takes before he runs off (literally) and arrives at the hospital with his hood drawn so as to be undetected.

He walks into the ICU when everyone else has left and kisses her everywhere she’s hurt and or bleeding. Finally he kisses her and her vitals improve *sigh* lovely stuff. He promises to stay with her as long as she needs him. Now back to the last episode..

Piya realizes it doesn’t matter what he is, she loves him and she wants to know why on earth he didn’t tell her before what he was. Why did he let her find out so she could freak out like she did? She wants to see him and ask, and she wants answers because it’s all too much not knowing and loving him. *Aww* So, she comes back to her hostel where Misha is awaiting her arrival and keen to berate her for leaving so suddenly. Abhay is waiting downstairs in his car, and Misha sees him as she leaves but Piya doesn’t realize. All night we see Abhay rehashing Piya’s reaction to his vampiric form and ignoring Piya’s calls thinking that its best if she not have to love a blood drinking animal.

Cue Awws. And here the episode ends. I’ll be better with the recaps from here on. =)