Aunty, thank you very much for all the PMs. I'm still catching up with them after watching most of the episodes in one go 😳.
Anyways now for the much awaited finale. It was an edge-of-the-seat action packed episode but the ending turned out to be anti-climatic (I'm reminded of the adage "started with a bang but ended with a whimper"). In fact while watching those sequences of the Yudh-Ajju showdown my glance happened to fall on the timer which showed the number of minutes remaining which left me with a sinking feeling that they were planning to end it just like that, and honestly that took away from the mazaa of Yudh bashing Ajju's face to a pulp 😒. Taruni's screeching every few seconds also did not help matters.
On the other hand, Anand facing Aditya...Oh My God...I had my heart in my mouth during those scenes! Loved the way Anand was calm and composed throughout, quietly getting the chocolates from the fridge before calling out to his son, and then him trying to distract Aditya with the chocolates without showing any fear, and later trying to cover his pain with laughter after getting shot, WOW 👏! The way Adi's face fell when he realized that the gun hasn't made any impact like in the video games and him dismissing it as gandi gun was such a relief. It just sort of hits home how elaborate the plan of the nurse was: first to get him addicted to violent video games, then get him an automatic gun to "play a live version" with his mom as target. Just sickening! It's hard to imagine what would have happened if he had seen the blood on Anand's leg 😳.
As for the rest I really really wish they had stuck to their original plan of 30 or 45 episodes or at least they should have had a week more to tie up all the lose ends, show what happens to the other characters - Mona, Nikhil (does he know that it was Ajju who got Mamta killed?), how the auditorium incident gets explained, how Taruni comes to terms with what happened to her, what becomes of Ranjan, and most importantly how on earth does a nerdy corporate lawyer carry out such a detailed conspiracy and how did he get all the clout, manpower and funds to pull it off?? So much to cover here but everything is just left dangling unresolved.
Yudh as a show overall was nothing short of fantastic but the abrupt ending kind of makes it feel incomplete, making me miss it all the more now.
Looking forward to your Loose ends topic.