Denial..Anger..Acceptance..Move on..

Today's was yet again a brilliant episode, with the central essence being the phases of Denial...Anger... Acceptance and move on

Before we start special mention to Sonali, she was flawless and effortless through various phases of reality shown today. Her eyes, body language, expressions, voice everything just took Shoba's shattered and anguished state a notch up. Kudos to Sonali for pulling off Shoba so convincingly and so effortlessly 👏

Coming to the episode, there are quite a few poignant scenes laid out on a well paced episode.

Shobha and Usha

A friend is not one who stands by you physically and lends a shoulder to cry on and end the tears temporarily, but a friend is one who stands upfront before you only to make you realize the err you are committing, they will be harsh to you and make you see the truth and cry for once, so that you can see a better tomorrow.

Usha and Shobha are friends, very good friends, but each have differing views and opinions, Shobha wants to be in denial phase and hold on to Samarth while Usha wants her to accept the truth and move out.

A.K. says Shobha needs some time, but Usha says if she is given time now, she will be away from truth for a longer period and that means more heart and more pain, when you know it, one has to face it and accept it rather than deny or postpone it.

Shobha's phase here was completely denial, she requests AK for his bail, she says Samarth is framed not because she trusts him, but because he told her to trust him hence she will trust him and will stay away from the harsh truth by convincing herself yes my husband is not wrong, he is innocent... A phase of denial

Shobha and her Mom

This was like any other mom daughter scene, where a mom doesn't want her daughter to face the cruel TRUTH which shatters her and breaks her down. she is being protective and wanting to protect her daughter in a very comfortable bubble, because the truth is what pricks the bubble, which only breaks the her who is living inside it. This is a phase which seals her in the denial state

Shobha and Vikram

Vikram's indirect words, straight, crisp, harsh, blunt BUT true, he true words like "married women are doormats" is offending, the sentiments of women, but it is true, the thing is here Vikram is generalizing it and being judgmental about women, but that doesn't make his words wrong as truth is truth, one has to face it .

Why Usha's words did not hit Shobha and why Vikram's did, here he picks up and generalizes married woman and their identity and their individuality and also here the context is different, here Vikram doesn't say one dimensional words that Samarth is wrong ...like Usha said. , but his words were about his secretary not accepting the fact of being "moti" even when she is .. it's denial, it's non-acceptance, it's continuing to lie to ourselves and live in delusion, rather than facing it and accepting, what Shoba;s one dimensional direct words couldn't Vikram's indirect words could do. At times truth will be better accepted when you are looking at it from 3rd person's perspective, because when we see it from our perspective, we tend to go into the comfortable zone and will not be ready to face it

The TRUTH

there are 2 phases here, one she sees probably for the first time, Samarth shouting and yelling at her and blaming her and accusing her for the problems she is creating. She is more than shocked, those words couldn't sink in, yet she is not shattered here .

the next phase is the harsh reality, which she over hears where Samarth proudly accepts how smart he has been over the years with his innumerable affairs but this time this girl outsmarted him. the ground slipped away from under her feet, such is the impact of the truth, her voice and her throat didn't give away to let out her anguished and distraught state but her eyes paved way for the anger errupting as volcano with in her., she is yet controlled, she did not run inside or confront him, or lash out at him, rather she walked towards the car where her hands, feet, her mind and heart nothing were in her limits, her tears had their own way out... her shaky voice, her trembling hands showed a shattered Shobha, incredible performance by Sonali

Vikram and his Naani

Aaahh me love this Vikram's character and his relation with his naani, I loved it, Naani is so much fun, modern and she knows his way how to deal and work around with someone like Vikram 😆 Naani is pretty cool with ice cream, rollers, cards and driving, me already loving her.
Vikram really is obsessed with his hair lol, but he comes across quite logical practical and prejudiced against women even in the last scene he says it must be a female driver .

Jyo, true that and there surely must have been some woman in the past which is giving us the officially prejudiced against women in MR.Vikram 😆

He doesn't want trying he wants get going and results, whatever his past is but Vikram is very sorted and practical and logical man, and true gain Jyo, he is also in a denial phase in a sense right

Vikram Shobha's journey will be that of mutual exchange of practicality/logic and little happiness and breathing life and not leading it like a robot. Their journey will balance out the excessive perfection and mechanics of Vikram's life and excessive emotional and compassionate side of Shobha.

Shobha and Kids

The little scene with her kids showed however shattered she is, she will be the strong mom for her kids and keeping away from the harshness of the world, be it by taking away the tab or not sending to school. Once the acceptance phase is over , she will be embark a new journey for herself and her kids.

Waiting for a striking and lightening meeting of Vikram and Shobha , and I think now slowly the family members truth will come to the fore like Tarun was always known to Samarth's truth but never bother to share it with Shobha, so more truths and more broken trusts and moving on !!