WEEK 1 : August 1ST to 3RD: It's all about the Babies!
Anandi and Shiv return home to Udaipur and whilst Anandi is busy thinking about Ganga and her baby, Shiv on the other hand is more occupied with thoughts of their future babies instead.
Mahi and Ashima get busy in some baby-making of their own with the requisite hormones rampaging and morning-after guilt (the things kids do for fun these days!).
Ganga grapples with her newfound independence/lack of support system while trying to keep up with her study, work and baby Mannu commitments.
Sanchi pretends not to be a baby by trying to learn how to be the perfect haveli's beendni from the original perfect haveli beendni herself.
Jagya thankfully escaped all the baby chaos to deal with a medical emergency elsewhere although he does start rethinking his rishtaa with the Shekhar's baby. Perhaps one balika vadhu (wait two) was more than enough...
Spoke too soon...Gehna's baby decides to make her grand entrance and all is well' due to Ganga, Jagya, a laptop, a mobile and some birthing videos. Wait, doesn't this sound familiar??
WEEK 2 : August 5th to 10th: Everyone's Looking, Hardly Anyone is Seeing...
All the Singhs are super excited about their new baby girl (does she know the craziness she has been born into?). Ganga and Mannu plays hide-and-seek with the Singhs in the hospital with assistance from Jagya, Gehna, Basant and the other staff members.
Ashima decides the best way to deal with the situation is by running away and hiding under a rock somewhere in London. This leaves poor Mahi heartbroken with no one to play with.
Sanchi and Sumitra have some phone coochie-coo moments of their own with Sumitra pining for some attention and telling Sanchi about Ganga's departure from the haveli. Sanchi pulls her victory face which unfortunately none of her forever-at-home family members manages to witness.
Anandi does some seeking of her own with her hubby as sidekick after realising that their ironing lady, Chanda, might be having some problems with her husband.
Ganga's divorce notice is delivered to the haveli but poor Jagya is the one summoned to family court presided over by his currently cranky mother. He goes to battle trying to get his mother to see reason but unfortunately her light bulb remains off. Dadisaa has to referee the match and calls time out. Sumi goes off to complain to Devi Maiya who is not a listening mood either because Ganga and Mannu both end up in front of Sumi.
Jagya consoles Ganga, Dadisa consoles Sumitra and Anandi lectures Chanda, Chanda's husband and anyone else in hearing distance.
Anandi (finally) decides to set-up and NGO and assures her clucky husband that he will always be her first priority (do men have biological clocks as well? Because fairly sure that ticking noise is all from Shiv).
Ganga faces up to Ratan in court with the support of Jagya and acknowledges how much that support has meant to her in her struggle to gain freedom.
Sumi, Ira and Sanchi (the musketeers of gloom) decide that right now would be a good time for Jagya and Sanchi to get engaged. Jagya wants to drop Ganga off in Mangalore on the 16th which is problematic because new baby-related rituals are on the same day. Sumi sees this as a serious error in prioritization and informs Sanchi who in turn convinces' the family pundit to schedule the engagement on the 16th as well. After all, who wouldn't want to share their engagement alongside a baby's first milestones...
WEEK 3 : August 12th to 17th: So what's on the 16th again?
Anandi shares news of her NGO with others in Chanda's basti and somehow ends up at bar with the other wives. Drunk husbands, rude bartenders and active policemen are also involved.
Mostly everyone other than Jagya knows the engagement is scheduled for the 16th but all they do is talk amongst themselves for a good few hours about what Jagya will or will not do. Maybe try asking him instead?
Ira suddenly realises what it means to have an overly-involved social worker as a daughter-in-law and is none too happy about it. Shiv consoles Anandi but she is not easily consoled knowing Ira's temperament better than her husband.
Sumi drops the engagement date bomb on Jagya and in turn goes into hysterical meltdown mode when her son pleads to the family not to force him to forgo his responsibility to Ganga. Jagya promises to do whatever they want once he returns. Everyone accepts his reasoning except for his mother who deems Ganga as the devil incarnate.
Sumi emotionally blackmails Dadisa to convince Jagya about the engagement date whilst Sanchi purposefully diverts her conversation with Jagya so that he is unable to tell her about his issue with the date.
Dadisa talks with Jagya about his family responsibility leaving him in a state of confusion. The wily dadi then goes and chats with Ganga so that when Jagya speaks with her, she will say what everyone else has been saying as well; get engaged on that date with that girl. Poor Jagya is cornered on all sides.
Shiv throws a spanner in Sanchi's engagement plans by stating that the engagement cannot happen on that date due to his job. Sanchi throws a tantrum and manages to get her way by causing her family and the Singh's to have a logistical nightmare of planning events on the 16th.
Jagya is unhappy with his decision to stay for the engagement and is lost in thoughts of Ganga and Mannu but no one seems to be noticing...or not noticing enough to care. The days pass and it is the 15th, Ganga prepares to shift to Mangalore and the Singhs prepare for the naamkaran and the engagement.
Sanchi and Anandi arrive at the haveli for the engagement. Anandi notices Jagya's sad state whilst Sanchi notices all the attention Anandi receives from the family.
The ladies/baby's function begins. Ganga goes off to Mangalore after saying farewell to Jagya...more specifically his chair. Jagya runs off to the hospital to bid farewell face-to-face but alas has to run after the bus instead. Mahi gets a phonecall and is off as well (please don't let my baby-making reference come true) due to having to replace an injured player in a tournament.
WEEK 4 : August 19th to 24th : Tu Meri Laila, Main Tera Majnu
Shekhars are late and the baby gets a name. Welcome to the crazy, Bhairavi Basant Singh! Some family members realize that Jagya isn't at home and Jagya finds out that there has been a bus strike so no bus to Mangalore today. He manages to catch Ganga before she goes and hands over Mannu's teddy bear. Whilst these two are busy eye-locking, the Singhs are busy talking telepathically because the Shekhars have shown up and Jagya is nowhere to be found.
Ganga and Jagya heartbrokenly bid adieu to one another after which Jagya remembers his engagement and rocks up to the haveli before the Shekhars and his fiance get too suspicious. Shiv and Anandi both separately and privately confront Jagya about his feelings regarding the engagement. He assures them both but only Shiv buys into it as Anandi is left quietly questioning Jagya's resolve.
The engagement happens and everyone except Jagya looks happy about it. He is busy mentally being Devdas to his Paro who is matching him tear for tear on the back of a truck on the way to Mangalore. Jagya sadly acknowledges that his driving motivation is not make anyone feel ashamed of him and he has been successful in it so far.
Mahi returns still in majnu mode and thankfully with no baby news. Both families get busy celebrating Raksha Bandan. This is then followed by a Teej that is strictly adhered to by the Singhs and Anandi; Sanchi decides to get in on the action by fasting for Jagya as well. Jagya decides to visit Ganga in Mangalore to check she is okay which leads to Cold War 2 between his parents. Dadisa and Gehna sneakily send gifts for Ganga via Jagya.
WEEK 5 : August 26th to 31st: Maternal Management, Madness and Meltdowns.
Jagya and Ganga spend some quality time together in Mangalore. Sanchi finds out Jagya is in Mangalore and in frustration eats fruits to ease her fast. Ira finds out about as well and turns into raging mother. Anandi barely manages to head off the storm before it hits the haveli using the excuse of Teej. All the ladies break their Teej fasts.
Ira calls up to scold Sumi about her irresponsible son and Sumi in turn blows a fuse at the rest of the Singhs. Shiv and Anandi continue doing social work by hosting a market/exhibition in front of Kesar Bagh but it ends badly with Sanchi getting injured. Ira reprimands Anandi again for her work whilst the other Shekhars attempt to cheer Anandi up.
Ira manages to convince' Jagya to stop by for a visit to Kesar Bagh on his way back from Mangalore. She and Sanchi decide to spring this news on everyone else when Jagya arrives. I guess like mother, like daughter is totally true in this case. Jagya bids farewell to Ganga.
Jagya lands at Kesar Bagh to the surprise of all and sundry. This is followed by the awkwardest lunch where the fact that Jagya and Anandi's relationship status is It's Complicated' is highlighted, underlined and bolded. Meanwhile Ira decides that Jagya and Sanchi need to spend some quality alone time with one another and tells Jagya to take Sanchi out for dinner.