Analysis Corner (Mar 31st Yeh koi saas bahu serial nahi hai link p.64) - Page 18

Dec 12th - Drawing Closer Together

MJ's obsession - MJ is obsessed with knowing everything about his sons and he'll do anything to get to it. Even if that means manipulating those very people closest to him. Somewhere Dadi's words are starting to make sense. MJ couldn't always have been this manipulative, scheming individual, who is not afraid to use his own friends and family against each other to win. Who would want others to turn out like that? But without even knowing it, Ananya may actually be the perfect response to MJ's obsession. She placated him and gave him a different lollipop to suck on instead. And though she made a mistake by calling the media, she quickly corrected that mistake when she learnt what Maya's condition was.

Rudra's chase - There was something almost symbolic to that chase. It kind of signified that at some point Maya will pull away from Rudra and Rudra will recall all the times with Maya and give chase. And while she'll know, he'll need to make it up to her to bring her back. And then that dialogue mujhe harne ki aadat nahi hai. Somewhere it gave us a glimpse of that part of Rudra that is similar to MJ. MJ hates losing as well (I mean come on that has got to be obvious with his obsessive behaviour). Rudra doesn't like losing either. What he doesn't realize is that he did lose. Maya may have revealed a part of her that she didn't want to reveal via the three pillars, but Rudra lost. Because he was the one who gave chase to Maya and stopped her. However, this loss is only in Maya's books. For Rudra, the loss would have been if he would have had to go to MJ. By bringing Maya back, he won in his own books.

Shaadi karni hai mujhse - Oh Rudra thank you for making me laugh. You don't know how true this is going to become. At some point, you and Maya are going to get married. Stop foreshadowing what's going to happen with you. On another point, that glare that Maya gave at that was hilarious as well. It said "don't even think about it". But at some point it's going to happen Maya.

Interesting thing to note is that Rudra saw the call from "chemist" and Maya denied it. Rudra is more important for Maya. She already has Rishi wrapped around her finger. Despite hurting him, he still wants her. But for Maya, Rudra is more important. Rudra is the one who can break MJ, not Rishi. Rishi can only financially drain him, leave him, or die and become a stab in MJ's soul. But Rudra will be the one to break MJ bit by bit like Maya was broken.

Rishi and the female family clan - I didn't know how else to title this in a few brief words, so female family clan. Ah the comic relief of the episode. No I'm not discussing any symbolism here. I'm just going to enjoy this whole scene as a nice entertainment relief to the show. Forget it CVs, I'm not digging into this scene. Not even one bit.

Mujhe aapna kam bechna hai khud ko nahi - Interesting choice of words. This seems to tie back to what happened with Maya. The money that was thrown at her. The question "tumhari keemat kya hai". The comment "yeh hai tumhari keemat". It all ties together and yet reveals nothing new. This backstabbing lover, whoever he was, played with Maya's emotions, then gave her money as if she was a nobody, and then possibly tried to kill her when she did or said something.

Confidentiality agreement - I just want to drop one comment here. No symbolism or anything, but what Rudra's lawyer did is illegal. The lawyer is Rudra's, not the Roy family's. He cannot just share documents without permission from his client, as in Rudra. Sending those documents to Aamir to show to MJ is illegal.

Trust - Both Maya and Rudra don't trust each other and yet it's the foundation of any relationship. Before they can build the 3 pillars of loyalty, commitment, and passion, the two need to work together to build this foundation. If this foundation was there, then Maya would never have needed a confidentiality agreement. She would have just said it and trusted that Rudra would keep to his word. And if this foundation was there, Rudra would never have sent the agreement to a lawyer to review. Not that either of them are wrong. Maya has been deceived badly. It won't be easy for her to trust anyone, especially a Roy. And Rudra has only seen Maya's craziness, not a sane Maya. One explanation is not going to fix everything.

Drawing closer together - Rudra may have broken Maya's trust, but it wasn't the reason she was affected. She was affected by their proximity. Up until now we've seen Maya remember the bad whenever a Roy touched her. Today she remembered only the good. That's got to mean something. It's got to mean that already, deep down, she's realizing that Rudra is not bad. He's just got the name Roy attached to him. That doesn't make him like the other Roys. And it's moments like these that'll make it harder for Maya because she doesn't seem to be the type to misuse just anyone for her revenge. She has a righteousness streak to her and that streak will hold her back, just like it did in the fight. She encouraged Rudra through her taunts and then stopped the fight early. That was this streak. And as the two draw closer together, this streak will come forward and confuse her even more.

I keep saying I'm not going to comment on the precaps, but yet here it goes because that brief precap and Maya's reaction to MJ that also adds to my point here. Firstly on Maya's reaction to MJ. The fact that Maya recognized MJ just from his footsteps and even before that is not that surprising actually. It's our instincts, our fight or flight traits, that take over. When someone is watching you, the hairs on the back of your neck stand even before you feel the stare. When you listen to your gut about something and later it turns out to be right, that's part of this trait. When you recognize someone walking towards you from far away, that's part of this trait. It's all human instinct. We recognize loved ones and danger immediately. Fight or flight. And that's what happened with Maya. She felt a danger, she heard a danger, and she reacted to that danger.

The precap ties into what I said above. Maya's reaction was visceral, she was shaken to the core, and she had nowhere to run and hide. In that moment, any Roy should have been enough to make her go crazy, but instead, something about Rudra made her reach out and hold onto him. In her fear, she found comfort in his words and arms. She may hate the Roys, but she cannot, deep down, stop herself from not hating Rudra. It's those instincts again. In her fear, her instincts told her - this person is fine, this person is not a danger, this person will comfort you.

Interesting that Rudra, despite all those big words about making Maya pay, also reached out to help Maya and calm her down. But you can see the questions written across his face: what is going on here and why?

Originally posted by: najma123

Shreya, I know you haven't posted your analysis yet. But I thought I'll pen my thoughts down here. 😆

Apart from the obvious high point of the fear factor MJ, i'll focus on other stuff. 😆

A. Trust. So we had 3 different instances when the word was mentioned.

1. The first time when Rudra told Maya he doesn't trust her so he'd consult his lawyer. Maya didn't flinch then coz she wanted to get onto Rudra's nerves..and she wasn't hiding anything at that point. The contract had no loopholes. And this proved her statement that those who fear have something to hide.

2. Second when Rudra told Ananya to sign asking her to trust him. She does. And Maya looked on. Maya doesn't like it. I don't think she's jealous or anything, coz that has no role here. But now it's told to her pretty plainly that RuAn share deep trust with each other. And Rudra-Maya do not have that trust even though they have signed to work together. And this tells her their friendship is very deep and very strong. And she wants to break it. Why? Maybe to make Rudra weak? Coz Ananya is able to manage Rudra while Maya is only able to stump him. She backs him into a corner while Ananya is able to placate him. And with Ananya around, Rudra truly won't be defeated.

3. Third when she confronted him about the press. She said, Tumne bharosa thoda hai. Though confidentiality could mean bharosa, I doubt she was referring to that. There's no trust lost between the two of them. But Ananya trusts Rudra. And maybe unconsciously, Maya WANTS to do the same. So, she's forcing that card of trust. By saying those words, Rudra isn't guilt-tripped. Heck, those aren't even true. Her first words should have been contract thoda hai. But she says bharosa.

So she may want to convey, that though HE doesn't trust her, she trusts him, like Ananya does. I doubt she's comparing herself to Ananya, she isn't. But that's a point she notes very significantly.

I LOVED this point so decided to point it out.

B. Also, Rudra and Rishi aren't able to back Maya into a corner. Though Rudra does try putting her off her guard with his innate goodness and honesty. But MJ solidly owns her without deliberately trying to do so. Her plans and her safeguards, her boundaries fail to help her where MJ is concerned. And it is possible that she wants to use his sons as weapons to fight him coz she can't do it herself. And that was the underlying tone today, that MJ's small step of the press shook Maya like anything.

C. And Maya's outburst ☺️. So, the other day Maya told Krishna about not getting diverted or something. And today, she plainly told Rudra that he's affecting her and her boundaries and he's able to weaken her resolve. The first time he touched her was at the construction site to save her, then she remembered the repulsive, torturous touch of the past. Then he deliberately held her coz he was pissed. She was angry then, and warned him to stay away.

Today, when he held her close, she didn't remember the gruesome past and the abuse, she remembered the tenderness, the love, care and affection. And that shook her the most. And that's why her reaction was so strong. And Rudra's concern was extremely tender and Maya responded to that. This is against Rishi's open display of affection and concern, coz Maya probably knows those are superficial words. Rudra's words of concern are much lesser but have greater impact coz of the intensity of the man himself.

And she again proved her own statement that those who fear have something to hide. And she has something to hide. And that's why her fear. She's hiding from MJ, from people in general. And Rudra has hit the bull's eye with that. And her awareness of that is seen in her eyes. 👏

The other scenes and all were insane to watch and you'd probably figure out a lot more symbolism that I'd wait to read. 🤗

Najma please do post away whenever you want. This is not solely for me only. I will avoid reading any analysis or reviews until I watch the episode, so I'm replying to you now instead of earlier. I like going in with an open mind.

A. Trust - I don't think Maya trusts Rudra either. She's using that word because it's the one thing she wants back. Her trusting nature. She wants to trust Rudra, but she can't. Not yet. And that's mainly because Rudra has a mind of his own. He is not as gullible or as easily manipulated as Rishi is. He presents a challenge and who knows when he'll throw a curveball at her. Rudra and Ananya's trust I agree on. Theirs is a deep-seeded trust based on years of friendship and openness. That's what Rudra and Maya need. Openness.

B. I agree with you. Maya seems to have planned for Rishi and Rudra, but not MJ. She took into factor how these 2 would react and is always careful around them, but forget that behind them is the puppet master himself, who she's trying to steal the puppets from, and he is obsessed about his puppets and won't let them go.

C. Oh Maya's outburst. The highlight of the episode. She's being affected by Rudra and she doesn't want to be. But it's these moments that'll draw the two closer together. Tomorrow will be so interesting to watch. I hope we get a beautiful episode and an episode full of foreshadowing and symbols.

Originally posted by: Minionite

Dec 12th - Drawing Closer Together

MJ's obsession - MJ is obsessed with knowing everything about his sons and he'll do anything to get to it. Even if that means manipulating those very people closest to him. Somewhere Dadi's words are starting to make sense. MJ couldn't always have been this manipulative, scheming individual, who is not afraid to use his own friends and family against each other to win. Who would want others to turn out like that? But without even knowing it, Ananya may actually be the perfect response to MJ's obsession. She placated him and gave him a different lollipop to suck on instead. And though she made a mistake by calling the media, she quickly corrected that mistake when she learnt what Maya's condition was.

Agreed on this.

Rudra's chase - There was something almost symbolic to that chase. It kind of signified that at some point Maya will pull away from Rudra and Rudra will recall all the times with Maya and give chase. And while she'll know, he'll need to make it up to her to bring her back. And then that dialogue mujhe harne ki aadat nahi hai. Somewhere it gave us a glimpse of that part of Rudra that is similar to MJ. MJ hates losing as well (I mean come on that has got to be obvious with his obsessive behaviour). Rudra doesn't like losing either. What he doesn't realize is that he did lose. Maya may have revealed a part of her that she didn't want to reveal via the three pillars, but Rudra lost. Because he was the one who gave chase to Maya and stopped her. However, this loss is only in Maya's books. For Rudra, the loss would have been if he would have had to go to MJ. By bringing Maya back, he won in his own books.

This one I did not see a symbolism. But what I felt is that he can be a true barrier in a sense between Maya and Mrityunjay. Maya is still not ready to face Mrityunjay. For that to happen, there needs to be a build-up to Maya coming out more strong and fierce to face Mrityunjay. And probably Rudra can help her in that.

Shaadi karni hai mujhse - Oh Rudra thank you for making me laugh. You don't know how true this is going to become. At some point, you and Maya are going to get married. Stop foreshadowing what's going to happen with you. On another point, that glare that Maya gave at that was hilarious as well. It said "don't even think about it". But at some point it's going to happen Maya.

For Maya, it will take a lot of time and patience and Rudra's stubbornness to draw her towards him. Rudra to abhi se chad gaya ghodi pe.😆

Interesting thing to note is that Rudra saw the call from "chemist" and Maya denied it. Rudra is more important for Maya. She already has Rishi wrapped around her finger. Despite hurting him, he still wants her. But for Maya, Rudra is more important. Rudra is the one who can break MJ, not Rishi. Rishi can only financially drain him, leave him, or die and become a stab in MJ's soul. But Rudra will be the one to break MJ bit by bit like Maya was broken.

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Rishi and the female family clan - I didn't know how else to title this in a few brief words, so female family clan. Ah the comic relief of the episode. No I'm not discussing any symbolism here. I'm just going to enjoy this whole scene as a nice entertainment relief to the show. Forget it CVs, I'm not digging into this scene. Not even one bit.

What I noticed here is, one, Antara's expression when Rishi says Dad to aapke liye pagal hai and Dadi's words which are actually wisdom which Rishi did not pay heed to - jab ladki na kahe to matlab na hi hota hai

Mujhe aapna kam bechna hai khud ko nahi - Interesting choice of words. This seems to tie back to what happened with Maya. The money that was thrown at her. The question "tumhari keemat kya hai". The comment "yeh hai tumhari keemat". It all ties together and yet reveals nothing new. This backstabbing lover, whoever he was, played with Maya's emotions, then gave her money as if she was a nobody, and then possibly tried to kill her when she did or said something.

This one is over-emphasized by now I believe.

Confidentiality agreement - I just want to drop one comment here. No symbolism or anything, but what Rudra's lawyer did is illegal. The lawyer is Rudra's, not the Roy family's. He cannot just share documents without permission from his client, as in Rudra. Sending those documents to Aamir to show to MJ is illegal.

Agreed👍🏼

Trust - Both Maya and Rudra don't trust each other and yet it's the foundation of any relationship. Before they can build the 3 pillars of loyalty, commitment, and passion, the two need to work together to build this foundation. If this foundation was there, then Maya would never have needed a confidentiality agreement. She would have just said it and trusted that Rudra would keep to his word. And if this foundation was there, Rudra would never have sent the agreement to a lawyer to review. Not that either of them are wrong. Maya has been deceived badly. It won't be easy for her to trust anyone, especially a Roy. And Rudra has only seen Maya's craziness, not a sane Maya. One explanation is not going to fix everything.

Drawing closer together - Rudra may have broken Maya's trust, but it wasn't the reason she was affected. She was affected by their proximity. Up until now we've seen Maya remember the bad whenever a Roy touched her. Today she remembered only the good. That's got to mean something. It's got to mean that already, deep down, she's realizing that Rudra is not bad. He's just got the name Roy attached to him. That doesn't make him like the other Roys. And it's moments like these that'll make it harder for Maya because she doesn't seem to be the type to misuse just anyone for her revenge. She has a righteousness streak to her and that streak will hold her back, just like it did in the fight. She encouraged Rudra through her taunts and then stopped the fight early. That was this streak. And as the two draw closer together, this streak will come forward and confuse her even more.

Maya is getting effected which she cannot get. She does not want to get. A time will come when Maya will be into Rudra without her realizing and she will have to push him away. But will Rudra let her go?

I keep saying I'm not going to comment on the precaps, but yet here it goes because that brief precap and Maya's reaction to MJ that also adds to my point here. Firstly on Maya's reaction to MJ. The fact that Maya recognized MJ just from his footsteps and even before that is not that surprising actually. It's our instincts, our fight or flight traits, that take over. When someone is watching you, the hairs on the back of your neck stand even before you feel the stare. When you listen to your gut about something and later it turns out to be right, that's part of this trait. When you recognize someone walking towards you from far away, that's part of this trait. It's all human instinct. We recognize loved ones and danger immediately. Fight or flight. And that's what happened with Maya. She felt a danger, she heard a danger, and she reacted to that danger.

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The precap ties into what I said above. Maya's reaction was visceral, she was shaken to the core, and she had nowhere to run and hide. At that moment, any Roy should have been enough to make her go crazy, but instead, something about Rudra made her reach out and hold onto him. In her fear, she found comfort in his words and arms. She may hate the Roys, but she cannot, deep down, stop herself from not hating Rudra. It's those instincts again. In her fear, her instincts told her - this person is fine, this person is not a danger, this person will comfort you.

Interesting that Rudra, despite all those big words about making Maya pay, also reached out to help Maya and calm her down. But you can see the questions are written across his face: what is going on here and why?

Hmmm, this scene will definitely trigger a lot of questions!

Interesting comments once again from everyone.👏

I don't have much to add but I would like to say that MJ is a person who likes to dominate everyone around him be it his sons or their personal or professional contacts. That's why probably he maintains that proximity with Ananya as he believes only she can give him some insight into what's happening in Rudra' s life. But Ananya keeps her love and friendship with Rudra above everything else. But somehow I feel MJ wasn't like that before if we go by his mother's words.... or maybe he was and she was referring to some other trait of his there we need to wait. But surely MJ taking this route of coming close to his son by not letting anyone else to invest in his business will widen the gap between the two which he doesn't realise now.

Maya and the title of her book.... Journey of the hurt suggests that she has been writing her books based on her past experiences. If someone really wants to know about her then her books might be of help in that case. Let's see if this is shown in the future.

As Najma mentioned about trust.... trust is something which is built and she knows that currently there is no trust between her and Rudra. She also knows that he is more difficult to handle than Rishi so she is like that mystery for Rudra which he would try to solve sooner or later. It's like once we enter a game and unable to pass through a particular stage we keep on trying Till we succeed.

She is revealing herself slowly in front of him but at the same time she is getting impressed with him. He is her weapon against MJ and she knows this. Her outburst when he pulled her away from the press shows that she is affected by his proximity.

What intrigued me is the precap. Maya who takes each and every calculated step... I don't think she wouldn't have thought about MJ while planning this revenge with the Roys. But probably her past which still haunts her makes her go weak in such moments.

The way she sensed his presence as soon as he steps out of the car suggests that she has a deep routed connection with him. Would be interesting to see what it is... for me it would be the journey of the hurt.

Beautiful analysis guys. Loved reading everyone's views.

Now some of the things that stood out to me were

- MJs nature: He is not just controlling but outright vindictive. Not only does he want to make Rudra fail and thereby dependent on him but also wants to teach the "writer" a lesson for agreeing to work with Rudra and thereby coming between them. This gives you a fair idea of how he will react when he finds out MayRa are together. The way he said that he wanted to remind the writer of her mistake, gave me goosebumps. He once again proved that he can go to any extent and even hurt the people he loves to get what he wants. That's what manipulators do.

- Ananya's sudden appearance: The timing of that scene was so important. Just when Maya and Rudra had reached an agreement, Ananya appeared. That meant another variable and Maya needed another plan to handle her. This was bound to upset Maya. But I really feel that just like she won Rudra over with logic, she can win Ananya as well, unless Ananya gets influenced by MJ and becomes a roadblock.

- Rishi's nature: Well he truly is MJs son. He was so casual in dismissing Mrs. Roys reminder that "No means no", it gives you an idea of how he might react when & if Maya turns him down.

- Maya's panic: We have been watching Maya emerge victorious in her plans till now but yesterday for the first time, her facade was gone. That bold and confident face hides a vulnerable and broken girl who hasn't healed. Even in her anger, that broken heart is yet to heal. This also gives me hope that Mayas soul can be saved and I hope Rudra is the one saving it.

Excited for tonight's episode.

Originally posted by: Armu4eva

- Ananya's sudden appearance: The timing of that scene was so important. Just when Maya and Rudra had reached an agreement, Ananya appeared. That meant another variable and Maya needed another plan to handle her. This was bound to upset Maya. But I really feel that just like she won Rudra over with logic, she can win Ananya as well, unless Ananya gets influenced by MJ and becomes a roadblock.

- Rishi's nature: Well he truly is MJs son. He was so casual in dismissing Mrs. Roys reminder that "No means no", it gives you an idea of how he might react when & if Maya turns him down.

@ Bold: I have high doubts that this can happen. Ananya seems to be a smart person. She knows what's right and wrong for her. Even if Rudra and Maya come together, I don't think she'll take that so offensively that she'll get influenced by MJ.

Rishi's nature also has to do with the way he was raised. He was probably given everything he asked for. He isn't used to hearing "no". Even if he did get told "no", Antara and MJ probably relented and gave him whatever he had asked for. With that kind of upbringing, for him no means yes, just takes some time.

Originally posted by: libran90

Shaadi karni hai mujhse - Oh Rudra thank you for making me laugh. You don't know how true this is going to become. At some point, you and Maya are going to get married. Stop foreshadowing what's going to happen with you. On another point, that glare that Maya gave at that was hilarious as well. It said "don't even think about it". But at some point it's going to happen Maya.

For Maya, it will take a lot of time and patience and Rudra's stubbornness to draw her towards him. Rudra to abhi se chad gaya ghodi pe.

I also found it funny how Rudra is already so eager to become something more with Maya. First "dur nahi reh sakhi", then "hamare ek hone mein", and now this. He went from flirting, to gf-bf, to married within 3 days. Sheeeeeet. 😆

Mujhe aapna kam bechna hai khud ko nahi - Interesting choice of words. This seems to tie back to what happened with Maya. The money that was thrown at her. The question "tumhari keemat kya hai". The comment "yeh hai tumhari keemat". It all ties together and yet reveals nothing new. This backstabbing lover, whoever he was, played with Maya's emotions, then gave her money as if she was a nobody, and then possibly tried to kill her when she did or said something.

This one is over-emphasized by now I believe.

Too much I feel. We get it. Maya was insulted by being given her "keemat". CVs show us something new.

Interesting that Rudra, despite all those big words about making Maya pay, also reached out to help Maya and calm her down. But you can see the questions are written across his face: what is going on here and why?

Hmmm, this scene will definitely trigger a lot of questions!

In the minds of both Rudra and the viewers! I can't wait until tomorrow. If only the episodes aired at a better time....not that it makes any difference. I'm in EST. Any timing is a bad time for me.

Rudra is captain of ship #MayRa

Originally posted by: Minionite

@ Bold: I have high doubts that this can happen. Ananya seems to be a smart person. She knows what's right and wrong for her. Even if Rudra and Maya come together, I don't think she'll take that so offensively that she'll get influenced by MJ.

Rishi's nature also has to do with the way he was raised. He was probably given everything he asked for. He isn't used to hearing "no". Even if he did get told "no", Antara and MJ probably relented and gave him whatever he had asked for. With that kind of upbringing, for him no means yes, just takes some time.

Yes, I agree regarding Rishi but there has to be a reason why the cvs had the three women in his life remind him the importance of no especially from a girl. I felt its an interesting foreshadow.

Yh Ananya has managed to impress me till now but yesterday she showed that she is gullible too. MJ is a smart player and knows how to use people's weakness. So this whole Maya-Rudra-Ananya-MJ is going to be fun to watch.

Originally posted by: Minionite

Najma please do post away whenever you want. This is not solely for me only. I will avoid reading any analysis or reviews until I watch the episode, so I'm replying to you now instead of earlier. I like going in with an open mind.

Thank you 😳

A. Trust - I don't think Maya trusts Rudra either. She's using that word because it's the one thing she wants back. Her trusting nature. She wants to trust Rudra, but she can't. Not yet. And that's mainly because Rudra has a mind of his own. He is not as gullible or as easily manipulated as Rishi is. He presents a challenge and who knows when he'll throw a curveball at her. Rudra and Ananya's trust I agree on. Theirs is a deep-seeded trust based on years of friendship and openness. That's what Rudra and Maya need. Openness.

@Red, yes maybe you put it right. Maybe she wants that trust back, and therefore she said what she said. She conveyed that he broke her trust when he hadn't, doesn't mean he had it in the first place. However it was pretty ironical that there were so many mentions of it in one episode. 😆

B. I agree with you. Maya seems to have planned for Rishi and Rudra, but not MJ. She took into factor how these 2 would react and is always careful around them, but forget that behind them is the puppet master himself, who she's trying to steal the puppets from, and he is obsessed about his puppets and won't let them go.

Exactly. MJ seems to be some master planner. And I had to rewatch the episode to understand that even though Ananya had called the press, MJ had pulled the strings. And to know that Ananya being the owner of the company didn't know about the agreement until after MJ Shows Just how powerful MJ could be. I am still wondering why he's so obsessed with his sons. He keeps calling them Mer Rudra, Mera Rishi. And I loved his line too, about parents deciding what's right and wrong for their kids.

C. Oh Maya's outburst. The highlight of the episode. She's being affected by Rudra and she doesn't want to be. But it's these moments that'll draw the two closer together. Tomorrow will be so interesting to watch. I hope we get a beautiful episode and an episode full of foreshadowing and symbols.