Everyone needs people in that house - and Shukla’s no different however much he might say otherwise. He might say bhad mein jao all too often, and that he doesn’t want a group, etc. - but he very much does. Group group ke charche bahut karta hain Shukla - cares about numbers, wants to know what the other group is saying, wants to ensure his group’s “secret cracks” are not communicated across the pond, kicks out people who do open their mouths against his express wishes (I.e. Aarti), eavesdrops on convos, and the list goes on.
Shukla might care about Asim in his own weird way (though it’s debatable) but his ego and sense of superiority overtake all else. See, I don’t think he cares when the other lot point out his wrongdoings - aggression, badtameezi etc - because ek toh they’re anti-him so they’re bound to say so, and he’s always been praised and them bashed on weekends. But this week - his chatta batta Asim was pointing out a lot of stuff - how he never listens, thinks he’s the constant captain, doesn’t care about anyone else, etc. That combined with Sallu not praising Shukla today, told him - IMO - that he might be looking wrong. I don’t think he has the capacity to ever truly believe he could be in the wrong. Yeah they would’ve probably patched up eventually - but the beeline was because Shukla’s as fickle as anyone else.
What’s telling in this whole thing though - is that Asim didn’t bitch about Shukla or say anything derogatory - joh bola muh pe bola, aur sach bola - and respectfully at that. Shukla on the other hand - so rude to Asim, and then says to Aarti, about Asim - “yeh insaan hi galat hain; saath rakhne ke layak nahi”. Says a lot. Asim is far far more invested in this equation (I won’t use the term friendship, because I don’t think it is one) than Shukla is.My (rather long) two cents.
I agree. Asims investment in this emotional equation with Shukla is going to hamper his game the most. But Asim stood his ground. He separated from Shukla but never said a word against him to even Shefali and Himanshi when they asked what went wrong. He tolerates Arti and Sana only for Shukla but I don’t see Sana and Asim being able to coexist in the same group.
Also Shukla ji is very smart. He knows Asim is popular and so is Sana ( he also knows he’s the most popular so far) so he wants to keep his competitions closer and that also leads people to like groups so he might eventually get a large chunk of Asim and Sana’a fan bases as and when they’re out. Shukla is a calculative smart player.
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