I know everyone has analyzed and super analyzed today's episode. Armaan's tears, Riddhima's unspoken expressions and Sid's fear were all very well portrayed very well by all three main actors.
Less said about the other interns, the better. Yes, they love to interfere in other's lives but unfortunately, that's how the real world, especially hospitals are. People love to gossip in Hospitals. Nurses about doctors and interns about residents and residents about attending docs. I guess this is how they entertain themselves after a hard day's work, taking care of patients and their illnesses.
Coming to the question that Ridz raised: Mujhey ek kathputli samajh rakha hai
Yes, she has become a puppet in this show, but not a puppet to anyone else, but to her own emotions. She has been oscillating like a pendulum, bobbing like a puppet ever since she came back to Sanjeevani.
It's her conflicting emotions that she has become slave to. If she were to stop giving mixed messages to everyone around her, and most importantly, to herself, no one would be a puppet- neither she, nor the two men, nor us, the viewers.
For example, in today's precap, she clearly stated, "Armaan, tum yahan se chale kyun nahin jaate?" but in the very next scene, she says to herself, "tum jaa rahe ho? hamesha ke liye?"
To Sid,she keeps harping that tum mere aaj ho aur Armaan mera kal, but when Sid asks her whether she still loves Armaan, she remains silent.
So, it's Riddhima who is a puppet of her own emotions. Once she takes charge of her own feelings, everyone around her will stop dancing to her tunes, including her own self.