I'm actually not going to comment too much on what I feel about virat's doings towards sai in this episode. It's already been discussed so much and we all are mutually disappointed with how inhumane of a response virat has used in this track to deal with sai. I find virat's concern and protectiveness completely reasonable in this track, but not a single way he has tried to show this protectiveness and concern was at all justifiable. His intentions were full of concern for sai, but his actions screamed toxic masculinity unfortunately.
So proud of Mohit today. I'm surprised the bhandar khaandan were unable to say anything when mohit stood up for sai. I guess they were shocked and not expecting of Mohit getting involved. I was kind of disappointed with Virat's response to everything Mohit was saying. Poore waqt rotlu shaqal ke saath karra raha whilst staring at sai in disappointment even whilst Mohit was talking.
And thank bloody heaven that Usha Mausi for once did not defend these Chavans or say anything to Sai to try and de-escalate the situation. This time, like an actual mother figure all she could note was the humiliation that sai was suffering at the hands of the person they least expected this from.
But I wanted to point out how it felt like a cooling ice pack on a burn to see Pakhi's sour-grapes expression when she saw virat shedding tears when sai walked away from him and the fight was over, because even Pakhi could tell that instead of his face being red in anger, his eyes being red with tears was due to him feeling hurt for having fought with sai and the things he ended up saying to her. That's why Pakhi wasn't smug like the rest of the chavan bhandars were over this fight. Because she knew Virat, more than being angry at Sai the way she would have wished, he was actually hurt.
Coming to the most important part of the episode, in this track where Virat is really being made to act like a complete ass with Sai, the only positive thing that I have liked about Virat in this track is how he has been behaving and talking to Pakhi post Sai's accusation on virat-pakhi friendship in front of everyone and post pakhi's outburst at him when he cleared to her he has no feelings for her the way sai thinks. Both in yesterday and today's episode, Virat was less entertaining of Pakhi's attempts at trying to show concern for him or trying to talk to him.
At first I felt it is a consequence of Sai's accusation that he is behaving this way with Pakhi all of a sudden, as this is a first for him in terms of him pushing pakhi away from him post his marriage to sai, but it came more so after Pakhi's outburst when virat burst her bubble, so somewhere there must be some sort of acknowledgement in his mind that Pakhi isn't exactly the well-wisher of his and sai's that she will act as some voice of reason between him and sai to resolve their issue, so maybe now he truly is fed up with Pakhi and her interference between him and Sai, or am I speaking too soon?
Or is it simply that he's just too absorbed in his hurt and frustration over his fight with Sai that Pakhi's over-concern for him is feeling suffocating to him in this situation? I guess it's most likely this latter reason, because there is nothing to suggest Sai's accusations or even the reasoning behind those accusations have in any ways registered with him.
LOL I love how Pakhi really had nothing to say when Ashwini scolded her for eyeing up another woman's husband. She was acting all innocent when Sai threw that accusation at her in front of everyone, yet here she was speechless and could do nothing but walk away with her same old sour-grapes expression as she knew that Ashwini was calling her out aptly on her impure intentions.
And I know some felt that Ashwini's talk with virat should have included her trying to make virat see pakhi's real intentions towards him etc, yet I feel that is a separate topic that isn't directly related to Ashwini's need to make Virat realise that he crossed a limit with sai in trying to get her to do as he wanted and that he was at fault with the way he handles it. That was a bigger priority in the current situation. in fact, her bringing up Sai's mature behaviour in Ladakh trip fiasco in regards to sai trusting Virat to go alone to Ladakh with Pakhi and not having issue with that was the right choice of point to make in regards to pakhi by Ashwini, because Ashwini seconding Sai's accusations on virat-pakhi friendship and pakhi intentions in this scene with virat would have only made Virat more worked up rather than serving the aim to make him realise his mistake he made today, so it was better that Ashwini did not address the issue of Pakhi's intentions towards virat in the current situation.
I do though wish that soon she does have a word with Virat about it and tell him she strongly feels Sai is not wrong questioning Pakhi's so-called friendship with Virat and her intentions towards Virat by bringing up the many instances where Pakhi used her friendship as a means to interfere in Virat's life too much, such as her calling him up too much to talk to him when he was in GC, her constantly interfering in Virat-sai's matters, her constantly trying to find ways to insult sai and trying to instigate him against sai, then her creating a big uproar over him wanting to take sai with them on the Ladakh trip that made it seem as if Pakhi just desperately wanted to be alone with Virat on this trip. But as they are copying Kusum Dola so much, I doubt they will have such a scene where Ashwini has this conversation with him. So virat himself will just learn Pakhi's true intentions down the road.
For Sai, her disappointment with Virat is to do with the fact that she feels that he could scream at her and raise his voice if he is angry at her, but she never thought he could hurt or humiliate her. He behaved with her the way she would expect his twisted family elders to treat her, but instead it was virat who behaved with her today like his family does; trying to gain control over her via humiliation. This time, he did not behave like her Virat sir. He behaved like Virat Chavan, a Chavan family member and son of Ninad Chavan.
Here's to hoping Sai gets a proper apology from him. And that didi ki jhalli gi seeing her prediction come true 😆
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