Let me clear a few things:
- This is not a sarcastic post.
- I am not saying what happened to Pakhi is correct.
- I'm not justifying Sai's actions.
Now coming to the title of the post, I mean it. I saw a few clips on insta. In those clips, I saw Sai's expressions and I saw guilt, something like she's not happy doing what she did. Just try to remember another incident in the same show. The mirchi episode.
Sai was forced to grind mirchi and Patralekha instigated her and made fun of her pain. Sai was deeply pained. Later, she gave Patralekha a dose of her own medicine. She made her grind mirchi and showed her what it felt like to be in pain.
Now look back to an incident not so long ago. The saree incident. Sai gifted a saree, an unintentional mistake by Sai. Later on Patralekha escalated the issue beyond measure by terming it as intentional by Sai and Sai was accused non-stop.
Compare it with the current episode. Patralekha jerked her hand off. An unintentional mistake by Patralekha. But Sai chose to make an issue out of it by making it intentional on Patralekha's part. Now almost same thing is happening with Patralekha. Now she is being accused.
In saree incident, Sai's mistake was unintentional.
In pushing incident, Patralekha's mistake was unintentional.
In saree incident, Sai's mistake was considered deliberate attempt to humiliate others.
In pushing incident, Patralekha's mistake is considered intentional pushing away by Patralekha.
In saree incident, Sai was accused without her fault.
In pushing incident, Patralekha is accused without her fault.
Sai's expressions seem like, she is regretting stooping to Patralekha's level by blaming her unnecessarily. Just like mirchi incident, even though Sai wanted to teach her a lesson, she felt bad when Patralekha was in pain. Here too, she is letting her taste her own medicine but at the same time, she's feeling bad for her, hence is trying to make everyone get over the issue and celebrate the party. So that she isn't accused anymore.
So Sai's character is consistent with her characterisation. She's trying to teach her a lesson but feels bad for her at the same time.
Patralekha's reaction in both mirchi and push incident is same. She didn't understand how it felt to be put in Sai's position in both the incidents. So her character is consistent with her characterization as well.
P.S.: Or I might be completely wrong because in mirchi incident, She cleared the air later but here she is mum. Or she might do it later, when she is alone with Patralekha.
Or Sai might be on the same path as other female leads, where they deliberately hurt others, harm others and pretend to be victim and mahaan. Who knows🤣
Or maybe she's not clearing the air here because she will end up receiving the biggest blame and Patralekha and others will say that Patralekha was right at that time. You are not. Who knows🤣
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