Originally posted by: AreYaar
It was deliberate from a storytelling POV, yes😆. They want to keep it vague until they are ready to address Adi's frame of mind again....maybe in the next epi or maybe when he's leaving for Delhi.
By now, we should start to get used to this pattern.....they kept so much of his emotions vague for a long time before bursting out yesterday with the alter ego connecting all the dots that were apparent to us all along but Adi was shown to be blank faced/minded about😆.
I feel Adi called Malini as a reflex in guilt after the alter-ego scene shook him up a bit....call toh kar liya, but he couldn't bring himself to do the usual level of coddling to manaao her....maybe because he is now getting a conscious inkling that saying all that now would be a lie to her and that would be a bigger lie than just lying to her about where he went. That is what I saw in the torment in his eyes....the realization that he cannot give assurances to Malini that he doesn't feel himself right now.....that even after all this, the need to grant Imlie's one wish of "ek din aur" was greater than anything.....even his own rishta with Malini....when he said, "kuch bhi" to Imlie yesterday, I guess he really meant it😆. While he hasn't fully accepted what his alter ego told him yet, it definitely shook his foundation up enough to not make him feel comfortable doing his usual pampering with Malini. That is a notable switch. He had the eyes of a haunted/tormented man when he was talking to Malini there.....very good acting from GM.
The other side of this was the pooja next day with Imlie.....Adi had his usual blank mask on for the most part but there was nothing ambiguous about the way he stepped forward with his own marzi to do the rituals with Imlie and to give her his name. Ofcourse, he will make the excuse later that he was just doing his part to return all the ehsaans she's done on him😆.....that this doesn't mean anything more than that....he hasn't really accepted her as his wife.....lol and Imlie won't even question him more than that cuz she has contented herself with just the extra day and she isn't expecting anything else from him.
Even though Adi kept his face mostly blank in the pooja, there was a sense of stoic purpose in him....like someone mentioned in one of the earlier pages, he hardly even hesitated before holding out his hand for Imlie to put hers in his....his instinct did take over in some ways....while he may not have been fully comfortable also probably still thinking over the complications in his mind, but he still wasn't willing to back down either and stepped up to support her throughout the pooja up to the point of giving her his name too. A man who once made horrible faces throughout every ritual with her😆, refused to even let his feet touch hers in a thaal was now himself stepping up to take her hand in his and do every ritual with full respect and deep solemnity.😆