Wow, what an episode today. So many things happened in one 20 minutes episode. Watching some of these episodes is like sitting through a non-stop war movie. Can I send some virtual flowers to the writers of this serial. I am in awe of the scriptwriting. Acting toh is mindblowing by all 3 main characters. These people continue to impress me.
Today's episode should go down in history books as the episode where we got to see Mailini in her truest form ever. Even yesterday, we saw couple of minutes of Malini being nice to Imlie by showing her around college but today, for every second she was on screen, she was her real self. Absolutely no fake or pretensions today. This is the real Malini who has no respect for Tripatis, for whom Imlie is a servant, and Aditya is someone she needs to control. Today, no matter what Aditya, Tripatis or Imlie was telling her, not for one moment or a split second did she feel guilty or paused to think what she was doing, what she was saying. Malini today destroyed every single relationship of hers in Tripati household forever. It is one thing if Imlie and the Tripatis choose to ignore Malini's behavior and words today. But eventually, they will have to accept the real Malini just as the audience has had to accept her. There was no fooling Aditya today. He finally saw her for who she really is. It might take him some time also to accept Malini as she was today but for Aditya, officially this relationship is over. Baat (read jagda) khatam, rishta khatam. Thank god we will never see fake sugary sweet Malini ever again, and if she tries to come back to her fake self, no one, absolutely no one will believe her......well Imlie might....
Respect to Aditya today. That guy with as many flaws as he has, got all my respect today. It is so important for him to be true to himself. Since past 100 or so episodes, he has been suffocating. Yes, he fell in love, realized his lack of feelings for Malini, lived a whole lifetime in 100 episodes, but the bottom line is......he has been suffocating. Suffocating of hiding the truth, first of the forced marriage and now of his real feelings for Imlie and lack of feelings for Malini. He has been dying slowly from inside. Did anyone around him see this......his mother, father, sister, brother, anyone? Does Imlie realize, actually realize, that by forcing him to be with Malini so that she can save herself from feeling guilty about destroying their marriage, she is destroying the very essence of who Aditya is and what he stands for? It is Imlie's perceived guilt, it is not the truth. It is not her truth. My heart went out to Aditya in the precap. If only once his mother had asked him lovingly what is wrong he would have told her the truth. Aditya can have a million flaws but that man does not hesitate to speak the truth. And his one truth is that he is suffocating in a relationship. No one, absolutely no one who knows Aditya even a little bit should ignore this sentence that came out from Aditya's mouth. I really wish Tripatis open their eyes to the constant guilt and pain that their very own son is living in. They need to start observing him, the changes in him. They need to stop blaming him for everything going wrong in his relationship with Malini. They need to stop living in delusions that if Aditya apologized everything will be forgotten and forgiven. Tripatis got the front seat view of the dismantling of Aditya-Malini marriage today. They need to stop brushing Aditya's grumpy behavior under the carpet that this is just how he is and pay more attention to him, the reason behind his grumpiness. They will see for themselves that without Malini, their son can manage to be happy too.
And lastly, Imlie........even though my heart goes out to her today, one thing is clear, she has absolutely no self-respect when it comes to facing Malini. My god she was begging for forgiveness as if she killed Malini's 7 generations of family. I hope Aditya realizes that Imlie needs to be protected from Malini. Right now, Imlie is incapable of standing up in support of their relationship. It might be easy to independently hold onto a relationship, but it is hard, very hard to fight for togetherness. Imlie is nowhere close to standing by Aditya as he speaks the truth. She is drowning in her perceived guilt. Today, everyone's truth came out. Malini facade fell completely. Aditya made it clear he is suffocating in his relationship with Malini. And Imlie said it herself, she feels she is the one responsible for destroying Aditya-Malini relationship. She told Aditya today that he was happy with Malini for 7 years and now because of her, their marriage is breaking. Aditya did tell her that it is his fault only (again respect to Aditya) and not her's or Malini's but Imlie did not hear those words. And Aditya needs to come back to this again. Just a sentence here or there will not help. He needs to literally sit with Imlie and talk with her, make her understand how none of this is her fault. Hopefully, with Malini out of the house, Aditya will be able to spend some time with Imlie. Right now Imlie is 100% convinced that her being with Aditya is wrong. She will not be able to stand by Aditya. As of right now, she plans to live her life alone, without Aditya. She still thinks Aditya belongs only to Malini. She completely ignored Malini calling her servant today. Imlie's stand on her relationship with Aditya is exactly where it was 50 episodes ago. While Aditya has moved on a millions steps forward, Imlie has not moved a step. Someone needs to show Imlie how wrong her thinking is. With Malini out of Tripati house temporarily (thank god), either Aditya or Nishanth if he learns the truth soon need to help see Imlie how wrong she is in her thinking. Imlie needs to understand that pain is part of life and Malini has to face some hard truths. She needs to understand that whatever is happening to Aditya-Malini marriage, she has no real role in it. Their relationship was doomed with or without her in the picture. This is very important for Imlie to understand or else she will never be able to stand beside Aditya when the truth is out. Anyways, I do not think I will ever be able to forgive Malini for destroying Imlie's first day of college. And I am so happy Aditya realized that he should have left Imlie in the hostel. His impatience in bringing her home has only caused her more pain. He needed to sort his mess with Malini before bringing Imlie home but alas, if Aditya did everything correctly from the very beginning we never would have had this story. 😆
In tomorrow's episode, I know Aditya will not talk about the first marriage or his love for Imlie, but I hope Aditya talks part of his truth to his parents, which is that his relationship with Malini is over. His family needs to support him in this matter or else he will fight this himself but there is no way he will ever accept Malini as his wife from now onward. This truth needs to be told clearly to his family.

