Originally posted by: Apsvenky
Reposting my thought from AY's thread:
Thank you for the thread AY. Was waiting for your thoughts and thought the entire Hotstar issue must have also played into the delay.
Like Adi and Aparna are same same, Imeliya and her Amma are also same same. But ST and KK elevated the material to the point that you could truly feel that bebasi at being in a situation going so much out of control that you do not know where to start.
I loved how despite not being wrong, Meethi listed to all the taunts given to her because it was Dev's wife and somewhere she was almost resigned like I have listened to much worse the last 19 years. It was also heartening to see her even almost empathize towards AC that both have been betrayed and she never knew he was married till very recently. While AC ke pale woh baat kabhi padti nahi, but somewhere Meethi could understand AC's keen sense of pain and kept quiet till she came to her daughter. One line about Jyoti Gauba as well. She really evoked that sense of wanting to throttle someone with the vile she was spewing. Kudos to both to make us really hate AC's character.
Jaise beti ne tab react kiya tha, aaj maa ne bhi waise hi react kiya. She went all territorial and put her point very succinctly that I agree what I may have done was a mistake, my daughter is no paap and neither a mistake. Dono tab tak seh sakte hai as long as the other is not dragged into the conversation, jo aaj hua. When AC targeted Meethi by threatening her to tell the T family the truth, she was willing to literally grovel to save her daughter. Seeing that brought such a visceral reaction in Imlie that she showed her fierce PD style tigress ka andaaz. Matlab alag level ka tashan was shown to AC to protect her Amma from AC.
Here I actually felt a parallel of this scene to the sindoor wala scene where Malini humiliated Imlie and bechari she was on her knees trying to sameto her sindoor when Adi walks in. The way he went at Malini then and the way Imlie stood up to AC for her Amma today, they both literally mirrored each other.
Then when AC revealed DC's name, the utter shock, confusion running through Imlie's face. The way she just turned a bit to confirm with her mom that what she was hearing was correct and then the myriad of emotions on her face. Disbelief, shock, anger and finally just numbness. She really went numb while watching what was going on around her while processing the revelation just thrown at her.
Loved the way Adi pulled AC down a peg today. AC chose the wrong person to chedo with threatening bto tell the truth. he does not know that one he already knew and has processed through this and more importantly he is the least bothered about this truth as it never mattered to him. How easily he called her out by saying that the truth reveal will hurt her reputation more than Imlie, him or his entire familysmiley36. The utter shock on AC's face was gold. Adi is made of sterner stuff and someone like AC will not be able to blackmail him about the truth, that too something he feels has no affect in his life in anyway. Matlab yeh banda Jainendra se nahi dara jab 2 biwia ka sach bahar aane wala tha, yeh AC ke aise piddhu se sach bahar aane se thodi darne wala hai.
At that point DC tried to show misplaced concern and go all "I am your baba" and that finally broke Imlie out of her trance. She just ran away from there to make sense of what she just saw. And the way she broke 👏🤗. I really wanted to just go into my screen and give that girl a tight hug. She literally just collapsed into her mitti wali maa to gather her thoughts on what just happened with her. Then the way all those insecurities that she had to an extent overcome or pushed to the back of her mind just came tumbling out. There also those insecurities were voiced by the 3 people whose opinion mattered to her (Dev just being her biological dad and actually spawning her) and could change because of the truth. Loved that she never once doubted Adi's feelings for her in the entire process. She knew in her heart that Dev being her father will not matter to Adi in anyway.
I am really glad that at this point it was no one else except Adi and Imlie. No one else mattered because then he was the only one who could reach out and understand what her guilt and insecurities were. And he correctly started with addressing that only. People assumed that Adi will not tell her he knew. I was ure that would never happen because he cannot hide anything from his Jhalli. No matter the consequence, he will always be honest with her because she has always known his whole truth and accepted him the way he is and he does the same for her as well. It was good to see how he was explaining to her how he found out and I am somewhat glad they stopped at that, because any more and they would have had to either cut the scene at a further junction else not have it fully play out, which would have been worse.
By the remaining part of the episode, looks like there will be parallel conversations tomorrow. Today I am just going to revel in the way ST proved that she deserves to headline her own show and will continue to do so till the end, naysayers jaaye bhaad mein.