I liked the epi despite all the cliche cooking contest.
A confident Imlie Tripathi is such a sight to behold. For so long, Imlie could not claim her real identity of being Mrs. Imlie Aditya Tripathi. But now with the truth out in front of the entire world, she never hesitates to claim it with pride. Just the ability to do so has infused Imlie with pride & self confidence.
I loved the brief Adi-Imlie scene about the shaadi ka joda. Now that Adi loves her, he feels the pain of her trauma acutely. Hence he offers her to buy a new shaadi ka joda. But Imlie is a person who finds happiness even in darkest if times. Yes the shaadi ka joda has bad painful memories attached but it was something she wore when she got bound to the now love if her life. So it has emotional value as well. She wants to wear that only to bolster her himmat & do her very best in the competition. Adi is left looking with awe at his Jhalli.
Imlu-Pallu are the sweetest sis-in-laws. I love how Pallu actively bolsters Imlie's confidence & gives her support. These are true sisters in the making.
I really loved Imlie's confident entry in the event venue. And then we got the best scene of the epi between Aparna-Imlie. I think this is the first time everyone from the Ts have seen Imlie in her full suhagan look. Yes she does wear MS & Sindoor but they never saw her in a full blown married woman look. So her look gave Aparna a pause & then she recalled that Imlie had worn the same saree during AM wedding. She has casted Imlie as the villain of the piece so of course she twists it into something negative. She taunts Imlie about wearing it in AM's wedding to try to jamao her haq but Imlie politely reminds her that she had actually given up her haq that day. This made Aparna recall that Imlie herself had given her sindoor as a gift to AM & she becomes overwhelmed with all the conflicting feelings that emerged with that recall. For a moment it hit her hard what monumental thing Imlie had actually done when she gave up her Suhag to Didi. All this while they have been accusing Imlie of snatching Adi away from Didi in their denial & anger. But now as time passes & they find out such things it will become clearer to them how much Imlie have up for AM relationship.
Imlie tells her simply that she now only wants to earn her haq & try to win the competition for her. I loved that she took Aparna's aashirwad before going to her cooking station. Our fav Chiraiyya Girl arrived with his team to cheer on for his Jhalli.
We got the announcement of Mrs. Dev Chaturvedis wife being a special guest judge. Wow man this lady has built her life around that loser Dev & has no other identity other than being his wife. No wonder she has stuck to this relationship as it is the only thing in life which gives validation to her superiority complex. AC is so velli & petty that she herself called the event organiser to be called as a guest judge. Matlab how low can you go to take some petty revenge. You are only making a joker of yourself.
AC announces the rules main one being that the dish should be non-Indian. Aparna looked at Adi as soon as AC showed up to blame him that they are facing humiliation from AC only because of his zidd to be with Imlie. She really has forgotten that AC has never needed a reason to insult the Ts since even before Imlie came into their lives. She has been doing it since day 1.
Bechari Pallu got disqualified for giving Imlie her aata when Imlie's got wasted. Imlie was lost for nearly 10 mins & Adi gave her the you will be fine look to give her honsla. Finally she decided to make a version of Moti Roti topped with veggies.
The judges had a blind tasting & felt that Imlie's dish was the best. Even AC ate her dish with great satisfaction. But the look on her face when she saw that it was Imlie's dish that she enjoyed was hilarious.
Tomorrow we will see her trying to disqualify Imlie on some unfair grounds. Well looks like the competition was already rigged to not let Imlie win so I don't care if Imlie doesn't end up winning. That would be a hollow victory for AC anyway because everyone knew that Imlie's was the best dish & deserves to win. But let's see whether Imlie or her Chiraiyya Girl speaks up against the cheating.
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when AC claimed to donate her time. I mean woman you yourself made the effort to call up the event organiser of a small middle class society event to be invited as a guest judge. So with what pride you are claiming being generous with your time
. Waise bhi iski life main toh koi aur kaam dhanda hai nahi except taking petty vengeance from people who according to her are very inferior
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