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Just like OmRu brought Annika back to deal with her relationship with Shivaay, Bade Bhaiya has now taken steps to brings back both Gauri and Bhavya so his brothers can sort their problems out. If only his own problems were easier to sort.
Shivika
"Sorry I didn't see you.."
"But I was watching you the whole time..."
What can I say about these two bickering stubborn lovers? Each one is playing up in this oneupmanship game of "Who'll be the last one standing?" .. When will they realize the sooner one of them relents, the prize is to be shared by both : Love. And relief from this burning anger and jealousy.
I am on the fence here. BOTH are wrong. A friend on Twitter says, One day we'll say "Poor Annika, the next day we'll be saying Poor Shivaay..." It's' true. So I struggle to find a spot on the thin fence in each of these Tug-of-war type episodes. I'd do away with the fence altogether, but the writers insist on putting this fence up again and again.
The thing with sacrifice is, if you do it often enough, it becomes expected of you.
"You sacrificed so much already, why are you adamantly refusing to sacrifice more? We've seen you sacrifice more than your weight in many folds, yet you are stubborn this time to just give in for an ounce? IT'JUST A LITTLE MORE. WHy so petty??"
Sound familiar?
It goes on and on, until one point where people actually get ANGRY with you because you didn't sacrifice "as usual" for the greater good. Like you are always expected to be the better person. "You stoop to conquer " type yada yada...
There's a limit to how much you can expect from a person. They might have done so much to a point, people take them for granted and keep expecting more of the same.
I am just as annoyed as Annika for continuing with this farce of an engagement. But she has put her foot down. "I have done enough for this man, to expect that he come to me and say," I care about you a lot, and want you to come back in my life. "
"I love you , and I can't do without you.." is asking too much of Tadibaaaz SSO right?
If she never puts her foot down, this man will never put his foot forward to ASK for her in his life. Everything just falls into his lap like he's the luckiest guy in the world. Wealth, great family, good looks, girlfriends, NKK, and now self sacrificing girl who won't leave even if he threw her out.
What gives? When does it stop?
Yes, she knows he loves her deeply. She saw all that when he was intoxicated. He is pining and yearning for her, and was devastated to realize that he had thrown her out for trying to protect him.
(But see, that scene was meant for us who always wanted Annika to tell Shivaay the truth. And see how badly he reacted. The man was pitiful and doubting his worth because his mother and "real" mother turned out to be hateful villainous women. Not to mention who is currently torturing his sister.
It was a watershed moment, him devastated and weeping in her arms. Sad that the whole family knew of this truth about him except him. I am a little glad that it happened under intoxication because it sort of calmed his adrenaline a little from rage.
Have you any doubt at the rage he would have shown if Annika had just told him this truth pointblank? Yipes. I can understand Annika's fear. Firstly he might not listen fully at all, secondly he would not have believed her also.
The aim I believe is to ease SSO into the possibility of this truth. Perhaps to give him the clues slowly for him to work through and investigate himself. It is a journey inward for him perhaps.
As for issues with Annika, it is her insecurities with his love, and Pinky.
Coming to the episode, look at how smug Shivaay was when he brought Vikram to the mansion. He was so enjoying it, slowly trapping the prey in his trap, watching as she slowly dug her grave further and further with her lies. He knows her well, and is pretty sure she is fully his to love, still. But she won't admit it. Neither did he admit so too.
So he brings Vikram and was thoroughly enjoying the gobsmacked shock on her face. She was literally gasping and gaping that Vikram took pity and helped her out.
"Hey, Shivaay, we're engaged."
Just that one statement wiped clean the smugness off Shivaay like a bucket of water. Seeing the man put his hand on her shoulder in sharp focus must have given the poor guy high BP. The poor chap just cannot deal with jealousy yaar, he just cannot take it when someone touches his girl.
Poor fellow was erupting lava like a volcano in Rudy's room, over this new stranger having Haq over his girl. Touching her shoulder, being chummy with her, calling her mangetar and all. Rudy's reassurance is getting evaporated as it comes as he is too hot (!!) and bothered to listen carefully.
Annika Bhabhi is bluffing, it's all an act. Trust me, Bhaiyya.
Rudra is a double agent , I see. Good, good. Only this cutie can make it work..
All he did was put his hand on her shoulder, and Shivaay was murderous. Rudy explained if he pulled her close to him, struck an RK pose, or even hugged her tight, that would be a big problem. All of those SHivaay has done multiple times with her, and her being willingly there.
The problem here is on both sides. They two would die for each other, but both won't show their vulnerabilities without the other. There was a time, when Annika had no claim over him at all and she could say so much about how she cared and worried about him. "I would die if anything happened to you Shivaay.." she would say.
But the way he threw her out and severed ties with her, broke that trust. Now, he's expecting that from her and she's refusing to say those things she used to. "You've lost the Haq, Shivaay." Now he'll be going all out to force that back.
Watch his ill concealed agitation at Vikram saying "Nothing is more important than Annika." Give him the chance he'd beat his chest and say "Annika is the most important to me right now." But no, the game continues. He set the dinner table, carefully places himself IN BETWEEN the two, 🤣 so no touching is possible, and he is closer to her than Vikram..😆😆😆 I tell you this guy is a gone case. He's MAD, completely MAD. Lattoo over Annika.
"SO how'd you guys meet? " Potentially explosive.
"Sometimes we don't remember how the story began, but how it ended sticks in the mind.."
"If the love was true, it would not have ended. A story is just that, it had to end at some point."
He insists to know details of their "love story", and she keeps putting up road blocks. He's still trying to poke holes in her lie. Left with no option, he talks about marriage.
He knows how Annika feels about forced marriage. She hates it, ran away from it, it ruined her self respect and lost herself for a long time because of it. If she's lying, she would have not gone there right?
Right?
Wrong.
"Funny how the word Marriage gives you michmichis..? " Oh you saw that did you SHivaay? You just had to taunt her right? Although I LOVE how all your words these days seem to consist of hers, she's so ingrained in you that she's part of you.
Annika's temper is rising as he keeps pushing for a wedding date.
"Relax, i was just asking when the wedding was. I wasn't asking to break it off..?"
Maybe you should do exactly that Shivaay...
Shivaay is impatient, in his mission for truth, that he made it worse by saying he didn't quite give 2 Rupees about it. When its so freaking obvious on his face that he's hanging on every word.
He was behaving really badly, and she is too. Both love each other so much and are VERY angry with each other too.
Both are crackpots. Who's going to crack first?
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