An attempt to judge if the meeting of ashlok were coincidence or planned by someone.. Purely my HAS so enjoy everyone.
Okay the first two instance, saputara and train in my view were pure coincidences, but I do not understand, where was aastha going or coming from train...did she not spent the night at home?shlok was coming to pune and aastha ?
ajju/shlok in train(the suspected glare)>> ajju looks at him thinking aastha's pain due to bangles and shlok is a bit guilty. He had felt a bit guilty after breaking her bangles too but his anger came over soon.
swati is dead as in flashback, NA says "Swati is no more" it was 7, 2012
shlok came home 7:2013. He spent one year in Mumbai? but he stayed away from home for three years?did he live with swati for two years or was it a blooper?(he said in interview)
Aastha shlok encounter at home...
NA was much in anger after knowing that aashta was the girl who caused so much trouble
He did not like her hesitation to say sorry but told shlok to let it go
NA was gloating to see that his son was so affected by aastha that he was adamant for apology.
NA did not accept her first apology and was still angry
He got pleased and accepted her apology and got relaxed only when she said that she was truly sorry because of the "tamasha" infront of everyone
He asked aastha for shlok for three reasons:
1st, avdoot in hand
2nd, Shlok was affected by this girl so she will keep him interested 😉.
3rd, She asked forgiveness even when she did not want, for their image. so she knew that public image is imp🥱
Anjali did not like her the very first moment, did she remind her of swati?
Varad was curious about her...did she remind him of swati as well? He knew why he was so affected by her so told him to come back and sort his life out instead of running away and trying to close his heart. He said by running away you cannot decrease the distances that have come in relations..so does this hint that shlok is indeed on the mission to improve relations in his home?
Niranjan tries to convince shlok to get married but all in vain and then avdoot refuses which did not make NA angry but worried because he could have made shlok agree somehow but how to make aastha agree was a problem.
But NA knew that only Shlok's anger can make him stay so he planned all the rest. NA had told anjali that we can give up just because he has said "no".
(in 30th august episode we can see that the room next to shlok's room where aashta spent the night next to SR was indeed the study where he had burnt swati's memories, do have a look and confirm anyone? in today's episode we can see too..) Also bindi of aastha and swati is same. he had said in flashback "mein kabhi maaf nahi karoon ga" and then we hear accident sound and a shout "shlok!!" did he try to kill swati and himself?she died and he did not and now he is afraid that aastha will misunderstand??)
Next meeting outside collector office for baba's work:
May be a coincident where both were sent by their baba to collector's office. Quite possible since the papers may be related to agnihotris.
Aastha's baba is used to ask aastha for bringing things here to there. Quite understandable because she is the only kid.
Okay so NA comes forward with his first move in his crooked plan to make shlok stay.
He invited avdoot to the award ceremony to make aastha and shlok meet and may be to change aastha's view about shlok? when he invited avdoot for award function, anjali knew that NA is still on his mission all to keep shlok from leaving through aastha.
Stealing papers from a college is not a small thing and I am sure NA knew what shlok has done. So aastha comes to know of anjali and decides to meet shlok. she calls suresh who purposely tells her about headquarters and she reaches shlok..
now for NA to plan award function fiasco, we would have to assume that he somehow knew that anjali and aastha were friends. otherwise their expressions do not seem to tell this story.
Only then it fits that NA knows what has happened and knows that aastha will try to approach shlok during award function. So he used the reporter to provoke shlok so he would take all his anger on aastha when she approaches him and put the same reporter on their tail so he would get everything on air. Later he apologizes in front of everyone and everything gets forgotten except for shlok whom he knew would not forget and forgive to get even with aastha, he will stay at home. He further asks shlok to go back to Mumbai to make shlok guilty conscious, to indirectly tell him that it was his fault and also to make him feel defeated. Shlok reacted accordingly and decided to stay.
(must mention one thing here that I did not even for once felt from NA's expressions that he planned all this. Could it be that varad planned all this because he did not care about public image. He only cared about his brother's happiness??) its my HAS, don't scold me.
Next day he gets his office attacked by goons to further arouse shlok's anger towards aastha because he still wants aastha to be his bahu for the above mentioned reasons and also may be as a compensation for swati...because it seems that swati incident went out of NA's hands because anjali went overboard.
Then NA came to know about his plan to make aastha puppet through suresh, I am again assuming suresh as informer for NA about Shlok, so NA knew about all Shlok's plans and NA played along accordingly. When Shlok fell in love with aastha, NA did not know and thought of it as a part of plan of shlok to get aastha etc.
Then we can also assume that when NA knew that Shlok and Aastha are fighting and things are not going right, aastha resigned and he saw that she had come on rickshaw home in office hours, so he made the card printing mistake to bring them together.
Then again he let anjali bring rishta of Tania etc so that shlok has to decide and end the game and now I am again confused whether anjali provoked shlok to announce the rishta on NA's instructions or she did it herself. I am not convinced at all that she did not know that she was provoking Shlok.
I am stopping my HAS here because these allegations against NA/Varad/Suresh are not at all supported by their expressions...and all this is based on the assumption that NA or Varad knew that college vali anjali is aastha's friend...
And as a last note, suchi you are very right, there is something much more to anjali's attitude than a poor battered woman...but I am just not clear how to put it so I did not mention her reactions to keep the story simple.