The reason why Arnav fell in love with Khushi ...yes , we are beginning to get that girl back... This was the girl that had gone missing the last 2 episodes ... A feisty girl, a optimistic girl, a go -getter, A Girl who takes the fight right into lions lair and beats him fair and square instead of throwing tantrum..
Khushi seized the opportunity presented to her !! Khushi has a brain wave , she decides to serve all the extra food she had cooked as a stress buster to the starving populace of AR ... Armed with various boxes, Khushi arrives and is sent into the office ...Not only to a man's heart , looks like food is the way into the office too..Khushi comes into the office and begins her sales pitch ..which soon attracts the starving masses ..They gather around her like ants gathering around sugar...Khushi begins to tempt them but all hesitate loath to face the ire of their short tempered Boss ...undaunted Khushi takes the box's , heads for the canteen, warmly inviting everyone and openly challenging a glowering Arnav who is watching her action quietly ...Hunger overcomes scruples and fears, The office members troop into the canteen partake the food.. Arnav promptly sends them back ..refuses to eat Khushi's food , departs after singeing Akash with his glare...
What I really loved in this segment was the entrepreneurial spirit of Khushi ... The ability to spot a break, seize it with both hands and utilize it for her benefit...This was the quality that had lead to grudging admiration from ASR ..and it is heartening to see that fighter quality coming back ...
The growing comfort and acceptance of one another gets underlined again ... Khushi would never dare to enter the office with such insouciance earlier but deep down somewhere she has accepted him and he too has accepted her hence his quietness , his lack of anger instead of 'GET OUT , KHUSHI KUMAARIII GUPTA - SINGH RAIZAADAA "..
Y'day in my post I had lambasted Khushi , her drive to annoy Arnav but now conscience pricks me as I see it from another angle ... Why is Khushi doing all the annoying tactics... as I had said in response to Sunni, isn't there any other way to annoy him like the impersonal mango jooyees, sugar crystals way .. When the CV's could find such a way of getting at Arnav , why then was Khushi shown trying to peeve Arnav by hanging up the dresses, stars, shoes, posters .. why when a girl is eager to go leave before 6 months wants vex her man by hanging her personal things, why does she want to imprint his room with HER stamp... could it be bec she does not wan
to go ..Is there a reverse psychology at work here .. She is stating quite emphatically that this is all for a period of 6 Months but is actually looking for permanence , and in pursuance of her subconscious desire is she seeking for signs of affirmations from him ?? ...
I also loved the suggestion of Akash playing bridge between the inimical jodi and the way he stood supporting Khushi but only AFTER Arnav gave his permission ... The ultimate control still in the hands of the control freak, ASR...
The second scene that I liked was the case of missing Box... Khushi realizes that two boxes are missing and begins a massive box hunt spread out across the LXB of Ar...Her search finally takes her to the King's room , where to her utter astonishment she discovers the grumpy Arnav relishing her cooking... She watches spellbound as Arnav tucks in to her food , rushing only to stop him from eating the sweets ...
There is a saying in my Mother tongue ' Kenjinal minjidum, Minjinal kenjidum ' [ roughly translated means..when u plead or very attentive towards them, they act aloof and standoffish but when u urself take the lead and become aloof and not pay attention to them, they descend from their heights and be humility personified ] ...This personified the food eating scene to me.. Akash invites Arnav for lunch which is churlishly refused , when he is not compelled or forced we find Arnav Singh Raizada quietly devouring food like a man who had not seen food for days ...Had Khushi invited Arnav , The stubborn goatwa would have firmly refused and would have starved himself rather than eat from Khushi's Kitchen ... The lack of attention worked !!
I liked the acting of both Barun and Sanaya here ... Her sheer astonishment when she sees Arnav eating her food .. her instant comprehension that if she betrayed her presence , Arnav will just stop eating and walks away , her smile of pure and gentle affection like a mother who has seen her stubborn recalcitrant child doing what is good for him... then the concern when Arnav stretches his hand towards the forbidden sweet s.. The elation that he actually ate what she cooked, inexpressible joy that the person who mattered , the person whom u look up to, the person around whom ur thoughts revolve tasted her food, gave her an unexpected present ...Sanay was pure delight to watch as the naive young girl who is indescribably happy on seeing her grouchy hubby consuming the food prepared by her !! A girl who loves simple pleasures , A girl who understands with an inborn instinct that this simple pleasures are priceless ... And Barun.. A starving man ravenously devouring everything in the box, not content with it, he licks the last morsel from his fingers too.. contentment steals over him and he wishes to seal the this contented feeling with dessert when into this joyful world intrudes the most unwelcome sound ...Khushi !!...Instant mortification, sheepishness at being caught !!.. embarrassment and alertness for Khushi's sharp jibe but when Khushi goes ' tomorrow I'll get halwa' ..Instant attitude [ as he realizes that she will not tease him ] !! he just takes the coat and stalks away hiding his chagrin, just pausing to give a sidelong glance ..he did all this with that tilted head...Kudos to him !! ....The important point to note he did not refuse her offer nor was there a curt dismissal just a acquiescence ...I also liked the way she entered his cabin as if it belonged to her , to them...
I also loved the FB when the office guy goes .. ' I wish consuming of such delicious food was in everyone's destiny ' well it definitely is there in Arnav's destiny !!
Dil-Dimag
The last scene when Arnav and Khushi are on the phone talking about their respective business deals reminded me about the Dil-Dimag Dialogue during Sangeet...Khushi had confidently asserted that come what may she will never become Arnav..Has she stood true to that ...hasn't she opened herself to Arnav , the girl who was resisting him, we are getting the signs that Khushi too has begun to imbibe arnav, Arnav's thought process, his favourite words [wat tha] are becoming part of her lexicon .. Arnav has begun to seep into her psyche unconsciously .. She has begun to observe him , absorb him ... but is it a one way process ...no.. If Khushi is learning and accepting Dimag aspect, Arnav is learning about Dil.. letting go, smiling, compromising , learning the art of feeling happy in another person's joy ...Both Dil & Dimag are working in tandem , learning from one another , realizing that they can work harmoniously together too as long as that life giver emotion called "LOVE " flows between them and is oiled by mutual acceptance , respect and admiration !! Khushi has begun to make inroads into Arnav's world but for Arnav Khushi is THE world...The DIL & DIMAG has begun to merge ..
The darkness has begun to retreat , lights are filtering in .. Arnav is falling once again for the same girl, a girl who was always the same , who had never changed but got a distorted vision due to a shroud of Misunderstanding...That shroud still persists but has begun to fray ...whereas for Khushi , her slumbering emotions are showing the first stirrings of life, she has begun to comprehend that this Rakshas matters to her , she goads him torments him all in the hope of getting an acknowledgement that she matters to him ...His actions sends her on a winged ecstasy to the stars or plunges her into the deepest abyss !!.. He has crept into her heart , noiselessly and has begun to shoot tendrils of feelings, opening a whole new world to her ...
Payal - Maami ... This scene showed that when time comes for decisive action, Payal will not be a shrinking violet ..she is decisive , courageous , knows what to do... a trait which will come to the aid Of Khushi ...Maami... I felt sorry for her today...her need to be accepted by the higher echelon, her innate sense of inferiority complex.. her awareness of the truth that she is not a high status lady...was beautifully brought ...will this fashion show prove to be the first thaw and acceptance of Payal or will it be starw in the winds...or will this union herald many more adventures re KHUSHI/ARNAV/SHYAM...?? have to be seen
Shyam has got Anjali where he wants her... he has ensured that Anjali will see what he wants her to see and looks like Anjali will do just that in the beginning
Note to CV's
I really appreciate ur efforts to show that true entrepreneurial skills does not require degree papers but vision, courage,intelligence and sharp mind but let me also remind you that Khushi is a business tycoon's wife ...as such she needs to maintain his dignity too..it would be befitting that she is made the head with Mohan, HP helping her by serving the employees ...
Whatever happened to the femme fatales of AR .. This time around his office is full of males !!
ASR's room ... what happened again...no chimes, no photos, no blings !!