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Sitting down with a cup of coffee and your post is the perfect complement! 😊 Great analysis as always Diya --- I completely agree with the gist of it. 👍🏼
I thought the goals in terms of what the show was trying to accomplish were just fine - Khushi making herself at home in ASR's life, taking by manipulation what he was denying her by right. I especially liked her entrepreneurial and independent spirit and the fact that the Raizadas esp. the family elder naniji supported her in her dabba ve. Now if only patidev would come around to supporting her, we'll have nice non-preachy little vignette of female empowerment.
I was on board with the need to switch gears from the intense romance during holi to last week's comedy. That said, I'm a little tired of Khushi's character being collateral damage every time this happens. Sanaya has great comic timing and the show's instinct to give her comedic talents a platform is a sound one. She's done screwball comedy very well before --- the dhak dhak incident where Arnav watches her antics in the glass pane or even the more recent one of her wearing Arnav's white shirt come to mind. In the later case I didn't like how ma ke kangan were disrespected, but the white shirt bit was funny - very well executed. So in the name of Devi Maiyya, give Sanaya something worthy to work with and the girl will come up trumps. Making her a tantrum throwing 2 year old who screams in rage or spits on Arnav or walks on the bed are unbearable! At this rate we're going to have to sign a "Save Khushi" petition to join my "No fake Rabba Ve" petition. I'm big on petitions these days --- my list is starting to grow and Star Plus won't know what has hit the channel if it doesn't mend its ways. 😆
I disagree a bit with you Diya on Arnav/ASR --- he has fared better this week than Khushi. I think the show did a number on his character when he banished Khushi to the pool and I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive that. 😡😡😡 . But this week, for the most part, he has reacted like an adult (a bewildered and outfoxed one!) to Khushi's antics. We're always going to get some gamesmanship from these two --- that's their relationship shtick! Perhaps, Arnav remembering his holi confession has softened him, maybe in some shadowy way he realizes how much he has wronged Khushi and accepting her takeover tactics is in some small way him trying to make amends. I have no difficulty with the fact that he suffers, he has that and much more coming to him, but I really don't see why anyone needs to be banished to the pool. It is simply wrong no matter who does it and I'm offended by the notion that since Arnav of his volition takes on the poolside vigil, he has somehow been absolved of his crime in sending Khushi there! 😡
I actually am OK with the fact that Arnav doesn't seem to be acting on his recollection of Khushi's confession (I'm assuming her remembers it!). To my mind he is disconcerted and a little flummoxed by those confessions of the heart - he'd rather pretend it was a moment of weakness that came upon them when under the influence. Arnav's MO is to walk way from emotional confrontation and unpleasant questions unless he has no other choice (in which case, he acts decisively!). But he's been an emotional coward from the start and I don't think that has changed. Khushi on the other hand is fearless, reckless even when it comes to matters of the heart. There's no way she could let such an emotional recollection rest. So it's just as well that she doesn't remember (a bit of fudging that I think is ok as dramatic licence!) just as it makes sense that she is the one who hasn't quite figured out that this is true love.
So, I thought this was a tonally uneven and choppy week and I wouldn't have much to say... but like you Diya I guess there was enough there to chew on. Thanks, Diya for giving us a chance to put all the pieces together and take stock...Maybe, just maybe this wasn't such a bad week after all? 😍
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