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It's so, so clever and also so subtle, I think it's only the really perceptive/ obsessed/ writers who will have spotted it.
One thing the Iss Pyaar writers have always been good at is distracting us with something relatively "major" so we miss the subtle inferences they weave throughout. Today, because of Khushi's OTT and completely unprofessional behaviour as well as the Tika scene, most people completely missed what, to me, stood out as the key moment.
When Arnav drags Khushi into his office to yell at her, he looks down and sees everybody in the office listening- and he drags Khushi away... Compare this to their first scenes in ASR's office and how he loudly and furiously lambasted her to embarrass and demoralise her in front of his staff. Today, even though she made him look like an idiot in front of the same people- he resisted the urge to retaliate and put her ego above his own.
Also, I'm not sure if this was intentional directing, a happy coincidence or just Barun being a genius, but he actually spins her away from the same window he dropped her from all that time ago.
Even his language has changed- whereas in the past it was a furious, English, detached "GET OUT!" today he used Hindi and it wasn't angry so much as pleading when he told her "JAAOO!"
You can chalk this down to inconsistency, but I prefer to think of it as the writers trying to show the changes in Arnav. He's not ASR anymore, no matter how much he might like to think he is and he's losing his resolve against hating Khushi day by day. The writers are showing this vulnerability and change so that it'll hit us even more when he destroys himself upon learning the truth.
It's what I do when I write. I slip in clues so subtle that nobody notices which then all tie together in a huge reveal at some point. I think it's better than some sort of infodump all at once. It's also so much more satisfying as a reader when a writer does this and when they tie it all together you can be all "OHHH!! I NEVER EVEN NOTICED THAT'S SO CLEVER OMG!" I like to call it the Orient-Express-Effect. 😆
I frankly couldn't care less whether or not Khushi's behaviour can be excused by the fact she wants to be kicked out or not. Although I firmly believe they could show these changes in Arnav's character without making Khushi exceed all limits like she did today, I do acknowledge that the poor girl's really digging herself a bigger hole- with the hair brushing scene yesterday, the tika scene today and the fainting scene tomorrow... her "fake" love for Arnav is going to come back to bite her in the arse and I for one am sincerely looking forward to seeing THAT particular fallout.
After all, Khushi betiyaan, in the immortal words of Michael Jackson "Be careful who you love, and be careful what you do because a lie becomes the truth."
But then again, this is all completely my opinion and you're free to continue to hate it if you'd prefer. 😆
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