Doods, bless you from the heart! and Happy Birthday! 🤗🥳
Now we come to your analysis. I'm not an analyst, nor do I think logical when it comes to the matters of the heart. I had missed watching the episode yesterday but had read enough comments on IPKKND Pagalkhana on FB. I had decided while working through the night that I would only watch it when I read your and Tants' analysis.
However today morning, just up from sleep I saw it was time for the repeat and turned on the TV to watch ASR's public humiliation and the rest of the wonderful episode. I had completely forgotten that I'd read you guys first and then watch it.. so obviously a part of me that saw him bathing in public (ASR shirtless is a treat, but I'd like it once in a blue moon for it to remain a treat) was highly offended. Just because a man is rich and you want to treat him a lesson, you will humiliate him publicly, especially when he's learning to try and trust you?
I feel better after reading your posts and calmer too! I know the story is moving forward and metaphors you'd stated earlier are still in their place, doing their jobs. So... Tants, Doods- wonderful posts as usual! 👏 I think I'd probably have stopped watching this show had it not been for you two! 😳
Before I read your posts, this illogical part of me that speaks before it thinks went on overdrive and this is what my brain reached out for: I still feel a part of me is right in what it says and believes despite all the explanation given.
From what I've seen now, I think at this rate, Khushi will also be in line for repentance big time if she continues with her mindless antics. ASR is a complex person. He can't be played around without him backfiring after a while. Khushi is horribly wrong with what she's doing and these actions? They can't be justified by saying that she's merely 19, not mature enough and has been recently roughly handled. She loves him and yes she was forcibly married but she married her heart had already chosen in the end, didn't she? At least she didn't have to marry Shyam and go through the horrors of another kind. She could've refused to marry him and proved OTT and selfish but then abhi jo kar rahi hain wo kaunsa Khushi ka character hain! As a woman, I highly offended with the way they've shown Khushi's character. What poor people?? Khushi is halwai's daughter, a girl coming from lower middle class yes but she still has new dresses, Payal got married with enough shagun ka kapda that were given to her and to her in-laws and they may not have spare cash lying around but they're alright per se. Lots of people in India live like that, but they are disciplined and know how to take care of their guests. Khushi coming from good family, with sanskars does this.. surely she then deserves the rude and rough ASR! Do you think daughters would want their husbands to feel that her parents are inadequate when she takes him to her maika? It is not Khushi who suffers indignity and embarrassment, it is her darling parents who do. They keep a brave face to it but they do feel awkward especially when they're trying their best to make their hot headed, rich damaad comfortable. What has that POV not been taken into consideration when Khushi is being made to play all this silly nonsense?
Since when did lower middle class category come into "below poverty line" reach? Her actions were petty and mean. She is smart and would have lots of clever tricks up her sleeve rather than these silly ones. CVs, executions main gadbad hain ji... kuch karo!
From ASR's part- yes he will repent and suffer for his mistakes definitely but isn't it justified that Khushi also suffers then for her mistakes? Maybe the way they got married was wrong and the marriage has to end (which we'll see if it does) is terribly wrong on ASR's part but we're already expecting his suffering.
What I see is that he trusts her and she dupes him. There are only so many times you can cry wolf Khushi darling. This is going to backfire soon when he will not trust you even when you speak the truth. We saw that too in the end, didn't we though? He thinks she's hidden the spare parts of his car to trouble him and doesn't believe that she's innocent. Remember Newton's rule- every action has an equal and opposite reaction. ASR has yet to go through equal and opposite reaction for his action. Bechara aiwai pehlese suffer karna shuru kar diya hain. Khushi is just as mean as ASR is, with the difference being ASR's past still justifies his actions. Khushi.. sudhar jaao darling.. varna bahot jaldi humiliation ki baari tumhaari hogi.
The best scene:
The best part was GH women and at the breakfast table. Ah! Garima may have said harsh words to Khushi in the past and even been angry and unfeeling but look at how Buaji and Garima acted when the food delivery came in. Wow.. I felt like going there and hugging them. After a few minutes the same feelings overwhelmed me for them again when they ate the pasta and though they didn't like it, didn't insult their damaad and praised it to the heavens. Ye hain India ki womenfolk; they are independent, strong, sensitive, caring, understanding, motherly and forgiving. Babuji seems to be judging his SIL and is quite happy with what his Khushi bitiya has gained in such a quality husband who is "upar se sakhat hain andar se naram, bahar se thanda hain, andar se garam". (Sun le Khushi, tere babuji ko aadmi ki pehchaan hain.) 😊
Mr. Sobti, this is probably why I admire you as an actor. I absolutely loved Arnie's expressions. So childlike he was when he asked them if they liked the food and even when he stood with his hands folded on his chest, waiting for the spare parts to be returned. Sweet! You are so right Doods, there is a boy in there crying out for affection and one can glimpse him in ASR's eyes. Sanayaji.. yaad hain na, acting kar rahe ho, expressions dene padenge? Where are her correct expressions? Apart from them being present in bit and pieces, they have been missing for sure. Maybe the poor darling is bored with what she's doing. I'm of the opinion that she's a smart woman she knows this way of Khushi's will never lead to happy ending.
Evil presence and the spy who tracked evil:
Shyam babua.. finally you got the key made but phir pakde gaye beta. :D Do you guys also feel that Mamaji is perhaps this "jasoos" that Anjali keeps on talking about? I think Mamaji has a very strong role to play later as witness to all that has happened. Maybe he was also the one who had heard Khushi confessing her state to DM. Kya pata..
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