Sushpective: And the emotional jounrey continues..

Sush & SG's 🤗

Decent episode; more lessons on middle class life for ASR. His hurt was evident; he had crushed her dreams and he realizes how much he has hurt her. Like every spouse he blames her when he doesn't find his stuff😆 Happened when the car parts were stolen and today when he couldn't find the file. Like he did on both occasions; very soon he will realize how wrong he was...

The fond "pagal hai" turns into anger, uncontrollable rage when he sees the gift wrap...At this point I wasn't sure if its jealous rage or just safeguarding his sister's interests but that was clear as the events unfolded...

Is he ready to go beyond the terrace scene? He is smart enough to connect the dots on the employee who was getting married but not smart enough to recall Khush's mangetar was Shyam...😕 Khushi realized the transition from Arnav to ASR & she concludes it is about overhearing her lie. The aggression was similar to the initial days of their marriage; all the progress they seem to have made lost. She pleads to know the reason but like always he pushes her away...

If there is one thing ASR understands; it is when a girl's rishta is about to break. He sympathizes with Preeto; his decisions always dictated by Anjali's experiences. Anjali is the only girl he has really known and he relates to all events and sees it through her eyes. He realizes instantly that Khush's bak-bak could resullt in Preeto's in-laws getting annoyed & maybe calling off the wedding. His intention wasn't to embarrass Khushi; he knew she wasn't wrong...so the weak, apologetic look to Khushi & a "koshish karunga" But she doesn't buy it; rightly so, he has shown her no respect...

He knows how to get to the bottom of it; hit them where it hurts the most. Yes, the promotion and the job they were bragging about. Once that was gone, they would toe the line...If only he could figure out his own problems...😆 It takes a decisive man to control such a situation & he came through for the Gupta's👏👏👏

This situation was created for Khushi to see the goodness in him. In fact, the entire G'trip was for Khushi to fall in love, understand the workings of the mighty ASR...She is way too hurt to see anything good in him but they created situations where he first declares he is the damaad, helps the G's and now he helps her friend Preeto and declares to people that matter to her, that she is indeed his wife.

This he does despite finding out that she has saved the gift wrap from Shyam... This makes me want to conclude this is slowly turning into jealous rage...Yes, he did it for his sister initially but now the jealousy is taking over...He is upset that she loves somebody else...He repeated that he didn't want to do anything he would regret...The promo I think is a serious one; it is then that he realizes that he has pushed it too far... She is now scared for her life...😲 Pls, let it not be OTT!

I truly feel sorry for this girl; where will she go from here? He announces to the world but to her he declares he doesn't want her for more than 6 months... Tough situation for any girl to be in... Will she take him on a guilt trip? We have seen on several occasions, it is the only thing that works...He was sensitive to Payal's issue, now its Preeto...A guilt trip is what it takes to get the truth out...

Given the circumstances; we can find excuses for his behavior but there is no excuse for not telling her the reason behind the hasty wedding... Like he expects from his employees, can we also expect a fearless, confident ASR who can speak his mind?

A Monday episode that has opened up a can of worms. Which ones are the CVs going to let loose and which ones are going back in the can? Things are getting serious here!!!

1) The Shyam thing props up again. Good! The saving of wrapping papers for re-use. Very much a middle class thing to do. 👍🏼 Liked the little detail. Arnie's guilt from the Friday scene and later of wrongly blaming Khushi for the missing files just evaporates into a major ASR blow-up. How many times does this need to happen before Arnie has his eureka moment? Khushi knowing immediately he has the ASR-mad on.. 👍🏼. She would have got all the answers she wanted and more, if Garima hadn't interrupted. [*Head-Desk, Face-Palm, Satyanash, Beda Gark et all*].

Director's touch: ASR putting his vest on, Arnie putting his ASR armor on.. Good one...👏

2) He so did not want to lose it at GH. He kept asking her to get away from him or he would end up doing something bad. RESPECT for the Gupta Family, not enough for Khushi yet. A recurring theme in this episode and I have feeling for the week.

Pehle Bachchat , phir izzat. Bachchat ho chalega, Izzat na ho, bilkul nahi chalega.

The storytelling is back...at least the kind I get.

3) ASR's God Complex continues to be built up. Of course, the groom turns out to be one of his minions and of course, his plan is giving the groom the "incentive" - the ASR Kind - to stand up for himself and his wife rather than deal with the peripherals (the mama and mami). All he had to do was introduce himself as not just Arnav but as ASR and that would have shut the mama-mami up. But that wouldn't solve the problem.

BTW, Why does everyone in IPKKND have to be an orphan? The groom had a mama and mami...

4) Role reversal: Khushi loses patience with the baraati and lets out a sugar coated sarcastic comment while Arnie plays the docile ladki wala. Khushi has just had enough with over-bearing people, while Arnie has learnt discretion all the while knowing that he is handling things in his own way.

5) Arnie disses Khushi in front of the crowd but gives the groom raag-patti about respecting wife and wife's family. There is definitely more to this scene than just Arnie not standing up for his wife but I am too tired today to think about it. Someone please tell me. 😕

6) Khushi continues to see that not only are Anjali and rest of family (RM and GH) above her on the people-ASR-cares-for list, but now apparently, random families from the neighborhood and their in-laws are too. Khushi is also collecting enough fodder to think about for when it's time to forgive him. Eventually…not too soon. She is seeing that he cares, he is fair and he goes about fixing things without making a big hullaboo out of it.

7) Oh, he's had enough of the Gupta house, hasn't he? He was just ready to leave, without Khushi?? 😲

Very interested to see if the ASR-saves-the rishta thing leads to a conversation between Buaji and Arnie. So many possibilities there. They can touch on both or either of the Payal and Khushi's broken rishtas that could trigger some of Arnie's dormant brain cells (yeah, right!!) or give him food for thought on what happens after the 6 months to everyone in the GH. I don't think he has ever thought about that at all. I don't think he has even thought about what would happen to PayAsh after the 6 months thing. Again, the izzat thing.

The Shyam thing could lead to other discoveries for Arnie boy.

The look Arnie gave Preeto just before the phone call to Aman. Did that remind him of Anji all those years ago??

Essentially, every single ball that is involved in this convulted storyline has been put up in the air. How interesting!! Excited to see which ones are picked to go to the next storyline and which ones are allowed to rest again...At the very least, it is resulting in an ASR who is ready to erupt...Now where does the promo fit in all this...😳