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Aaj toh AT Panipat ka battleground ban gaya.
People better come back to discuss the episode. I even wrote an essay and everything. 😳
Anyway, I thought the entire episode today was all about how these adults are toying with the kids. Well-written actually. So on one hand you have Noyonika fanning the flames of the Pandit's obsession with Nandini, and on the other, Cabir's mom gently manipulating Navya into Cabir's life. Reminded me of NH-3 days, when both Navya and Nandini were essentially toys for Harshad. Food for thought.
My respect for the Pandit just keeps on increasing, they've done a good job with keeping his character in the (very) grey zone without turning him completely OTT or psycho. Add to that Noyonika's machinations, and this just gets better. He has no idea about how his own behaviour is affecting the very abilities in Nandini that he wants to polish. And the more he fails, the harsher his tactics become. It's creepy but it's exactly how blind obsession in a highly egoistic man would work.
Dhruv is HILARIOUS. He does not want to talk to Manik , but when Manik does not give him bhao, he complains like a jealous girlfriend. I would have found it cute if he hadn't been such an ass during the Manik-Pandit fight and blindly blamed his friend. Dick behaviour of the highest order. If not Manik, at least Nandini should punch him, he's just asking for it. But Manik's blinders seem to be rapidly falling away too- there was very little doormat behaviour today and that's an improvement.
I like how they're highlighting Manik's anger and he's constantly being forced to see the ramifications of that in Nandini's life. Difficult lesson which he'll have to learn for her sake. Now if only they would be kind enough to link this to the Soha fiasco sometime soon, we'd all be relieved to see at least ONE of these multiple threads closing.
Nandini. Sigh. She's clueless and confused and like I said yesterday, Manik has pretty much become her crutch now. It's sad, honestly. You don't want to see that happen to the most stable character in the story. But it's been a long time in the making and needed to happen.
She's aware of what he fears about the Pandit but there really is nothing to accuse him of at the moment except for harsh teaching methods. Manik's fears are justified, but he needs to be smarter about this instead of blindly rushing in and messing it up further.
She's being foolishly stubborn about this fusion concert, that's true. But then she was always supposed to sing in it, with or without Manik. Leaving it was never an option in the first place, the Principal had warned her not to mess it up on the very first day. But the big bad SYMBOL that it has become, and the added emotional pressure as a result, I would put that squarely on Manik's head- this is a mess he created in the first place with his stupid condition. It's actually good that she's holding on to it for whatever reasons, it makes things difficult for him and so high time that he steps up and cleans it up once and for all, just for her sake.
Precap- The new Romeo and Juliet in SPACE. Much lawlz. 😕
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