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Believe it or not, I loved today's episode.
Because, today the episode was brutally honest. No pretence, no games, no manipulation, no lies - every character was their true self.
I prefer brutal honesty to rosy pretence any day.
Let's break it down.
Sonakshi - She finally came to her full potential - Successful, strong, confident and most importantly, self-made. She didn't tell the truth of her daughter. Right or wrong, at that time she had sufficient reason to hide the truth. 1. Dev's brutal lashing which now we know that Saumie was right and he meant it completely. 2. Dev's tendency to crush his enemies which being a woman who has mortgaged everything her family owned could not afford to take on. 3. The fact that Dev no longer mattered to her at that point.
However, she was honest with her daughter because she matters. This single mother did not take away her child's right to choose using her contribution in her life even though it must be very hard to approach the man she hates again for her daughter, she gave her full honesty and choices at only 6 years of age. Imagine the vastness of the sky she will spread for her daughter when she is an adult.
Now that's what a parent should do.
However, she did not paint Dev as villain. How easy it would have been for her to paint him as a monster who told her mother than it's good she can't be a mother because she will be a bad mother. She raised her daughter so her daughter would have believed whatever she'd have told. But she told her that he was not a bad person, just spineless. And unlike female lead of other shows, did not tell lies to her daughter either.
She did not manipulate her daughter like Ishwari manipulated her son. And that for a single parents one of the hardest thing to do but is also the right thing to do.
She respected her daughter even though she was only 6 and asked her to do the same for her.
Kudos, Sonakshi. You are indeed an excellent mother.
Suhaana Bose - She is her mother's daughter. Smart, confident but independent. Her mother respected her dignity so she did the same. She told her that she saw Kuch Kuch Hota Hai but when her mother asked her not to try anything like that, unlike Dev, she didn't try to go behind her back for her own good. That is respect.
Vicky and Elena - As irresponsible as ever but still has each other's back. Both can say anything to each other and even think in the same direction. Funny when Vicky showed far superior commitment to his wife, if not to the plate he eats on.
Golu - Product of Dixit black hole. But loves his uncle.
Radha - As obsessed with money as ever and as irresponsible. In short, precisely the same person as before.
Ishwari - Still wondering if she should not have cut her golden goose too soon hoping for more gold. Now no more golden eggs and no more adoring goose.
Dev - He also now finally his true self. Unburdened by million expectations and thousands of demands, now he is free to reach his real potential. Men like him are better off without ties. Some people are suitable for relationship and some people are meant to be free.
Precap: Suhana decides to live with his father. Sonakshi is shocked but if I have to guess, she won't emotionally blackmail her daughter.
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