Short Update
- A depressed Nakul is found by Sanjhi… Sanjhi lets him open up to her and consoles him… Nakul feels a little better… Mayank is clinging against Damini, scared… Gautam comes and Damini tells him what happened… Gautam is both enraged and scared… *SCENE OF THE DAY - 1*: Eklavya comes and taunts Tulsi as to how he will break her slowly…. Tulsi maintains a stoic silence until Eklavya says the only way to save herself is to stop the L-KT marriage… She refuses and challenges him.. Eklavya tells her that he has already taken one son away from her, and now he will take another one away from her, tomorrow… Daksha is making a family chart and is thoroughly confused.. Tripti comes there and Daksha shares the fact that Damini is Nakul's real mother… Tripti stubbornly says that she is his only mother… *SCENE OF THE DAY - 2*: KT goes to the temple when a little boy comes and gives her flowers from someone… Another one comes and gives her a love letter from the same person…. KT is scared and she runs into the car and tells the driver to drive faster as someone is following… Finally it all turns out to be an elaborate joke by Lakshya… Lakshya and KT have a cute moment together…
- Damini and Gautam are in a dilemma, thinking what to do about Mayank… Eklavya comes there and tells them that he heard Tulsi talking on the phone and that she decided to hand Mayank over to the police…
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Nakul sits on a bench… Nice big storm brewing up… But does that deter our brave Nakul who looks like Atlas, holding the weight of the whole world on his broad shoulders? Not really… He sits there unblinking, tears in his eyes… Thinking about… His Brother????
Yes… He's sitting and thinking about Lakshya… You'd really expect him to think about a buxom lass or something…. But nope… This Nakul, I tell you.. Always going off the beaten path…
He thinks of all the times Lakshya has been there for him, all the times they were together…
N: Such a big mistake… How could I break my relationship with you, Lakshya? After everything we did together, all the happinesswe shared together... You're right Lakshya… I have wronged myself….
A familiar Mercedes passes by…. It's the buxom lass!!!! Sanjhi…!!!!!
S: Driver, stop the car…!!! (thinks) Nakul… Here? At this time?
She gets out… She braves the wind and all the dry leaves and gook and crap flying around, to go sit next to him…. He doesn't notice her… He's still sitting there, unblinking. Here I must mention for the hundred millionth time that PEOPLE WHO DO NOT BLINK, FREAK. ME. OUT. It's scary, and it's NOT NORMAL.
N: Look… Please.. I want to be alone…
Sanjhi just smiles… Nakul looks at her…
N: Sanjhi? What are you doing here?
S: Nothing… I saw a friend sitting alone, I thought he needed me… I may not be able to share his pain, but at least I can be with him in those moments…
N: Please… Leave me alone…
S: Don't be rude…! If you were in my place and you saw me sitting here alone, worried and troubled, would you do the exact same thing?
N: Maybe… But I couldn't be with my own brother.. .That brother… Who was with me like a shadow… Only because I found out one truth? That he wasn't related to me by blood…? And whom did I support? The one who ruined Lakshya's life…! Why did I do that?!!? WHY? Today, that same brother… After all that I did for him, he stood up against Manthan for me… He picked me up… I may have stood up after that fall… But I have fallen in my own eyes so much that I will never be able to stand up again….
S: But… What happened? I don't understand…
N: You don't understand what happened, I don't understand why all this happened…
He tells her everything, about Damini telling him the truth, him supporting Mayank etc wtc. Poor Sanjhi, I bet she's regretting asking him now… She'd rather be in that nice Merc to her, heading home now…
Sanjhi listens in silence, politely widening her eyes in all the appropriate junctures of the naarative…. *sigh*
N: I have given myself this wound that I carry on my chest… I ruined my relationship with a brother like Lakshya… It's all my own doing…
S: Look… You made a mistake… But you know, the special thing about relationships is that they're so strong that nothing can put a crack in them… Otherwise, Lakshya would have never sided against Manthan for you… He still loves you…. Yes… He doesn't harbour any bad feelings towards you in his heart…. Just… Whatever happens with you, Nakul, never let go of your relationships… Relationships of the heart are much stronger than those of blood…
Nakul remembers Lakshya saying the same thing…. Like, OMMAGOD! Like, you're like, falling in love with a female version of your brother!
N: Thanks Sanjhi…
S: Only "Thanks"??? No way… After Lakshya's marriage, I want a treat ok?? And a few smiles too!
Sanjhi goes and sits in her car… Nakul stares after her…. She turns, smiles and waves at him… Nakul still staring after her… He's so smitten! Nanananna!
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Damini comes into a room…
D: Mayank??? Beta??? Where is he gone? I left him here… Mayank??? Mayank?
Ooooh!!!!! Maybe he's run away!!!! Or he's dead! Or… Or… Umm… Disappeared… Wheee!!!
A small voice murmurs "Mammaa!" DAMMIT! HE'S STILL HERE!!!!!!
Damini turns to find him hiding in a corner….
D: Mayank beta? Why are hiding in that corner?? Come on, get up…
M: Mama, I am scared… Bhoomi didi… They'll all take me from here… I wont go leaving you…. Mamma…
D: Mamma wont let you go anywhere beta… I wont let anyone take you anywhere??
Gautam makes an entry asking "What's everyone talking about?".. Kameene!!!! You come once in a blue moon, give your son STALKING AIDS and leave…. And now you have the gall to ask "What's everyone talking about??" ??!!?!?!?!!?! *slap slap slap*
D: Gautam… That… You weren't here… And everything shattered in that time…
Damini tells him everything….
G: AND YOU DIDN'T TEMME ANY OF THIS?
D: What could I tell you? And how could I tell you?? I was so tired of myself that… I couldn't think of anything… I couldn't distinguish between right and wrong…
Mayank gets up… Gautam goes to him and slaps him and hits him a couple of times…
G: WHY DID YOU DO IT??? WHY??? WHY!!!!!???
He then pulls Mayank to himself and hugs him tightly….
Awww… Poor Gomzi…. 😔
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*SCENE OF THE DAY - 1*
Tulsi remembering old times with Karan… One of them is the famous scene where they're outside a court and Karan is crying and Tulsi is crying and in general everyone's crying, including the audience, except… EXCEPT THAT WOMAN IN THE BACKGROUND! She's smiling her a** off like she slept with a hanger in her mouth or something….
Flashback:
K: We've lost Eklavya to Ansh… We've lost Manthan…. And today… You've lost me…
T (thinks): Why is it always like this… Even not wanting to, we so often hurt those who we love…
A hand is on her shoulder….
T: I'm tired, Mihir… I am completely broken…. How much more can I fight against my own family??? For the first time, I saw distrust for me in Karan's eyes… His eyes were questioning me, and I didn't have any answers to his questions…
Deep voice: I have the answers….!
Tulsi turns to find Eklavya…. Like we ALL didn't know it was him??? So bloody predictable….
E: Actually, Daadi…. I am responsible.. For all this! Karan Chachu… Those questions you saw in his eyes… I put them there…. Tanya chachi… All the poison she has against you? I made that happen…. Today, you've made one more mistake against Manthan… And look! Karan Chachu is against you….
Tulsi stands up…
E: I told you… I would snatch all your family from you…. And I did… What was that you said…? You are the tulsi plant in this family and you will protect everyone in this family?? Do it! Tulsi… Now stop me… This time, I will create a big explosion…. And it will be from inside SN… I will create it… All that's left to see is who will support you now… This is the punishment you will get for ostracizing Ansh…. Karam… You believe in Karam, don't you?
T: What you are saying doesn't make any difference to me… And I not only believe in Karam, but also the soul that is a part of it…
Umm… WHAT????
E: Oh, how emotional…!!! Look… I have tears in my eyes!!!! I know Karan Chachu wont go against you… But Tulsi…. When I break you… Then no one will against me… Wanna know why? Because I've slowly put it in their heads, that Eklavya can never do anything wrong… By the way, there is one way you can stop me… Stop Lakshya and KT's wedding…
T: That will never happen.. L-KT will get married.. You will not get KT !!! Because KT is still part of me….
E: She "WAS" …. Now she's mine…
T: If you even think like that, you will regret it… I wont let it happen…
Eklavya laughs….
E: Tulsiii…. You're forgetting…. You don't have any strength of your own…. Your family is your strength… And slowly I'll take them from you…. Papa made one mistake… Know what? That he stood alone against you… And then slowly, you got the entire family against him… I'm not like that… I will instigate them against you and I'll sit back and watch… And it will be fun… It will be a lot of fun…. What did you call SN? Oh yes… A necklace… Now I will take a bead away from you, one by one….
T: Lots of people have tried before… But this necklace has never broken… You have no idea of SN's strength…. Lakshya and KT will get married in 4 days…
E: And they will be the worst days of your life… Don't believe me? Wait till tomorrow… I will take one more son away from you…
Ok, wow. Long scene. I need glucose. Someone give me water and glucose.
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Daksha is pasting pictures on some chart….
D: Making this family chart is such a boring task… At one time the Virani family used to be a small documentary… Now it's a full-fledged feature film!!!!!
Tripti walks in…
Tr: What are you doing!?!?
D: I'm making a family chart.. .But it takes so much time!
Tr: What? Why?
D: What why??? Have you seen the Virani family's position? Who knows who is whose son?? Look… This Nakul.. He's Ganga's son, he's been brought up by you, but he's been birthed by Damini…. One son and 3 mothers… This is like a Suraj Kumar Barjatya's movie…! Tomorrow, if a boy comes in from the road to drink some water and says "Maa, I am your son…" We'll have to say "Yes son, come in, you must be a son… Come in…"
🤣 Haha… A good one from Daksha Dadi, after a long time….
Tr: I am Nakul's mother! Only I am!
D: But…
Tr: But what?
D: There was on Meenakshi Sheshadari's Damini who wanted to find the truth, and there's this one Damini , who told all the truth!!!! There was one Nakul who was talking, and there's this Nakul, whose whole dialogue Damini cut from the script!!!
Tr: Main jaati hoon…
D: Haan… Jaao jaao…. Duniya mein har koi jaane ko hi aata hai….
🤣
D: By the way why did you come here?
Tr: Oh… Chirag Chacha is looking for you…
D: Chirag??? Now who's Chirag??? Who's Chirag in this family?!?!?
Tr: Uhhh…. Chirag!
D: OMG, CHIRAG! MY SON!!! CHIRAAAG! MY SON! I AM COMING SON!!!!!!!
🤣
Finally, Daksha dadi is back on mark.. She was getting on my nerves the last few days…!
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*SCENE OF THE DAY -2*
KT is in the temple… She comes out… A small boy comes and gives her a bunch of flowers… She tells him that she doesn't want to buy any…. He tells her that someone sent them for her…. He gives them to her and runs away….
She looks around and makes her way down the temple stairs when another boy comes and gives her a letter and tells her that it's from the same person who sent the flowers…. She opens the letter to find "I LOVE YOU KT" written in bright red… She panics….
She leaves the flowers and note lying on the ground and rushes into the car, urging the driver to drive fast…
She notices a red car behind their car… She yells at the driver to drive faster…
She keeps looking back to see that they've finally lost that car… Soon, the car is on a sunsaaan road…
Mumbai roads and that empty… I DON'T THINK SO!
KT: Where have you brought me??? Driver?!!?!? What road is this?!?!? Where are we?!!? STOP THE CAR!!!!!
The car stops and she starts to run out when the driver grabs her hand and pulls him to her… It's Lakshya… Looking VERY SILLY in that stupid driver's hat. Idiot.
L: IT'S ME! What happened?! It's me!
KT stares at him… She begins hitting him and finally hugs him in relief….
KT: What kind of disgusting joke was this, Lakshya? I was really scared outts my life!
L: That cant happen… Your life is with me…
KT: WHY DID YOU DO SUCH A STUPID THING?!?!
L: Otherwise would you hug me like this.. I wanted you to fall into my arms and hit me and call me "Loafer"
KT: YOU ARE A LOAFER!!!!!!!!!
KT hits him, while he laughs and tries to defend himself.. Awww… So cute… I've missed cute L-KT…
KT: Never do that again… I was so scared…
Lakshya gently holds her face…
L: No fear can come near my KT now… No problems will ever approach you… I'm here now… Lakshya wont let anything happen to KT anymore….
THAT STUPID HAT!!! IT RUINS THE WHOLE MOMENT!!!! HE CANT HUG HER PROPERLY COZ HE HAS THAT STUPID HAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Meanwhile… In SN…. A worried couple, parents of a mentally challenged rapist, sit pondering. Wow… There's a sentence I never thought I'd have to write. Hmmm… Funny, the things life makes you do.
Gautam: I don't understand what to do… Who to ask for help… With what face will we ask for forgiveness?
Damini: We have no other choice… We have to… I wonder what decision Maa has made about Mayank….
Eklavya comes in, worried…
E: PAPA….!
G: WHAT HAPPENNED??
D: Tell us Eklavya!
E: I just heard Tulsi Daadi on the phone… She's going to hand Mayank over to the police!
Damini's shocked face. Whoop de doo.
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Comments: Gomzi was real good in that scene where he slapped and hugged Mayank. Eklavya, as usual, was top notch. Lakshya and KT, cute, but repetitive. La la la la… Why cant they just get married. It's getting boring now.
Nothing really important to the plot happened. Give it a miss if you wish.
Stars of the day: Smriti Irani, Akashdeep Seghal, Pulkit Samrat (for looking so cute!!!)
Overall Rating: 6/10
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