REPEAT: THERE WERE SEVERAL SPELLING MISTAKES IN THE EARLIER POST WHICH HAVE NOW BEEN CORRECTED
Dear Archana,
I can't tell you how flattered I am; it is always so nice to be told that one is missed! Not that I have any claim to more than common sense, and certainly not to wisdom!
No, I have not been doing any long analyses for the past week, which must have been a relief to those long suffering members who had to plough through my earlier offerings, poor folk! It was because there were too many imponderables and one could not even make an educated guess as to which way the CVs would go. I saw no point in constantly trying to read the tea leaves, or perhaps the goat entrails like Catherine de Medicis, trying to see how the Arjun-Purvi and now Ovi mess would be resolved. However, I adhered to my resolution only in the letter, as my misc posts were, when added up, far longer than my more extensive efforts!
Today's episode was all Archana-Ovi-Manav, with the glowering Sachin thrown in just in case we all got too comfortable. Ovi gushed all over Archana after the initial bout of rudeness, and poor Manav seemed to be walking on hot coals. In the end, Archana voices her deep despair at the prospect of being left alone in 4 months when the pura parivar returns to Canada, while Manav looks one with an inscrutable expression on his face that is probably meant to signify that he is softening.
Well, we all know that this time she will be on that plane to Toronto,but that will of course be only after the TRPs take a dive and Balaj have finally given up on PR. I feel that in the near future, this Archana and her girls track will be followed much more than Arjun-Purvi, which will probably be stuck in a limbo like Trishanku, awaiting the return of DK.
What a pity we could not have more of the light-hearted Arjun-Purvi scenes, like those at the party! I liked it very much when Purvi twinkled up at Arjun in a rare bout of pure mischief, while he smiled back at her, shifting swiftly from mock exasperation to indulgent amusement.
He has a remarkably mobile face, does Rithwik, and it must be a tremendous advantage for him. It is all muscle control and body language. I remember that when he gets out his car in front of Purvi's house after his nightlong vigil, wet and stiff, we see him only from a distance at first. Still, he manages to convey the bone-tired state he is in, emotionally drained and physically worn out. And at other times he has an absolute poker face. Like when Ovi suddenly lands up on him in his office and says she wants to talk about Purvi. I am sure he was very tense inside, for he has no idea that she is not going to broach the topic that is uppermost in his mind. Yet his face shows no emotion at all when he asks her 'What about Purvi?'
We do not know what happened at the proposed meeting (in the office, of all places) between Arjun and Purvi. Obviously the CVs are treating it as a State secret. I have been saying for 2 days now that Purvi SHOULD let Arjun talk to her, and I am glad that for once good sense has prevailed with the CVs. Another couple of episodes of Purvi with eternally wet cheeks and I would have started climbing the wall. One is strongly tempted to gift her a box of handkerchiefs, she never seems to have any. It was all so routine, as for the standard TV soap heroine, and one does not want Purvi to become routine.
The meeting must have been after work; it seems almost dark when she is going home and then turns back to the office. If she had told him they would have to drop it all since Ovi is her aayi's daughter,then there would have been no point in Purvi going to the restaurant to meet Arjun, file or no file.
On the other hand, he might have been able to persuade her to wait till DK gets back and sorts it all out for them. If it is true that Ovi sees them embracing, this can be the only explanation. Perhaps Ovi goes to the office to pick up Arjun thinking that he is working late, sees Purvi there and starts feeling suspicious, which would explain her fit of rudeness to Purvi, as to Archana earlier in the day. (In fact I was surprised that she did not throw a fit earlier in the day in Purvi's office; Arjun is leaning over Purvi's chair and before he moves away, if she had seen him so close to Purvi she would have smelt a rat!) The snag in this theory is that one cannot fit in Purvi's trip to the restaurant, which is a given.
So here I am reading the tea leaves, exactly what I said I would not do! Well, I expect it will all sort itself out, like the mystery of Purvi's cabin which agitated many members yesterday.
In conclusion, I would only repeat to what I always tell Trish, that Arjun-Purvi are unquestionably THE romantic couple in PR, and they will stay that way even if a dozen Ovis were to butt in. It is not for nothing that they are sandwiched between Archana and Manav in the opening credits for PR. Don't let anyone or anything make you doubt this or get you down.
I feel, however, that Purvi has to grow up, get her act together and show more initiative. If you have the time, please see my long response to Janhvi's Purvi's izzat or middle class tomfoolery? You would find it of interest.
Another post that I would recommend to you, and to anyone else who might be reading this, is the latest by desi chic Please don't leave me! It is very emotional, and my response focusses on this. You will like it, I am sure.
Shyamala
Originally posted by: archverma10
Thank you so much Shyamala...I am missing you and your voice of reason...notice you havent been doing the analysis posts anymore...
I totally respect the reason why as you had clarified earlier...but with these kinds of episodes I really wish we had the benefit of your wisdom to get us through this...😭 I still highly believe in ARVI and know what I have been preaching is correct...but episode after episode of this is starting to get to me...today is just one of those days I guess...