Dear Archana,
No, my dear, they cannot and should not indulge in the kind of stuff that we saw after she gets her own cabin. The office is NOT the place for displaying one's affections. The staff would think poorly of both of them, and rightly so, and this would be the same even if they were married.
At Arjun's place again, while DK might have accepted Purvi and would undoubtedly grow to be very fond of her, his presence would be as inhibiting as Sulochana's.
So, while I would never have chosen a stint in a chawl for Arjun, since it now seems a given, he (and we) might just as well make the most of it.
As for Archana's almost hostile behaviour towards Arjun now that he has rejected Ovi for Purvi, and her readiness to believe the worst of him without any reason, that would lend credence to your conclusion. To put it another way, for Archana, Purvi is a ghar ki murgi and so is dal baraabar. Ovi is a souffle flambee that has collapsed right now, and Archana is hellbent on raising it to its original glory again. So at the moment she values Ovi far more, on the principle expounded by Bernard Shaw's Candida, that you go to the person who needs you more. It is another matter that Ovi is unlikely to welcome Archana's active interest in her life.
To cut Archana some slack, it might also be, to some extent, that she is afraid (not really knowing the correct sequence of events from Arjun's point of view) that just as Arjun has left Ovi for Purvi today, tomorrow, he might leave Purvi for someone else; i.e that he is totally unreliable as a life partner. That might explain why she wants to test the strength of his commitment to Purvi.
Not that this can ever be ascertained to any reliable extent through her test. A man can stick it out in a chawl for 2-3 months to get what he wants badly now. That is no guarantee that he will continue to want the same thing all his life. So the test is a stupid idea in itself.
The only guarantee that love will last a lifetime is faith, and then luck. Archana has had neither, and so the idea of her deciding the fate of Arjun-Purvi's love is a bad joke.
Shyamala
Originally posted by: archverma10
You guys r so funny!!! I'm happy it gives him an opportunity to be close to Purvi but still not that overly reconciled to the chawl idea since they can be just as close and have nice cute scenes in the office and Arjuns place (DK is there and has already accepted Purvi)
Shyamala I had your same reaction when I watched the precap. Archana acting all high and mighty and questioning Arjun about PAVITRA RISHTA. I just don't understand her sudden strictness and hostility----and I do think the CVs need to be very careful of this.She was very warm, accepting, and full of praise for Arjun when she was engaged to Ovi...but now that he has accepted his love for Purvi and announced his intention to marry her (also with his fathers blessing) instead of feeling happy for her daughter or trying to even understand and learn the circumstances like her own mother did, she wants to give him a test to pass??This shows a blatant partiality towards her own blood daughter and so I guess the question posed by SBS...will Archana support Purvi or Ovi has been answered and it is obvious. Too bad it leaves a bad taste in my mouth and ruins Archana's image for me,