The most important part of the episode for me was the shot taken from inside of the looney house that Astha follows Aditi to. The shot captures a thinking Astha from the space between the doors..doors that are chained and locked and Astha tried but cannot open.
And inside..on an pedestal sort of place where normally people put thier Gods...is a picture of Happy Old Shlok...surrounded by bottles...are they liquor or medicine or poison..I do not know.
Also..thats not just some random room...its a house...with a tulsi kota infront of it..only the Tulsi has dried up...no one tends to it anymore.
Astha rightly guesses that it looks like someone's old house..in order for tulsi to be present, a lady must have stayed there who believed in these customs.
Could that be Swati..was that Swati and Shlok's house..thier haven???
I do not think so...I do not think they stayed together...because when Swati was missing Shlok searched for her at an apt building.
So then which lady could have tended to the tulsi before it went dry?
Shlok's Mother. No..No..not Anjali...Shlok's real mother...Niranjan Agnihotri's first wife. That is the only answer possible if that house is related to Shlok. One can assume Swati or Aditi to be staying there...but they would not have needed tulsi plant there.
Somehow this house is related to Niranjan Agnihotri...this could have been his house with his first wife before he married Anjali and moved to Anjali Niwas.
Lets see how that unfolds.
Next...is the weird older brother who cannot hold his marriage together..who hides things from his wife..who does not make his wife feel secure..who does not think of keeping his wife happy or working on hi marriage...that older brother coming and giving his gyan to Shlok.
The way he told Shlok and astha that they are Anmol and the way he constantly advises Shlok to care and accept Astha...one would think he is so sorted. But his personal life is a mess.
I do not think he is having any affair..but I think he is some financial mess...his calls are from the lender who lend money to him .Varad has always spoken about managing his wife and kavya on his money. And thats why he does not want the next baby. He is not able to manage his wife and kid within his finances.
Anyway..Shlok has always lied to Varad about his feelings for AStha and he did the same today.
Anyway why would Shlok admit his feelings to Varad..when he knows Varad will go and tell Astha about it. Already Astha telling Varad about how shlok saved her was enough of bonding between them!! Why would Shlok admit anything to Varad because Varad can then go tell Baba or AStha about it.Sometimes..I feel Varad is the in man..the reporter for Baba..from time to time Varad comes and tries to pry into Shlok's feelings to know whats going on in his head...and he might be giving this info to Baba. Cannot trust a single person in this Agni family...Dikhte kuch our hain..karte kuch our!!
Coming to AStha Shlok..today for the first time Shlok told AStha he was pareshan for her. And he heard her telling him off..to stop pretending. Shlok's karma is going to come to back to him BIG time...Astha will not stop loving him but she is stopping to react to him. Symbolically they showed that when Shlok shouts his Haan Nahi Padta to her and a very hurt Astha takes a step back in pain. That was symbolic..Astha is now going to step back and stop reacting to Shlok. Now he has to take some steps to her.
The whole act of Shlok trying to get her attention was cute and the most watchable part of the episode...love it when wives give silent treatment to husbands...the most powerful and confident man outside the house..gets reduced to putty by wife's silent treatment provided there is love in the relation,...and yes there is in Ashlok.
Shlok knows he has hurt Astha lot today..and is trying to distract her and annoy her ..so she can vent her frustration and anger and get done with it. But she does not..she wont. No matter how much he provoked her..neither was she angry, not sweet. Just matter of fact...and by the end he understood how badly she ws hurting...she is putting up a wall..she is drying up her tears...and Shlok's expression at the end said he was scared about it...if she learns to live without him..then what?
Jyoti's part where she cries over being called lucky for the first time was Awww...it did bring tears to the eyes..to remember what this woman went through before meeting Sid. Hope she is able to tell her truth to Sid..the guy is falling for her ..he will be hurt if she does not come clean soon.
But I must applaud the CVs👏 for bringing this track for Jyoti...we were very tired of Abhay Sulbha hurting Jyoti...