McLeodganj D6: Tum Hi Ho, Sanam... 14.5.2015

Aahil is tortured, watching Sanam walk hand in hand with Shaad. His eyes follow her every move, looking at her face with bloodshot eyes. Allah, the pain in his eyes...

His mind is reeling, trying to make sense of this situation. I must say I'm proud of what Aahil has become. All the horrible things he has been through has made him stronger emotionally, and he is seen reacting with his brain, rather than emotions.

He can see she is his Sanam; she had an accident and she can't remember everything prior to that, and she ended up in Pakistan.

Question is: How do I make her remember without alerting the stranger she trusts ?

He does something smart. He doesn't ask her his probing questions in front of Shaad. He's not quite sure of Shaad's motive as yet. He's concentrating on Sanam. Focused.

Her name on his lips gives her a shiver. Again she is intrigued about Sanam.

"Tell me about her..." she asks.

How do I describe yourself to you? It's you, Sanam!

" My Sanam is worldly wise, she has seen so much pain and sorrow...Yet, she smiles bright and sunny. In between her tears, she smiles so serenely. She gets angry over little things sometimes, out of nowhere she argues, a little silly , a little stubborn. She fights with me so I can make it up to her and make her smile again. She forgets... only to remember again..."

<Argh... the pain...>

"If you don't mind me saying.. I feel she's just like me.. Really, I'm like that only..."

<Please...!! I thought... You're nothing like Sanam, Jannat. All clingy and shrieky and weepy. This is what everybody has been grumbling about since the Pakistan track started. Jannat is NOTHING like Sanam... Ugh...Sounds mean I know, but I have not connected to Jannat's plight very well>

Aahil moves to tell her, "Not just her nature... even your..."

He's interrupted by the return of Shaad, and he wisely stops the conversation.

They move to a restaurant and Aahil sits in front of them, in full observation of Sanam, her reaction and manner to everything. He watches how Shaad is with her, and her demeanour with him...

How is she so comfortable with him?

<I'm presuming this from the look he had watching them. I wished he had an inner monologue questioning the motives of this man; why he claims Sanam to be his wife? Is she there against her will? Is it entrapment? Blackmail? Imprisonment? Or did she just fall in love with someone else because she forgot him?>

Shaad asks to order, and he blurts out, "Mango juice is your favourite.." for Sanam. Everyone looks unsettled, how awkward was that statement? But Shaad is wooden through it all, not suspecting anything.

But that is what Jannat ends up ordering...

As Shaad gets up to order. Aahil leans forward to enquire further.

If you don't mind my asking...

Do you remember your wedding? Who else was there?

Your father and mother? Your sister? Anyone?

Probing questions gives Jannat a headache...

A little impatient, but he pushes his questions through, before Shaad came back. Quick, Sanam, come back! Remember !!

But she faints or something... and the precap, a very worried Aahil suggests they come back to Bhopal with him and he can help get the best doctors...

<Good going Aahil... bring her back to your turf... Where you are Nawab... where the people are talking about your Mohabbat and how you are fighting for it... Even the police can help you there... There's a missing person report still open there... >

Back in Bhopal...

A long drawn out dismantling of Begum Sahiba.

Like a scavenger, Khala sells all the things in the house to strangers, buyers coming in and out of Aahil's house looking at everything.

<Frankly, I didn't like the disrespectful way everyone walked in and thumbed through everything, breaking them, talking badly about the things... For me I felt as though they were being disrespectful to Aahil... As though people didn't really like him, and couldn't wait to enter his house and look about like vultures. yuck, I didn't like that one bit. That grandfather and his grandkid were especially distasteful to me...>

Sanam2 is horrified to see people taking everything away from her; her jewelry, her clothes, the things in the house, everything.

Khala held an auction of her own, selling Aahil and Sanam Sacchi Mohabbat memorabilia. The plates they ate it, the things they used... While they also wooed a potential buyer of the house, to employ them as well.

Sanam2 is fully degraded by everyone, very tough to watch even though deep down I feel she deserved it. She is denounced as the one who tortured Aahil, making him go away like this. She is called out for ruining Aahil and Sanam's Sacchi Mohabbat, and must pay for it.

<Whoa... when did all this become public knowledge? And punishment by angry mob?! Really?!>

Sanam2 is kicked out of the house, and she blames it solely on Aahil.

Still unrepentant.

What is Aahil going to come back to? His house is being sold!?

Farmhouse? The one he bought for her before?

Or new sets?