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Not sure if it was intentional or unintentional on the part of the writers, but I was struck by some bits today.
Anika has steadfastly claimed that NKK doesn't matter to her one bit, that she isn't one to be class conscious, and yet in the scene with Nayantara today, it was almost striking how Anika was the SSO for once, a class higher than the lower class person she was speaking to😆...and how quickly one forgets in moment like these what they've berated someone else for.
Ofcourse Nayantara is a crass woman that would give any self-respecting person some pause but if I was to play Devil's Advocate here for a bit, she too has as much of a right to call things what she wants and be loud to a degree she finds normal...the role reversal was just striking to me today...Nayantara would call the pool outside the room a TAALAAB and Anika corrected her in this stuffy voice that it's a SWIMMING POOL😆...when Nayantara wondered about the cost of the watch, Anika pointed out in an almost snobby voice that it's worth Rs. 25 lakhs😆...if only someone could play for Anika a sample of the many times she's called something a certain name and Shivaay has corrected her in his high class manner and she's bristled about it😆
I guess the point I'm trying to make is...it is easy to declare that you treat everyone equally, that class doesn't matter to you...but at the end of the day, everyone is class conscious to some extent...it is just the degrees that vary...for a Shivaay, an Anika is beneath his class, outside his world so when he first meets her, he is repulsed by that...and now for Anika, Nayantara is beneath her class and she is in turn repulsed by her. 😆
Not sure if the writers ever intend to make Anika introspect about that and kinda see the basis for where Shivaay's NKK logic is coming from.
Later on in the epi, Anika has another low moment when Pinky taunts her and compares her to Nayantara...for a moment, Anika's self-confidence wavers, a slight moment of identity crisis...she wonders out loud to Shivaay if Nayantara actually turns out to be her mother...if she could ever be related to someone like that...is she a cheap person like that? Again I was struck by how much that thought bothered her...to even remotely be related to someone like that...at the end of the day, even Nayantara is a human being...but we are all guilty of wanting our world to be colored by the kind of people we like and approve of...so then how different is it from Shivaay feeling unsettled about people not having NKK? 😆
Perhaps I'm the only one overthinking this and bringing it back again and again to this point...but I was struck by these parallels today in what I thought would be a generally filler epi...but I found some food for thought :)
The Shivika scene was nice, with Shivaay reassuring her once again...a simple but effective convo :)
