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Wanted to post this over the weekend but finding time just now.
Something that was gnawing on my mind was the speed and zeal with which Aru is pursuing her " crush" and " haq- rights on her husband" right now, I was not able to put a finger on it, but the more I thought about it..I was reminded of the the phrase "what goes up comes down with the same speed or worse" . I will not call her feelings true LOVE right now, because she is not there yet. She is not there where she can recognize her feelings, sift out the lower emotions like jealousy and possessiveness, move to the higher emotions of bonding of the souls and what that one man means to her in the universe, and why she might have been the chosen one for him. When she reaches that stage , her heart will be in peace even if he does not love her back.
But right now, as I mentioned earlier, she has a powerful "crush" on her husband, her first feelings toward a man in her life, and she is just going by the flow..she is not thinking things through. She is pursuing him how she would pursue a job , or how she chased down Gautam when he was running away from her. She will run, run, run, eventually she will come to the wall, and then accept reality with sorrow, but with her head held high.
Added to that, she has Sanvi's mystery, Rami's treachery, and her mother's and family's honour to think about. Of course she doesn't know about Rami's treachery. Sanvi's mystery is causing her to think a lot about her own role in Mukhi's life...on a permanent basis. She is not at all willing to consider that this might be a temporary relationship , so she need not care about Sanvi as long as Mukhi treats her right and sends her away with honour. NO. She wants more, she knows that.
So next question is, what does she want to be in Mukhi's life? She only knows to define this relationship by "pati-patni". Man and wife. But does she know what that would really mean? What that would really entail? Being a life partner in all good and bad, in thick and thin, to understand and know, to give and take, to always be there...to be able to sacrifice..does she know that being husband and wife entail all this? She may know some of it in her heart because she has seen her parents be the same "pati-patni"..but the journey is very individual to each person. And she is yet to give all this a deep thought. She is yet to think " Can I be a good patni to Mukhiji??".
No she is not thinking that right now, but she will have to in the future. Right now, she just wants her rights in public within both families..., Katara and Nanavati, that he is her husband and she is the wife and no one is to come in between. Thats that only thing she cares for right now, thats the only part of marriage that she has understood or wants for now. She has not gone to the depth of thinking about what being a "Patni" really entails. And this journey from crush to true love will jolt her from possessiveness to sacrifice...from demanding to giving up.And thats what I am afraid of here.
Deep inside, Aru is a woman who feels very guilty of her wrongdoings when she misbehaves or misunderstands things. We have seen many times where Aru is not at all ashamed to give her apology and accept her mistakes from the bottom of her heart. Thats a quality Mukhi came to respect about her , and learned to say "sarree" from her. The other day, after Mukhi explained that it was Sanvi's bday too and because she is a widow no one wishes her, Aru felt so so guilty of the ruckes she had raised, she actually ran away covering her face like a little child, unable to show her face to Mukhiji.
He had to go after her, and make the effort to turn her around to him and try to cheer her up all the while in perfect understanding of her guilt.
Mukhi also tells her in that scene, that "Mukhi aisa nahi hai" , as in she is not able to understand him properly. That is going to come back to bite her later.
This scene and the way the makers implemented it makes me think that once after Aru is done with all this dramebaazi of trying to keep Mukhi with her by hook or crook, and after she completely stretches herself on Saanvi matter where she might come to really wrong conclusions( thanks to Rami) ...once after she is done creating all the chaos she can, there will be a point where she will hit reality...hit it hard. The reality will be so different than what she has been thinking all along, that it will make her plummet to the bottom from the high sky she is in right now.
She will hit rock bottom...know some realities and become torn with guilt...with so so much guilt that she will not want to face Mukhi, she will not want to come in front of him. She will fall very badly in her own eyes, and unable to see the same in Mukhi's eyes she will give up on this relation. She will understand that being "Patni" is not just about wearing mangalsutra and demanding rights from husband. And she will also remember, that the one woman who told her that she knows and understands Mukhi very well is Saanvi..and will sacrifice Mukhi to Saanvi considering Saanvi to be better wife material to Mukhi. There will be that phase of downfall of Arundhati Nanavati- because in her zeal to her current "goal".- Owning Mukhiji " she will break her own rules of ethical conduct, and will lose herself completely.
And then only Mukhi will help her to rise- from the ashes of the lost Arundhari Nanavati into Arundhati Raidhan RajKattara, He will understand her guilt, her clean goals but wrong ways and the why of them, and see through her sacrifice, and he will turn her around to him, make her face him and tell her that they both have to deal with each other, and their relationship.
The journey to this point will be quite hard as I would expect in the time Aru has risen and fallen, Mukhi would just begin his own loverboy journey. He will first hurt Aru with her over zealousness for him and want to go away in order to not "tangle" things. But he will soon realize his feelings for her, want to be with her, he may also realize she is the diary woman, and would want to pursue her seriously...but by the time he comes to do so, Aru has already taken the fall against Saanvi...she would have already hit ground reality and she will no longer consider herself a good fit for Mukhi.
After Mishri's wedding, Mukhi accepts to Saanvi that Aru is right for him, but he might not be right for Aru. That will be the same statement in opposite way, I am guessing Aru will say the same thing to Saanvi, that " Mukhiji is right for me but I am not right for him". And she might request Saanvi to be with him.
Hope, Saanvi as a good friend plays cupid and lets them evolve and come together on their own.
And hope when Aru falls and doesn't know what to do with herself anymore, Mukhi is there to catch her, have her back and be a partner in her ambitions. Mukhi is a larger than life character where as Aru is playing a mature (only sometimes 😆) 22 year old with a strong sense of ethics.I really love the way both the characters are etched out and hope they help each other to come back to original self pretty soon.
And yes, the show has been serious for a few episodes would like to see some gentle lightheartedness between the two again.
The above is just my way of understanding the characters and their future, so please don't take this as a prediction. Its only my interpretation of how these two individuals might evolve.
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