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Today, was about the different shades of grief in my belief. In the regular sense there are 5 stages of grief: shock/denial, anger, bargaining, sadness/depression, and acceptance. In a perfect world everyone goes through these stages in order, but that is not always the case.
Aditya is experiencing the anger and acceptance stage together. He's angry at Pooja. He's angry at his father. He's angry at his mother. He's angry at Zoya. He's angry at Yash. He's even angry at himself. He has accepted that Pooja was having an affair just because he sees the two holding hands. Yet he is so angry that he cannot even sit in the same ambulance as her. He is so angry that he refuses to see her though he goes to the hospital. He even refuses to wear the colour of mourning for her tomorrow, choosing to wear black instead of white. I would like to note that in different cultures black is actually the colour of mourning, not white.
On the other hand, Zoya is in the shock/denial stage of grief. She refuses to accept that Yash was having an affair. She has an excuse for every possible option. He was helping Pooja. He's friends with Pooja. He didn't know Pooja and someone is framing them. The body isn't actually Yash's. Anything to deny even the possibility that Yash was anything but monogamous. Even if that means slapping a stranger or traveling outside her comfort zone. I felt the slap wasn't needed, but it was the right reaction for someone in denial, grieving, and impulsive. Zoya is all 3 of these and so it makes sense that she slapped Aditya instead of just pushing him away or running away herself or yelling at him.
Of course today they decided to introduce a rather stereotypical family member: Yash's sister. Yash's sister is the typical Indian TV serial vamp who hates her bhabhi and mocks her at every stage. Nice to see Vaishnavi Dhanraj again after so long, but seriously the CVs need to come up with better characters than the usual stereotypical characters. We already had the typical rich father and sad wife in Aditya's parents. And now this. I'm glad though that at least they are working hard on some of the other characters like Zoya's parents and even Aditya and Zoya.
On the other hand, there's Aditya's brother who cares more about his bhabhi than his own brother and is distant even from his own parents. This is a different character. I've never seen this actor before, but I look forward to seeing him more.
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