After Rohit Shetty Reconciled Between Asim & Sid, plus Salman & BB building pressure on them not to fight at that level, hands are pretty tight on both sides. It's hard to fight one on one again so soon. Nobody would like to take the blame of poking once more, specially for Asim.
This is clear Now that Asim has understood Sid's weakness is his temper & if he can be instigated he might do something very stupid. Rashmi also gave the same strategy to Paras at the very beginning.
But since the hands are tied at the moment, I felt today he took a different strategy. I felt he was trying to use Aarhan to fight Sid. Already Aarhan was bubbling in anger, he just needed to do something to trigger. But he wasn't very efficient in that. May be this is the first time he thought of it. If you observe the following situations you may feel the same: (Situations in Brief)
1. First he came over to Sid & had an unnecessary spat to ignite his anger. Then sent Aarhan towards Sid standing infront of Toilet, Aarhan was angry & clearly on purpose staring at Shukla.
2. Asim came over infront of the toilet after a while, where Sid and Aarhan was having a small argument & Asim immediately blamed Sid to ignite him
3. Asim when sending Rashmi's to the store room, told Aarhan to stay back to see what Sid was saying, but Aarhan didn't stay back.
4. When Aarhan & Rashmi was in the storage area, he came over and unnecessarily informed them about what Shukla was saying like "GOA or Sonething" & Rashmi's color of face changed with that word and may be he thought this will ignite both Rashmi and Aarhan, but it didn't.
If he tried to do this, I think as a game plan, that was smart & superb, but it lacked sharpness in execution. I haven't seen Asim twisting his brain this much before. If he's doing it now, may be he is getting ready for really a tough fight for the trophy. 😊
Edit:
New evidence to support the aforesaid plan to fight Shukla. Yesterday, Rashmi wasn't on board in his plan so he thought he could use Aarhan's emotion. Now Aarhan is gone so he had to take Rashmi on board & make her fight Shukla, Asim will support & may be Vishal will also fight for her and push it as hard as possible. Shukla or Rashmi one is done. Hope Asim can detach himself when necessary to stay unscathed by it's dirt.