Sai Joshi, this girl just keeps outdoing herself. One of the BEST female characters I've watched in a very long time and with each episode, she just keeps getting better.
One dialogue of hers hit me very hard today and that was when she told Usha Maushi that Aaba and the Gadchiroli folks already left her and she should to. I was thinking about WHY Sai would want to clear Virat's name after he said the harshest things to her, but now I realise it stems somewhere from her abandonment issues. Aaba died but she had full faith in Kale, Kaka and gang, she considered them as her family but they were just so eager to get rid of her at the lowest point in her life. She attempted suicide but they were on their own shaadi shaadi trip. It was probably the easiest for Virat to abandon her. She was his guru's daughter, but apart from that, they had no connection whatsoever, still he didn't leave her. This is where Sai's loyalty stems from. Did she ask him to marry her? No. Did she ever say that she needed him? No. But he still attempted to fill a void. He saved her life twice and she knows it and she will do anything for him now.
With Sai's newfound loyalty for Virat, comes her territorial nature, as shown in the precap. Sai has said mera husband/pati/ navra (channelling my inner Sonali 😆) a lot of times now but that is not out of any marital or wifey feelings and this is what I find extremely interesting. She has no feelings for him whatsoever but she respects the relationship they have now and her non-feelings for Virat have no bearing on this. Even the other day when Chaukidar Pakhi came bhaagi bhaagi, "Pati-Patni main aksar jhagda hota hai." She has no qualms about saying the P and P word. She is possessive of Virat but in a GOOD way, not in the psycho PP way. She respects boundaries and even though they think it's for a short while, she takes a certain liberty with Virat in the haisiyat of a wife. I appreciate her territorial nature. She is Virat's wife but she doesn't love him but that doesn't mean she will let anybody else, least of all PP, act all wifely with him. It's absolutely incredible as a viewer to watch her indifference mixed with territoriality. There's just so many layers to Virat and Sai's relationship, it's such a delight.
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