Yep, those were the obvious ones....it also cracks me up to this day that in the middle of his own marriage with Malini, during the varmaala also he was more busy with being worried about where Imlie isđ€Ł......it does make me wonder if he would have managed to complete the remaining rituals if he hadn't been assured ki ab Imlie yahin hai, saamne hai even if he otherwise didn't want to accept her place in his life.
This again sort of ties back to one of my fav. conversations b/w Adi-Imlie at the hospital....when Imlie tells him all these symbols of marriage have meaning only if you assign faith to them....otherwise it's just a dhaaga....if he wants to believe it's a dhaaga, that is what it will become for him. She has long since resigned herself to the fact that all these symbols of their marriage mean nothing to him.....she's never pressured him to accept them either.
Which is why in Monday's epi when Adi starts feeling hurt or upset for the first time over the idea of her removing her sindoor/MS, it's precisely because the faith crystallized for him in that moment.....he believed in the symbols of their marriage because he now believed in their marriage. Otherwise as he was thinking to himself also, all this sindoor/MS stuff never mattered to him before.....it only took on meaning when it got attached to Imlie. Yes, he married Malini with those rituals too but I don't think any of those rituals, those symbols ever really registered on him as deeply as they have in Imlie's case.....he checked off the box with Malini.....while in Imlie's case, every symbol is an article of faith to him now.
He was doing that in every function, mehendi ho, engagement ho, ya shaadi... He was first making sure that she is around before proceeding and do you remember the way he went crazy on Malini's cousin. Almost similar to the recent sugarcane se dhulai. That time he had put it across that he would do the same for anybody but there was more intensity due to Imlie đ
Word on the @bold
I also think Sindoor and MS started registering for him because in the initial days, they reminded him about his marriage to her. The denial always became reality at that bus stop. Also, Imlie always referenced them to indicate her belief and to stress the point that why this rishta is important to her even though its not for him. So he associated those things as a symbol of his rista with her. Now that he wants the rishta and the rishta has become important to him, than the symbols also have become important to him because without them Imlie will not be his.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
  
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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