Okay, my two cents about the bathtub scene. I loved it and how it was done without any eye gazing at a wink! They Aren't there yet. They have constantly been encroaching each other’s physical spaces but being in a bathtub with water is an unknown territory that they are exposed to. Stepping into each other as family members/enemies vs sharing an intimate moment are very different!
Also, both of them know the relationship they now share. Had it been pre-marriage, I could imagine both of them breaking into a fight cursing each other.
But, not here. There's a whole new dynamics and awkwardness!
Shivi always Swing very seamlessly from HAQ to awkwardness within a split second. Whenever their physical interaction is willingly from either party, there's no UST! But, the moment they are in the space of sudden unanticipated intimacy, there creeps in that awkwardness.
Whenever Shiva sees her discomfort with anything that would compromise her dignity, he peels off his eyes immediately.
Right from the Pallu scene to this bathtub now. That's the man he truly is behind the garb of a Junglee Ganwar that people often tout him to be.
Shiva has that HAQ over her physical space as long as it's not sexually intimate and brings dishonour to her as a woman. They aren’t there yet! Probably, whenever they are close at other times, it doesn't register in both their brains thst they belong to the opposite gender and in a relationship that's has a hidden sexual transaction. The comfort is there then, but such moments where it registers, you see them super awkward!
Ahh! These two
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
