Originally posted by: inlieu
I loved it that she used the visit for three purposes:
1. To invite all the Raos as show of strength in numbers and presence of Pallavi's actual family
2. To reassure Raghav that he may be out of sight but not out of mind, neither for Pallavi nor for Ayi. He's as important and special as before, and the event is Pallavi's way of setting a less somber ambience for them to meet up in.
3. To gauge what she had suspected was Raghav's state of mind and that she knew Pallavi was underestimating. For a while she'd been thinking about how all this was affecting him and this was confirmed by the state she saw him in. Hence her reassurance that Pallavi is his amaanat.
Raghav has always been gentle with people who he sees in the position of the mother, his reverence for mothers and their role stems from how he feels about his own mother. He has always been courteous with Ayi, even on the worst of day. We saw that even when he was defaming Pallavi at the party, how his tone and look changed when he talked to her briefly. And it's always been aap, not tum. He never took out his anger on Sanki Buddha on Ayi. So when she told him verbally and non-verbally what his place was in her life and Pallavi's, and what Pallavi's was in his, he read her eyes. The way he held his hand was not just to acknowledge her words and gratitude, but also as though he were holding and extension of Pallavi.
The scene was beautifully conceived, especially considering that this was the first time she'd openly acknowledged Raghav as her son-in-law and visited his house. I have to applaud the screenplay here and the way they showed Jaya standing in the background observing it with a knowing look, and feeling better for her own son.