This was an interesting episode, made me feel all types of emotions. I went from rolling my eyes at the saas bahu drama, insulting Surya for his scene with Anjali, feeling bad for Imlie to even being a bit happy that Surya did help out Imlie in the end, even though he went about it in such a rude way.
Anjali’s scene with the man at the station is a good example of her character. A man tried to steal her belonging and despite him apologizing, she still sprayed him with pepper spray. Not as a lesson but in order to get even because he dared to try and take what belonged to her.
When she gets to know that Imlie is Surya’s wife, she’ll definitely try to harm her or get her out of the way. This does give us a dichotomy between her and Imlie’s character. Imlie is forgiving and doesn’t believe in revenge, neither her nor Agastya ever went out of their way to hurt somebody.
It’s the same reason why Imlie told Surya to let go of the man who harassed her at the station, because she knew she gained nothing from that man being hurt. Let’s hope they keep drawing those parallels.
Not gonna lie, I felt really annoyed with how unfair and unreasonable Tayyi was being. This was all her ego and it had nothing to do with traditions. Threatening to call Dadi to compel Imlie to follow her orders was a low blow, especially when Imlie was basically pleading her to let her go because she had a deadline to submit her forms. I respect my elders too but if I was Imlie, pakka zeher mila thi halwa mein…
Surya ka asli ship meri chappal ke sath hai. He really chickened out when it came to telling Anjali the truth and on top of that he dared to be rude to Imlie on the phone. I can’t even call Anjali delulu because to her knowledge this is just her distant boyfriend. She described their love story in such a way that it could be a serial of its own, but ladke se koi feels nahi milti hai. You would think this is the first time Surya was also hearing about all of this lol.
There is slowly a domestic nature being built between Surya and Imlie, credit goes to Sai and Adrija for managing to give us this kind of subtle chemistry. It’s that feeling where everybody else in the room stops existing the moment they lock eyes. I liked the sequence when he tasted the halwa and when they were in the kitchen. Imlie’s gaze was full of accusations and Surya let her vent a little at least. His temper is always quick to flare with her but he’s becoming more patient with time.
I’m mostly looking forward to the Holi episode because at least we’ll get to see Imlie look all pretty and dolled up. Surya needs to set boundaries between Anjali and him, all the chipku-ness made me cringe. I can’t even blame the girl yet because she’s unaware that her fiancé is somebody else’s husband now. Anyways, dekhte hai kya hota hai!