At the time of this writing(8:45am PST), today's episode is currently being aired in India and haven't yet seen.
I thought I will quickly jot down my views before its too late. I had this in my mind after seeing last thursday's episode.
This is what I thing the track is currently going towards:
Vicky is not Omi. Vicky is a Duggal and Omi a Dagar.
IMO, Omi must be a mentally challeneged person, hence Dadi and Nakul didn't bring them along to see the girl(s) and want to hide him.
So, Dadi's plan is to get both girls married to the same family, so that if the reality is revealed after marriage, Omi's wife cannot run away leaving Omi as Nakul's wife would be her sister and he would not want to jeopardise sister's life.
But, since Neethu is preg and says she loves Vicky, she will run away from home to get married to him. Because of this, Dadi's plan is "broken" and that way Simi will be spared from Nakul.
Manju has already challeneged Neethu to show if she can ran away and this is exactly what she is going to do. When Manju said those words, I don't think she meant her to really run away, even though in her own words she wanted the girls to find their own partners.
Manju is a confused lady (in real mother with 3 unmarried daughters with 1 who is 30, would be like this only, so creators doing a good job there), at one place she praises Anita bcos she found her own life partner and spared her parents from "looking" a groom for her and in the other place she is not happy that Neethu got a guy who is "capable" of buying expensive clothes for Neethu. So, that makes Vicky is rich guy in manju's eye, so, why not Vicky for Neethu.
Same applies to what Manju thinks if Abhi too. Now that Anuj mentions Abhi is a grown up man walking around in the house of 3 unmarried girls, Manju should be happy if tomorrow kuch aisa waisa ho gaya tho, na?
Coming to Simi and Abhi, yeah I too agree that the feeding each other scene looked more like mother-son interaction, but I think Simi cannot concentrate on Abhi until Neethu's problem is resolved.
Simi sent Abhi to get the hing because she realised it was Abhi's doing and she was admonishing Abhi that way, plus, the creators wanted Abhi is have a look from the door how Nakul fell head over heals on Simi in just 1 glance.
Now, to why Mili is smiling (ref a diff thread). The girls are protrayed to be from sanskaari garelu types, so, Mili is just being nice to the Dagar family. Remember even though she is shown to be a no-nonsense pataka type girl, she feels disgusted that her mother wants Simi to marry RB even after knowing the truth, but she never puts up a fight up with her mother to stop that marriage.
Same applied to Simi - why Simi is smiling to the Dagar family (ref a diff thread). She is just being nice to show how nice sethi family is, mainly RS here.
Anita. She totally forgot that marriage not just a bond between 2 individuals but between 2 families. She just wanted Anuj from Sethi's family and she got him. She doesn't want anything to do with the rest of the sethis.
Until she was married, she had to impress Anuj's family, now that she is married, she doesn't have to impress anyone. She is OK, if the sethi girls are her 'Nanad', but she would not tolerate is they are her 'Bhabhi'. If they are 'Nanad', they are her husband's relatives. If they become 'bhabhi' they will become her relatives, which she doesn't want. As they do not match her level.
She has already seen Simi in Abhi's arms twice. Though she is in Abhi's arms accidently, she has seen Simi to be 'enjoying' being there. It is not just few second of being in arms, but camera is revolving around for few minutes.. so the charatacter that she is, she definitely can grow suspicious. I know too many people in real life who sort of fall in this category.
Anita has to be a trouble for Simi-Abhi. Yes, I agree the actor who is playing Anita is really doing a good job. I noted that when she without any hestitation could cut off Anuj from doing anything on their 1st night.
I don't know if I missed anything else.
Based on the above thinking, I think the story is developing in all those directions. Yes, too many things are happening at the same time but it is all required for the creators of the story to be able to break Simi-Nakul's impending marriage.
If the creators do a better job than my thinking, then I will appreciate them, else I will get again dejected!