Wow! Quite a high voltage scene between ArShi in the elevator and much-needed - both for Armaan and Shilpa. And no ,am not talking about the brilliant acting and electrifying chemistry ( this is why they are 'KaSh')..... I am talking about the eruption of their most underlying fears, anxities , feelings and the pain they are trying to nurse and heal.
Was Shilpa harsh on Armaan? YES. Was it needed? YES. Was Shilpa unreasonable ? Not really. Whatever she told Armaan regarding making fun of Sid was bitterly conveyed but totally in place. As much as we love Armaan, a fault is a fault and he had ended up crossing the line with Siddhanth and he needed to be told that in the face. Shilpa did it. And her anger towards Armaan at that point was not just because of his momentary insensitivity to Sid ..... it was also her own disappointment in him. These past few days , she had begun to conjure an ideal image of Armaan - the man who made her laugh , fought with her but gave her hankies to wipe her tears, gave her weird names but stood up for her - a man who was drawing her towards himself.... and then WHAM! Oh no! He is not that angelic! How can he do that to Sid? That's not the Armaan I am putting into pretty picture frames.... and from here came the venom that she spewed on Armaan yesterday. He had DISAPPOINTED her and in turn broken her line of tenderness towards him.
But why did she bring SR into this? Hmmm.... Natural. In all probability , Shilpa is Riddhima's blood - Riddz is her sister and Sid her brother-in-law . They are her cocoon , her family - perhaps, just perhaps they both are all that she has in the world in the name of family , who she can call her 'own'. For her , as we saw the other day on the whiteboard are an ideal image of " my sis and my bro-in-law" - a picture of togetherness and marital love and bonding that she holds precious. That is why she constantly keeps comparing Armaan's temper , his peripheral insensitivity to the tenderness and beauty that she sees in SR. What she does not know is that Armaan is the nest where SR evolved, flourished and flew away. What she does not realize is that Armaan has no balance while SR are at equilibrium. And all this because Armaan is still finding an emotional foothold.....Because of her instinctive and rather fierce protection for SR, she sees Armaan as a threat to Sid and in turn to SR because of this wicked prank. It's like how you hate the ones who are rude to your Mum-Dad without knowing what the seed was. Instinctive protection.
It is not that Armaan doesn't know that SR love each-other. I mean , who else in the world knows the SR story better than Armaan? He has seen them at their worst , at their best and done all that he could to get them together.... and he did all this only after he himself was sure that Riddhima loved Sid as much as he loved her. Shilpa , of course , doesn't know that. Yet , Armaan needed to hear it from somebody else. Why? Well, it is true that Armaan released Riddhima to Sid long ago..... but he is yet to release himself . And Shilpa showing him the mirror of his own fossilized heart was the BEGINNING.
And then, we come to Armaan. So, Armaan Malik, Shilpa Malhotra is nothing to you, right? Perhaps yes. But at the same time, Shilpa is the only one who gets under Armaan's skin - she is the only one who has the guts to stand up to him , to hell with his seniority - she is the only one who rips apart his happiness exterior and gnaws at the lonely man behind. Armaan had no need to go behind Shilpa raging and ranting at her in the elevator , he has no physical and emotional comfort with Shilpa whom he hardly knows and yet he manhandled her ( no justification for that - men in DMG need to control their tempers and women their lambi zubaans) ....she wanted to leave but more than confronting her about spoiling his and Sid's relationship, he wanted to hear what she was thinking. What was going inside her head? Why Armaan? What was the need? Think it over. And when Shilpa told him exactly what she thought of him , she totally ripped him apart and Armaan could not take it - what does she know of me , my life , my relationship with SR or my past? She thinks am hateful and bitter? Really?........Nobody has spoken like that to Armaan in ages and hurt him like that. Shilpa did it.....
It is good in a way. Angels don't always come with wings. Sometimes they come with sugical scissors and they cut open the wounds that you are hiding instead of nursing and that is beginning of a healing soul surgery. Shilpa is that woman in Armaan's life. Shilpa will perhaps sooner or later find out about the entire SRA angle and even from there , the story can go two ways - either she will see Armaan in a new light or else see him a greater threat to SR. Whatever it is , she has ARRIVED in Armaan's life with thunder , lightening and storms.
Armaan hates Shilpa's guts for disrobing his heart and his pain. Shilpa hates Armaan for treating her like that and for trying to hurt her SR cocoon. And this is a FANTASTIC beginning.
Love and luck always,❤️
GOD bless everyone. 🤗