Shradhya gets assertive
Rohit is @ night clutching Shradhya and trying to get her w/ him, but this time she refuses. Rohit tries apologizing and being romantic as well, but Shradhya shakes him & throws him off and he lands on bed.
Shradhya then angrily tells him that he can play his games w/ his dad if he likes, but let alone touch him, she can't even stand the sight of him. She tells him to tell his father point blank that he wants to touch her, and man up, so that she won't need to throw him off again.
Rohit blows up and grabs her hair, and tells her that he can do anything he wants, and prove his masculinity by getting what he wants. Shradhya tells him that he can beat her, force her but he can never win her. Rohit reminds her that he's her hubby, but Shradhya tells him that the law gives rights to wives as well. She repeats her demand that he stand up to his father first, and then come to her.
Rohit grabs her again, throws her on the bed, and tells her his father was right - instead of complimenting her, he should have nit-picked and always found faults and kept her underfoot. He threatens to do something to her that will make her lifelong unhappy, and prove to her what a real man is. (Methinks Yuvraj was more of a man than he is)
Bhosle investigating Sarla's murder
Bhosle is in Neeraj's house, and Dadaji asks him whether he's come to any conclusions. Bhosle tells him it's early, but it looks like a case of murder. He asks permission to talk to Sandhya, and reassures them that he knows her from a long time. They both go to another room.
Bhosle tells Sandhya that he's trying to figure out a motive, and Sandhya asks if he thinks she murdered her to avenge her father? Bhosle compliments her on her savvy, and tells her that from what he knows of her, she's not a murderer. The entire Jagirdar family is in jail, and only Sarla got out on bail, and came her to be murdered, right?
Sandhya tells Bhosle that Sarla wasn't involved in her father's murder, and so she didn't have any resentment towards her. However, when she came to this house, given what she wanted to do, Sandhya did have misgivings about her, b'cos she wanted to turn her entire family, including her husband, against her. She tells Bhosle that that morning, she told Sandhya some things that made her feel like killing her. Bhosle looks up @ her, while Sandhya continues that however, who killed her now, and how, she really doesn't know.
Bhosle tells her that he knows that she didn't kill Sarla. However, if he got evidence that shows that Sandhya either killed or aided in the killing of Sarla, he'd be powerless to save her, b'cos to him, all killers look alike. So if she does know anything, anything @ all about this, tell him now!
Sandhya thanks him for believing that she didn't do it, and understands where he's coming from. She promises to assist him in any way in arriving @ the person who killed Sarla, if she happened to be murdered.
Sarita speculates on Sandhya's guilt
Dadaji wonders why the Inspector wants to talk to Sandhya alone? Sarita speculates that it's Sandhya who murdered Sarla. Neeraj objects, and tells her that he understands that Sandhya didn't like Sarla being there, had her fights w/ her and even held her neck, but that doesn't mean that she killed him. (Glad to see Neeraj show some sense)
Sarita asks him that if Sandhya can in anger try to strangulate her, why can't she in anger kill her? It was good that they arrived @ the hall in time, or else she'd have killed her right there (Sarita, since Sarla is now dead, @ this point, what difference does that make?) She demands to know from Dadaji how he can think that Sandhya is innocent, when he himself saw her leave Sarla's room?
Dadaji has flashbacks of Sandhya's attempt on Sarla, as well as her statement to him that whatever enemity she had towards Sarla has been ended for good (this one really sounds bad for Sandhya - had Sarla lived, how could Sandhya have ended it? Or was she just lying to him?) Neeraj protests, but Dadaji tells them that the police are investigating this, and until they conclude anything, they should be discussing this 👏
Shradhya pregnant 🤢
Shradhya puts a file in her cupboard, and Rohit is spying on her from a distance. Shradhya is happy, and puts the file inside, and leaves. Rohit then goes in and opens that file, and finds out that Shradhya is pregnant 🤢 He conjectures that since his father doesn't know that he has been cheating on his vrath, nobody will suspect him (how stupid really are you?)
Bhosle questions the others
Inspector Bhosle is in the living room w/ everyone else, including Sandhya. He tells them that he's done questioning Sandhya, and now has questions for them. He asks them how long has Sarla been staying w/ them? Dadaji tells him 8-10 days. He asks him how her interaction was w/ his family members, and whether she was on good terms w/ everybody, or short tempered w/ anyone? Neeraj tells him that she was on good terms w/ everyone. Bhosle asks them whether Sarla had any fights w/ anybody, which Dadaji denies.
Bhosle gets up and tells them to understand that there could have been fights in private, and Sarla had been in their house for 8 days. There is always a motive behind a murder - old enemity, feuds or even madness. He asks them whether Sarla had gone mad like DK Jagirdar?
Neeraj intervenes and tells Bhosle that Sarla did have a fight w/ Sandhya, and that Sandhya didn't like Sarla being there, and even went to the extent of trying to strangulate her. He also tells him that he & Sandhya have been fighting daily about this. Bhosle asks them all - including Sandhya - why they didn't reveal this to him? (Sandhya, you should have said it) Sandhya admits to Bhosle that it was true, and tells him that given what Sarla was doing, she felt like doing it several times.
Bhosle tells her that there is a difference b/w wanting to do it, and doing it, and that attempt to murder too is a crime. Sandhya however protests her innocence. Bhosle tells her that it will be known soon enough. He asks Dadaji to gather every member of the household here, and tells them that they will all be fingerprinted and blood samples taken. Until the results are out, nobody is allowed either in or out of the house. (So Neeraj can't kick out Sandhya even if he wants to 😆) And no phone calls either.
The police all leave
Sandhya declares her innocence to Neeraj
Baa upbraids Neeraj for telling them about Sarla's fight w/ Sandhya, and asks him whether he thinks Sandhya is guilty (Baa, it's called co-operating w/ the law - you lay out all evidence, including incriminating evidence, to help find out who's responsible) Neeraj tells him that Sandhya's guilt won't be determined by what he admits or doesn't, and to this day, he hasn't lied.
Sandhya goes up to him and tells him that she's happy that he told Bhosle the whole truth. It's as true as the fact that she didn't murder Sarla. And that truth will come b4 him soon enough.
Bhosle interviews Sandhya, Neeraj & family
Sandhya is w/ Bhosle again, and he's having an investigative session where Sandhya presumably tells him everything (at least, I'm assuming that) and leaves her hand prints. It's then followed by an interrogation of Neeraj, Dadaji, Baa, Sarita, Anmol, Reena and a servant. (They didn't show GB & Anjali - where are they? 😕)
Reena curious about investigation
Reena is w/ Anmol, and confused @ what Bhosle is up to - on one hand, he knows Sandhya bhabi, and on the other, he's questioning them like they are suspects? (Reena, maybe you should watch detective serials 😆) Anmol looks @ her & walks away.
Rohit denies parentage of Shradhya's fetus
Abha is furious @ finding a nursing home file in the house, and demands to know how it came there? Anusuya & Shradhya are horrified, and Abha demands to know from Rohit how Shradhya became pregnant if he's not been touching her? Rohit is shocked. Abha demands to know whose sin is she carrying?
At this point, Shradhya gets angry, and tells him that it's no sin - her baby is the waris of this family, and that he's becoming a grandfather and Rohit a father. Rohit accuses her of breaking the norms of this family. Shradhya warns him against calling her baby a 'paap'. Until today, she tolerated everything, but if anyone dared to question her morals and call her baby a 'paap', she won't remain silent.
Rohit then abuses her again, and Shradhya challenges him to swear on his father Rohit refuses on the grounds that it's Shradhya who's sinned, but Shradhya dares him to swear on his father. Abha agrees, and orders Rohit to swear on him. (Go ahead Rohit, do it, not that he'll really drop dead, but just go ahead anyway 😈)
Rohit is upset that his father suspects him, but he's clearing his suspicions. He orders him to swear on him. Rohit goes ahead, puts his hands on Abha's head and lies thru his teeth 😆 claiming that he didn't break any vow, and that Shradhya is doing all this to humiliate the family. Shradhya is pissed off @ his act, and Anusuya screams @ him for swearing a falsehood on his own father, claiming that she saw them together many times.
Rohit shuts her up, and accuses her of going to any extent to support Shradhya, but that he won't tolderate it. Until she fesses up whose kid it is, she can't stay in the house, and orders her to leave. Shradhya looks @ him pissed.
Comments
I've commented on Shradhya in the DOTW, so won't repeat myself here, except that I'm pissed @ her being pregnant w/ Rohit's kid.
On the investigation, I'm glad Inspector Bhosle had an honest conversation w/ Sandhya, but I wish that she had told him about her fight w/ Sarla, instead of him having to find out from Neeraj. Hopefully, in the latter questioning, she left out nothing. I appreciate Baa & Reena trying to be supportive of Sandhya, but they do need to understand that this is a criminal investigation, and even unpleasant truths need to be told. Oh, and I do appreciate Neeraj not only telling the truth, but also not believing that Sandhya is guilty of murder.
The thing that struck me as really strange - where are GB and Anjali? And if they were fingerprinted & interrogated, how come they weren't shown (Hasmukh & Purvi weren't shown either) Hopefully, they clear all this so that not just Neerdhya's, but Anmol's misery ends. Earlier, I had thought that only Anjali was involved in the murder, but now I'm wondering whether GB is as well, since she and Anjali are the only MIA members of the family (I'm not counting Hasmukh)
Episode rating: 👍🏼👍🏼
👍🏼: Sandhya & Neeraj coming clean w/ Bhosle and co-operating w/ the investigation, Shradhya becoming assertive @ last
👎🏼: Shradhya pregnant (hope this was a false alarm)
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