The episode began with Imli convincing Vidya to go to Hotel Heritage and put bhang in Aarti's food/drink so that she messes up at the meeting. The majority of the rest of the episode was dedicated to Vidya going to the hotel and convincing a waiter to put the bhang in a soup she mistakenly understood as being ordered by Aarti. The soup, unfortunately, was that of another hotel guest and Vidya's attempt fails...predictably! 😳 To top it off, Aarti sees her hiding behind a plant and watching them! 😳 This leads her to advise Gaurav to reveal the truth...yet again! With 75% of the screenplay focused on this nonsense, it was rendered extremely snooze-worthy for me. How much longer are we going to see Gaurav keep playing his silly games? 👎🏼 If the article had not come out, there would have at least been some mystery around his story. Now...neither is their any suspense nor is the writing in this track worth watching! Utter crap for me! 😳
In the Jhaakar house, the only scenes worth mentioning are Jaggi's minute in the screenplay where a distracted Imli gets him to cut the onions and the other where Devyani tries to convince Brahma to come eat. 😒 The latter was only notable for Uttara's interference in getting Brahma to listen to Devyani. The dynamics between the sisters was odd. Devyani thanked Uttara and sadly noted that sometimes people do not listen to their own while Uttara responded that she too was Devyani's "own". When they are finally seated at the table, Devyani asks Imli to go get Aditya and Priya to join them for lunch but Priya comes on her own and asks if she can take the food to Aditya. We are going to see more and more of Aditya and Priya missing in the next few weeks due to the actors wedding at the end of the month. I guess that was the reason to create this divide between Aditya and Brahma! 🤔
Overall: The episode was not even a 2 for me...one of the worst! 😳 If Gaurav does take Aarti's advice, then the story moves forward but looking at the precap, I have no hope of that happening. 🤔 Also, if the writers even remotely start a Vidya - Chinu romance, I will not be able to watch the show anymore...it would be unbearable to see the writing fall to that level! 😳