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I am ridiculously happy after today's episode. The story is finally gathering steam and we are headed for a huge toofan (if the impending storm winds in the epi didn't tip you off). Shyam's parda is starting to slip, La's winter of discontent is rearing its head and Anjali, I hope and pray, will buy a clue.
ASR's little soliloquy about why marry someone you don't love, why live with them, why be unhappy. I didn't think this realization was about him - as he knows why he is unhappy. He has chosen the path he is on, willingly, in an attempt to keep himself away from Khushi - big fail - but an attempt nonetheless. What he is upset about is why Khushi is doing this to herself. He knows that she loves him and there are feelings there, so why is she settling. We have to remember that when all is said and done, ASR never wants Khushi to be unhappy, never wants her to feel pain (yes yes, I know he torments her but he is also her hero and her pillar for support that she cannot get anywhere else). And of course, if she would just acknowledge a little bit to him, who knows what he would do, especially now that he knows what loss and heartbreak feel like. So in this little speech to himself, with a dumbfounded Anjali in the background, he is telling us that he understands that KKG is in love with him, that she will be unhappy without him. That's big for a khadoos.
The engagement is a total power play by ASR. The impetus for his decision, and it was a decision, not his off the handle impulse -as his La marriage announcement was - was the conversation he had on the stairs with KKG. When he asked her why she was unhappy, he is telling her tell me what I know already. But what does KKG do, she defends her fiance!!! She says he makes me happy in the ways that are not related to money. And then she goes on to say, if money were everything why aren't you happy, ask yourself that first. But ASR already knows why he is unhappy, he has pieced it together and to force her hand and call her bluff about how happy she is with a man whose bank balance might be low but character is high he decides to prepone the engagement and have her do the planning. The glance he gives her on his way out is totally 'I am going to call your bluff and make you face the music.'
And there is no way if ASR just flat out asked her 'why do you look so sad, are you happy' she would answer him. That is the tactic that Anjali used, and she got no response. He wants Khushi to realize and name that which shall not be named.😆 He wants her to admit something to herself, so that she can admit why she is unhappy, stop pretending that everything is okay and maybe then choose a path towards happiness, hopefully with ASR's help. In short (although this is one long ass post - sorry), he wants her to figure out why he said 'what are you doing ' and 'farak padta hai'.
They are both playing the same game, except they are playing like they are against each other when they were on the same team all along.
It's getting good people.
