The theme I have chosen for today's episode is "UNEASY DISTANCES" ... every scene today contained an interaction that resulted in uneasiness that fostered unnecessary distances between the people of the family who should naturally be closer.
Uneasy distances were all so evident today in the Scindia household - and also including also the Dubeys for that matter.
Scriptwise, such uneasy distances are so realistic and typical of a household where everyone is still in the process of adjusting with everyone else. So we can't fault the characters for creating these uneasy distances, we can only congratulate the Creatives for giving us an episode with so much realism.
Most of the uneasiness created today was because of too many words spoken ... someone or the other said a bit too much and then wanted to bite their tongue. A little less frankness and a little more reserve would have perhaps served everyone better ?
Uneasy distance created by Aarti's opinion too freely given and not as freely accepted
Aarti succeeded in driving Yash away in anger (he was defensive when she mentioned that the children's "parvarish" was not up to the mark) and Aarti also succeeded in driving distances between herself and her in-laws for offering even more unsolicited opinions on child-rearing.
It must be said, however, to the credit of Papa Scindia that, unlike his wife he did try to use more reasonable arguments to tell Aarti that she must learn to hereafter follow the ways of the Scindia household and not try to go her own way in everything. However, it is also interesting to note that the conciliatory tone used by Papa Scindia to Aarti, was not evident in the abrupt tone he used for his own wife when he asked her to hold her tongue and not behave like a malicious saasuma!
Aarti's words thus drove uneasy distances between her and Yash first, between her and the in-laws next, and between her father-in-law and her mother-in-law subsequently like a domino effect. I thought too many words were uttered by everybody concerned ... and a little more restraint all round would have helped.
Uneasy distances created by the Dubey's phone call with Aarti spurning their advances
When the Dubey's called Aarti to invite her back home for some ceremonies, Aarti seemed to spurn their advances - especially Papa Dubey's overtures - with a sharp sting that must have surely hurt the Dubeys. Aarti is clearly still in anger and while Shobha reluctantly understood, Papa Dubey had the air of one who feels as if he has been wronged and soon Aarti will come to her senses.
What the Dubeys are not getting is the idea that Aarti is less pissed off by the "big lie" itself, and more hurt by the fact that Papa Dubey said she owed it to them for looking after her for years!
Its the "karz chukana hai" dialogue that rankles with Aarti, and today between Aarti, Shobha and Papa Dubey enough was said all round to please no one and to maintain the uneasy distances between all three of them. It is interesting to note that this behaviour of Aarti's in spurning the Dubeys seems also to be driving a wedge between Shobha and Papa Dubey.
Uneasy distances between Vidhi and Pankaj drives even the children away from Pankaj
Vidhi has clearly completely misunderstood Pankaj's anger - in fact I doubt if she is even on the same wavelength as he is. He is looking for romance and togetherness with his wife and kids, and she instead is all about "setting out his dinner" and "making the children do their homework, drink their milk and go to sleep". To say that there are uneasy distances in this family of husband, wife and two kids seems like an understatement.
The sad part of today's episode was that Vidhi succeeded not only in deepening the distace between Pankaj and herself, but also drove the children away from him. All told, it was a disaster, the way Vidhi behaved. Again too many words were spoken between Vidhi and Pankaj but not even one of them reached out to the other in any meaningul way.
Uneasy distances between Yash and PayPal come to the fore and his OCD may be one of the reasons
I would not cal it disciplining the kids, the way Yash behaved with Payal and Palak - and even Ansh - today. Yash seems to be so much in OCD mode, that he was already rattled by Aarti dropping the wet towel on the bed and then dropping the combs from the dresser. That's when the kids barged in boisterously and further messed up the room.
Was Yash disciplining them to sleep at the right hour or was he just trying to get rid of the untidy kids for his own room-neatness and peace of mind? When Aarti took up for the kids, it further irritated him. Yash was definitely not angry today, or even reasonable ... he was plain irritated by the clutter. And he cannot be a good parent ever if his OCD dictates the kind of discipline he wants of his kids!
I have a feeling that one of these days there is going to be a HUGE BLOWUP between Aarti and Yash when he raves and rants about her untidyness and laxity, and she retorts back angrily about his fetish for cleanliness. They have to have this confrontation for Aarti to stop her lecturing and for Yash to recognise and remedy his OCD!
Either way, Yash's words have driven uneasy distances today between him and his kids, between him and Aarti, and even between him and Ansh (who took his own revenge via the hairpin in the sofa). Was it all necessary or beneficial to anybody at all?
Despite all these examples of uneasy distances that many of the protagonists created between themselves today, it appears two people in this household are blissfully unaffected by anything around them and have created their own cocoon of distanceless bliss... Paridi seems busy leaving lipstick marks on Pratik's cheeks, and Pratik seems to be busy demanding more kisses in the presence of the kids!
At least some people in this household seem to be having not even one centimetre distance between them most of the time!๐๐๐
Edited by skanda12 - 13 years ago