15/6 Dragon Club :The Unspoken Truth

I feel the real beauty of this show is no character achieves perfection right in the first attempt which is more real and human to b honest ... even as human we hv our initial falls before we rise na 😳...

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I think a heated convo is needed between Yash and Aarti. Yash has to share his pain and let go and needs to understand that he is not the only one who is in pain. Aarti is too with her past, but she still smiles...

I am hugely frustrated by the episode. All the confidence I had yesterday is sort of swirling down the drain as we speak. What is Aarti thinking?!

Aarti's Blunder

Things became a lot clearer today because we got to see Palak's POV on the whole thing much more obviously and the difference between Aarti's promise and the way Palak sees it is the big blunder that Aarti is overlooking in this situation. Aarti sees this promise to bring Palak her mother back as a means to an end. Palak refuses to celebrate her birthday until her mother comes back to celebrate it with her and Aarti saw the only way to break the cycle was to say that her mother was indeed coming. She used equivocation, she used ambiguity and she told Palak to keep the faith. In the end she wants Palak to celebrate her birthday and she told her what she needed to to get her to agree. For Palak on the other hand, the birthday is a means to an end and that end is seeing Arpita again. She is a small child and though she has been told that her mother is not coming back, she wants to believe that she will when an adult tells her so. In many ways Aarti is abusing her authority as an adult in Palak's life and I am not okay with that after what I saw today.

It was clear that Palak's only focus was Arpita coming and she enjoyed the birthday celebrations for that reason. So is Aarti really achieving any progress? Progress would be if the date was rid of the pain that Palak felt on losing her mother. She is still waiting for her mother to walk in the door with that cake and the frills and fun were based solely on this one promise made by Aarti. Palak confiding in Aarti, joining in her game against her father, her general merry mood was constantly punctuated by the undertone of the promise as evidenced by how quickly it came to the surface whenever someone talked about various aspects of her birthday. Is Aarti underestimating how much Palak's happiness depends solely on her promise, and not the balloons and the friends and the decorations?

The one scene that I did love was when they were talking about Palak and her social situation. Aarti told her to apologise to her friends and taught her the very valuable lesson that there is nothing wrong with saying sorry if it helps solve issues. And I have no issues with her using Arpita as a crutch, saying that she wouldn't be happy to see Palak friendless, but not under the promise that she would return for Palak's birthday. Aarti seems to be under the impression that in all the furor, Palak will give more importance to her birthday than Arpita's death and so her expectations will not be shattered when Aarti walks in as Arpita. But Palak, like Yash rightly said, is stubborn and she is holding on to this one promise with her life. Aarti is setting herself up for a hugely dangerous situation, and taking Palak down with her.

While I do agree with Shobha, that I am terrified at what will happen to poor Palak in all of Aarti's self-righteous bluster, I can't see her the same way after what she told Aarti to do about Prashant. Why can she see the danger in Aarti denying her own identity here, but could not see it there? She seems like kind of an opportunist to me that way. She is staunch in her principles when it is convenient and when they are not, she twists the situation to make the principles bend for her. I agree that she is essentially a wonderful woman with her heart in the right place, but she is selfish for Aarti.

Yash's Blunder

This catastrophe that Aarti is confidently orchestrating is not hers alone but has been four years in the making! The way that Aarti spoke to Yash today was much needed. I loved the contrast in the dialogues between when Yash was talking to Arpita's photo and he said, "Tomorrow is 15th June, the day you when life separated us and you went far away" and Aarti telling him, "Tomorrow is 15th June, your first daughter Palak's birthday." It is the same date and Yash has a choice as to which significant event he chooses to give precedence to and his choice is clear, though he realises his mistake when he is confronted with the facts. The only problem is that he constantly needs to be confronted with the facts because his natural tendency is to slip back into his grief.

Aarti is deluding herself if she thinks she actually has Yash's approval. He approves her intentions yes, but he is doubtful on what she said to Palak. Aarti is treating this as curiosity on Yash's part and making it all fun and light with the secret thing, but I feel like Yash's worry is far more legitimate than Aarti is giving him credit for. He may not be demonstrative but he knows his daughter and she is brushing his repeated warnings under the rug to go through with her plan. And more and more this is mirroring the kidnapping, where Yash blindsighted Aarti's warnings about Ansh because he thought he knew better. There also he insisted that he was acting for Ansh's happiness and for Aarti to trust him.

The scene I loved most, however was the Yash-Arpita photo scene in the morning. He congratulates Arpita on their daughter turning six (let's not even get into the math). It is clear here that his relationship with his kids was mostly through Arpita. He feels the need to share the joy of the day with her first rather than Palak herself. What absolutely blew me away about this scene was when Yash is saying he doesn't know whether to celebrate Palak's birthday or Arpita's...and then catches himself short. It was almost as though he was ashamed of himself for what he had been doing and I loved that split second transformation in him (awesome GC moment!). And in one second he says, Arpita I have to go because Palak is waiting for me. I thought that realisation in him was beautifully done!

And his "punishment' was to be forced into the past again instead of immediately enjoying his moment of wishing Palak in the present. Aarti's little game sent him into flashback mode once again and instead of finding Palak in the present, he was busy doing so in the past, which left the poor present day Palak to come out and call to him on her own. Arpita is frozen in time for Yash but Palak and Payal are not. He needs to learn to find the present day girls rather than chasing after their younger selves, only to keep his wife alive. But it was a nice touch to see past merging with present for Yash and him calling Aarti Arpita. I guess for parents children always remain babies and for a second he couldn't see a difference between the Palak in his flashback and the Palak in his arms and when he saw Palak emerge from behind a woman, smiling and happy, how could that woman not be Arpita?

It was interesting that Palak did not have a negative reaction to Yash calling Aarti Arpita. Is that going to figure in this whole costume drama?

res..

Well, I don't have too much time to analyze, and as I wasn't able to watch yesterday's episode yesterday, I watch both back to back, which kind of overloaded me. I think it's quite obvious from all the "happy" moments that have been shown in the last two episodes that the CVs are planning some fantastically bad fallout from this plan of Aarti's. Exactly what that fallout is, remains to be seen.

I highly doubt that Aarti will do anything but keep her promise to Palak somehow in the end. Palak has been promised too many times that her mother will attend the party for Aarti to break that trust in the end. However, I am absolutely positive that Aarti's plan of the moment to "turn" herself into Arptia would be an absolute bust with Palak if she was able to carry it through. I have a feeling that Aarti thinks she can come dressed as Arpita, tell Palak that she is Arpita come back to her in the form of Aarti, and think that Palak will accept that. Palak won't. She will figure out right away that Aarti lied to her, and telling her that it was for her happiness is not an argument she will accept. I have a feeling that this is where Yash finding out before Palak and blowing a gasket will come in.

As it stands right now, Aarti's plan is doomed to failure where Palak is concerned. If Yash finds out what her plan is, he will not let her go through with it, at least the dressing and presenting herself as Arpita part (good for Yash!), making Aarti have to get more creative. I wouldn't be surprised if Aarti will momentarily pretend to be Arpita, just to reassure Palak and request her to be happy with her new mother, but I definitely don't want her to go forward with this idea of becoming Arpita the mother. It just has failure written all over it, and I can't believe that in the end Arti will fail. However, I do think that the only thing that can bring her out of this stupid replacement idea is for Yash to really have a go at her. Up to this point, Yash has been fairly calm with Aarti, to the point where I don't think she realizes just what his reaction will be, or how bad he will take both her plan and her lies to Palak. I think she somehow she has the feeling that she can bring Yash around with her calm words, since that has always worked in the past. Before this birthday scenario is over, she is going to learn different.