5/7 Dragon Club :Aarti:The Bodyguard :D

Today's episode seemed to be a build up to tomorrow when Aarti will walk on fire to save Yash - and thus she may repay the debt she owes him for taking thebullet and saving Ansh's life! In fact, as Aarti was driving in the torrential rain looking for Yash, she was seeing all the flashbacks of the Ansh kidnap episode and how Yash had saved Ansh's life by laying his own life on the line. The Creatives are clearly making a parallel between the Ansh kidnap museebat and the current danger to Yash.

Aarti seemed today like a woman who would stop at nothing. She is normally a practical person, as we have all seen, but today she found new reserves of strength and gumption in herself to pull off many coups ' her heart was palpitating, but her mind was working overtime. How she handled the mobile call centre guys and wheedled them to give her Yash's mobile location was a fine portrayal of desperation leading to raw power.

My theme for the episode analysis today is inspired by this concept of raw power coming to the fore in Aarti. In one of the dialogues that Gayatri spoke to the Casanova today, she described Aarti as "SHAKTI KI ROOP". Tomorrow's I will analyse how Aarti herself discovers that she is "Shakti". But for today I want to focus on the reactions of the other family members, when they see the stirrings of "Shakti" in Aarti.

Some of the characters surprised me today by behaving exactly opposite to what I expected!

Pankaj, Pratik and Vidhi did not quite see Aarti as "Shakti"

In fact all three of them were asking Aarti to do nothing but sit at home, fearful of the lashing rain and bad weather, chewing her finger nails. I was a bit surprised that Pankaj and Pratik especially thought it unfit for Aarti to go along with them. When the scene began I seemed sure Aarti would go along, but the brothers surprised me by taking a male-attitude to deciding whether it was advisable for Aarti to go along. They clearly did not see that "Shakti" in Aarti. I am a bit surprised that being the younger generation, they were unable to see in Aarti the raw power that their mother could.

Bua did surely see "Shakti" in Aarti and that made her insecure

I know that Bua tried stopping Aarti from looking for Yash by saying something totally tangential like "You are actually not looking for Yash, you are trying to abscond!". But in truth, and judging especially by the crestfallen look on Bua's face when Aarti found out the location of Yash, I got the distinct feling that Bua actually did see that "Shakti" in Aarti. The fact that she saw the actual power emanating from Aarti clearly made the Bua insecure. She tried not only verbally halting Aarti, she even went to the extent of trying to physically hold her back! The sudden aura of power surrounding Aarti seemed to make all Bua's worst nightmares come true. A powerful Aarti is the last thing Bua wants to stomach!

Gayatri saw nothing but pure "Shakti" in Aarti

Gayatri totally, totally surprised me today. She not only exhorted the Bua to release Aarti saying she was sure of Aarti's pure intentions, but much later when defending Aarti to the Casanova, Gayatri's dialogues were supreme. I loved the way she pulled out all the arguments from mythology ' the Shakti metaphor and the allusion to Savitri who got her husband back from the dead. This brings me to one major point I noticed: Gayatri respects powerfulness. She stands in awe of it. That's why when she see her husband as a powerful person, she surrenders to his decisions. So long as Gayatri saw Aarti as powerless, she trammelled all over her. Now seeing the sudden power in Aarti's intent, Gayatri has become her fan.

The Casanova needed reminding that it was he who wanted Aarti to be a "Shakti"

For a moment the man was blinded by rage, on hearing that Aarti had begun working alongside Yash, and all the old chauvinism from the Paridi RJ episode came back to flood the Casanova's mind. But after Gayatri reminded him that it was he who wanted Aarti to be "in every way" the Shakti to her Pati Parameshwar, he cooled down and saw the value of allowing Aarti to be that Shakti.

Isn't it overall starange that while all the younger generation famiy members discounted the latent power in Aarti, the three older family members saw it? In all this I wonder how Aarti will see herself after she has gone through the whole rigmarole of saving Yash. Will she herself aknowledge that she has hit a new level as a "Shakti" and will she hereafter retain that sense of power? Or will she go back to being the subdued, powerless one, waiting for the next dangerous event to bring out her inner strengths? And how will Yash react to seeing Aarti as "Shakti"? Million dollar question!

Another great episode ❤️

The episode had a lot of women power in it. For the first thing we saw Gayatri finally standing up to Casanova Scindia and he for the first time agrees with her instead of insulting her. She sounded so confident today for the first time. It is so interesting how tables had turned on her when Ansh got kidnapped the one of the people that didn't show a hint of sympathy towards Aarti was Gayatri. Yet today when Yash is in danger the once person who rose to the occasion was Aarti. Also they made a point of comparison in the episode that this rain is stronger than the rain Yash once lost Arpita too. He couldn't come home successful but if Aarti comes home with Yash safe and sound undefeated it will definitely say something about her strength. This should be enough to win Palak's heart I feel if Aarti saves her father from the same rain that once took her mother away from her she will soon have a special place in Palak's heart.

Originally posted by: jyoti06

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