Realization of Love

So forget the episode eh? Its the promo that's got everyone's mind in a whirl. 😆
We're all thinking about Aarti's love, what kind of love it is, what kind of love Yash would need to feel in order to acknowledge it, and whether it will take him forever to return it consciously.

My thing is, I hope that Yash's love is dealt with much better than Aarti's. PV is a very well written and planned show. But for some reason, one of the biggest developments was handled with outright laziness. They handled other storylines with so much care, but for Aarti's love realization they used the oldest (and least convincing) trick in the book.

I hate it when a 3rd party character puts the idea of love out there. This show is much better than such foil tricks. Whenever (lazy) writers want to introduce a new love interest (or further an existing one), to put the word "love" into everyone's minds they have a 3rd character state it. Like for example: "I know you love her". And its always supposed to be such a big intense moment. And people are supposed to go "omg, they do. Why didn't I see it before?" Spare me. I hate it on the CW, but usually it passes muster, because love isn't the premise of the show. And characters have multiple love interests in the space of a season. So time constraints are present, and they throw things together whichever which way they can. But here, on PV, and other hindi shows, love is the story. ArYa is the show. Why such laziness?

I am not saying Aarti's love seems unconvincing. I'm saying not enough time was spent to make it as convincing as I think it is meant to be. I believe her love. But sometimes I have problems believing that she believes it. Or if she isn't just terming the beginnings of love as "love personified" and using it to justify the following of G3's orders. Man, I am talking myself in circles 😆

Basically, I don't think I am supposed to be as confused about her behaviour as I am. I have a suspicion that others in this forum (who are trying to convince me Aarti is just plain in love, and that she isn't consciously working on "plan make Yashu happy") are right. And that Yash will crush the beginnings of love with Aarti's upcoming confession. And that we are all supposed to be so heartbroken. And that will make Aarti even more jaded in love. And that it will also be the first time the word "love" was dared mentioned to Yash in relation to Aarti. What Shobha did for her, Aarti will do for Yash.

I am supposed to be fully lost in her love and adore every moment of Aarti's love dream, but I am not. I feel slightly annoyed whenever she tries to get Yash to do "husbandly" things for her. Mostly because I am not sure if she is doing this out of love, or if she is doing this because she thinks she is supposed to. I don't think the audience is supposed to be confused. Which makes me more confused, because I am, yes, confused. 😆😕


Writing is manipulation of words, but when such typical writers tricks are used (and in such an offhand manner), it feels like they think the audience is slightly dimwitted. They work so hard to show us the story and not tell it. But then for one of the most important developments we were literally told what to think. And that always leaves me feeling unconvinced. Like there is more to it. When there probably is not.

How would they have done it otherwise?
Well, couldn't Shobha have just had her "re-love" story going on, and Aarti have noticed, and then couldn't she have drawn the connections herself? I get that she doesn't understand what it is to receive love, but she understands what its like to be in love. So any realization on her part (without 3rd party intervention) would have been convincing. Why have Vidhi and Shobha and every one under the sun harp on an on about how in love Aarti is?

Instead of devoting the time and attention to convincing the audience that yes, she was in love, they just told us she was. And then they step by step ticked off Shobha's provided symptom list. I understand that a part of it was they wanted us to take the journey with Aarti. They wanted us to go with the checklist they had provided, instead of the one we have in our heads. But I can't help but feel more justice could have been done to Aarti. Her love is young, and almost puppy-like, I get it. They are justifying their definition of love, and showing us that Aarti has a lot longer to go. And that there will be further realizations and so forth. But I still feel a little meh about the whole thing.


Its like the writers said, "she needs to be in love, and the people need to know she's in love. But the audience is stupid, so we have to spell it out letter by letter." Am I being a little to critical? Maybe 😃. Can't help it though. Other than Bua ji's personality change, this is the only other development I feel was mishandled.



ArYa is a couple of such subtlety and nuance, and I just felt a little adrift at the way she acknowledged that yes, she was in love. I expected more subtlety and more time to go into it. But then again, I am probably being to critical ⭐️

*Edited: Another essay 😃. What to say. I'm on summer break so I have lots of time 😆⭐️

Charishma very well written 👏👏👏

This is very well written. And finally someone said what I have been feeling since long. The reason many people are confused about whether aarti is actually in love or not arises from the fact that the cvs handled her realization track badly. There was a change of director during that particular track, no idea why. May be Hemant Prabhu was required elsewhere. However, I seriously think now we should forget about how her realization track was hurried, and believe in what we see now. I am 100% sure the cvs never intended to show any confusion regarding Aarti's love for Yash. Her confession proves that yet again. She might be working on a plan to bring back the normal Yash, but staring at him with love striken eyes and confessing is certainly not part of the plan😆.

Originally posted by: jyoti06

Charishma very well written 👏👏👏

Even though I dint like the way CVs rushed up Aarti's love realisation , but I feel the main reason for it was this Mumbai track which was planned ... Only if Aarti realises her love for Yash , then she can make him smile and make all the efforts to bring him back to his real self or else if she had not realised her love yet , then all her efforts in this Mumbai track would hv rather looked like a favour she is doing just to fulfill her Sasuma's promise 😆...but now all that Aarti is doing in mumbai looks much more real and natural simply because we know she is in love 😳..

Coming to yesterday's precap , I feel its going to b a turning point where Aarti will confess and Yash will reject .. Aarti will b left heartbroken and she will stop making any more efforts from here on .. she might actually go back to her mechanical self where she will treat this marriage like a compromise for kids which she used to do earlier because she will feel thats what Yash ji wants from this marriage 😭... From here on it will b Yash's realisation of love when he will start missing all the fun and madness of this Mumbai wali Aarti and thats when his efforts will show up when he will try to bring this Mumbai wali Aarti back in action because he will realise that he has actually fallen in love with this Mumbai wali real Aarti 😳😳

@red
nice thought dear...
i so much want this to happen just like you stated it...
it will be interesting to watch...

I am so glad I'm not alone in this confusion. I felt kind of off for not feeling so swept away, as some others are.

I feel i there is no drama angle added then everything will become a little monotonous to watch... even if some tracks feel too cheesy at times, they still have served their purpose.

And Aarti from my POV is a person who will be influenced by people around her (cv's have been consistent with this), act accordingly or towards what they say but in that process truly realize it herself and when this happens the original push she got from other around becomes redundant or non existent!!

Ok she listened to Vidhi and tried to become Arpita but failed...

Vidhi and Prateek played cupid yes but before this happened the signs of Aarti in love with Yash were all there!

For Yash to forget Arpita and become the Yash like before needs some divine intervention, otherwise he would have got to normal a long time back!

I am sure Aarti will not get everything so easily, her turn will come to when Yash will open the doors to her heart and find Prashant hidden in the most darkest corner of her heart!!! Repressed but not forgotten!

@ Charisma..however my only problem is with aarti's realization track, in every aarYa scene, bangle or yesterday's baawra man, or the precap, I was swept away!

I am going to turn your post on its head with one idea: I think you are supposed to be confused...

...about Aarti's love, about the reasons for it and about how real it really is, considering she is hiding such a big part of herself even from her own eyes. I agree that the realisation was handled badly on an execution level, but storywise I have grown to be with it all the way. There was a reason that third parties pushed Aarti towards realising her love for Yash, and to my eyes it was to illustrate the little faith that Aarti has in herself.

She chose Prashant, Shobha chose Yash. I think it all comes down to that in Aarti's mind. She thought what she felt for Prashant was the real deal, she was sure he was the one and she was wrong. Not only did he abandon her and his parents, but he abandoned Ansh, who was his child, a part of him. On the other hand, Yash at the first opportunity proved how invested he was in his promise to be Ansh's father. The bullet was instinctive but going against his family and getting the money together wasn't. He took all of her temper and her accusations and calmly assured her, like a mantra that he would bring Ansh back, and he did. Her feelings, and Shobha's I told you so started from then.

And so when Shobha told her she was in love, Aarti believed her, and acknowledged the importance of Yash in her life when she almost lost him. That day she opened her heart to he possibilities of love, and she has been falling more and more in love with Yash ever since. She fell in love with his righteousness and his ability to accept anyone as his own in the Neelam episode, she fell in love with him as a team mate in the debate track, she fell in love with the grumpy child in him when they were stuck in the bathroom and so many more moments. She is thoroughly enjoying the process of falling in love with him every day.

But she is not being allowed even this luxury because of all the expectations of the family which she fully wants to live up to. And so she tries to mould herself into whatever will attract his attention and bring him to the present, as the opportunity presents itself. But what she didn't anticipate on the Mumbai trip is the degree of success she has achieved in bringing him out of his stupour. And each time she sees him venture out of his depression a little more, play with the kids, engage with his latent talent, and with her, she sees him for the man he is, and not her project and falls a little more in love.

Because Aarti has denied so much of the negativity that weighed her down and defined her before Yash, she is light as a feather right now and just floats with her feelings. That is why she is so confusing, because there is nothing constant weighing her down or keeping her grounded. She is all fluff right now because all that fills her conscious and subconscious mind is Yash and her love for him, and she is defined only by the moment she is in. Sometimes her love is pure and as real as it gets, and sometimes it is just her need to belong to someone, other times, it is upholding her promise to his family members, whatever the moment calls for.

She is floating right now, a fairy presence in Yash's life, waving her wand. But those who float will inevitable crash, the higher they fly the harder the fall. Aarti's fall is coming when she is forced to confront the shame and humiliation that defines her past, her emotional gravity that she is currently defying. She wants Yash to love her floating, happy presence, but when she crashes and things are ugly and he is still there to lift her up, she will learn the true potential of this relationship. At that point she will be grounded by her past, but uplifted by her present and she will walk beside Yash as his equal.

I know that kinda went all over the place, but I hope it made some sense. 😛