Today's episode β¦ oh my God, what a loaded episode it was! I am not going to follow my usual style of writing my take by using some structure β¦ but instead I am just going to let my feelings flow as I write.
We got answers to so many things! In fact Aarti got answers to so many things! And if Yash is honest with himself, he got answers to so many things!
Yash has clearly clearly made his most difficult choice today. In the critical moments of that raging fire in his bedroom in Mumbai he had to choose between saving his memories of Arpita, and saving Aarti. And after moments of great personal confusion and dilemma, after almost feeling paralysed and unable to make the choice, he could not help himself β¦ he chose to save Aarti, leaving the memories of Arpita to burn away into ashes! How significant was that! How very unexpected was this method for the creatives to script the moment of self-discovery for Yash, when he realises he loves Aarti more than he ever loved Arpita?
I have seen many serials with many "I love you" discovery moments, but none have been anywhere near as powerful as this!
Vidhi thinks it could be his anger at losing Arpita's memories that is causing him to hate Aarti, because he was forced to save Aarti and let Arpita go. But as Aarti replies, how can that expain why he is now hating Arpita?
The answer is clear: Yash has sensed internally, if not externally, that his choice of Aarti over Arpita signals something huge that has happened to him. He has fallen for Aarti and she has started to mean more to him than Arpita. He is a man unable to grapple with the truth that is hitting him in the face. Who should he destroy with this anger? Himself? Aarti? Who?
He tried destroying himself (crashing his hand on the glass on the dining table). He tried destroying Aarti, (by pushing and shoving her and rejecting her in maniacal style). None of that worked. His anger was still consuming him unabated. In the end he was compelled to destroy Arpita.
That destruction of Arpita has within it the real heart-state of Yash written all over it. He has fallen deeply in love with Aarti and can no longer bear to see all that separates him from Aarti. He has gone through fire himself literally to discover who he really is and who he really loves.
Hats off to the producers for creating such a powerful episode. I had expected the drama of the fire (thanks to the Tatasky spoiler) but I was dreaming up all kinds of other possibilities. It never occurred to me that the fire would force Yash to make a critical choice at a critical juncture. The fire has shown Yash where his heart is, and he has to find a way now to reconcile to that.
Since he has been unable to live with his discovery about himself, he has been bent on destruction. And finally he has found it in himself to destroy what was the "least significant" option in his life: Arpita!
The precap is even more sensational. It is absolutely damatic that in the honeymoon pictures of Yash and Arpita, Aarti should also be there in Kodaikanal at that same time. As Aarti says, she has begun to see God's "ishara" everywhere.
The love of Yash and Aarti, it seems, has the blessing of divine providence. It is grand that the creatives have been able to produce such exciting twists in the story just to reveal that Yash actually loves Aarti more than Arpita, and how Aarti has always been in Yash's life somehow, not just after the Punar Vivah.
Coming to think of it now, it looks like the Yash-Arpita marriage was not the pre-destined one. It got snuffed out so early. The Yash-Aarti union, on the other hand, seems to have been crafted by the Divine Force from several years before the Punar Vivah. It has stood the test of time and distance and has happened by twists of Fate never expected. In the end the marriage that was not meant to be existed and vanished in a trace. The marriage that was meant to be took its own time to happen.
What can I say, the Creatives have floored me with this creative execution of the script today. Superb!
I have just one word of negative to say in all this: surely a raging fire in that house should have been something Aarti could not have forgotten? It seems a bit silly that the story took four whole episodes for Aarti to remember this incident. It was not a small thing that she should have forgotten it? But never mind, there was so much drama in what happened today that I can forgive Aarti's temporary amnesia.
Edited by skanda12 - 13 years ago