6/9 Dragon Club :Aarti's Agneepath..

Today's episode may not yet have cleared what IS the issue that is making Yash so angry with Aarti. But at least it has cleared what IS NOT the issue with Yash!

After leading us viewers twice down the misleading tracks, the Creatives have finally shown that Yash's anger was NOT because of these two things:

a. It was not because of the fire episode where we all thought he was upset that he had saved Aarti and not Arpita's memories!

b. It was not also about the Aman episode, because today Yash showed that he did not even mistrust Aarti's loyalty to her marriage!

There were three things in today's episode that I want to analyse:

1. I was actually quite happy that the anger issue of Yash was neither the fire not the Aman entry. All this while I was constantly asking myself "How could Aarti forget such big issues like a roaring fire in the house and then the arrival of a friend after so many years?" I was finding the whole thing so unbelivable that I started even suspecting the Creatives of making Aarti forget such huge events just for the sake of dramatic effect. Thank God today my faith in the Creatives has been restored!

2. In the scene where Gayatri, Bua and Vidhi are all staring at Aarti in disbelief as she says she is telling the truth before God that she had no relations with Aman, another part of my mind's mystery clicked for me. I was thinking to myself: "How much more are they all going to torture Aarti for the faults of Yash? If he is angry surely the family should be grilling him and not Aarti? And indeed, what more can Aarti say in her defence, except repeating over and over again that she remembers nothing and that she surely did not have illicit relations with Aman?"

Gayatri today was superb as she told Aarti that as a woman she would be able to understand and forgive if Aarti had indeed had some physical urge to have a one-night stand with Aman. But it was not even Gayatri who was able to gave the exact explanation why the family was torturing Aarti to "tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth". The Bua let slip the real family position whe she said: "If you are so truthful Aarti, then how come Yash is so angry and does not even want to see your face?" So there it is … the family has not even an iota of suspicion that this whole issue could be a figment of Yash's imagiation and has taken Yash's angry rants as the gospel truth. They are taking Yash's position as stable and therefore see Aarti's position as shaky. It is not the family's mistrust of Aarti, it is the family's blind trust that even in his maniacal behaviour and loss of reason, Yash must be right! That is so unfair on Aarti!

3. Now here are two possibilities for the real truth tomorrow based on the sentence Yash said to Aarti today that: "Let this be secret between us, for if the truth comes out this marriage will have no standing! This marriage has no destinaton, understand that! Better we let the matter stay between us and go our separate ways!"

The first possiblity that occurs to me: Yash has read the diary and knows Aarti has fallen for him. This may have made him feel betrayed that Aarti is not keeping her side of the bargain they made at the time of the Punar Vivah that they will make no emotional demands of each other and will marry only for the sake of the children. Maybe Aarti's love is complicating life for Yash who does not want to reciprocate and lose his loyalty to Arpita? He does not want to see her face nor even be gentle with her. He wants to erase the love she is developing for him, and nip it in the bud with hatred from his side. Could that be why he says in an indirect way: "Let this diary business and all that love-talk be secret between us, as this marriage has no ultimate "love destination". So better we both don't fall for each other and thus go our separate ways?"

The second posiibility that occurs to me: It comes from the allusion to Prashanth in the precap. How did Ansh get to know about Prashanth? And if Ansh knows of his real father's existence, does Yash also somehow know about it? Did Aman spill this info? Aarti never told Aman not to tell, right? Could it have just slipped out in conversation between Aman and Yash? If that is the case then maybe Yash's anger is about Aarti not telling him about this "big lie". Maybe then Yash's dialogue today had this meaning:"Let this Prashanth business be secret between us, because otherwise our marriage will not have a standing (meaning the family will close out Aarti). Our marriage has no destination as a result of this big lie you have placed between us, so better we go our separate ways hereafter for you have betrayed my trust, and this truth is too hard for me bear."

Thankfully we may have to wait just 24 hours I think to know the truth. Maybe at Shobha's house when Ansh mentions that he knows Prashanth is his father, Aarti may get her revelation from Ganpati as to the real reason for Yash's anger. Maybe she will come to know that Ansh came to know of Prashanth from Yash - or in Yash's hearing.

Maybe this "big lie" has come full circle to roast not just Aarti but also all the viewers. After all when the Creatives had that survey and asked if the lie should come out the majority seem to have said "No"!

I personally now feel that it would have been better for Aarti to tell Yash the truth then, rather than have Yash find out the truth by himself now, like this!