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Episode Analysis
I am going to divide my take into two parts today. The first is going to be mathematical and deductive and the second is going to be my thoughts on the symbolism in the episode. So what the CVs have given us at this point is a date to go by, August 10. We know for sure that two things happened on this day and they are:
1.Aman's driver returns Aarti's clothes
2. Suneeta leaves the message about Prashant
We know for sure that the first is not what made Yash angry because he has refuted it himself. The second we are still not sure, because they very conspicuously showed only Suneeta's POV and we have no idea if Yash heard the message or not. He might have gotten angry about something else and left even before he got a chance to hear it. Anyway, I am sure Prashant's truth is coming out one way or another now with his entry, Dubey's crumbling and Aarti's own conscience but I am not sure if Yash heard that message or found out another way.
What we know from Yash's own clippings is that whatever the incident is happened at night. "uss raat," "vo haadsa," "mann ka paap" and the fact that it was raining are mentioned by him repeatedly. Now I think we are making the mistake of assuming that he is talking about the same thing here. Perhaps he is talking about a number of things that happened to him over the course of the trip. Maybe it was a series of things that he felt for her. I don't think it is Aarti "seducing" him or being in love with him because the way he talked to his brothers comes to mind, "could you bear to hear it?" he asks them. It is only then that I think we can actually gain any knowledge because he is telling them directly. "Mumbai mein, uss raat, Aartiji ne..." Then again, this might just be the start of his story...just as meeting Aman was the start of Aarti's, and not the actual reason itself so how much can we know from his clipped phrases?
All we do have is the list of flashbacks and the information we know:
The last thing we saw in Mumbai was the koli dance, and it marked a significant change in Yash, so I am going to take that as a base point in this chronology
They were there for four days after that so in those four days the following things happened:
Yash taught Aarti how to do that dance step and Arpita's picture broke (I am guessing this was the same day as the koli festival)
They met Aman, played table tennis with him (this must have happened before the koli festival, or just after it)
By the next day she had reframed the broken picture
This must have also been the day she went to the temple because she told Gayatri she went soon after the koli festival, having fulfilled her mission to bring back the "old Yash" - if it was the same day then this was the night she came home late and Yash came in the morning,
Ansh fell off the swing and they took him to the hospital
Dahi handi (had to be after the koli festival, based on Yash's mood and behaviour)
The fire with Arpita's things burning down (I am guessing this happened the day before they left because Aarti felt like she had to say sorry for it even in Bhopal. Maybe she didn't get the
As for the Essel World flashback, I think that fits around the same time as when they met Aman, that is, soon after the koli dance because Suneetha had to have at least 2 days to realise Aarti was not at fault and then to call and leave that message. Also, Aarti mentioned that they were there for two more days and Yash didn't say anything. In the end it all comes down to what happened on the night of August 9th, or before they left on August 10th that we do not know about. Did Yash hear the message? Did he read Aarti's diary? We can't really say, but I suppose we will find out soon. I still maintain that Aarti fainting is a loop closure for the time she fainted after seeing Prashant before the wedding. That time Yash had rescued her and brought her back to the resort, to marry him. I think here also he will bring her back to be his wife, only this time, knowing the whole truth about her past.
Now to the second and more fun part of my take. I am going to ignore the fact that they left the kids unattended in an amusement park and Ansh just went off by himself to buy water (always with the independence, that kid!) while his parents were on the ride. The shift I saw in the Yash-Aarti dynamic was incredible! All this time, Aarti has had the upper hand in the relationship because she was the one giving her all to it while Yash was stuck in Arpita-land and mostly distant and needing guidance to join the living. We saw Aarti prodding and encouraging him, often through teasing, all this time and finally we saw Yash abandon his half-life to embrace his present with Aarti and the kids.
In this Essel World flashback, we see how the tables have turned! Before Yash came out of his Arpita-stupour, he was the one bringing more baggage into this relationship with Aarti, the one who was partially still in his previous relationship and so Aarti had the upper hand in this relationship and in bringing him towards fulfilling it in a complete sense. Now however, Yash has allowed Arpita to become a beautiful memory and phase of his life, and embraced this new life with Aarti and his kids as his immediate reality. He may not love Aarti yet, in the traditional sense, but she is definitely a vital part of his world and he loves that family that they make together; did you see the way he said that Ansh was his son? Aarti is also his friend, which was apparent today when he cheekily told her that she was holding his hand. I don't think he meant it to make her let go, as she interpreted, but rather to poke fun at her for being scared, which was clear by the fact that he continued the subject and insisted on going on a roller coaster with her. Wasn't this just for the kids, Yash? This marriage, this Mumbai trip, this outing to Essel World? Then why do you feel like having fun all of a sudden, along with the kids? Yash now has the upper hand in the relationship because he is the freer of the two, considering he has revealed all his baggage AND dealt with it. Aarti, while she may have dealt with her baggage (which I don't really believe she did, she just denied it) has not revealed it and so she becomes the vulnerable one in need of guidance in the equation. I just loved that shift they brought about!
I thought it was so significant that the issue of "bharosa" came up just when Prashant is about to make his re-entry. Yash asks Aarti if he trusts her and she tells him she does, and then later iterates that nothing could happen to her, nor could she be afraid as long as Yash was by her side. The faith that Prashant left non-existent, Yash managed to build in Aarti once again, so much so that she does not even notice until he does that Ansh is gone. It is not just her faith in him, but in humanity in general that allows her not to panic at this moment and shows Yash even more concerned than she is about Ansh being out of their sight. It was a beautiful piece of storytelling that the next moment, Aarti saw something that scared the living daylights out of her, even though, and in fact because Yash was by her side. It was the one thing for which Yash would go against Aarti and the one thing Aarti was hiding from Yash: the truth.
Even though Suneeta's character was brief, I thought the angle they gave her was fascinating. She was the one who introduced Aarti and Prashant, was probably the friend who teased her about him and pushed her further and further into his way and made her own romantic dreams around the romance of Prashant and Aarti. Love marriage is still rare enough in India that people who do it are considered very romantic and exotic, and the thought that a love marriage should fail was probably really foreign to Suneeta. And her characterisation itself justified why Aarti probably didn't invite her to the PV. Aarti was ashamed of herself at that time for getting married again when Prashant was alive, and considered it a defeat, a compromise for Ansh's happiness. She probably was too shamefaced to invite a friend like Suneeta when she had told her that she would love Prashant forever, and wait for him, only to be coerced into this second marriage for the happiness of her son. Probably seeing Suneeta again unexpectedly brought back all those old feelings that Aarti didn't want to deal with during her Mumbai dream, when Yash was just starting to notice her. She didn't want to remember that she was a "failure" in her first marriage, that she had "betrayed" her first love. Most of all, she didn't want to think about how she had betrayed her current love too...and as the flashback suggests, as soon as they left she forgot all about it. But I don't think Yash did.
My theory is that the issue is the divorce truth (because all the dialogues point in that direction), but that Yash didn't find out through Suneeta's message. He was very suspicious when Aarti was talking to Suneeta at the way she was acting, which I think is interesting in the context of the fact that they showed her with Aman. He saw how free she is with her friends, and how she behaved with Suneeta. She didn't try too hard to hide the fact that she never wanted to see her again, not just that she was trying to avoid the situation in the present moment. I don't know why, but I have this feeling that Yash met Prashant and Prashant thought he could make Yash mad just by saying that Aarti was still in love with him, but got an extra bonus when he found out that Yash hadn't even known they were divorced. I think his and Nida's break-up is a lie to melt Papa D and make him see the possibility of an Aarti-Prashant patch-up. But only time will tell.
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Episode Analysis
I am going to divide my take into two parts today. The first is going to be mathematical and deductive and the second is going to be my thoughts on the symbolism in the episode. So what the CVs have given us at this point is a date to go by, August 10. We know for sure that two things happened on this day and they are:
1.Aman's driver returns Aarti's clothes
2. Suneeta leaves the message about Prashant
We know for sure that the first is not what made Yash angry because he has refuted it himself. The second we are still not sure, because they very conspicuously showed only Suneeta's POV and we have no idea if Yash heard the message or not. He might have gotten angry about something else and left even before he got a chance to hear it. Anyway, I am sure Prashant's truth is coming out one way or another now with his entry, Dubey's crumbling and Aarti's own conscience but I am not sure if Yash heard that message or found out another way.
What we know from Yash's own clippings is that whatever the incident is happened at night. "uss raat," "vo haadsa," "mann ka paap" and the fact that it was raining are mentioned by him repeatedly. Now I think we are making the mistake of assuming that he is talking about the same thing here. Perhaps he is talking about a number of things that happened to him over the course of the trip. Maybe it was a series of things that he felt for her. I don't think it is Aarti "seducing" him or being in love with him because the way he talked to his brothers comes to mind, "could you bear to hear it?" he asks them. It is only then that I think we can actually gain any knowledge because he is telling them directly. "Mumbai mein, uss raat, Aartiji ne..." Then again, this might just be the start of his story...just as meeting Aman was the start of Aarti's, and not the actual reason itself so how much can we know from his clipped phrases?
All we do have is the list of flashbacks and the information we know:
The last thing we saw in Mumbai was the koli dance, and it marked a significant change in Yash, so I am going to take that as a base point in this chronology
They were there for four days after that so in those four days the following things happened:
Yash taught Aarti how to do that dance step and Arpita's picture broke (I am guessing this was the same day as the koli festival)
They met Aman, played table tennis with him (this must have happened before the koli festival, or just after it)
By the next day she had reframed the broken picture
This must have also been the day she went to the temple because she told Gayatri she went soon after the koli festival, having fulfilled her mission to bring back the "old Yash" - if it was the same day then this was the night she came home late and Yash came in the morning,
Ansh fell off the swing and they took him to the hospital
Dahi handi (had to be after the koli festival, based on Yash's mood and behaviour)
The fire with Arpita's things burning down (I am guessing this happened the day before they left because Aarti felt like she had to say sorry for it even in Bhopal. Maybe she didn't get the
As for the Essel World flashback, I think that fits around the same time as when they met Aman, that is, soon after the koli dance because Suneetha had to have at least 2 days to realise Aarti was not at fault and then to call and leave that message. Also, Aarti mentioned that they were there for two more days and Yash didn't say anything. In the end it all comes down to what happened on the night of August 9th, or before they left on August 10th that we do not know about. Did Yash hear the message? Did he read Aarti's diary? We can't really say, but I suppose we will find out soon. I still maintain that Aarti fainting is a loop closure for the time she fainted after seeing Prashant before the wedding. That time Yash had rescued her and brought her back to the resort, to marry him. I think here also he will bring her back to be his wife, only this time, knowing the whole truth about her past.
Now to the second and more fun part of my take. I am going to ignore the fact that they left the kids unattended in an amusement park and Ansh just went off by himself to buy water (always with the independence, that kid!) while his parents were on the ride. The shift I saw in the Yash-Aarti dynamic was incredible! All this time, Aarti has had the upper hand in the relationship because she was the one giving her all to it while Yash was stuck in Arpita-land and mostly distant and needing guidance to join the living. We saw Aarti prodding and encouraging him, often through teasing, all this time and finally we saw Yash abandon his half-life to embrace his present with Aarti and the kids.
In this Essel World flashback, we see how the tables have turned! Before Yash came out of his Arpita-stupour, he was the one bringing more baggage into this relationship with Aarti, the one who was partially still in his previous relationship and so Aarti had the upper hand in this relationship and in bringing him towards fulfilling it in a complete sense. Now however, Yash has allowed Arpita to become a beautiful memory and phase of his life, and embraced this new life with Aarti and his kids as his immediate reality. He may not love Aarti yet, in the traditional sense, but she is definitely a vital part of his world and he loves that family that they make together; did you see the way he said that Ansh was his son? Aarti is also his friend, which was apparent today when he cheekily told her that she was holding his hand. I don't think he meant it to make her let go, as she interpreted, but rather to poke fun at her for being scared, which was clear by the fact that he continued the subject and insisted on going on a roller coaster with her. Wasn't this just for the kids, Yash? This marriage, this Mumbai trip, this outing to Essel World? Then why do you feel like having fun all of a sudden, along with the kids? Yash now has the upper hand in the relationship because he is the freer of the two, considering he has revealed all his baggage AND dealt with it. Aarti, while she may have dealt with her baggage (which I don't really believe she did, she just denied it) has not revealed it and so she becomes the vulnerable one in need of guidance in the equation. I just loved that shift they brought about!
I thought it was so significant that the issue of "bharosa" came up just when Prashant is about to make his re-entry. Yash asks Aarti if he trusts her and she tells him she does, and then later iterates that nothing could happen to her, nor could she be afraid as long as Yash was by her side. The faith that Prashant left non-existent, Yash managed to build in Aarti once again, so much so that she does not even notice until he does that Ansh is gone. It is not just her faith in him, but in humanity in general that allows her not to panic at this moment and shows Yash even more concerned than she is about Ansh being out of their sight. It was a beautiful piece of storytelling that the next moment, Aarti saw something that scared the living daylights out of her, even though, and in fact because Yash was by her side. It was the one thing for which Yash would go against Aarti and the one thing Aarti was hiding from Yash: the truth.
Even though Suneeta's character was brief, I thought the angle they gave her was fascinating. She was the one who introduced Aarti and Prashant, was probably the friend who teased her about him and pushed her further and further into his way and made her own romantic dreams around the romance of Prashant and Aarti. Love marriage is still rare enough in India that people who do it are considered very romantic and exotic, and the thought that a love marriage should fail was probably really foreign to Suneeta. And her characterisation itself justified why Aarti probably didn't invite her to the PV. Aarti was ashamed of herself at that time for getting married again when Prashant was alive, and considered it a defeat, a compromise for Ansh's happiness. She probably was too shamefaced to invite a friend like Suneeta when she had told her that she would love Prashant forever, and wait for him, only to be coerced into this second marriage for the happiness of her son. Probably seeing Suneeta again unexpectedly brought back all those old feelings that Aarti didn't want to deal with during her Mumbai dream, when Yash was just starting to notice her. She didn't want to remember that she was a "failure" in her first marriage, that she had "betrayed" her first love. Most of all, she didn't want to think about how she had betrayed her current love too...and as the flashback suggests, as soon as they left she forgot all about it. But I don't think Yash did.
My theory is that the issue is the divorce truth (because all the dialogues point in that direction), but that Yash didn't find out through Suneeta's message. He was very suspicious when Aarti was talking to Suneeta at the way she was acting, which I think is interesting in the context of the fact that they showed her with Aman. He saw how free she is with her friends, and how she behaved with Suneeta. She didn't try too hard to hide the fact that she never wanted to see her again, not just that she was trying to avoid the situation in the present moment. I don't know why, but I have this feeling that Yash met Prashant and Prashant thought he could make Yash mad just by saying that Aarti was still in love with him, but got an extra bonus when he found out that Yash hadn't even known they were divorced. I think his and Nida's break-up is a lie to melt Papa D and make him see the possibility of an Aarti-Prashant patch-up. But only time will tell.
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