24/9 Dragon Club: Gayatri's Demand

That was a fantastic, wonderful and utterly touching episode that showed the story moving in all the right directions. I was utterly mesmerised by the song sequence and there were some very poignant moments which I want to discuss.

Yash is a very self-centred person and he also perceived Aarti as unbreakable, thanks to her resilience in standing by him no matter how insanely he behaved. Now that his problem was solved, that is his guilt regarding Arpita, and that whole phase of his madness, he expects everything to go back to normal, for Aarti to be ecstatic and for her to once more be his friend. Just because he understood that she didn't manipulate him or plan what happened between them, and now has forgiveness and sanction of Arpita, he expects his angry words, said in a state of rage, to be null and void. This comes from his lack of belief in the power of his own words, which has been a problem for him from the beginning. He does not realise that he himself has changed the status quo by wearing blinders in this whole affair. Being able to enjoy moments with Aarti, enjoy her friendship and work through the feelings he has for her were supposed to be the outcome of the fight and Arpita's blessing. He had a plan, a very linear one, but he didn't stop for a moment to consider what he was knocking over as he forged this impossibly straight path, refusing to turn or follow where the actual road was leading.

The scene with the kids was absolutely heartbreaking and really the trigger for Yash's thought process. Aarti, who was having unrestrained fun with her kids was suddenly made aware when she found herself in Yash's presence that he didn't like childishness, so she acted as "adult" as possible in that moment and shouted at her kids, full of authority and without reason. The same Aarti who believes in communicating with children on their level, never saying the old "because I said so," is suddenly screaming at them without a trace of sympathy or empathy for their feelings. At first, I felt like Aarti was not being fair on the kids here, which is one way of looking at it, but then I realised, maybe she was screaming at them to protect them from a much, much worse possibility if Yash were to lose his cool again and get violent. She knew that it hurt the kids to have her shout at them like that but if she were to accept their wishes and play with them, then Yash might misinterpret her intentions and go back into the state he was before. What's more, now she has yet another life, inside of her to look after. In short, she doesn't absolutely trust Yash with the kids anymore because he has shown that they don't serve to stand in the way of his blinding anger. By shouting at the kids, she may have hurt and confused them but she also gave them their father back, both because he had to take care of them after that and because from her perspective, she made sure she didn't do anything to make him lose his cool.

And here comes the dialogue that I felt really started Yash's thought process: Ansh and Palak asking, why is mumma angry like papa now? Once this fight was over they were so hoping for their Mumbai time family to come back again. These are children that have grown up either almost all/all their lives with one parent and an overwhelming sense of something missing. When in Mumbai, they finally felt like they had a complete family and before they could absorb and enjoy the feeling, it was snatched away from them. In their own way, they are trying desperately to conjure it back, and they thought that after the fight and coming back home, they were entitled to it once more. Instead they find that the trade off for finding their father, was their mother's happiness. And because they compared Yash and Aarti, Yash really got a sense of what they went through when he was angry...and what Aarti had to deal with. This is why he immediately covered for Aarti and took responsibility for the kids. Realisation is dawning on him slowly.

In the scene where they show the kids sleeping, I found it really interesting that while Ansh had his arm wrapped around Yash and was within the circle of Yash's arm, Palak slept away from him, and Yash had to reach out to her after she was asleep. This to me was really prominent because she was always the one who was most like and most attached to Yash. When he shouted at Aarti on her birthday, she was all out defending him and saying that her papa could never be wrong. Today I sense a disappointment in her for Yash because just as she was protective of him and stubbornly loyal, she is that way for Aarti now. It took her a long time to accept Aarti as her mother, but once she did it was for keeps. Now every stubborn, loyal and defensive instinct she had for Yash and Arpita is there for Aarti as well and she is a very just little thing...much like her father. She doesn't take well to a sense of injustice and I think she senses, more than Ansh, how much their mother has been wronged. I am interested to see if the CVs develop on the idea of Yash winning her full trust back as well, because if you think about it, he wronged Palak quite deeply in his behaviour. Without talking to her, he brought this new mother and expected her to be okay with it, he left it entirely to Aarti and Palak to figure out how this would affect Arpita's place in Palak's life, and just as Palak had let her guard down and accepted Aarti, he threatened to completely alienate her once again. I can see why Palak is still aloof.

Ansh on the other hand, is a lot simpler. For him this is not the first time Yash has been away from him (since this happened after the kidnapping), and the fact that Yash has always come back after a separation, more loving and invested than before makes Ansh very faithful this time around too, and ready to accept Yash back the moment he asserts that he is no longer angry. Ansh is also used to seeing his mother go through sad and angry phases sometimes, and he knows she comes out of them eventually, whereas for Palak, for whom Aarti has only ever been gentle and kind, this is kind of a shock and I think she is less open to accept that things are actually going to be okay than Ansh.

Geez, I had planned to write one paragraph about the kids and then go into the song sequence, but I guess that didn't work out! I always get carried away when I am talking about the kids. But the song sequence was beautiful in Yash's restlessness and his longing for Aarti. She held the light at the end of the tunnel for him and she was supposed to be there when he came out, beaming and proud. Instead, he finds that she just left the lantern and has moved somewhere far away from him, a fact that is upsetting him both because he needs her to guide him, as she did in Mumbai and because he feels like he did this partly for her and the fact that she is not allowing him to enjoy the fruits of his new clarity is bothering him. When he was pushing her away, she refused to budge and now when he feels free to be around her and enjoy her company she refuses to be there with him. What he needs to realise is that he has to pick up the lantern now and find her so they can illuminate the path ahead together.

But the thing that was most significant about the whole sequence was the convergence of Yash and Aarti's past in the frame when the song sequence started. As Aarti entered the room, from outside where it was raining, Yash was captured with a wind chime behind his head!* Brilliance, or what? But because all the doors and windows were shut to the rain, the wind chime, that is Aarti's true self was silent. I think it represents the fact that Aarti has shut herself off from the elements and so her "self" is also still and soundless, though still moving gently. Just as Yash said, she no longer responded to the thunder or felt fear of it, which he clearly missed because he liked the feeling of being the manly protector, and that is because she has shut herself off completely.

This took me back to the scene when the Prashant confrontation had just happened. The wind chime was being violently blown in the wind, just as Aarti's feelings were in havoc thanks to Prashant's accusations, and suddenly they fell down. That day also, by denying her past with Prashant, Aarti had lost her fundamental sense of self, but the difference today is that while Prashant brought her crashing to the ground, Yash merely stilled her music momentarily. She has closed all the doors and windows because she is convinced that Yash hates the rain, that he is still haunted by his past and that the night where he said otherwise was in his own words, nothing but a "paap." But unlike Prashant, who broke her completely, with Yash, her desires, her dreams and her love are all still there, hanging and even moving gently but without making a noise, just waiting for Yash to open the window and allow the elements back into Aarti's life so her soul can sing merrily once again.

*This is the frame I was talking about.

After putting the clothes away, Aarti takes a cover and pillow and lays down on the sofa meanwhile Yash is looking at her while she's clutching on to her mangalsutra and staring at the ceiling...The latter lays on the bed still looking at Aarti and is feeling restless...he sits up and was about to ask Aarti something but decided against it...He gets up off the bed and leaves the room...Aarti finally closes her eyes and drifts away to sleep...well ou girl is finally doing what we wanted her to do and it's really shaking up out boy 😳😳❤️

The next AM Vidhi and Aarti are in the kitchen...The former tells Aarti how she was alone without her just then Shobha comes...She and Aarti share a hug, she goes on to ask Vidhi about Gayatri...Shobha assuming that the family knows about Aarti's pregnancy was about to say something when Aarti stops her...Pheww Aarti darling, you've just dogged a bullet...Seriously why doesn't Shobha stay out of this? <_<

I loved the episode for one simple reason and that is Aarti's indifferent and aloof behaviour towards Yash which I was eagerly waiting for 😃😃😃...Finally tghe much awiated role reversal track starts where Yash will go behind Aarti to find out whats bothering her 😎



Yash himself has put Aarti into a shell... Only he can get her out of it 😳

Yash himself has pushed Aarti in that dark shell where she stopped smiling , stopped getting scared of thunderstorms like a kid , stopped playing around with Yash and kids combined , stopped sharing same bed with Yash , in short she stopped living life to the fullest like she used to earlier simply because she does not want to upset Yash or give him any wrong indication that she is trying to woo him ... So Aarti today killed her lively self which Yash witnessed in Mumbai ...

Aarti is behaving exactly how Yash wanted her to ... She blasts the kids when they ask her to play hide and seek with Yash or else later Yash will accuse her of planning and plotting using kids ..isn't it 😆...She sleeps on sofa and not bed or else later Yash will accuse her of seducing him on bed ...isn't it 😉...Even Yash knows it and reason why even though he was feeling restless to talk to Aarti but he just dint hv the mouth to go and ask her why r u behaving in such weird way because somewhere in his mind he knows that he only called for it and he only made Aarti go in that dark shell 😉😛

Yash wanted Aarti just to stay as kid's mother and thats what she is doing mechanically 😆..So why is Yash hving a problem now ?? Why is he so restless now seeing his wife ignore her ?? Why is he wondering about Aarti not smiling now ?? 😉...He wanted this only from Aarti na ?? 😛...So why cant he alone sleep on bed now ?? Why is Aarti's silence and indifference bothering him so much ?? 😉😛...All this while his mind was engaged in Arpita guilt , so now time for Yash to start thinking about Aarti and see her POV 😊...


This is where Yash will realise that he is so used to see that smiling and happy lively talkative face of Aarti around him that her silence and indifference today is affecting him and making him restless more than Arpita's absense 😃😃...Only Yash can bring that chirpy and lively Aarti back in action again 😳



Kitni baatein ..Yaad Aati hai .. when silence speaks ..AarYa r lovely to watch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


This was such an apt song on Yash-Aarti's silent moment after all the fights and arguments 😳...when there r no words left , only silence do the talking from both sides and the song did exactly the same beautifully showing the emotions of both and indicating how things hv changed completely now between both with Aarti all indifferent lost in past memories she once cherished 😭 and Yash all restless trying to find out whats bothering Aarti when few weeks back it was the opposite 😛

Kitni Baatein Yaad Aati Hain
Tasverein Si Ban Jaati Hain
Main Kaise Inhein Bhoolon, Dil Ko Kya Samjhaon
Kitni Baatein Kahane Ki Hain
Hothon Par Jo Sahmi Si Hain
Ek Roz Inhein Sun Lo, Kyun Aise Gumsum Ho
Kyun Poori Ho Na Paayee Daastan
Kaise Aayee Hain Aisi Dooriyan


This stanza of the song is from Aarti's POV ... She remembers every single moment of Mumbai but only as past memory now which has become a nightmare for her ...She wonders why this distance and why this silence , but she is keeping it all to herself and just hoping one day he is ready to listen to her emotions as well 😭😭


Donon Ke Dilon Mein Sawaal Hain, Phir Bhi Hai Khamoshi
To Kaun Hai Kiska Doshi, Koi Kya Kahe
Kaisi Uljhanon Ke Ye Jaal Hain, Jin Mein Uljhe Hain Dil
Ab Hona Hai Kya Haasil, Koi Kya Kahe
Dil Ki Hai Kaisi Majbooriyan
Khoye The Kaise Raahon Ke Nishaan
Kaise Aayee Hain Aisi Dooriyan
Kitni Baatein ...Kyun Aise Gumsum Ho
Kitni Baatein...Dil Ko Kya Samjhaon


This stanza is from Yash's POV where he knows that both hv lots of questions in their heart , but right now its silence doing the talking which is making him restless and he is finally beginning to wonder who is really at fault and how much unfair mayb he was in this case towards Aarti ...He knows he has lost the real lively Aarti somewhere and dunno how to get her back .. Its beginning ot his realisation journey in a way 😳






Yash was actually funny today 😆..all this while he was so busy doing tod-phod and giving marathon races outside the house that not once he thought about its impact on Aarti or about her emotions 😡...Suddenly after doing all sort of drama , when Aarti finally goes into a shell as per his wish , he wonders why ,how ,when 😕😆😆...


Someone should give a danda on his head and remind him of all the drama he did in last 3 weeks 😡😆😆... But I m happy that finally Yash is beginning to hv his much needed self-talks on Aarti and not Arpita 😃...Finally his mind is engaged with Aarti's thoughts and not Arpita 😃...Enough progress for a start of his realisation 😆


Tomorrow as per precap I hope Aarti blasts Yash saying u hv no right to chk my personal SMSes on my mobile since if u forgot ,then let me remind u that we r not typical husband-wife and I m just your kids ka mother ... So dont try to b typical hubby 😃😆😆...Aarti should give Yash a taste of his own medicine and make him realise how much it hurts 😭😃


Aarti should take the upper hand in this pregnency right from day 1 and make Yash sweat to find out the truth of her pregnency and then if he asks her why dint u tell me , she should say how does it matter , its afterall a paap for u na , so let me handle it on my own 😃... Your family wants a POTA from me , so I m giving it to them ., b happy and dont interfere in my life 😛😆😆😆

Yash will b clean bowled and realise how it feels when someone tells such harsh words to u 😃


I m really happy that Aarti never tried to gain any sympathy by telling him the pregnency news or making a drama out of her pregnency in front of Scindia family which she could hv easily since entire family expects this from her and then Yash himself would hv looked all guilty in front of all but the fact that Aarti dint do any drama out of her pregnency will make Yash realise that how wrong he was when he accused Aarti of trying to take Arpita's place in the house 😊



Aarti'a bangle getting stuck to Yash's kurta ... Role reversal was evident in this scene itself 😳😳

It was a lovely romantic scene but earlier whenever Aarti's dupatta or kangan got stuck to Yash's kurta , we saw Aarti taking the initiative to remove it but today its Yash who took the initiative to remove it and mayb then he was expecting Aarti to show her eagerness on playing hide and seek with them but Aarti's silence and later her blasting to kids started affecting him whole night simply because he is not used to see this side of Aarti and this is where he will realise how much he is used to see a smiling and lively Aarti in action 😉...



Paridi and Pratik r drifting apart slowly despite hving a perfect marriage

Its not really a good sign for the couple since today's argument looks like last nail in coffin where Paridi indirectly told Pratik that he is jobless and she has no time to waste on him or his bhaiyya-bhabhi's issues


What Paridi told about Yash-Aarti was actually the voice of viewers in a way since we ourselves last week kept complaining about what is Yash's problem or if he is so attached to his first wife , then why he got married again or why cant Aarti walk off to her own house and today see the irony , Paridi is saying the same from viewer's POV 😉😆...

This goes on to show what CVs r actually trying to tell here 😊...Via Paridi they r showing that its easy for a third person to pass a judgement on how this remarriage should b over since Yash is obsessed with his first wife but the real challenge of this relationship is to make all realise that how a relationship can work against all hurdles if one makes an honest effort and keeps her faith in it just like Aarti 😳...

Paridi and Pratik hv a perfect love marriage and still we can see it going down the drains ..Why ?/ Its because Paridi is not ready to keep that faith in this relationship nor she wants to work on it which again proves that even a perfect marriage can go kaput if your lifepartner does not put in honest efforts or keep faith in that relationship.. 😊😊



Keep Shobha in this way only CVs 👍🏼 ...

Today I loved Shobha simply because she was not too preachy but rather was direct and practical when she asked Aarti to tell her pregnency truth to all before its too late since she does not want another Prashant lie type fiasco here 👏👏👏



Overall a wonderful start to the week with a new role-reversal track with Aarti ignoring Yash and finally Yash hving thoughts of Aarti .. this should b fun 😃😃