26/9 Dragon Club: Work The Grey Cells, Yash!

I think the most important thing to remember here is that Aarti found out about the baby before she even knew what happened that night, so the memory of that night was always connected to the baby, and a sense of positivity and hope. Yash, on the other hand, remembers that night quite clearly and feels terrible about it. Not only did he cheat on Arpita that night, but he also ruined the great bond and mutual comfort he and Aarti had formed, which was giving his life a new direction. So that night is only and only associated with loss and ruin for him. Can you really blame him for not wanting to talk about it? Also, can you take a moment to imagine how Aarti would have felt about that night if she didn't know about the baby first? I think her reaction would have been quite different actually because with the knowledge of the baby came the need to justify its existence. So if she had learned about the night they spent together, but had no baby to defend, she probably wouldn't have been so confrontational and insistent on the idea of that night being a sign of love, the sudden and violent insistence which I think made Yash suspicious of her broaching that subject again today. If it weren't for this baby, Aarti would want to forget that night and move on as well. I am pretty confident of that, because though she was in love with Yash, she wasn't really ready for that night much more than he was.

See, from Yash's perspective, his anger and his outburst are normal; he has always behaved this way and his family has always just accepted it and moved on after he gets better. Even Aarti herself has followed this mould in times when he got angry, such as Palak's birthday and the suggestion for the Mumbai trip to happen in the first place. He gets angry, goes all irrational and then as soon as he is all better, he expects everyone to be. In addition, Aarti was with him in the fight, yes she expressed her anger in her outburst, but after that she supported him in his boxing match. That is why he is so confused with her behaviour now. Wasn't she on my side, he thinks? Wasn't she the one rooting for me to win the fight so we could move on from that night? Then why is she acting strangely now that I have won and moved on? And why does she insist on bringing that terrible mistake up again and again, when all I want is for us to be friends and parents to our kids, and to get back on the path we were so happily walking before that "haadsa" turned our lives upside down.

I completely sympathise with Aarti's fear of telling him the truth (now that she articulated that he has a right to know, being the baby's father, thank you Aarti!) but unfortunately it is only leading them into a vicious spiral. Until he knows what she knows about that night, Yash will continue to see it as a mistake because from his perspective, nothing good came out of it, and it is something he desperately wants to move past. Even though he interrupted her today, and it seemed unfair that he wouldn't let her speak, actually I thought it was very mature. Instead of throwing things around and screaming, he told her clearly that thinking of that night made him restless and angry and that he couldn't handle those feelings. He is unable to express or articulate it, but he does not want to be the monster he was for the past few weeks again and can't understand why Aarti insists on "provoking" him. Basically, everything is still about him in his head because that is his default. It is not going to change until Aarti tells him loud and clear, the thing which will shift his perspective entirely.

I absolutely loved the bathroom scene! There was our elemental symbolism making its presence felt yet again. This time it was water and earth. I thought the Payal - Ansh dialogue was so resounding. Payal says, "so much dirt?" and Ansh responds,"If you play in the mud, of course you will get dirty, silly!" To me the real Buddhu in the situation was not Payal, but rather her parents. They are the ones that "played in the mud" and thought they would come out with no side effects. By making Yash's happiness her mission without his knowledge, Aarti was playing a dangerous game, and by marrying for his kids and presuming he could control his feelings, long after they had run away with him, Yash was no less of a buddhu himself. Now both of them stand, trying desperately to wash the mud away with clear water, Yash by forgetting the night, and Aarti by justifying it as an act of love. But at the same time, it is the same mud in which this seed was planted. Aarti is trying to protect it but Yash is trying to wash it away. It's not his fault...he has no idea about the seed they planted together that night and only sees the dirt. If she truly wants to protect the baby, Aarti has to tell Yash about it because until then, he is going to keep trying to wash the dirt away.

She left him hanging when they bumped heads! And that was their thing too! But this is good, Yash is taking initiative to make sure there is no conflict, given that that is how the superstition goes.

I am sorry my dear Aarti, I know you are scared of telling him and I appreciate but leaving your report on the table is a supremely idiotic idea. Yash is not the type to actually look in that file just because it is on his table. I highly doubt he is going to open it, but fortunately there are tonnes of nosy souls around Scindia House who would be happy to do the honours! Aarti, why couldn't you hand him the file and walk out of the room, leave a post-it on the file that said, "read this, Yashji," or you know, sent him a text message? Anything but leaving your most private matters out in the open for anyone to see and start their meddling, as always! I mean what is Yash supposed to do? Wouldn't he consider it a violation of privacy to read the file? I understand Aarti doesn't want to confront him but...really? Scared. 😕

Paridhi with loads of clothes in her hands is looking for Ram Dulare and the rest of the workers to washed them...Vidhi comes and tells her that the servants are busy and that even she & Aarti hand wash their clothes since the washing machine is broken...Vidhi tells her adjust for some time to which Paridhi replies that she's a TV icon and she doesn't hand wash before leaving she tells Vidhi, thank you but she'll send her clothes to the laundry ..I love the new and improved Vidhi, I hope she stays this way 😉👏

Aarti comes home...She heads to her bedroom to tell everything to Yash, she pauses a sec outside the room before entering...She enters and nearly falls when she bumps her foot, luckily Yash catches her in time, she tells him thank you...Yash in self thought says that Aarti is hiding something as she is being so formal in thanking him...Come Yashbabu, think harder 😆

Yash comes and asks her what she wanted to tell him, Aarti remembers what the doc told her and Yash's words about their night being a sin ...Yash asks her again what she wanted to say, and hesitant Aarti says that what happened in Mumbai and Yash doesn't wanna talk about it...he continues to say that he feels frustrated it and he asks her to please forget about it but not before calling it ...Ansh calls Yash to come play and Aarti asks how can she forget she can never forget it while pacing her hand on her stomach... My heart was breaking for Aarti and our Little AarYa cause once again Pa Yash unknowingly called he/her a mistake 😭😭😡