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Episode Analysis
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Episode Analysis
Today once again was a fantastic episode! I guess I didn't realise how much the writers struggled when GC was juggling two shows, but it becomes apparent when we see the story pick up its pace and surge forth into many interesting directions, now that he is back full time! So once again a big round of appreciation for the PV team and their completely supportive and uncomplaining handling of the whole JDJ situation! 👏
Now on to the episode. I think my fellow DCians have analysed the episode over all to perfection, so I want to talk about a few things in particular.
The use of "Ye Dil Hain"
While it has never been a question that the PV team uses music to perfection for the situations of the characters, today was especially poignant to me. It tied in so well as a sort of continuation of Yash's feelings from the time he won the boxing match and imagined Aarti hugging him (it's my story and I am sticking with it!), as "abhi mujhme kahin" played in the background. That was the moment, the aimless wanderer found his direction and wanted to pursue it. But just when he reached back out for the hand that had brought him out of the darkness, he found it had retracted much to his irritation, and then found it had disappeared all together. And now as Yash desperately searches for the one that brought light into his life once more, the lines play
Bataun kya andheron mein yu kath rahi thi zindagi kaisi
Magar ab to, zindagi mein meri, roshni ek zindagi jaisi
Un raahon par chal denge hum, aap rahein jo dikhlaye humein...
Yash wants to tell Aarti that she is the one who helped him out of his grief, she is the one who showed him how much he had to live for, even though the love of his life had been unfairly torn away from him, and she was the one who saved his life. I will argue that she did this, not by her plans and plots to make him happy, but by the moments in between when she lost sight of those plans, just got lost in the moments with him and was completely herself. Aarti didn't guide him by taking his hand and leading him, but by simply taking his hand and implicitly agreeing to walk wherever he did. She didn't bring him out of his sadness through any deliberate attempt, but made him want to come out himself, just by being her joyful, open and spontaneous self.
Yash has just come to acknowledge this to himself, and he realises that in his struggle with his past and his principles, he shook Aarti's faithful hand away from his, assuming that she had violently yanked him in a certain direction, away from Arpita. And now after the realisation that she held on so tight, not to pull him in a certain direction, but because she needed his support that badly, has made Yash understand the careless and irresponsible thing he did in shaking her hand away so violently that he couldn't find it when he wanted with all his heart to hold it once more, both to support her and to be guided by her presence in his life. Yash has always held Aarti's hand when she explicitly needed him to, most notably during the kidnapping. Here, he had no idea she needed him, and therefore did not support her. This is the assumption he is regretting.
The second is that he too misses the warmth of that hand in his, that feeling of her being by his side always, a feeling that he was just beginning to accept and enjoy. He knows now that he took Aarti for granted, took it for granted that that hand would always be there, just an inch away for him to hold on whenever he wanted... and now that it's not, he realises he can't leave it all to Aarti to hold his hand, to hold this relationship together...he has to grip her hand in return if he really wants to ensure that she never goes away. And from his speech to Prashant, it looks like he will do just that from now on! When Aarti is by his side, and when he feels that Aarti needs him, Yash knows exactly what to do, where to go and how to handle a situation. Look at him now, with his efforts to find them. She has shown and will show him the way, by simply needing his support and making him feel the prerogative to act.
Yash - Ansh - Prashant
This has got to be the most unique and interesting love triangle ever shown on TV! I love the contrasts they are bringing between Yash and Prashant and how in the end, the buck stops at Ansh. On some level, Yash knows that Aarti will forgive him, if for no other reason than for his love of Ansh and their unbreakable father-son bond, which is why he articulated it so emotionally in yesterday's episode. That is why Yash is so confidently seeking Aarti along with Yash. Even though he knows he has done nothing to deserve the right to ask Aarti to come back for him...he knows, that she knows, that both have formed permanent parental bonds of pure love with all their three children and that he has the complete right to ask for his son, and to beg Aarti to come back to her daughters, not to mention their little one.
On the other hand, Prashant knows on some level that Aarti won't forgive him because last time they met, he rejected Ansh, to the point of questioning Ansh's biological paternity! This is why he is afraid to come in front of Aarti because no matter how ambiguous he might thing Aarti's feelings for him are, she would never accept someone who ever rejected Ansh. As we discussed yesterday, Aarti and Ansh come as a package deal, and both Yash and Prashant seem to know this. The difference lies in the fact that though Yash may not have loved Aarti, he loved Ansh with all his heart. To Aarti, ultimately, as a mother before a woman, the latter is more important, than Prashant who thoughtlessly rejected Ansh in his bid to get a clingy Aarti of his back. Yash too, ran away from Aarti's overpowering love, but never did he mix Ansh into that desire to keep Aarti away. That is why, even though Yash behaved terribly with her, Aarti's love for Yash never lessened. And it is why she could get over a Prashant she had pined for, for years, in a matter of minutes.
Yash can go on television, make posters, and talk to complete strangers about his love for his son and his need for his wife to come back. In short he can shout from the rooftops about his relationship with Ansh and Aarti because even at his worst state, he never failed Ansh. Prashant, on the other hand, cannot even boast the right to sport a simple friendship band without having his right questioned, and having to hide his relationship with Ansh, because even at his best, when everything was going for him, he didn't accept Ansh. Prashant can never win because Aarti will never accept a father to her child, who once rejected him out right, and Ansh ultimately, will never completely accept a father who once abandoned his mother. At best, if he behaves himself and truly reforms, Prashant can become an accepted but closed chapter of Aarti's life, a secondary parental figure in Ansh's, someone who Ansh loves and respects, but who has no real authority in his life, and a son to his parents once more.
Now on to the episode. I think my fellow DCians have analysed the episode over all to perfection, so I want to talk about a few things in particular.
The use of "Ye Dil Hain"
While it has never been a question that the PV team uses music to perfection for the situations of the characters, today was especially poignant to me. It tied in so well as a sort of continuation of Yash's feelings from the time he won the boxing match and imagined Aarti hugging him (it's my story and I am sticking with it!), as "abhi mujhme kahin" played in the background. That was the moment, the aimless wanderer found his direction and wanted to pursue it. But just when he reached back out for the hand that had brought him out of the darkness, he found it had retracted much to his irritation, and then found it had disappeared all together. And now as Yash desperately searches for the one that brought light into his life once more, the lines play
Bataun kya andheron mein yu kath rahi thi zindagi kaisi
Magar ab to, zindagi mein meri, roshni ek zindagi jaisi
Un raahon par chal denge hum, aap rahein jo dikhlaye humein...
Yash wants to tell Aarti that she is the one who helped him out of his grief, she is the one who showed him how much he had to live for, even though the love of his life had been unfairly torn away from him, and she was the one who saved his life. I will argue that she did this, not by her plans and plots to make him happy, but by the moments in between when she lost sight of those plans, just got lost in the moments with him and was completely herself. Aarti didn't guide him by taking his hand and leading him, but by simply taking his hand and implicitly agreeing to walk wherever he did. She didn't bring him out of his sadness through any deliberate attempt, but made him want to come out himself, just by being her joyful, open and spontaneous self.
Yash has just come to acknowledge this to himself, and he realises that in his struggle with his past and his principles, he shook Aarti's faithful hand away from his, assuming that she had violently yanked him in a certain direction, away from Arpita. And now after the realisation that she held on so tight, not to pull him in a certain direction, but because she needed his support that badly, has made Yash understand the careless and irresponsible thing he did in shaking her hand away so violently that he couldn't find it when he wanted with all his heart to hold it once more, both to support her and to be guided by her presence in his life. Yash has always held Aarti's hand when she explicitly needed him to, most notably during the kidnapping. Here, he had no idea she needed him, and therefore did not support her. This is the assumption he is regretting.
The second is that he too misses the warmth of that hand in his, that feeling of her being by his side always, a feeling that he was just beginning to accept and enjoy. He knows now that he took Aarti for granted, took it for granted that that hand would always be there, just an inch away for him to hold on whenever he wanted... and now that it's not, he realises he can't leave it all to Aarti to hold his hand, to hold this relationship together...he has to grip her hand in return if he really wants to ensure that she never goes away. And from his speech to Prashant, it looks like he will do just that from now on! When Aarti is by his side, and when he feels that Aarti needs him, Yash knows exactly what to do, where to go and how to handle a situation. Look at him now, with his efforts to find them. She has shown and will show him the way, by simply needing his support and making him feel the prerogative to act.
Yash - Ansh - Prashant
This has got to be the most unique and interesting love triangle ever shown on TV! I love the contrasts they are bringing between Yash and Prashant and how in the end, the buck stops at Ansh. On some level, Yash knows that Aarti will forgive him, if for no other reason than for his love of Ansh and their unbreakable father-son bond, which is why he articulated it so emotionally in yesterday's episode. That is why Yash is so confidently seeking Aarti along with Yash. Even though he knows he has done nothing to deserve the right to ask Aarti to come back for him...he knows, that she knows, that both have formed permanent parental bonds of pure love with all their three children and that he has the complete right to ask for his son, and to beg Aarti to come back to her daughters, not to mention their little one.
On the other hand, Prashant knows on some level that Aarti won't forgive him because last time they met, he rejected Ansh, to the point of questioning Ansh's biological paternity! This is why he is afraid to come in front of Aarti because no matter how ambiguous he might thing Aarti's feelings for him are, she would never accept someone who ever rejected Ansh. As we discussed yesterday, Aarti and Ansh come as a package deal, and both Yash and Prashant seem to know this. The difference lies in the fact that though Yash may not have loved Aarti, he loved Ansh with all his heart. To Aarti, ultimately, as a mother before a woman, the latter is more important, than Prashant who thoughtlessly rejected Ansh in his bid to get a clingy Aarti of his back. Yash too, ran away from Aarti's overpowering love, but never did he mix Ansh into that desire to keep Aarti away. That is why, even though Yash behaved terribly with her, Aarti's love for Yash never lessened. And it is why she could get over a Prashant she had pined for, for years, in a matter of minutes.
Yash can go on television, make posters, and talk to complete strangers about his love for his son and his need for his wife to come back. In short he can shout from the rooftops about his relationship with Ansh and Aarti because even at his worst state, he never failed Ansh. Prashant, on the other hand, cannot even boast the right to sport a simple friendship band without having his right questioned, and having to hide his relationship with Ansh, because even at his best, when everything was going for him, he didn't accept Ansh. Prashant can never win because Aarti will never accept a father to her child, who once rejected him out right, and Ansh ultimately, will never completely accept a father who once abandoned his mother. At best, if he behaves himself and truly reforms, Prashant can become an accepted but closed chapter of Aarti's life, a secondary parental figure in Ansh's, someone who Ansh loves and respects, but who has no real authority in his life, and a son to his parents once more.
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