We are back to the right pace of things, with one revelation per week. This got some how disrupted in the middle with Yash's confession track, but it is back to speed. Last week was the big reveal to Yash and this week involved Aarti finding out that she had spilled the beans to Yash rather than confronting Prashant. Next week will hopefully involve Yash getting to know about Prashant's cancer. If you really look at it, we are following the same KC trajectory that Yash outlined, though one may get angry with Aarti, the feeling doesn't last for long once they find out why she did what she did. Then they are angry with themselves. Rest assured, Yash will have to learn this lesson that he preached soon enough.
The moment I saw Aarti break free of Shobha, I realised how many times Shobha has interfered and caused a huge blockade in the flow of Yash and Aarti's relationship. Granted, it was Dubey who did all the work at the wedding, but since then Shobha has basically been brainwashing Aarti and telling her that she did nothing wrong in hiding the truth: this is what Aarti has put all her faith in despite her better instincts. When she wanted to tell Yash the truth after the kidnapping, Shobha stopped her by saying there was no point when Aarti was the equivalent of a widow anyway and it would only hurt her and Yash's relationship to know the technicalities of her marital status, as though they were nigh insignificant. When she found out she was pregnant, she wanted to tell Yash immediately, indignant that he could treat her the way he did, sleeping with her when he felt like it and then being so angry about it as though it was her fault. Shobha instilled the fear of Yash's actions in her then too, a fear that didn't leave her until yesterday's episode, until she realised that Yash's pain was worse than the reaction she expected from him.
I loved how the moment she realised Yash knew, she knew exactly how he must feel; all the pieces of the puzzle fell into place to tell her why he refused to confess, why he talked about first love and why he wanted to let her go. She is no longer afraid but knows instinctively that he is utterly broken and only she can heal him. I loved watching that sudden clarity that came over her, the final victory of her instincts over Shobha's brainwashing. And how did this come about? Because Yash, without knowing, defined Shobha's expectations of him when he didn't tell his family. His reaction gave Aarti the strength to defy Shobha herself and defend her right to confront Yash on her own. It takes me back to all the times when Shobha brainwashed her before and she fell for it... because she didn't have any certainty from Yash's side. Now she did and that changed everything for her.
Shobha was despicable, putting all the blame on Aarti for spilling the beans. As I have said, she does love Aarti but her primary concern is her immaculate moral standing in her own eyes. She does not want to be in the morally compromising place that this revelation will put her in and so her first instinct is to blame Aarti for allowing this to happen. There is no support, panic or guilt, only blame that Aarti let the truth out when they had done so much to hide it and maintain the balance of the status quo.
And poor Yash. I say that because my sympathy is going to be short lived. I really expect him to pull his socks up and deal with this situation because three of the people who matter most to him, Aarti, Ansh and the baby, are all in danger in this situation and he is the only person who can right it for them. I don't blame him for his reaction or what he read from the situation because it was totally valid, but he is really going to have to get over himself fast, even if that is not exactly fair to him, and take charge. In Mumbai, Aarti had all her time and attention for Yash to pull him out of his depression and we saw the beginnings of the same behaviour here with her shayari and her optimism about the mangalsutra. But the difference is that unlike Mumbai, where they were totally isolated, she is being pulled in so many different directions here. She doesn't have the ability to be Yash's anchor or his buoy... he has to learn to do that for himself because Aarti simply can't afford to support yet another person on her energy and optimism. No doubt she is trying, as she always does, without a care for herself, but it really is time Yash stepped up.
As much as I appreciate him not telling his family, it also would have been far more productive to confront Aarti about it and clear all his doubts than to stealthily test her or follow her. His tendency to avoid confrontation and make a martyr of himself is really not going to do much good here. Why should Aarti have the sole responsibility of proving him wrong? Why can't he make the effort to ask her in the first place, thus giving her a fair chance to explain, rather than jumping to conclusions from what he sees? Turns out Aarti isn't the only one with a martyr complex!
Don't get me wrong, I totally understand Yash's pain and his sense of betrayal, especially after he found out that Ansh was involved. I just don't understand why it has to be Aarti's responsibility to initiate the confrontation and clarification every time. When it came to Paridhi's situation, he could just ask Aarti to talk to her instead of him because he was uncomfortable. Otherwise, who knows if he would ever have done anything about that either? Yes, I get Yash's pain and that Aarti was very wrong in what she did, but I do think it is time Yash became a real adult in this relationship and took the responsibility to communicate, rather than being aloof and then expecting to be placated automatically. He can absolutely stay mad at her for the lie, but I am fed up of this whole business of internalising all conflict.
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