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O-M-GEE!!!
It looks like Yash is this Radha person's son, which is going to completely topple the Scindia family dynamics as they stand. Akash must be SP's biological son because Radha is so confident about the DNA test being positive. The mystery here, and especially after the precap, is what the result of Yash's DNA test would show. Is he SP's son with Radha? Is he Radha's son with someone else? Where did she get all those pictures of him? And finally, why did she show up when she did, to shake up the Scinidas' world? Could it be that she came to somehow protect her son, Yash, and in the process ended up outing Akash's parenting? If you think about it, Akash as the illegitimate child of SP, with Radha is a perfect cover story if she committed the more heinous crime of stealing SP and Gayatri's actual child. The DNA test will match, Akash will get his inheritance, but neither will Yash be devoid of his... it is a win-win for Radha that way because I am sure she doesn't want to come out of this looking bad and she certainly doesn't want Akash, whom I am sure she loves by this point, to know how she has used him and was the one to strip him of his right.
I kind of feel bad for Ishita but I really don't. On the one hand I do agree that she is starved for love, but on the other hand she is impatient and expects things to be handed to her on a silver platter, probably thanks to the indulgence of her wealthy parents. Sure there is plenty of love in the Aarti-Yash relationship now, but she doesn't have any remote notion of just how hard these two had to work to bring this love and belonging into their relationship. She has been married for just a few days now and expects to have what Aarti and Yash do. It is a dangerous thing to believe that the institution of marriage itself will improve your life, and that is what Ishita seems to be banking on, much like the Scindias and the Dubeys did at the beginning of the show... they thought Aarti and Yash getting married would solve all their problems.
This was of course not the case as many other things had to fall and be pushed into place before they could get what they have today. Had Ishita seen Aarti and Yash after a few days of marriage, she probably would not have been jealous at all. Our Aarti and Yash have put real blood, sweat and tears into building their relationship as it stands, and it has everything to do with the person you are with, and how hard they are willing to work with you for the success of the marriage, not the institution of marriage itself. I hope to see a growth in this respect in Ishita, where she takes responsibility for her own actions and decisions rather than trying to blame someone else for her suffering... and same with Akash, really. It would be great to see both of them realise that they are the only ones in control of their lives and their dreams.
This is possibly a growth curve for the Scindias as well. They always assume people to have the basest motives for their actions; in this case, they assume Radha and Akash are in it just for the money. It was a real slap in the face for Gayatri to understand that there are more complex and layered motivations for people to do what they do. Akash didn't want money so much as he wanted identity, recognition and belonging, both for himself and for his mother. It is so important to him, this recognition, that even the amount of money Gayatri was offering would cheapen it. Coming from someone who constantly bemoans his impoverishment, that is saying something! Anyway, the Scindias never understood Yash's grief over Arpita or Aarti's lie, because they couldn't think past base desires such as money and sex. Hopefully this will be a wake up call... not everyone is after their money and their money can't solve everything.
There were a lot of suggestive dialogues in the episode, about what is to come. The first was of course, Gayatri's dialogue about how SP had only three sons, which was rebutted by Radha's proclamation that all his sons had the same qualities of arrogance, hotheadedness and impertinence. It could be interpreted as sarcasm, but it was also suspicious how little she cared about insulting Akash and affirming that he was all those things... that these traits ran in the Scindia blood, and how ironic is it that it was these very qualities that SP first appreciated in Akash when he hired him as a driver? I also found it really interesting that when Aarti was talking about the truth, Radha's eyes were downcast and then she lashed back about the truth coming out when the test results did. With the precap in mind, it becomes clearer and clearer that Akash's DNA matches SP's, but that that is not the real secret here. Gayatri says that nobody can take PYP's place as SP's sons and Radha responds that you have to make place... this reminded me of our early discussions of Yash-Arpita and Aarti, where Yash kept saying nobody could take Arpita's place and in the end Aarti won out because she created her own place... again, a lesson for the Scindias? Finally, Yash's dialogue about Gayatri, how she has lived more than half her life with this family happily and to face this now... could this be a foreshadowing of what he will have to face?
The Aarti-Yash scenes were beautiful, as always. I loved the contrast between the two, where in one case Aarti gives Yash the maternal soothing that he needs to rest his frustrated mind, and the next morning she turns around and becomes a child with regards to the chocolate. That contrast was beautifully brought out. I agree with the criticism about Aarti being pregnant and gallivanting around town, breaking into people's houses, but on the other hand, it is very Aarti for her not to care about herself when her loved ones are in distress; it has always been Yash, "taking the hockey stick out of her hands," and I hope she follows through with her big truth dialogue about what she found at Akash and Radha's house and tells Yash so he can keep her from putting herself in danger all the time. My bigger criticism is the fact that the kids were missing during the lap-sleeping scene. You don't need to actually have the kids there, just put some pillows and wigs under the blanket to make it look like they are there! I think they tried something like that, which is why Yash slept on the very edge of the bed, but still... they could have been a bit clearer. đ
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