Today's Episode

Today we had a nice episode, where things are shown to be in order, wrongs righted, grudges forgiven, and families united. The direction of the episode was also very well paced and nicely executed so that I could easily forgive the CVs for the nail-polish-blooper and the fire-hazard-blooper (brightly lit diya in the unoccupied house of Radha!). Who leaves a diya on like that, as one leaves the house, and besides, after three days, will not the small diya run out of oil and die out?

SP's "forgiving" of Arya is a deliberate move. I think that SP might have forgiven Arya because now the shoe is on the other foot. He knows how uncomfortable it is to be to be accused of lying and being deceitful, and he and Arati are now in the same camp. Interestingly SP and Arari could unite only after the Uss Aurat epithet got shifted from Arati's head to that of Radha. Before, in SP's eyes, Arati was Uss Aurat, and now with the new Uss Aurat, taking her place, Arati has resumed the "bahu" status. In the meantime, I think everyone is patiently waiting to see whether the new Uss Aurat saga also has an Uss Raat connection. Also, Arya moving downstairs before the DNA test could be a deliberate move by the CVs to make things more interesting when AkShita move into SM. As each day passes, this looks more likely to happen, and how can our lead pair, the lovely Arya be confined to Teesri Manzil, sidelined from all the action?

Ishita's in-your-face villany has started to grow on me. She sees the world, and the people in it as either all good or all bad. There is no in-between. In this sense, she is emotionally immature. Being raised in a sheltered surrounding, and not having to work hard for material things, there is an interesting mixture of paradoxes in her character. On the one hand, she left the cocoon of wealth and safety of her parents without a second thought, and is fiercely loyal to Akash. On the other hand, being accustomed to easily getting whatever she desires, she feels entitled to Akash's immediate reciprocity of her services and attention. There is no understanding in her that Akash might be in a state of shock about the marriage. Ishita is unable to see that Akash's anger against her might have something to do with his plans of using her as a ticket to upward mobility being foiled; instead, he himself became a ticket for her freedom from an oppressively protective life. Because she sees everything as black and white, Ishita's anger against Arati and Yash is misdirected. I look forward to her growing and having an integrated view of the world. Perhaps being in SM, after the revelation of Akash's identity is revealed, and interacting with other members will give her opportunities for emotional maturity.

Poor chipkali. I wish there was a note at the end of the episode: "No chipkalis were harmed in the making of this episode."

Here is an ode for it:
nanhi kali doobne chali, chole jaldi laana
dhire dhire, holay holay, Yash ko khila dena

(sung to the tune of "nanhi kali sone chali.")

Aimf wonderful take 👏👏👏 ... U know SP forgiving AarYa suddenly looked fishy to me because only when he realises that the business cannot run without Yash , he decides to forgive them and this is where I found SP selfish once again because his forgiveness does not come because he was missing Yash but because he realises that only Yash can handle this family business ... I m not sure if SP knows that Yash is Radha's son but what I feel is SP is hving this doubt in his mind somewhere and if DNA results come out positive then SP will definitely know that Yash is not his son and we might then witness the past mystry where babies were exchanged or kidnapped about which SP had some idea but he was not sure if AKash was that missing kid 🤔

👍🏼Nice take of the episode ..