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What a fast-paced, hint-ridden episode! Loved it. The CVs are unfolding the layers beautifully, which is making the audience reflect back on the episode with quizzical wonder...is it or isn't it? Did she or didn't she? Maybe he did, maybe he didn't...
I'll start letting my guard down when life stops giving me reasons to keep it up...
For every happiness gained, Aarti has lost in equal measure...so much so that the existence of a pattern cannot be denied, of which Aarti is acutely aware of. In her psyche, she is always living on the edge of happiness...one step could either cause a fall to nothingness or provide her with a solid ground of stability. Whenever she has felt herself complete and sated with life, something has happened to vitiate the happiness. So, is it any wonder that she should be completely shaken up by the turn of events that so blatantly point toward a serious attempt at Yash's life and health?
Ever since she has found Yash's picture in Radha's hiding place, Aarti's sense of security has been severely affected. Just when they had been received back into the familyfold, the dual scares happened. So far Aarti was only worried about the whole family being upset about the Radha & Son affair, but suddenly she finds danger closer...to her Yashji. And that toppled her equilibrium and confidence and made her quiver in fear...Her fears are compounded when she finds the family, and especially Yash, being completely nonchalant and disbelieving of her fears. They think she is overreacting...First the Lizard, and then a prowler in the bedroom...Yash brushes her fears aside, mainly because he doesn't want her getting hyper about anything. So even if he is upset about the incidents, initially, he doesn't show it and tries to be calm for her sake...so that she doesn't upset herself. SP does the same thing...tries to explain away the presence of the lizard logically when he sees her go wild with fear and suppositions...reminding her that her primary concern should be her baby. However, she completely loses it when at night she discovers that there was someone inside their room as they slept, and Yash doesn't believe her..."Why don't you believe me, Yashji. I tell you there was someone...right here...You don't know...you were sleeping. I know...I heard a noise..." She looks at Yash, even as he cups her face to soothen her fears and calm her down..."Yashji, I have lost too much in life...Just when everything is fine, I face losing my happiness again. That Radha and her son will take away my happiness..." She rambled and she ranted, till Yash believed her and started looking around, only to find the bloodstained knife. At that point, Aarti's fears are complete. Yash knew then that the scare she got and her fears are more important than trying to find out who came. He engulfs her tightly in his arms to assuage her fears. He knew he couldn't show to take things lightly any more. Yet, he is so sure of the outcome of the DNA test that he is ready to wait it out and not preempt anything.
Which brings me to Radha, whose telltale actions are very revealing. She hovers around Yash. She is upset when Yash's wife hurts herself...she keeps Yash's pictures hidden in a place where only a God-loving person can reach. Aakash never saw them because, as we saw, he has a few bones to pick with the Almighty. But Aarti is pulled in by the Goddess herself and directed to the pictures. Radha is scared of the DNA results...not for Aakash, but for Yash. Two words she used: "Paasa" (dice) and "Mehnat" (labor) say it all. She has played a gamble, and so far the dice did her bidding. So for 30 years she was safe with her winning secret. She thinks she labored to keep this secret...and if the DNA results throw up this well-kept secret out in the open, then her years of mehnat will go waste. If Aakash is proven SP's son, Yash (probably the son she gave away for a better life, or maybe revenge) stands to lose the family that Radha ensured he had...Thus, the DNA results might see her lose both sons. Why then did she stir the pot after 30 years? First, the fact that Aakash is SP's blood was blurted out of anger...Radha couldn't back away from that blunder. With one secret out, she had to ensure the parallel one stays hidden. So she tries her best. She resorts to black magic...not strangely, given her background...in order to ward away the evils from her sons. That's where the baba and the knife come in. So, first Aakash is subjected to the mantras and then she sneaks into Yash's room for a repeat act for Yash. It's becoming clear now that though she loves Aakash in her own way...she has gone out of the way to keep him safe and loved and he acknowledges it by being fiercely loyal to her...her priority lies with the son she gave birth to. So, Aakash becomes an outcome of her mehnat...and Yash the winning hand of her Paasa. What she failed to see was Aakash's greed for money. If she thought that maybe extracting a lump sum from the Scindias will appease Aakash, she was wrong...because Aakash, intelligently, is looking at the larger picture.
The kids have their room back...The game of "House-house" is such a natural game to play between the brother and sisters. This is probably the only unisex make-believe game in a family...a game of imagination that brothers and sisters play together and is not gender-centric. Ansh's "Aartiji, you know I don't take tea, but I'll still drink it cause you made it" is a spot-on take -off of his father...along with Palak's imitation of Aarti, "Yashji, my churi broke. I want another..." Aarti is blissfully watching her kids play act her and Yashji when she realizes that the bangle, found in their bedroom, is not hers. Her oversensitive senses will definitely go on an overdrive now...especially if she somehow finds out that Radha too has gone to the dargah that Yashji went.
That's it friends...I love how the family dynamics are back. I love how Yash and Aarti are shown to be sensitive to each other's trauma and fears as and when required. I love that the Dargah is back into mention...
Have a nice day.😊
I'll start letting my guard down when life stops giving me reasons to keep it up...
For every happiness gained, Aarti has lost in equal measure...so much so that the existence of a pattern cannot be denied, of which Aarti is acutely aware of. In her psyche, she is always living on the edge of happiness...one step could either cause a fall to nothingness or provide her with a solid ground of stability. Whenever she has felt herself complete and sated with life, something has happened to vitiate the happiness. So, is it any wonder that she should be completely shaken up by the turn of events that so blatantly point toward a serious attempt at Yash's life and health?
Ever since she has found Yash's picture in Radha's hiding place, Aarti's sense of security has been severely affected. Just when they had been received back into the familyfold, the dual scares happened. So far Aarti was only worried about the whole family being upset about the Radha & Son affair, but suddenly she finds danger closer...to her Yashji. And that toppled her equilibrium and confidence and made her quiver in fear...Her fears are compounded when she finds the family, and especially Yash, being completely nonchalant and disbelieving of her fears. They think she is overreacting...First the Lizard, and then a prowler in the bedroom...Yash brushes her fears aside, mainly because he doesn't want her getting hyper about anything. So even if he is upset about the incidents, initially, he doesn't show it and tries to be calm for her sake...so that she doesn't upset herself. SP does the same thing...tries to explain away the presence of the lizard logically when he sees her go wild with fear and suppositions...reminding her that her primary concern should be her baby. However, she completely loses it when at night she discovers that there was someone inside their room as they slept, and Yash doesn't believe her..."Why don't you believe me, Yashji. I tell you there was someone...right here...You don't know...you were sleeping. I know...I heard a noise..." She looks at Yash, even as he cups her face to soothen her fears and calm her down..."Yashji, I have lost too much in life...Just when everything is fine, I face losing my happiness again. That Radha and her son will take away my happiness..." She rambled and she ranted, till Yash believed her and started looking around, only to find the bloodstained knife. At that point, Aarti's fears are complete. Yash knew then that the scare she got and her fears are more important than trying to find out who came. He engulfs her tightly in his arms to assuage her fears. He knew he couldn't show to take things lightly any more. Yet, he is so sure of the outcome of the DNA test that he is ready to wait it out and not preempt anything.
Which brings me to Radha, whose telltale actions are very revealing. She hovers around Yash. She is upset when Yash's wife hurts herself...she keeps Yash's pictures hidden in a place where only a God-loving person can reach. Aakash never saw them because, as we saw, he has a few bones to pick with the Almighty. But Aarti is pulled in by the Goddess herself and directed to the pictures. Radha is scared of the DNA results...not for Aakash, but for Yash. Two words she used: "Paasa" (dice) and "Mehnat" (labor) say it all. She has played a gamble, and so far the dice did her bidding. So for 30 years she was safe with her winning secret. She thinks she labored to keep this secret...and if the DNA results throw up this well-kept secret out in the open, then her years of mehnat will go waste. If Aakash is proven SP's son, Yash (probably the son she gave away for a better life, or maybe revenge) stands to lose the family that Radha ensured he had...Thus, the DNA results might see her lose both sons. Why then did she stir the pot after 30 years? First, the fact that Aakash is SP's blood was blurted out of anger...Radha couldn't back away from that blunder. With one secret out, she had to ensure the parallel one stays hidden. So she tries her best. She resorts to black magic...not strangely, given her background...in order to ward away the evils from her sons. That's where the baba and the knife come in. So, first Aakash is subjected to the mantras and then she sneaks into Yash's room for a repeat act for Yash. It's becoming clear now that though she loves Aakash in her own way...she has gone out of the way to keep him safe and loved and he acknowledges it by being fiercely loyal to her...her priority lies with the son she gave birth to. So, Aakash becomes an outcome of her mehnat...and Yash the winning hand of her Paasa. What she failed to see was Aakash's greed for money. If she thought that maybe extracting a lump sum from the Scindias will appease Aakash, she was wrong...because Aakash, intelligently, is looking at the larger picture.
The kids have their room back...The game of "House-house" is such a natural game to play between the brother and sisters. This is probably the only unisex make-believe game in a family...a game of imagination that brothers and sisters play together and is not gender-centric. Ansh's "Aartiji, you know I don't take tea, but I'll still drink it cause you made it" is a spot-on take -off of his father...along with Palak's imitation of Aarti, "Yashji, my churi broke. I want another..." Aarti is blissfully watching her kids play act her and Yashji when she realizes that the bangle, found in their bedroom, is not hers. Her oversensitive senses will definitely go on an overdrive now...especially if she somehow finds out that Radha too has gone to the dargah that Yashji went.
That's it friends...I love how the family dynamics are back. I love how Yash and Aarti are shown to be sensitive to each other's trauma and fears as and when required. I love that the Dargah is back into mention...
Have a nice day.😊
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