If you keep chasing yesterday's questions, you are going to miss tomorrow's answers...
Trust and the aftermath of broken trust...this is how I perceived the reasons for the concurrent actions of two ladies: Gayatri and Ishita. Both trusted their lives in the hands of someone, and both were left clutching at straws after betrayal was thrusted upon them. In the matters of heart if someone breaks your trust, then you can never rest, relax, or respire freely. You keep looking for the reason...some reason...a reason that could alleviate your pain...because it is not the incident itself that really hurts but that the rest of the life is in a way hindered and limited. However, if there was a good reason why such a thing happened, then there is hope for a life with trust. Till then the mind is tricked to focus on the painful incident, and the pain is kept alive through wrongful actions and motives.
Ishita had faced rejections many times earlier also because of her physical condition. She faced humiliation after humiliation when her parents tried to get her married to just about anybody. In the backdrop of such a mess came the proposal of Yash...Is it any wonder then that she would have woven dreams around this man...heck, even lived a lifetime with him in those dreams? And then in the manadap she saw him, experienced him going through the rituals that would make her his forever, when suddenly he betrays her in the worst-possible manner. That one act of Yash has remained with her even though she was "rescued" from further humiliation. That one act of rejection by Yash overrode all the prior ones...and so she holds him responsible for all the subsequent rejections at the hands of her husband and how her life has turned out to be. I won't be surprised if in trying to avenge her betrayal she will play the events in a manner that Yash...and in extension the woman he loves...gets alienated from his family..."He left me; I'll ensure his family leaves him." That night "cht-chat" with Yash was another well-enacted performance to make Yash guilty of his wrongdoing. Yash is already neck-deep in guilt where Ishita is concerned. First, he left her high and dry at the altar, and now his brother inflicts torture on her..."Poor girl, she is suffering so much because of my one insensitive act." He knows Aakash hasn't accepted her. And from Aakash's drunken rant, he perceived that he was more disappointed that he didn't come into any money in spite of his deliberate benevolent act...so Yash goes about setting that right by arranging for a credit card for Aakash. It is to be seen whether Aakash thaws toward Ishita, now that he has access to money. If he softens his attitude toward her, will Ishita let go of the pain that she still carries...or will she be satisfied only when she sees Yash being meted out similar humiliation as the one he subjected her to? She is smart...she has the pulses of both Aakash and Yash in her grasp. In the privacy of their room, she shows Aakash the passionate , pushy avatar that, though he overtly rejects, does turn him on...she matches his animalistic behavior with some of her own. In front of Yash she plays the wronged woman. Till Aakash somehow offers her a hope of a better future...a future with love and care...she will keep her wounds raw and she will try to soothen her pain by inflicting wounds on Yash.
Gayatri is a wronged mother and a wronged wife. Both these personas have merged and made her into this blinkers-on, unidimensional woman who has an aim in life now...the aim to get justice for her son. In doing so she comes down harshly upon the child of the very son who is helping her cause. Unwittingly she is causing a crack to appear in her heart...a crack that is separating Yash from her, just because she has started subconsciously perceiving him as the other woman's son. She is contrasting her upbringing of Yash with Aakash's by Radha...and does not realize that in trying to show her angst toward the wrong done to her and her son by SP and Radha, she herself is doing injustice to Yash and his son. Her hurt as being the wronged woman is so deep that without even realizing she is doing it, she has split Yash's identity in her psyche: One Yash is still the son she loves to bits, and the other is the child of the other woman whom she brought up to be a fine human being. It's now a contest in her mind with Radha as to "how I brought up your son and how you brought up mine." Somewhere she is trying to prove to SP that "look I am the better woman...so what made you go to her?" SP himself pushed his wife to topple over by issuing the one-week deadline.
Yash's hurt is palpable. If it was only a scolding, he would have understood, but his mother crossed the line by bringing past questions and trying to find answers in them...By comparing Ansh to Aakash, Gayatri made it into his son versus her son. Once again Aarti tries to ease away his dilemma by reminding him of the larger picture...their ultimate goal. She knows Gayatri very well and shares a special relationship with her, and as such she realizes what's going on inside Gayatri. Aarti has full faith in Gayatri's goodness and love, which has gone latent at the moment because of obvious reasons. She is doing right by not giving much cognizance to Yash's dwindling faith. I had mentioned before that Yash was always going to be the collateral damage in this inert war declared by Gayatri against SP and Radha. It's already happening. Aarti has a lot in her hands in trying to uphold the shaking trust...Come what may, she cannot let Yash lose his trust of the mother he loves so much.
That's it friends. My two cents. What SP had speculated is coming through in this family: "Not everyone has a big heart. In trying to incorporate new relationships, the harmony of the older ones are bound to face some discordant notes." Bua too hinted of a displacement shift...Can Aakash and Yash not stay together? Does the entry of one have to make way for the other? Do they have to face the repercussions of the changing dynamics between their three parents? This unusual scenario is throwing up many questions.
Have a nice day.đ